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: Google Pay adds more banks; Diebold Nixdorf scores a win in patent fight; Ant dominates Asian fintech investment; California may allow cryptocurrency political donations.
August 17 -
Legacy card issuers are facing a huge problem that threatens their relevance. Most of them are trying to launch a spaceship with a steam engine, and many of the solutions to that quandary are expensive, risky — and temporary.
August 17 -
Credit unions are working to turn a distributed ledger-based identity project into a platform for payments and financial services.
August 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Square improves chip payment time; Ant pursues emerging markets in Africa; Pabst Blue Ribbon intros a card; CBA pushes small biz payments.
August 16 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alipay and WeChat are available at Mall of America; ATM attackers hit bank in India; Faster payments boosts business automation; Square expands bitcoin support.
August 15 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: ATMs and IoT are subject to new attack threats; The Bank of England wants input on faster payments; Russian Mir cards pick up another bank.
August 14 -
Techies find security holes in mobile point of sale devices
August 13 -
Health care's a vertical that keeps coming up over and over as a laggard that sticks to paper, manual forms and other legacy payment methods, mostly because of the number of documents that would need to be digitized for even one part of the process to enter the modern age.
August 13 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PGA suffers ransomware attack; U.K. consumers don't always know where payments fraud comes from; Apple Pay's usage jumps; Wearables go to beach volleyball; Intuit earns a payment patent.
August 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon adds pickup to Whole Foods; Canadians like the no-cashier concept; Ant makes a move into Africa; Fossil adopts wearable payments.
August 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Microsoft adds Masterpass; A global fintech sandbox takes shape; Shaq invests in gig economy app; Fast EMV processing gets faster; Blockchain tackles mobile payments.
August 8 -
MakeCents uses a distributed blockchain platform to digitize and decentralize fiat currency. For existing stakeholders, the incentives to cede some control in favor of a blockchain are lower costs, faster transactions and greater volume.
August 8 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook wants more data from banks; Arizona opens a fintech sandbox; Alipay gets fined; Visa offers credit to small businesses.
August 7 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple Pay offers new incentives; Bids for Ofo; Aimia rejects Air Canada's bid; Patreon's payments problem.
August 6 -
Hochschild, the current president and chief operating officer, has been with Discover for 20 years, and will retain his title as president upon assuming the CEO role on Oct. 1. Nelms (pictured) will continue as executive chairman until his retirement early in 2019.
August 3 -
While mass transit has long been seen as a potential catalyst for changing payment habits, it's apps such as Uber, Grab and Lyft that are making the biggest difference in how people pay for transportation.
August 3 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: A big week for the OEM wallets; Barclays adds service for small businesses; Russian card hacker goes to jail; Nexo adds credit for cryptopayments.
August 3 -
The Trump administration's isolationist policies are slowing the flow of foreign students to American universities, and thus may hurt companies that rely on cross-border tuition processing to American corridors.
August 3 -
Pinduoduo's controversial IPO was seemingly a world removed from western merchant acquirers, but it's yet another example of how social payments can upend conventional relationships between merchants, shopping and payment processing.
August 2 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Allied Wallet's CEO reportedly makes big political donations and skirts bank regs; Indian central bank pressures Paytm on AML; Grab's prepping another $1 billion raise; Google Pay adds another market; FSA tightens rules for FX marketing.
August 2
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