John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker. John interviews top executives in the payments, cryptocurrency and fintech industries, hosts podcasts, moderates conference panels and curates the new Payments Intelligence portal.
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John has been with American Banker and related products for 30 years, covering bank technology, advertising, mortgages and capital markets.
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Ingenico's $1.7 billion deal to buy Sweden's Bambora will reduce the company's reliance on brick and mortar retail while arming it for battle in the highly competitive market for digital commerce and payments.
July 20 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Card brands push for China; U.K. cracks down on excessive fees, lack of currency transparency; Venmo gets caught in video equipment theft ring.
July 20 -
Like almost everything else related to Amazon's incursion into retail, the company's premium loyalty program has achieved a scale that appears ready to swallow the rest of the industry.
July 20 -
Turning a pre-existing digital payment network into an in-store line buster has been a key play for Starbucks and Square, and Amazon is weighing in with its own app that allows its huge network of users to streamline retail experiences.
July 19 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Barclays invests in API tech; Swatch intros contactless payments in China; TransferWise shuffles top ranks; Diebold Nixdorf's patent fight.
July 19 -
The evolution of the workforce away from traditional 40-hour per week full-time staff is making it harder to handle corporate travel expenses.
July 19 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard plans to buy AI company; Amazon broadens retail push; Swift invites more banks to KYC group; Revolut expands payroll tech; Max Baucus lauds China's payments tech.
July 18 -
As retailers scratch their heads to find ways to counter Amazon's ongoing disruption of their industry, investment is flowing to technology companies that meld shopping, payments and fulfillment.
July 18 -
Large outdoor events were among the earliest proving grounds for mobile point of sale technology. Will this environment be as welcoming of digital currency?
July 18 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web: UnionPay gains ground; real-time payments in Europe; Amazon's payments exec gets a new role; and more.
July 17 -
The concept of digital payments doesn't often cross paths with the concept of robots moving autonomously through our world. But in a few cases, robots have been created to handle payments and deliver goods.
July 14 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa's digital incentive moves to the U.K.; Jet.com pursues the New York market; Digital boosts donations; Delivery robots; Refunds for late trains.
July 14 -
As the number of apps for banking and payments increases, so does the reliability risk.
July 14 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: A loophole in PayPal's Apple collaboration; Could Whole Foods accelerate Amazon Go? ; Swiss bank supports Bitcoin; Verizon suffers a breach.
July 13 -
Since e-commerce merchants often operate without walls, it makes little sense to operate with borders.
July 13 -
The card network would help offset the cost of adopting digital payment technology in exchange for no longer accepting cash payments.
July 12 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa pays businesses to go digital; Ripple expands in Japan; Screen scraping's still a battle; Santander may invest in Curve.
July 12 -
Information sharing is about to get much different in Europe, giving bank alternatives such as Klarna more to work with as they compete against the financial services establishment.
July 12 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Tencent plans to set up in Malaysia; Bank of England may allow certain DLT payments; Payments Canada adds experts to board; Latin American payment marketplace raises funds for expansion.
July 11 -
Much like the consumer retail acquisition market, business payment companies are expanding the appeal of transaction automation by tying it to international growth and value-added merchant services.
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