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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Accenture has agreed to acquire First Annapolis Consulting in an effort to add payments expertise in several international markets.
March 23 -
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: Wells' cardless ATMs go national: Collison brothers make Forbes billionaires list; U.K. pushes check imaging; EMV sales slide.
March 23 -
Within the payments industry, Braintree was a well-known technology provider even before it became a unit of PayPal in 2013. But as the company expands, it finds that its reach has its limits.
March 22 -
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: LG Pay to launch in June; New York hits record for breaches; U.K.'s Three has a mobile number mishap; Amazon Prime expands voice ordering.
March 22 -
Royal Bank of Canada has long been enthusiastic about payment technology that most other banks usually see as long-term projects.
March 22 -
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 adopts voice tech; Yes Bank adds a bot in India; HCE diversifies bus payments; Linked2pay diversifies its ISO pitch.
March 21 -
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: IBM's cloud blockchain moves forward; Saks' web page exposes customer info; a startup for music payments; India's consumers optimistic.
March 20 -
Biometric authentication has been around for a while, but companies are still finding new uses for it in payments and commerce. Here are some of the latest developments.
March 17 -
In an increasingly digital world, retailers are working to bring transactions closer to the shopper and further away from traditional hardware.
March 16 -
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: Bank emoji; China's big blockchain; smart jacket; an ISO crawler and more.
March 13 -
Mobile money apps have proven to be a major force in building financial services in emerging economies, but under the hood they can be starkly different.
March 13 -
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.
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