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: Apple partners with Alipay to boost iPhone sales; Form jacking attacks expand; P2P expands in Sri Lanka; California considers expanding breach disclosure law.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 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.
By John AdamsFebruary 20 -
States are changing how they regulate bitcoin, but convincing merchants and consumers to jump-start a dreary cryptocurrency payments market is another matter.
By John AdamsFebruary 20 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: EU fee relief; Girl Scouts add Clover; Facebook posts for blockchain talent; Marriott offers hack info.
By John AdamsFebruary 19 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon gains bank support in India; Facial recognition for ATMs in Spain; ATMs are declining in the U.K.; UATP and Conferma Pay offer virtual pay for flights.
By John AdamsFebruary 15 -
Ant Financial, the Chinese payments company that operates Alipay, has a scale that’s almost unimaginable to a U.S. audience. But the giant's ability to build a true empire has already run into regulatory trouble in the U.S.—and it’s affecting Ant's strategy worldwide.
By John AdamsFebruary 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Ant agrees to WorldFirst deal; Kroger ups its mobile technology; Sony adds watch upgrade; Starling Bank raises funds for new accounts; DLT moves foward in Italy.
By John AdamsFebruary 14 -
Stripe’s large and quickly expanding valuation enable it to forge connections among many sources of innovation, placing even more pressure on traditional technology providers and financial institutions.
By John AdamsFebruary 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart loses a delivery partner; Bill.com opens a new office; Jack Dorsey talks up bitcoin; Swiggy's big expansion.
By John AdamsFebruary 13 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Softbank's bullish on driverless vehicles; Pakistan courts PayPal; Monzo adds business services; Japanese consortium cuts paper from transactions.
By John AdamsFebruary 12 -
It’s unusual for a seemingly healthy company’s website to implore its U.S. customers to seek out a competitor with less than a month's notice, but cross-border payment processor WorldFirst has done just that.
By John AdamsFebruary 12 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon debuts video shopping; Phishing campaign hits credit unions; New cash in the U.K.; Companies line up for post-Brexit licenses.
By John AdamsFebruary 11 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Bidding war for Earthport; Movie ticket payment technology expands; Advertising executive launches new retail concept; Barclays invests in Bink; Alipay expands in Canada.
By John AdamsFebruary 8 -
Technology investors are bulldozing cash into blockchain and artificial intelligence, but the “why” is just starting to emerge, as is the true nature of the innovation.
By John AdamsFebruary 8 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: WeChat Pay gains another big mall; Coinbase adds bitcoin support for its wallet; Revolut's office perk; Airline ticket glitch.
By John AdamsFebruary 7 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google detects password compromise; Isle of Man opens blockchain sandbox; Target extends loyalty program; Crypocurrency discloses technology glitch.
By John AdamsFebruary 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Starling's post-Brexit plan; New York Fed to help Bangladesh Bank find stolen funds; Amazon's biggest deal; New rules for crypto.
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