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: Sam's Club extends scanning technology; New York subways replace newstands with vending machines; W3C and FIDO finish authentication specification; Programmers use radio waves to make cryptocurrency payment.
March 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Banco Sabadell demos "hand" payments; Amazon plots grocery chain; U.K. consolidates payment groups; Klarna and PayBright collaborate in Canada.
March 4 -
Amazon is focusing more on the virtual and voice-powered reordering on its sites and apps, and as a result is no longer producing new plastic Dash buttons.
March 1 -
Revolut has caught the attention of U.K. regulators over money laundering compliance, a predicament that sheds light on issues faced by the entire digital financial services industry.
March 1 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Air Canada adds Amex to marketing deal; Facebook's work on crypto makes progress; Standard Bank pursues blockchain; One97 expands API access.
March 1 -
ACI’s $750 million deal to acquire Western Union’s Speedpay allows Western Union to clear its decks while ACI clears its runway.
February 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Square's earnings miss; India extends KYC deadline; South Korea pushes PSD2-style reforms; VC funds pour into restaurant technology; N26 expands ot Brazil.
February 28 -
P2P transfer apps aren't just for splitting the rent — they can also be portals to a wider array of financial services, as Canada’s national Interac debit network plans to prove.
February 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: IBM Watson moves toward in-car payments; Jamie Dimon discusses crypto and Square; Bahrain issues rules for cryptocurrency; Visa advances transit technology; Facebook's takes a cut of crowdsourced artist content.
February 27 -
Amazon, Accenture and Mastercard are using digital identity, blockchain and mobile payments to crack a window into sustainability and inclusion, but they’re also gaining potential retail benefits by capturing consumers who crave information about the origin of products.
February 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Target's using incentives to push third party sales; Android gets FIDO certification; Timex adds wearable pay technology; Merchant lending draws investment in South Africa.
February 26 -
The health care industry yearns for a digital antidote to paper payments, a challenge that awaits an executive who has spent years bringing businesses into the digital light.
February 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: BMW and Daimler's mobile plans move ahead; Uber Eats sells Indian unit to Swiggy; Sberbank pushes P2P; Mastercard makes a clearing deal in China.
February 25 -
Every week starts and ends the same way — with meetings where departments can share successes and challenges. It’s one way the payments company ensures cross-collaboration.
February 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple partners with Alipay to boost iPhone sales; Form jacking attacks expand; P2P expands in Sri Lanka; California considers expanding breach disclosure law.
February 22 -
Lloyds is paying small merchants to offer cash back, but consumer groups are already casting the move as inadequate to address the decline of branches and ATMs in the U.K.
February 22 -
Immigration restrictions are a threat to London’s status as a fintech hub, enough for Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky to demand the U.K.’s government take special steps to prevent the technology talent from going elsewhere.
February 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Dutch central bank's processing PSD2 licenses for U.K. firms; Wyoming pushes crypto laws; Citymapper adds prepaid card; Paytm hires former Amazon exec; Bluefin gets PCI certification.
February 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Instagram adds donation sticker; Barclays Brexit clinics; Coinbase acquires more blockchain technology; Google Pay gains ground with banks.
February 20 -
States are changing how they regulate bitcoin, but convincing merchants and consumers to jump-start a dreary cryptocurrency payments market is another matter.
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