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: Australia adds cryptocurrency to AML rules; Aeon bank deploys no-hands ATMs; Nanopay bolsters B-to-B tech; GrabPay gets e-money license in Malaysia.
By John AdamsDecember 11 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alan Greenspan weighs in on bitcoin; Saxo's wild bitcoin prediction; Patreon changes its fees; U.K. researchers find another password vulnerability; Credit union blockchain group hires former Mastercard exec.
By John AdamsDecember 8 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Travelers from China get more payments tech; Brave adds new content payments; Revolut adds support for more cyrptocurrencies; EMV matures.
By John AdamsDecember 7 -
Rapid changes in the cryptocurrency's valuation make it hard to properly price content purchases according to Steam.
By John AdamsDecember 6 -
The collaboration gives Worldpay another e-commerce tool to battle Amazon's encroachment into traditional retail.
By John AdamsDecember 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Fitbit adds to its payments technology; Bitcoin buys art; GM adds shopping function; Real-time payments boosts IT spending; Payoneer draws investment form China.
By John AdamsDecember 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: FTcash offers cashless loans and payments in India; Apple Pay Cash starts to deploy; A cryptocurrency for solar; Payza adds altcoin purchases; SEC's ICO unit goes to work.
By John AdamsDecember 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple's automatic update adds Apple Pay Cash; Twitter embeds tipping in its Periscope service; Canada pushes centralized digital currency; Wendy's offers mobile delivery; Malta builds national blockchain.
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Android Wear introduced a new version of its technology earlier this year.
By John AdamsDecember 1 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: ECB pushes instant payments; Mastercard's new innovation class; Payment company launches pot magazine; Atlanta gets more ATMs.
By John AdamsDecember 1 -
Installment payments for e-commerce purchases are starting to take hold in North America as an alternative to standard credit cards, and PayBright is seeking a niche in Canada.
By John AdamsDecember 1 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Samsung files for a social payment platform; Bitcoin jumps up and down; Hackers get smarter; E-commerce comes to the mall; U.K. fintech lobbiest gets help.
By John AdamsNovember 30 -
Venmo achieved its status by designing its interface like that of a social network. PayPal's version of that comes from Facebook.
By John AdamsNovember 30 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. banks may not be economically ready for PSD2; Arbnb adds trip splitting; U2's campaign with Amazon is less 'forceful' than its Apple past; House of Lords endorses DLT.
By John AdamsNovember 29 -
As any stressed-out parent knows, kids can be quite bad at communicating what they need for school. Bursari has added a software development kit to improve its ability to accept and process one-time and recurring payments to schools through a variety of means.
By John AdamsNovember 29 -
One of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges, bitFlyer, has landed in the U.S. with a focus on institutional investors — a move that suggests bitcoin's days as a payments instrument are still a long way off.
By John AdamsNovember 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Senators grill Uber over breach; PSD2 sets date to end screen scraping; Signs of cash's fade in Europe; Spear phishers get nabbed.
By John AdamsNovember 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Ripple's blockchain push; U.K.'s PSD2 preparations; Interac's global expansion; and more.
By John AdamsNovember 27 -
Fitbit's expertise in monitoring exercise and health seems pretty far removed from the world of payments, but the company is running full-speed into the world of fintech.
By John AdamsNovember 27 -
The digitally driven retail environment has caused lots of adapt-or-die challenges for payment processors and merchant acquirers, including spotting fraud as it moves from one device and channel to another.
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