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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Pizza Hut has played a large role in building China's middle class. It's also a major cog in Ant's investment in Yum China.
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: Stripe updates marketplace tech; DLT falters in Canada; Contactless pushes debit in U.K.; Amazon's grocery ambitions expand.
May 26 -
The British machine learning technology company Featurespace is boosting its expansion strategy in the U.S. by arguing that fraud-fighting technology can improve on its own through experience.
May 26 -
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: Facebook expands fundraising tools; Android Pay enters new markets; Travelex drops Supercard; Wyre adds social platforms.
May 25 -
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: BBVA opens to developers; Bad online fraud in the U.K.; Blispay draws funding; Postal loyalty in Italy.
May 24 -
'Gig' companies often run into a snag when trying to integrate payments for a complex network of contractors, freelancers and other small clients, a challenge Jeff Shea hopes open development techniques can conquer.
May 24 -
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 Pay expands in the U.K.; Smart contract group gets much larger; PayPal battles Pandora over logo; EU tries to settle screen scraping dispute.
May 23 -
Not all data breaches make headlines, and it's the quiet ones that might be the most dangerous.
May 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: Facebook enables restaurant ordering; Telegram adds payments; Amazon wants to open Go in Europe; WannaCry still a threat.
May 22 -
IBM's new Blockchain Founder Accelerator could better position the distributed ledger technology as a platform for mainstream payments, but the technology giant wants to start with baby steps.
May 22 -
Procure to pay is an old way to automate the relationship between obtaining supplies and accounting, old enough that it's rarely automated.
May 22 -
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 makes another investment; Patreon's growing fast; A cosmetic company gets hacked; A twin fools HSBC's voice software.
May 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: Wells pushes IoT; Transferwise turns profitable; Wipro expands blockchain; Delta teams with Lyft.
May 18 -
For years, William Shatner plugged Priceline, an online portal to take costs out of travel by pitting hotels and airlines against their rivals. A similar idea is taking shape in the market for payment providers.
May 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. Today: What will come out of Google's conference; "Moderation app"; LendUp's financial education; Battle over screen scraping.
May 17 -
Royal Bank of Canada is applying blockchain technology to its loyalty program, in an effort to make its rewards more tangible and accessible.
May 17 -
Investors have poured $15 million into Nymi to help the Toronto startup commercialize its wearable authentication technology.
May 16 -
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: Swiss standardize ATMs; French wallet set for launch; India's response to ransomware; China examines AI for financial regulation.
May 16 -
One of the goals behind Canada's payments overhaul is to get it right the first time.
May 15 -
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: Ransomware hits gas station payments; Swift opens security sharing portal; Yandex's newsletter pay; Monzo halts API;
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