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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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: New York forces tipping for Uber; Swift counters hack claims; Is Square planning a card?: Prisoners apply for credit; A new Phishing strain.
April 18 -
Ripple's distributed ledger platform has fed an appetite for cheaper and more efficient cross-border payments, but it may not measure up to the needs of a larger market. Ripple wants to scale its payment system to something resembling a large card network.
April 18 -
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: The NSA reportedly hacks Swift; Stripe's publishing venture; Asia Pacific banks cool to collaboration; Canada embeds an egg on new bill's website.
April 17 -
Efforts to combine mobile wallets and loyalty programs have had mixed success over the years, but many companies are undeterred. Here are a few that are working to find the right mix of technologies.
April 13 -
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: Android Pay embeds in bank apps; Transferwise moving some offices because of Brexit; ECB's not ready for blockchain; Ant enters Indonesia.
April 13 -
The company is diversifying from its traditional payments processing business into a broad-based provider of payments technology and data services.
April 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: Walmart goes after Amazon; Hong Kong experiments with blockchain; U.K. calls for fintech standards; London holds position as tech hub.
April 12 -
Harland Clarke's acquisition of RetailMeNot provides a broader range of marketing technology to serve merchants that are looking to improve mobile-driven sales against competitors such as Shopkick and Foursquare.
April 11 -
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: Amazon sellers hacked; Minecraft offers its own coins; Westpac supports Samsung Pay; U.K. reaches out to Middle Eastern financial tech.
April 11 -
Payment and marketing company Harland Clarke Holdings has agreed to buy the popular online coupon site RetailMeNot for an equity value of $630 million, a deal that would add digital discount technology to Harland's existing merchant services.
April 10 -
Bank of America has added new features to its mobile banking app in an effort to build flexibility in mobile wallet options and more closely tie payments to financial services.
April 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: No Stripe IPO; Kik seeks payments tech; Self-build checking account; Frankfurt opens tech hub.
April 10 -
With big companies frequently set in their ways for how they make cross-border payments, most innovation is targeted toward smaller shops that make fewer payments to foreign suppliers. But that isn't always the case.
April 10 -
Switzerland's UBS is adopting an advanced type of digital signature technology, with a range of uses that include the capability to secure high-risk digital payments.
April 7 -
As more of China's citizens engage in travel and commerce across the nation's borders, more companies want to help them pay and collect money. Many of China's dominant payment brands are extending their reach globally, but U.S. and European companies are also focused on this audience.
April 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. Today: Stripe expands Atlas; Steelworkers lobby for Canadian payments bill; An end date for EMV migration?; Cellum makes a play for financial inclusion.
April 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. Today: Amazon's $70 million refund; Diebold Nixforf embraces connected tech for ATMs; R3 debates virtual currency models; Flattr finds a buyer.
April 6 -
Transit systems provide a clear use case for mobile payments, allowing commuters to avoid lining up at ticketing machines when they're already in a rush to get to their destination. But many of the perks of mobile wallets, such as targeted offers, don't apply to them.
April 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: Visa, PayPal collaborate in Asia: An 'easy' ATM hack; North Korea may have been behind Swift hack; Azimo adds mobile pay tech.
April 5 -
Square is in talks to acquire Yik Yak, which operates location-based anonymous social network popular among college campuses, reports CNBC.
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