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: Amazon's supermarket takes shape; Payment companies push India on fraud prevention; NAB boosts digital receipts; Google Pay adds restaurant technology.
October 2 -
Oak HC/FT is the lead investor in a $100 million round in Rapyd, a company that’s designed to serve a complex international supply chain.
October 1 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Instagram extends shopping technology; Amazon Go considers movie theaters; J-Coin adds retailers; France releases e-invoice rule; Drive through worker snaps debit card pics.
October 1 -
More states are adopting mobile driver’s licenses, sparking hope of creating a shareable consumer-driven digital ID to power e-commerce and data sharing among banks, fintechs and merchants.
October 1 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Payments innovation takes off at stadiums; MoneyGram expands in Egypt; Klarna plans a pop-up store; Facebook's Libra makes a pitch to the U.N.
September 30 -
Now that the big, multi-billion dollar payment deals of the past year have closed, the companies must figure out how their new scale can address tasks such as software migrations or data sharing compliance in specific markets.
September 30 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Uber's new loyalty; Ant and Monsanto team on blockchain; McKinsey opens demonstration store in the Mall of America; U.K. improves breach fight.
September 27 -
Checkout-free tech has only just left the gate, but has tons of promise as a way to shed lines and collect data — just the mix that sports facilities are looking for.
September 27 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Mastercard and Rabobank make payments push for emerging markets farmers; PayPal makes inroads with streaming content in India; Amazon builds smart glasses; Daimler adds more blockchain payments.
September 26 -
The direct threats to the Trump presidency and Boris Johnson's tenure as prime minister of the U.K. create an extra layer of uncertainty for fintechs.
September 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: North Korea-linked hackers go after ATMs; Lyft goes deeper into transit; myPOS opens a store in Paris; Austin IoT crypto payments startup adds to its network.
September 25 -
The major technology companies that have chipped away at incumbent payment businesses face much larger competition from this year’s big processing mergers, but they’ve also bulked up through fundraising and product development.
September 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Will IBM work with Facebook on cryptocurrency?; Mastercard's new ad campaign; China pushes back on digital currency reports; Glint becomes insolvent.
September 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: British Airways tries new payment standard; New checkout-free store in South Korea; Starbucks and Alibaba add more mobile technology in China; A new digital piggy bank enhances its product line.
September 23 -
Edit LicenseWolverton has been accumulating responsibility and influence at Synovus in recent years and is the highest ranking woman at the company.
September 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Google Pay adds more services in India; Banco Santander expands digital subsidiary; A tablet that measures shoppers' moods; A new security threat for cryptocurrency.
September 20 -
As incumbent merchant acquirers have gotten larger through massive M&A deals, Stripe has been bulking up as well, including a fresh investment to fuel a cross-border merchant technology stack.
September 19 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Starbucks extends IoT play in Japan; ECB board member calls for collaboration to counter Libra; Contactless transit pay reaches Rome; North debuts web pay for techie glasses.
September 19 -
Online and cloud-hosted B2B services are on the rise, breaking apart traditional payroll and exposing pain points for technology developers to address.
September 19 -
The big payment processor/bank technology mergers that were announced early this year are officially closing, setting the stage for complicated conversions and a fierce battle for customer share.
September 18
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