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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Payoneer believes British companies will seek opportunities outside of the EU, leading to international payments demand.
June 21 -
When brewery software provider OpHouse strated to grow, it turned to its CEO's connections in the tech incubator community to find a new payments gateway
June 21 -
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: Uber adds tipping; Visa seeks startups in the Middle East; Sequent draws funds; BBVA launches biometric security.
June 21 -
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: Fleetcor promotes exec to oversee fuel cards; CBA's educational app; E-pay's expanding quickly; New vending tech enters Russia.
June 20 -
When Wikimedia tries to collect payments in Latin America, it's a mixing two unusual activities. It's a San Francisco-based organization that doesn't have a large presence in the region, and even on its home turf Wikimedia generally doesn't collect frequent payments from consumers.
June 20 -
PNC is approaching corporate clients with new non-plastic card options including Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay.
June 19 -
Automated messaging platform SnatchBot will allow payments inside chatbots by linking to merchant PayPal accounts, making it easier to pair transactions with digital conversations.
June 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: Klarna gets a banking license; Microsoft's keyboard tech; Girl Scouts add web security badge; Contactless expands in the U.K.
June 19 -
Grocery shopping may not seem conducive to e-commerce due to the category's massive cart sizes and perishable goods, but many companies are trying to put a digital spin on the process. Here are a few of the latest innovations.
June 9 -
As the gig economy expands, at least some consolidation is inevitable. As a result, companies that already have complex webs of payments, billing cycles and workflows will need a way to merge their systems with those of their acquisition targets.
June 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: Siri's growing influence; banks boost remittances; debit for kids; and a startup camp in India.
June 5 -
Sometimes it just doesn't pay to go it alone. Lyf Pay is one such case of working to create something greater than the sum of its parts.
June 5 -
Merchant acquirers are racing to sell "integrated payments," or a one-stop shop for transaction processing and myriad other services that stores can tie to the point of sale. But small to medium sized businesses are not often the targets for these efforts.
June 2 -
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: App Store milestone; Stripe adds tech; OneLogin breach may be felt far and wide; Mastercard opens up Mexico City transit payments.
June 2 -
Part of First Data's new approach to security provides a view of the digital underbelly crooks use to trade in illicit information.
June 1 -
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: Google boosts phishing fight; DLT advances in Singapore; Amazon's refund for kid purchases; Lucozade bottles go contactless on the Tube; Connected car crime.
June 1 -
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 tests 'grab and go'; Square adds virtual terminals in the U.K.; Was Windows XP safe from WannaCry?; OmiseGo seeks cyrptocurrency funding round.
May 31 -
Processors are investing billions of dollars to build huge menus of tools for retailers that may no longer have the time to work with multiple vendors. These transformations are years in the making, and each investment or acquisition has the potential to dramatically change the competitive landscape.
May 30 -
First Data hopes to enhance its ability to integrate payments with other merchant services by acquiring the processor and technology company CardConnect, which is already one of First Data's largest distribution partners.
May 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: First Data makes a big acquisition; Cash associations join forces; Russians work on quantum blockchain; Pacemakers are vulnerable to hackers.
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