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 new Apple Card wasn't just one product of many announced at the Steve Jobs Theater on Monday — it was the glue that binds all of Apple's new services together.
March 25 -
As PayPal seeks to turn Venmo into a profit engine, the service has also taken steps to collect consumer debts, moves that are sure to spark controversy as some of the targeted users claim they have been fraud victims.
March 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple plans card with Goldman Sachs; Russia pushes alternative payment network; Shopify dumps Mailchimp; Walmart plans gaming system; Banks miss a PSD2 deadline.
March 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google Pay hits the rails in India; Patreon changes its fees; EBA builds a registry for PSD2; Avnet supports cryptocurrency payments.
March 20 -
Dumping passwords in favor of interoperable, flexible identity is an evolution as bumpy as it is necessary. FIS and Worldpay’s combination stands to create tools that can smooth this road.
March 19 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple and Google Pay make headway in Germany; New payroll fintech debuts; Prepaid cryptocurrency card expands in Europe; A new collaboration offers intallment payments for travel.
March 19 -
Bank technology giants FIS and Fiserv are spending nearly $66 billion between them in just the past few weeks to add a broad swath of payments technology — including a few key nuggets that will help them go toe to toe with fintechs.
March 18 -
Given the size of the deal — which includes about $9 billion of Worldpay’s debt on top of a $34 billion bid — the pressure’s on to build a global powerhouse that can counter other major fintech mergers announced in the past weeks. FIS must also emerge as a nimble rival to the startups that threaten the old order.
March 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: FIS agrees to Worldpay deal; E-commerce sites hit with malware; Apple launches ad campaign; Reporter demos payment chip.
March 18 -
The financial services technology company FIS has agreed to buy Worldpay. The deal is valued at $43 billion and will allow FIS to counter the transaction processing scale Fiserv received when it acquired First Data this year. The merger price is based on a $34 billion bid plus $9 billion of Worldpay's debt.
March 18 -
Our annual Most Influential Women in Payments feature, now in its seventh year, highlights the women who are creating change and opportunities in the payments industry. For the first time, the editors of PaymentsSource have also recognized one woman for lifetime achievement.
March 12 -
First Data’s transformation over the past few years has involved much more than transaction automation, and has relied heavily on the creativity and ingenuity of executives such as Mia Shernoff.
March 12 -
A good way to gauge the future is to watch where technology money goes, and that makes Janet Bannister one of fintech’s best barometers.
March 12 -
Kikelomo Lawal, chief legal officer and corporate secretary for Interac Corp., has helped to drive a seismic shift in how Interac works, which means an evolution of how payments happen for Canadians.
March 12 -
Women are being driven from high-technology jobs by lingering male-dominated culture, and Christine Lee is calling on colleagues with high-profile positions to take responsibility for changing that.
March 12 -
Jenifer Swallow has been here before, feeling the excitement of being in in an industry that was about to change commerce forever.
March 12 -
Whenever Facebook adds something that more closely ties its network to shopping, service or payments, it has an immediate ripple effect. And Marketplace is becoming a major part of Facebook’s influence.
March 12 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Amazon leads Google in voice commerce; U.K. fintech opens to cross-border payments; Singapore tackles tech regs; and more.
March 11 -
The uncertainty of the modern political climate has created a number of business issues — and a few opportunities for the companies that can guide others through difficult times.
March 11 -
The Bank of England is requiring Visa to appoint PwC as an independent third party to review the card brand’s progress in implementing recommendations that followed a 2018 outage in Europe.
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