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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Despite a flood of new technology options, e-commerce still hasn't cracked the code of convincing shoppers to complete their purchases once they arrive on the checkout page.
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: P-to-P becomes maintream; Dogecoin fades; IoT may get more "things"; Is the shopping cart icon going away?
May 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: RBS offshores; Mizuho collaborates on innovation; Fraud continues to spike; Europe examines 'IoT.'
May 11 -
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, Square push mobile at surf festival; Bank of England tightens large transaction control; Hong Kong pushes tech; Canadians comfortable without paper.
May 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: Australia deregulates fintech; Mobile bank goes real-time in the U.K.; German companies collaborate on ID; Correspondent banks face regulatory expense.
May 9 -
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: Walmart's 'Dash' tech; A major hack in Germany; Fintechs opposed Euro screen scraping ban; Singapore payments technology investor eyes Europe.
May 8 -
The plastic card is an aging tool in payments, but there's still room for innovation in its design and features. Here are a few new concepts that favor technology and style as differentiators.
May 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: Square's card; Middle East, Africa fastest growing card markets; Signifyd attracts VC cash; U.K. regulators examine Cardtronics' DirectCash deal.
May 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: AI boosts prepaid; Singapore's no doc onboarding; Dash expands; Qatar's blockchain test a success.
May 4 -
One of the post-EMV migration complaints is the speed of the transactions. Consumers dip their cards into payment terminals and let them sit there for an amount of time that may vary from store to story, but always feels longer than the old school swipe.
May 4 -
Beyond is a culmination of the many things Carr's done in his life. That includes years spent as as a merchant acquiring executive—Carr was the CEO of Heartland Payment Systems; an author who has advocated for improving conditions for working class Americans while detailing his own challenges growing up in Illinois; and a philanthropist.
May 3 -
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 accelerates AI development; Car mobile pay expands; Amazon's closing Underground; First Data's collaborating with Girls Who Code.
May 3 -
A group of credit unions is working to get a jump how real-time payment processing fits into their world, even as the broader payments industry wrestles with questions about the technology's implementation.
May 3 -
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: Robert Carr's new venture; Mastercard beats estimates; Blockchain advances for check security; UAE Exchange adopts wearables; Pepper's redesign.
May 2 -
The shift in payments at hospitality businesses such as restaurants is hard enough, but it's made even more challenging by the pace and breadth of the changes.
May 2 -
Facebook is reportedly rolling out a feature that allows users to scan QR codes to earn incentives to shop at nearby stores.
May 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: Home Depot's unprotected site; Tencent invests in Australian startup; Monzo opens collaboration room: Trump Administration targets net neutrality.
May 1 -
Virtual cards are starting to gain ground, and WEX sees a big opportunity in hotel chains' need to beef up security.
May 1 -
Sweeping new data-sharing rules require a substantial IT revamp at large financial institutions.
April 28 -
The B-to-B payments market is ripe for digital innovation. Here are some of the most recent moves to bring B-to-B payments up to speed.
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