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: Mastercard looks for crypto experts; Monzo's security gap; Payveris's CUSO picks up investment; Ohio State goes digital for sports tickets.
August 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: R3's expanding in London; Wirecard makes a contactless play in Italy; Poshmark's breach; Nexo offers a credit card for crypto; South Korea opens testing for blockchain.
August 5 -
Investors are making bets on checkout-free retail, a category that is just as challenging as it is innovative. But it's payment technology's race to the moon, a chance to seize a favorable position in the struggle to save retail.
August 5 -
Walmart has filed a patent application for a digital currency that, like Facebook's Libra, would be a stablecoin backed by traditional currencies. And it envisions a very specific use case where its coin could stand in for cash — or even for a bank account.
August 2 -
Square has worked hard in the past several years to offer more than just mobile card acceptance, but not all of its efforts have paid off.
August 2 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Digital payments advance in sports; Amazon Dash set to expire; Albania cracks down on tax pay cheats; Facial recognition ATMs expand in Spain; A stablecoin for legal weed.
August 2 -
It’s not yet time to retire the notion that businesses favor checks for supply chains, but deployments in multiple markets signals a turning point in modernizing B2B payments.
August 1 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google Pay adds security for UPI in India; Fold offers crypto rewards for mobile pay; U.K. convenience chain deploys checkout-free tech; Singapore bank installs QR code ATMs.
August 1 -
Two of the three multibillion-dollar payment mergers announced in 2019 closed this week, and these global giants must now fend off the invigorated fintechs eager to nab unhappy merchant and bank clients.
July 31 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa's small business play in India; Mobile point of sale tech for legal weed; Circle's CEO pushes financial reform; Revolut adds a top exec.
July 31 -
Facebook must have expected some backlash when unveiling its plans for Libra. But it may have underestimated just how much.
July 30 -
Brexit seems more likely than ever, as the U.K.'s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, has committed to meeting the October 31 deadline for a deal to leave the EU. But despite the lingering uncertainty over how that will happen, Mastercard is not abandoning its bullish stance on Europe.
July 30 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: BofA ends First Data joint venture; Capital One and Sephora suffer breaches; Grab uses infusion to expand in Indonesia; Ripple wants to be seen as different than Libra; A ransomware emergency in Louisiana; Amazon expands into food delivery in India.
July 30 -
The fallout from this spring’s slate of multibillion-dollar payment company acquisitions began swiftly, as Bank of America on Monday announced plans to end its joint venture with First Data just hours after Fiserv’s acquisition of First Data closed.
July 29 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Australian banks suffer breaches; U.K. may restrict gambling payments; Movie subscription sites proliferate; Huawei wants China to counter Libra.
July 29 -
As checkout-free stores dramatically reduce — or even eliminate — the need for point-of-sale devices, terminal makers are turning their focus to multichannel services that can keep younger, digital-savvy customers coming into stores.
July 29 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Salesforce and Alibaba team up; VC funds for Standard Cognition; WeChat adds airborne payments; Cannabis bank gets off the ground; Elavon hires a top exec for Europe.
July 26 -
The mobile point of sale market has grown far beyond its roots as an off-the-shelf dongle for smartphones. The category is now driving major acquisitions, collaborations and international deployments.
July 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: eBay's warehouse and shipping play; Alaska Airlines adds Google Pay for boarding passes; Newegg adds to crypto network; Swiss regulators haven't heard from Libra.
July 25 -
Giant Eagle’s supermarkets go back a century, literally, making the Pittsburgh chain one of the best tests yet for how the supermarket experience can adapt to mobile technology and the de-emphasizing of traditional checkout.
July 25
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