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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Stripe will collaborate with WeChat and Alipay to make it easier for merchants around the world to accept payments from Chinese consumers.
July 10 -
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: Stripe makes a deal with WeChat and Alipay; The Hague adopts mobile transit; B&B Theaters suffer a breach; PSD2 gets payment insurance rules.
July 10 -
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: Square hires a lobbyist; iZettle preps to go public; Uber's tip feature grows; Air Canada adds more digital pay heft.
July 7 -
The company contends a lot of current payments technology is focused on horizontal companies that are designed to easily enable payments, and are operating agnostic to the type of business that requires a payments gateway,
July 7 -
First Data has entered into several partnerships and made acquisitions as it attempts to diversify its product line to adjust to the growth of digital payments.
July 6 -
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: Contactless transit pay advances; Tesco's loyalty goes mobile; Monzo suffers an outage; A new API for U.K. payments.
July 6 -
IT work is getting more complex, and that's delaying revenue, according to Diebold Nixdorf.
July 5 -
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: Worldpay an expensive acquisition; Square lands D.C. taxi contract; Ant pushes "no cash" in China; Big fintech lobby group forms in U.K.; Sony streamlines wearable NFC.
July 5 -
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: PayPal and Sony have a glitch; Screen scraping battle continues; M-Pesa gets an update; Paper checks decline; Fyre Fest faces legal trouble;
July 3 -
Real-time payment processing is drawing more attention to tangible use cases, such as helping workers pay bills that are due before they receive their salary.
June 30 -
Wearables are a clear evolution of the mobile wallet, but companies are still experimenting with use cases. Here are a few of the latest concepts.
June 30 -
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: Alibaba's answer to Echo; Diebold Nixdorf divests some U.K. assets; Digital fraud in Europe spikes; Tips to protect ATMs from explosives.
June 30 -
Mobile commerce must support larger and more complex shopping categories to take the next step, and some companies are looking to enable this through alternative financing.
June 30 -
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: PayPal invests in LendUp; New finger pay pilot; Petya's worse than ransomware; Social payment apps offer plastic cards.
June 29 -
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: Square considers consumer loans; ATM's golden anniversary; New ransomware; Pinterest adopts dual authentication.
June 28 -
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: Apple squeezes location-based marketing; Swiss company pilots crypto wallet; Church of England tests mobile payments; The cost of AML.
June 27 -
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 examines bitcoin; NACHA standardizes APIs; Kerv gets a pilot; ANZ adds e-commerce expert for IT overhaul.
June 26 -
Amazon's $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods will make it a force to be reckoned with in the grocery vertical, but its rivals have been preparing for this day for a long time. Here are some of the biggest competitive threats to Amazon's digital take on food sales.
June 23 -
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: Square adds e-commerce tools; Europe moves to real time payments; Payment options expand for legal weed; Digital jumps in India.
June 23 -
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: Asia leads in payment innovation; Razer's game currency finds a partner; GlobeOnePay adds UnionPay debit; ATM group looks to improve cash security.
June 22
