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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The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. regulators say PayPal's iZettle deal won't hurt competition; Amazon extends its Key service to some Ford brands; Remitly adds to its network; Refundo and BitPay offer cryptocurrency tax refunds.
By John AdamsMay 1 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart enables shoppable ads in its streaming service; Another no-cashier store in London; Amazon Pay expands in India; Citi extends business pay in Vietnam.
By John AdamsApril 30 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa extends financial inclusion in Pakistan, Africa; India cracks down on crypto; Sinemia closes; Swedbank responds to AML investigations.
By John AdamsApril 29 -
It’s just one part of one regulation in one region that addresses one business practice, but for Stripe, Strong Customer Authentication is a ticket to unlock markets across multiple business types.
By John AdamsApril 29 -
Uber’s getting a half billion dollar investment from PayPal at a time when the ride-sharing app is prepping a $100 billion IPO and can least afford speed bumps in its user experience and payment process.
By John AdamsApril 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal invests in Uber; Tencent invests in payments technology in Argentina; Wirex issues stablecoins; Walmart unveils new retail innovation; The PSD2 vendor market gets larger.
By John AdamsApril 26 -
Barclays has been highly active and aggressive in payments innovation on its home turf, giving it insight into which of its projects could find footing as it expands in the U.S.
By John AdamsApril 26 -
Less than a day after saying it would work with large core processors in a consolidating industry, Visa has struck a deal to link its B2B platform to FIS' bank clients.
By John AdamsApril 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Blockchain B2B advances in China; Brave adds new ad incentives; New crypto wallet; New York prosecutors win a bitcoin laundering case.
By John AdamsApril 25 -
Visa’s not worried about the massive consolidation that’s sweeping the payments industry, seeing it as a force to extend payments innovation globally.
By John AdamsApril 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon partners with French supermarket chain; N26 is adding risk experts; Unisys makes an open banking play; Apple Pay is set to launch in Austria.
By John AdamsApril 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Sony's new ride sharing app; bitcoin advances for debit and e-commerce; eBay may invest in Paytm Mall; Washington Caps add Alipay.
By John AdamsApril 23 -
As threats from nimble fintechs and global e-commerce companies abound, Visa’s turning to open development tools to place itself in the middle of the innovation, rather than making a solitary counterplay itself.
By John AdamsApril 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa's new APIs; Coffee battle in China; PayPal wins a patent to battle ramsonware; Coinbase expands; India leaves crypto out of sandbox.
By John AdamsApril 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm details payments strategy; New blockchain VC; Surecomp opens an innovation lab; Industry groups join forces.
By John AdamsApril 18 -
A Toronto fintech is seeking share for distinct niche — and it thinks a three-year-old technology decision by Visa may be the ticket to its success.
By John AdamsApril 18 -
Stripe has updated its products and made an acquisition to prep for new security standards it says will impact more than 300 million people, potentially giving Stripe the same kind of influence over European merchant technology that it enjoys in the U.S.
By John AdamsApril 17 -
CV Systems’ COO Randy Schmidt, BHMI Chairman Jack Baldwin and Mickey Goldwasser, vice president of Payrailz, discuss challenges and opportunities, for faster payments, back office gaps, and cross-industry cooperation.
By John AdamsApril 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Will Europe act to counter the U.S. and China's influence on payments?; Monzo adds emojis; Google Pay tightens ties to Gmail; A new payments association forms;
By John AdamsApril 17 -
By Mastercard’s own reckoning, the point-of-sale financing space is a $1.8 trillion market in the U.S. alone, making its Vyze acquisition a natural way to pursue an opportunity that’s being gobbled up by fintechs and card alternatives.
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