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 U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority released data that shows buy now/pay later lending on the rise, Ripple is working with Uphold to improve crypto liquidity and more.
November 1 -
The tech billionaire wants the former Twitter's users to manage all of their finances on the site — the sooner, the better.
October 31 -
By purchasing the merchant acquirer Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems, the fintech Stax has rounded out its offerings in a way that echoes the structure of larger payment companies.
October 30 -
JP Morgan Chase and Carver Federal Savings are applying fast-acting security tools more broadly — regardless of how fast the transaction is.
October 27 -
As the government weighs changes to interchange, Michael Miebach voiced his displeasure during the company's earnings call.
October 26 -
A selloff of the French company's shares sparked similar issues at other publicly traded payments firms in Europe. The question is whether the underlying issues — inflation and fears of recession — are severe enough to drag down American companies as well.
October 25 -
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is examining how it can use generative artificial intelligence to simulate customers testing products, and U.S. Bancorp's Elavon unit receives a financial services license from the Bank of England.
October 25 -
The card network integrated its data-sharing technology into products from Zip, FIS and JPMorgan Chase as potential regulations loom on the horizon.
October 24 -
Brazil's PIX network has sparked a venture-capital boom in an otherwise down economy, including interest from U.S. investors.
October 23 -
Steve Squeri says the outcry over the airline's changes to its loyalty program has not hurt spending on co-branded Amex cards.
October 20 -
Ripple, Coinbase and Circle all received licenses to operate under the nation's stablecoin regulations, which offer more clarity than American rules do.
October 19 -
NCR has completed the spinoff of its ATM business, Revolut doubles its number of fraud-fighters in two years, China builds a zone for digital yuan users, and more.
October 18 -
Because instant settlement is irreversible, companies like Orum expect to see demand for systems that can vet recipients within seconds.
October 18 -
The web-hosting company is updating its point-of-sale hardware and partnering with the company behind the Paze digital wallet as part of an effort to serve its clients' needs beyond e-commerce.
October 17 -
California-based Star One is sharing its experience with smaller banks and credit unions, in an effort to get more to offer the government-backed real-time payment rail.
October 16 -
As false credit-card disputes spike, the networks have updated policies to provide merchants and issuers with more data to combat false chargebacks.
October 13 -
The Financial Conduct Authority issued 146 alerts on crypto asset marketing, multiple payment companies in Canada are trying to spur adoption of open banking, and more.
October 11 -
The fintech Brex is among a growing market of companies using generative artificial intelligence to simplify how employee trips are managed.
October 11 -
PYUSD has been slow out of the gate, but crypto firm BitPay and gaming company Xsolla are providing an early look at how the asset can be used.
October 10 -
The market for EV charging is fragmented and complex. EMVCo, the consortium behind the EMV chip-card protocols, has a plan to standardize this rapidly growing market.
October 5
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