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 mobile revolution is turning Western Union into a very different company, one that must adjust to new ways to pay while pouring substantial resources into fending off the threat of e-commerce.
By John AdamsMarch 8 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm starts premium service; RBI fines banks for Swift violations; U.K. government pressured to protect cash; Google offers perks to watch developer ads.
By John AdamsMarch 7 -
Small-business projects in India and Latin America will provide a test of how well an open source blockchain can reduce the fraud that can occur when businesses try to free up capital from outstanding payments.
By John AdamsMarch 7 -
Amazon’s an attention machine, making its reported attention to Mexico’s criticized mobile payment project something banks have little choice but to see as a welcome development instead of a threat.
By John AdamsMarch 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon may join Mexico's mobile pay program; Revolut faces another compliance query; Gaming clips company Medal adds payments; Square co-founder Tristan O'Tierney dies.
By John AdamsMarch 6 -
Companies are scrambling to shore up Brexit strategies to ensure their payment systems work, a difficult if not impossible task given the political uncertainty. But it’s also an unavoidable complication, which Tipalti hopes will provide a boost for its service, which is built to expect uncertainty.
By John AdamsMarch 6 -
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.
By John AdamsMarch 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.
By John AdamsMarch 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.
By John AdamsMarch 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.
By John AdamsMarch 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.
By John AdamsMarch 1 -
ACI’s $750 million deal to acquire Western Union’s Speedpay allows Western Union to clear its decks while ACI clears its runway.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 24




















