John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker.
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The company is adopting the fast-growing language recognition technology to improve its billing, checkout and subscriptions offerings.
By John AdamsMarch 20 -
Amid the fallout from the Silicon Valley Bank shutdown, some argue that reduced processing time could mitigate systemic disruptions.
By John AdamsMarch 16 -
NatWest joins U.K. banks in limiting crypto, Mastercard teams with fintech in the UAE, and more.
By John AdamsMarch 15 -
Micro-merchants that sell on Etsy and Shopify were briefly unable to accept payments — an issue that could have been catastrophic had it lasted longer.
By John AdamsMarch 14 -
When Circle USDC broke its peg to the dollar days after SVB's crisis, it revealed new uncertainties for cryptocurrency that's designed to resist volatility.
By John AdamsMarch 13 -
Co-Op Solutions, which represents more than 1,800 credit unions, used its scale to negotiate a favorable deal with the STAR Network.
By John AdamsMarch 13 -
Brett Mooney returns to the card network as the country manager for Canada, a digital-forward market that is attracting more competition from banks and fintechs.
By John AdamsMarch 10 -
The card network is examining how to make incentives more personal by using advanced technology to sift through a trove of consumer spending data.
By John AdamsMarch 9 -
This week's global news roundup includes Apple Pay securing a lingering holdout; a CBDC project that targets FX rates, and more.
By John AdamsMarch 8 -
Associate partner Mary Ann Francis is a risk taker — the kind who jumps off a waterfall without a parachute. She brings this same boldness to her work at IBM, where her decades of banking experience help the tech giant find new opportunities for artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
By John AdamsMarch 7