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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The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook's cryptocurrency gets more detail; Lloyds adds to open banking; Domino's tests driverless cars; Euro messaging moves forward; Billing tech draws investors.
By John AdamsJune 18 -
One of Target's high-profile payment outages this weekend stemmed from a problem at one of NCR's data centers, the big box retailer says.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
As both large payment processors and fintechs are attracted to the market opportunity presented as B2B transactions start to digitize, one vendor hopes to stand out with an AI-based workflow.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
Target in the past 48 hours suffered a pair of unrelated point of sale outages that had at least one thing in common — they resulted in consumers scrambling for a contingency that would have been little problem as recently as four or five years ago.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Target's troubled weekend; Australia's choppy NPP rollout; Alexa shopping for kids; and more.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
Cashierless stores have generated a lot of attention, but there’s a heavy lift to ensure the concept works outside of the relatively controlled environment of beta tests and proof-of-concept stores.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
Facebook's Libra, or GlobalCoin, will be cryptocurrency's largest test — fueled by a collection of huge investors that will determine if mainstream merchants and consumers will actually use a payment system featuring an alternative currency.
By John AdamsJune 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Revolut expands to Australia; Los Angeles upgrades transit; FirstBank signs on for real-time payments; Facebook invests in Meesho.
By John AdamsJune 14 -
A huge portion of European companies will not clear PSD2's regulatory hurdles for digital connections between banks and payment apps, but that hasn't slowed down some companies that see value in open banking and payments.
By John AdamsJune 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Coinbase extends debit network; Uber plots drone delivery; Alipay targets football event; Ripple beefts up in Brazil; U.K. regulators end probe into PayPal's iZettle deal.
By John AdamsJune 13 -
India’s government has taken drastic steps to encourage and standardize digital transactions, and those moves appear to be paying off.
By John AdamsJune 13 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go adds Starbucks; Paytm wants lighter AML rules; Alipay launches a ride-sharing app; PayByPhone is on Amazon Echo Auto.
By John AdamsJune 12 -
The ride-sharing heavyweights Uber and Grab built their markets by making payments seamless, and their expansion plans are similarly hooked into improving payments and other financial services.
By John AdamsJune 11 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: New Yorker commuters flock to contactless payments; European software companies develop Bluetooth transit pay; Sberbank and McDonald's team up; Google Pay plans navigation improvements.
By John AdamsJune 11 -
Digital payments are creating a wealth of data that can be used to inform other types of financial services for managing debt or promoting financial inclusion — and these services are, in turn, attracting the interest of venture capitalists.
By John AdamsJune 11 -
PayPal and Mastercard are independently making high-profile moves to shore up gaps in open banking and data compliance, and both companies are downplaying any competitiveness.
By John AdamsJune 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart boosts delivery technology; MoneyGram partners with Canada's post office; More automation for Singapore's transit; Vancouver cracks down on bitcoin ATMs.
By John AdamsJune 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: The EMVCo buy button gets more details; Stripe invests in youth financial services startup; Contactless soars in the U.K.; Facebook's cryptocoin gets closer; SEC makes a legal move on ICOs.
By Daniel WolfeJune 7 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: How Amazon Go ensures user experience; Rabobank embraces open banking; Russian supermarket launches crypto B2B payments; Swedish department store adds payments for travelers from China.
By John AdamsJune 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard and PayPal make moves to address PSD2 compliance and open banking; Axel debuts a new wallet; Digital ID network takes shape in Germany.
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