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: New York's plans for crypto; Phillips 66 in-car payments; U.K. contactless fraud; and more.
January 7 -
More companies are adding financial health programs to their benefits, creating a market that fits with one of the common uses consumers have found for prepaid cards.
January 7 -
Banks and payment companies are already comfortable using artificial intelligence to guard against fraud. The tech could soon be just as welcome in creating payment products and matching them to potential customers.
January 4 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Chase is recuriting a blockchain leader; Elavon gets nod from U.K.'s Faster Payments scheme; Abine suffers a breach; Self-driving car deliveries advance in San Francisco.
January 4 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm's out of India's regulatory spotlight; Mary Meeker's new investment firm gets a brand; Prepaid trade group changes its name; Bitcoin processor turns down investment.
January 3 -
As the federal budget dispute shoves an increasing number of government workers to the sidelines, there’s a window to provide payments relief that’s superior to options such as payday lending and bartering.
January 2 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Sony's increasing production of facial recognition cameras; Finger ID can be spoofed; Android apps send data to Facebook; Swift's payments technology expands.
January 2 -
Nestled among the waves of tourists and commuters near Grand Central Terminal is a spot were a “no cash” store is working, free from political pressures. But its success still suggests that paperless payments are a niche play.
December 24 -
Signature Bank on Jan. 1 will open its Signet Platform to support real-time settlement for commercial payments. The bank is collaborating with trueDigital Holdings, a New York-based blockchain infrastructure, exchange and settlement technology company.
December 24 -
Hostilities toward the legal U.S. cannabis industry are softening considerably, with signs of further removing cash and digital workarounds from a market that has long been shunned by traditional payment cards.
December 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Breach woes for Uber; Australia welcomes Alipay; payment tools for freelancers; and more.
December 21 -
The digital ID market has massive potential, but many fundamental problems that must first be overcome. Among them: The companies best positioned to provide a viable digital ID platform are not the ones best positioned to benefit from it.
December 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web Today: Square refiles for a bankiing license; UBS gets an AML fine; P2P for crypto; Digital receipt fintech Flux attracts investors; Coinbase offers cryptocurrency education.
December 20 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Grocers enhance delivery; Apple Pay faces pushback in Switzerland; Western Union teases crypto support; Coinbase adds crypto-to-crypto conversions.
December 19 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon improves Alexa's security; Mobile pay leaps in Australia; Ride sharing app Careem diversifies; Belgian transit pay goes to the cloud.
December 18 -
Neither Amazon nor Starbucks could be described as a traditional retailer. But they both use their shared headquarters city as a playground for developing digital and in-store innovations that all merchants and payment companies will have to respond to the years ahead.
December 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Starbucks expands its deal with UberEats; Russia's Sberbank supports QR codes for payments; Nordic software comany Ervy picks up payment contracts; Sephora adds bitcoin rewards.
December 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Big banks win payment contracts in Australia; Revolut gets a banking license; Samsung Pay's on wearables in South Africa; Danske Bank gets open; Bitcoin bomb threat.
December 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go tries smaller stores; CULedger joins R3; YayPay draws funds; German cryptobank debuts.
December 13 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: EU tackles cybersecurity, finger vein payments expand, Barclays adds payment controls, and more.
December 12
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