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.
His work includes profiles of
John has been with American Banker and related products for 30 years, covering bank technology, advertising, mortgages and capital markets.
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Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa's digital incentive moves to the U.K.; Jet.com pursues the New York market; Digital boosts donations; Delivery robots; Refunds for late trains.
July 14 -
As the number of apps for banking and payments increases, so does the reliability risk.
July 14 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: A loophole in PayPal's Apple collaboration; Could Whole Foods accelerate Amazon Go? ; Swiss bank supports Bitcoin; Verizon suffers a breach.
July 13 -
Since e-commerce merchants often operate without walls, it makes little sense to operate with borders.
July 13 -
The card network would help offset the cost of adopting digital payment technology in exchange for no longer accepting cash payments.
July 12 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa pays businesses to go digital; Ripple expands in Japan; Screen scraping's still a battle; Santander may invest in Curve.
July 12 -
Information sharing is about to get much different in Europe, giving bank alternatives such as Klarna more to work with as they compete against the financial services establishment.
July 12 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Tencent plans to set up in Malaysia; Bank of England may allow certain DLT payments; Payments Canada adds experts to board; Latin American payment marketplace raises funds for expansion.
July 11 -
Much like the consumer retail acquisition market, business payment companies are expanding the appeal of transaction automation by tying it to international growth and value-added merchant services.
July 11 -
Stripe will collaborate with WeChat and Alipay to make it easier for merchants around the world to accept payments from Chinese consumers.
July 10 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Stripe makes a deal with WeChat and Alipay; The Hague adopts mobile transit; B&B Theaters suffer a breach; PSD2 gets payment insurance rules.
July 10 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Square hires a lobbyist; iZettle preps to go public; Uber's tip feature grows; Air Canada adds more digital pay heft.
July 7 -
The company contends a lot of current payments technology is focused on horizontal companies that are designed to easily enable payments, and are operating agnostic to the type of business that requires a payments gateway,
July 7 -
First Data has entered into several partnerships and made acquisitions as it attempts to diversify its product line to adjust to the growth of digital payments.
July 6 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Contactless transit pay advances; Tesco's loyalty goes mobile; Monzo suffers an outage; A new API for U.K. payments.
July 6 -
IT work is getting more complex, and that's delaying revenue, according to Diebold Nixdorf.
July 5 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Worldpay an expensive acquisition; Square lands D.C. taxi contract; Ant pushes "no cash" in China; Big fintech lobby group forms in U.K.; Sony streamlines wearable NFC.
July 5 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal and Sony have a glitch; Screen scraping battle continues; M-Pesa gets an update; Paper checks decline; Fyre Fest faces legal trouble;
July 3 -
Real-time payment processing is drawing more attention to tangible use cases, such as helping workers pay bills that are due before they receive their salary.
June 30 -
Wearables are a clear evolution of the mobile wallet, but companies are still experimenting with use cases. Here are a few of the latest concepts.
June 30
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