John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker.
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PNC and First Data see a benefit in tailoring the health care experience with a focus on the consumer, and are working to enable that process by funding a cloud-based IT company that digitizes medical office management.
By John AdamsNovember 23 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple Pay gets a boost from USAT's marketing; R3 looses banks; cross-border mobile money advances in Africa; Cardtronics wins a big cruise ATM contract.
By John AdamsNovember 22 -
Biometrics has long had an interoperability gap. Visa is trying to address that with a new project that brings flexibility to biometric options.
By John AdamsNovember 21 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily with the information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Disney updates its Magic Band; Cash still popular in Canada; Samsung expands support for wearable payments; Bitcoin ATMs expand to Scotland.
By John AdamsNovember 21 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily with the information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: E-commerce eases earnings pain at Target; Instagram adds shopping tools; Uber launches a gift card; a new payment app for pot.
By John AdamsNovember 18 -
India's abrupt recall of its larger bills — a bid to crack down on tax evasion — was a crash course in how to adapt to a cash shortage. Was this an opportunity for mobile payments or a failing of the overall financial services system?
By Daniel WolfeNovember 17 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Experts search for a cause for the Tesco breach; classical musicians play at an ATM; the European Commission wants to help banks repond to tech; Nordic countries shed cash.
By John AdamsNovember 17 -
Prepaid cards are never far from politics and controversy, though the industry's distance from government scrutiny will likely increase in January when Donald Trump assumes the presidency and a new Congress is sworn in.
By John AdamsNovember 17 -
In this environment, the
millennials who have largely chosen credit card alternatives such as P-to-P apps and social payment tools will have an easier time getting credit cards, potentially giving banks an added tool to compete with apps like Venmo.By John AdamsNovember 17 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walgreens expands beacons; AI enters travel payments; Fintech goes deeper into the back office; Brexit causes U.K. VC slump.
By John AdamsNovember 16