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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Ever since Apple opened its Siri voice assistant to outside developers late last year, payment companies have been experimenting with the potential of voice-controlled payments. Here's a look at what some of the early adopters have already accomplished.
March 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: Singapore embraces distributed ledgers; Uber gets new invoicing; Brexit threatens cross-border payments; Chicago startup tests palm payments.
March 10 -
Innovate Indiana is taking part in a $2.6 million investment in Rippleshot, a company that uses artificial intelligence to detect card fraud.
March 9 -
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: U.K. payments tech gets more open; kids' draws investors; Monzo suffers another outage; businesses prefer banks for B-to-B payments.
March 9 -
The app economy has grown big enough now that many of the early rules no longer apply.
March 8 -
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: Razer adds virtual currency; Singapore and Abu Dhabi partner on fintech; former Square execs go into merchant tech; Loot diversifies.
March 8 -
Verifone is checking into a breach of its computer network, reports security blogger Brian Krebs.
March 7 -
Hoping to remove almost all touch-based input from mobile payments, RBC has launched money transfers with Siri, Apple's voice-activated digital assistant.
March 7 -
PHVenture capital often moves like a tide. Janet Bannister seeks opportunity that's just a bit farther out.
March 7 -
PHIn financial services today, it seems everyone is interested in how blockchain can be used. Diana Adachi's one of the people making it happen.
March 7 -
PHMoneyGram's Kamila Chytil is assuming a new position at the company amid major changes. This year for MoneyGram could not be more dynamic.
March 7 -
PHFor one of her bank's largest and most important forays into digital transaction technology, JPMorgan Chase's Jennifer Roberts turned to the people most in tune with the next era of financial services.
March 7 -
PHThe Most Influential Women in Payments are the ones taking risks with new ideas and investments, and developing the technology that will forever change the way people handle money. Not only do they set an example for their peers, they are unafraid to learn from newcomers and are diligent about encouraging a freshness and diversity of ideas.
March 7 -
PHKroger payments chief Kathy Hanna is helping to drive a digital transformation of how consumers engage the supermarket chain.
March 7 -
PHJanet Estep has been one of the most visible figures in the faster payments movement, battling for years to get reluctant banks on board with this vision.
March 7 -
PHTSYS lured longtime U.S. Bank executive Pam Joseph out of retirement to help steer the company's evolving business strategy as it morphs into a multi-channel merchant services provider.
March 7 -
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: Not all Irish banks on board with Apple Pay; Feds worried about virtual currency; Monzo insources after third party glitch; New predictions on cash's extinction.
March 7 -
LendingArch is offering what amounts to installment payments for Canadian health care expenses, hoping to take a bite of the credit card market for consumer-direct health care payments.
March 6 -
By now most of the world knows of the disruption India's monetary system has undergone as its government discourages paper cash and pushes digital alternatives, stopping short of outright forcing the issue. But there's another challenge within the market.
March 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: Deutsche Bourse's VC focuses on payment compliance; Dash grows quickly; Mobile usage jumps; A new health care installment plan in Canada.
March 6
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