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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To jawbone Mexico into paying for the wall, President-elect Trump has threatened to suspend remittances. Such a move would disrupt one of the busiest corridors of money in the world.
November 9 -
President-elect Donald Trump’s well-publicized plan to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it could have significant ramifications for a major sector of the payments industry.
November 9 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple plays Apple Pay hardball with big Australian banks and cuts a deal with smaller banks; a British startup combines small biz and personal finance in one app; Overstock bets on blockchain.
November 9 -
Donald Trump's stunning upset in the presidential race on Tuesday is likely to embolden his followers to push for changes to Internet law that could significantly alter how financial technology is conceived, built and delivered to market.
November 9 -
Donald Trump's stunning upset in the presidential race on Tuesday is likely to embolden his followers to push for changes to Internet law that could significantly alter how financial technology is conceived, built and delivered to market.
November 9 -
Donald Trump’s stunning upset in the presidential race on Tuesday is likely to embolden his followers to push for changes to Internet law that could significantly alter how financial technology is conceived, built and delivered to market.
November 9 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart's big plans for mobile wallets; Stripe's collaborators get a directory; the U.K. downsizes check processing; CaribShopper expands.
November 8 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: a big breach at Tesco; McDonald's will add mobile ordering; Russia wants its payment network to link to UnionPay; no fintech bubble, at least for now.
November 7 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Singapore's using toll and parking payments as part of a major digital overhaul; a new payment card security threat for Flash Player users; Google allows discount introductory subscription rates.
November 4 -
Long one of mobile payments' success stories, Starbucks reports major gains in both mobile ordering and payments.
November 4 -
Payments technology is showing up in places that were unimaginable just a few years ago. That creates new opportunities for merchants and banks, but also new opportunities for fraudsters.
November 4 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. today: France and Switzerland try to lure fintech companies; a new kind of payment and budget app; Australia plans to expand citizens' data rights.
November 3 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Square gets some good news; web appliances get set to take off; financial inclusion makes progress; Instagram's e-commerce strategy moves forward.
November 2 -
Omnichannel commerce demands multiple layers of technology, and each layer adds a risk of latency and friction at time when payment companies can least afford it.
November 2 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: A bank-led faster pay venture in Japan expands; mobile gets more popular; bitcoin sale in Swiss rail stations; free lawyers for startups.
November 1 -
Open source development has joined blockchain technology in a bid to take a bite out of banks' long-standing control over the international payments market.
November 1 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alipay's shot to beat Apple and PayPal; new tech to stop an ATM scam; a SIM card for payments; India bank tries sound waves.
October 31 -
Companies that provide services for brick and mortar merchants face the challenge of adding lots of technology in a short amount of time. This is a tough task from an execution space but a big opportunity to gain returns for investors.
October 31 -
Mastercard's Masterpass digital wallet is gaining steam from a new enrollment feature that puts issuers in control, according to Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga.
October 28 -
The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. In today's briefing: Paper becomes plastic; London cab payments rev up; India's e-commerce power; Android Pay gets personality.
October 28
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