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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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 -
Singapore's regulators grant payment licenses to Ripple and Coinbase, Stripe expands pay-by-bank in Africa, U.K. regulators pressure Revolut and more.
October 4 -
The fintech, a partner of OpenAI, is also a provider to several developers of emerging artificial intelligence.
October 4 -
The payments company launched a $100 million fund for generative AI, creating a potential group of partners that can build on the card network's global scale.
October 3 -
With worries about inflation and the economy, fintechs and banks sense an opportunity for new technology that speeds transactions and slices overhead.
September 29 -
Through its commitment of up to $4 billion in Anthropic, the e-commerce giant can bring advanced analysis, shopping and checkout tech closer to the point of sale — and farther away from traditional transaction processors.
September 28 -
Citi's hiring a global instant payments exec, Australian regulator hits National Australia Bank over fees and more.
September 27 -
The payment company's partnership with tech firm Jane is focused on Canada, but it enables a quick expansion if the SAFER Banking Act passes.
September 26 -
The company's scale has helped it become a force in many payment niches, but that wasn't enough to make its PYUSD coin an immediate threat to Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC.
September 22 -
The messaging organization, which faces growing competition from newer tech firms, is working with the card network and payments company to ensure that its own offerings stay relevant.
September 21 -
U.K. regulators rule on complaints about bias from politicians, Brazil's Ebanx extends to India and more in our weekly financial news roundup.
September 20
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