John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker.
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Facebook is focusing the initial discussions around its cryptocurrency project as a preemptive strike against the privacy and legal concerns the public and politicians have about the huge social network.
By John AdamsJune 18 -
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