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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Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Android Pay's "virtual" prizes; Blockchain group looks for investment; a new tech center in Paris; Russian bank hit by a "SWIFT-style" attack.
December 6 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Researchers hack Visa in six seconds; China's on top of the fintech world; e-commerce mitigates currency woes in Africa; an old smartphone attack is back.
December 5 -
As Starbucks prepares to transition its top executives into new roles, it helps to look back on its history in mobile payments and examine how its management structure helped this plan. Here are a few of the key decisions the company made.
December 2 -
Much like rival
Mastercard , which recently took its Decision Intelligence AI product out of pilot, Visa wants to make sure that it isn't turning away legitimate customers when it finds signs of potential fraud.December 2 -
Investors initially jeered Howard Schultz's decision to step down as Starbucks' CEO, though the famed mobile strategy that's helped spur the coffee chain's high performance over the past couple of years doesn't necessarily require the company's founder to be in its biggest office.
December 2 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Spain becomes Apple Pay's 13th market; a government health care program could help payments; Lithuania recruits fintech in the U.K.; new gaming payment tech.
December 2 -
Visa's growth beyond plastic cards relies heavily on tokenization, a strategy that should get a major boost from its planned acquisition of CardinalCommerce.
December 1 -
Inaccurate rejections of legitimate transactions aren't a new problem, and companies can't always use past transaction data to spot future risk on a large scale. Artificial intelligence can change the game.
December 1 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Bankers say innovation changes ROI; tech giants push Trump on regs; payment tech scores at blockchain event; Fitbit plans to buy Pebble.
December 1 -
Welcome to the new 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's unhappy holiday; U.K. cash protest; hackers demand Bitcoin ransom; India's cash crisis hurts Euronet Worldwide's ATM earnings.
November 30 -
Consumers aren't just sharing the charming personal moments of their lives on social media — they're producing data that Israeli startup Feelter contends can revolutionize online shopping.
November 30 -
USAA has debuted several new features designed to make its digital wallet more versatile and to cast payments as one of a series of services.
November 29 -
Israeli mobile technology company On Track Innovations (OTI) hopes to cash in on the trend toward
fashion-direct payments by embedding transaction functions inside a ring.November 29 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Uber's Asian rival ups its payments game; European companies push back against new authentication rules; India's cash crisis leads to protests; PayPal benefits from holiday e-commerce boost.
November 29 -
PNC and First Data see a benefit in tailoring the health care experience with a focus on the consumer, and are working to enable that process by funding a cloud-based IT company that digitizes medical office management.
November 23 -
Welcome to the new 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 gets a boost from USAT's marketing; R3 looses banks; cross-border mobile money advances in Africa; Cardtronics wins a big cruise ATM contract.
November 22 -
Biometrics has long had an interoperability gap. Visa is trying to address that with a new project that brings flexibility to biometric options.
November 21 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily with the information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Disney updates its Magic Band; Cash still popular in Canada; Samsung expands support for wearable payments; Bitcoin ATMs expand to Scotland.
November 21 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily with the information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: E-commerce eases earnings pain at Target; Instagram adds shopping tools; Uber launches a gift card; a new payment app for pot.
November 18 -
India's abrupt recall of its larger bills — a bid to crack down on tax evasion — was a crash course in how to adapt to a cash shortage. Was this an opportunity for mobile payments or a failing of the overall financial services system?
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