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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Alibaba is investing billions into mobile ordering technology in China — but what is more fundamentally American than spending large amounts of money on food?
April 2 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alibaba pays billions to acquire mobile delivery startup; Waves builds a cryptopay gateway; FINRA warns on screen scraping; Phishing attackers get arrested; Payment fraudsters hit Italian football club.
April 2 -
Like a crime wave, data leaks and vulnerable static identifiers show no sign of abating, as MyFitnessPal became the latest in a string of sites to have users' data exposed trough usernames and hashed passwords.
March 29 -
President Trump's isolationism is colliding head-on with a lucrative trend of Chinese tourists coming to the U.S. looking — and payments companies are caught in the crossfire.
March 29 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Atlanta slowly comes back online after ramsonware attack; Monero's not as "invisible" as its reputation; EU changes its transaction fee rules; More green cryptocurrency.
March 29 -
Uber is clearly doing more to get into payments, but is hampered by a heavy regulatory burden and self-inflicted wounds to its brand.
March 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Uber applies for an e-money license; Shyp shuts down; Apple Watch getting a redesign; Massachusetts halts some ICOs.
March 28 -
There are still millions of merchants in the U.S. clinging to relic point of sale methods — and they are not easily swayed by fancy new touchscreens and mobile wallets. This means companies such as Verifone must go to greater lengths, just to meet them halfway.
March 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Venmo's new privacy policy; Alipay's boss on blockchain; Jet.com's new president; and more.
March 27 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Santander embraces contactless giving; Long Island Blockchain invests in a financial institution; China nudges toward virtual currency; Amex acquires mobile pay firm Cake; Steven Seagal-backed virtual currency faces political heat.
March 26 -
PSD2's open banking wave is attracting lots of attention from payments technology firms, and Zafin is making moves to cement its place in the market.
March 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Square speeds payments in the U.K.; Saga aims to counter cryptocurrency fears; A group forms to help with PSD2 compliance; Bitcoin scores in New York real estate.
March 23 -
The technology company's major projects over the past couple of years have included a diversification to serve merchants' cross-channel shopping and payment needs, adding advanced ATM technology in Europe and upgrading hardware to compete with rivals such as Square.
March 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web:. Today: Instragram's payments feature makes a global move; Investor sets up a new U.K. fintech hub; CBA's sorry for payments glitch; Points for cryptocurrency.
March 22 -
The breach at Expedia's Orbitz not only jeopardized nearly 880,000 payment cards — it cast a spotlight on the weaknesses all companies expose themselves to when they partner with another brand.
March 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Russia helped develop Venezuela's state cryptocurrency; Google makes it easier to pay for news subscriptions; Amazon adds security to its home delivery service; Expedia's hack hits Amex.
March 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. regulators push for global fintech tests; Trump bans Venezuela's state cryptocurrency; Facebook ups its game against Patreon; Cryptocurrency regs can be confusing.
March 20 -
Because Google Pay is already accepted at numerous mainstream merchants and is the default mobile wallet for many Android smartphone owners, it stands a strong chance of easing the friction of enrollment in a contactless fare system.
March 19 -
Small-business payments are an inefficient mess of unpaid invoices and paper processes that are causing substantial funds to languish and companies to stagnate. One possible solution is to address the cash flow, not the payment mechanism itself.
March 14 -
To detect and combat transaction laundering — the practice of hiding illegal activity behind a business that appears legitimate — American Express' investment group took a minority equity stake in EverCompliant.
March 12
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