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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Visa’s not worried about the massive consolidation that’s sweeping the payments industry, seeing it as a force to extend payments innovation globally.
April 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon partners with French supermarket chain; N26 is adding risk experts; Unisys makes an open banking play; Apple Pay is set to launch in Austria.
April 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Sony's new ride sharing app; bitcoin advances for debit and e-commerce; eBay may invest in Paytm Mall; Washington Caps add Alipay.
April 23 -
As threats from nimble fintechs and global e-commerce companies abound, Visa’s turning to open development tools to place itself in the middle of the innovation, rather than making a solitary counterplay itself.
April 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa's new APIs; Coffee battle in China; PayPal wins a patent to battle ramsonware; Coinbase expands; India leaves crypto out of sandbox.
April 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm details payments strategy; New blockchain VC; Surecomp opens an innovation lab; Industry groups join forces.
April 18 -
A Toronto fintech is seeking share for distinct niche — and it thinks a three-year-old technology decision by Visa may be the ticket to its success.
April 18 -
Stripe has updated its products and made an acquisition to prep for new security standards it says will impact more than 300 million people, potentially giving Stripe the same kind of influence over European merchant technology that it enjoys in the U.S.
April 17 -
CV Systems’ COO Randy Schmidt, BHMI Chairman Jack Baldwin and Mickey Goldwasser, vice president of Payrailz, discuss challenges and opportunities, for faster payments, back office gaps, and cross-industry cooperation.
April 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Will Europe act to counter the U.S. and China's influence on payments?; Monzo adds emojis; Google Pay tightens ties to Gmail; A new payments association forms;
April 17 -
By Mastercard’s own reckoning, the point-of-sale financing space is a $1.8 trillion market in the U.S. alone, making its Vyze acquisition a natural way to pursue an opportunity that’s being gobbled up by fintechs and card alternatives.
April 16 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Standard Chartered expands collections; MoneyGram partners for gig economy payments; Copia Kenya delivers to rural areas; Global Payments and Discover bolster merchant acquiring in Asia.
April 16 -
Mastercard’s real-time incentive marketing initiative is an acknowledgement that requiring consumers to take action to seize a special deal won’t work as well in the mobile age.
April 16 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple improves biometric security; Klarna opens at Showfields; Japanese bank will no longer support Money Tap; Dashlane draws investment.
April 15 -
As major payments M&A deals mount, some free agents are awaiting deals of their own — and one area where that’s most apparent is in debit and ATM networks.
April 15 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google Pay supports gold sales in India; German regulators pressure N26; Bakkt adds payment veteran; Amazon acquires robotics company Canvas Technology.
April 12 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Square opens online store in U.K.; Swift releases new security research; Physical ATM attacks on the rise; Most hotels have a security gap.
April 11 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart expands robot program; Regulators say banks aren't moving fast enough on PSD2; Bitstamp gets New York license; New iPHone attack; Financeit appoints execs for U.S. expansion.
April 10 -
Contactless transit fare systems are drawing lots of investment despite several false starts in the U.S. But new numbers out of London show there are clear and multiple benefits if the infrastructure can catch up.
April 10 -
A Cleveland startup’s play in the crowded and noisy P2P market is to nudge the transaction as close to digital version of paper money as possible — without Venmo’s social tools or Zelle’s email model.
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