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.
His work includes profiles of
John has been with American Banker and related products for 30 years, covering bank technology, advertising, mortgages and capital markets.
-
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Grab develops e-wallet in Malaysia; Argentinian bank expands bitcoin acceptance; Mastercard supports solar energy payments in Africa; Tech group accuses banks of slow walking data sharing.
May 23 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: A big IoT project takes shape in Japan; A crypto ATM opens in Liverpool; Transactive Systems gains faster pay ground; Walmart tries to gain visibility into its resale market.
May 22 -
Traditional credit scoring is under siege from alternative underwriting, and TransUnion is joining the future by investing in other emerging trends such as mobile device security and health care payments.
May 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: TransUnion expands on a number of fronts; Selfie pay enters South Africa; Pras' new smartphone will include payments technology; Vota brings back payment sharing; U.S. technology companies push open banking.
May 21 -
E-commerce payment fraud losses are mounting, giving merchants the opportunity to dump responsibility on their technology partners, but there's no surefire way to totally offload the financial hit.
May 21 -
Bank executives say artificial intelligence will create jobs, while analysts say the opposite. Employees are anxious but willing to try to work with it. All agree AI is already making an impact.
May 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. turns to fintech experts to battle Brexit losses; Legal weed e-commerce expands; Monzo apologizes for being "late" with Apple Pay; Ethereum's founder has a new project.
May 18 -
Even though legalized cannabis and cryptocurrency payments are still vexing markets by themselves, WebJoint and Alt Thirty Six are quickly looking to take their combined dispensary play to other businesses.
May 18 -
Both executives have changed the cryptocurrency narrative with supportive statements, but attracting merchants to a payments market will require work.
May 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google brings wearable payments to more countries; Selfie pay reaches Kuwait; Bitmain invests in Circle; Use cases emerge for government virtual currency.
May 17 -
Wells Fargo is doing everything in its power to make its app the go-to choice for any interaction that involves money.
May 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Banks push Zelle-style app in France; Hackers hit Mexican banks with payment fraud scheme; African payment app draws investors; Singapore hotels support WeChat.
May 16 -
Four years after leading a charge to make PayPal more nimble by severing it from eBay, investor Carl Icahn is reportedly dissolving his investments in the payment company.
May 15 -
The Supreme Court has sided with states in a dispute over sports gambling, a double victory for payment processors, which can use largely existing tools to serve an entirely new market.
May 15 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon preps new Go stores; Chili's suffers a breach; Softbank mulls its next investment in India; Crypto for tax payments gains steam in Florida.
May 15 -
Freelance payment companies are taking advantage of the Trump administration's immigration policies, which are starting to drive more work to freelancers in the U.S. and overseas.
May 15 -
Fair Square Financial has received a $100 million equity investment from the Orogen Group to fund a credit card designed for underserved U.S. consumer segments.
May 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart's mixed response in India; Paytm makes a transit pay deal; Cryptocurrency dash expands in Asia; Bitfury adds DoJ vet.
May 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Australia's open banking squabble; Smartwatch payments win adoption in Europe; Canada's central bank pushes for collaboration on data breaches; Ripple finishes near real-time cross-border trial.
May 11 -
Europe's PSD2 data-sharing standards are meant to foster cooperation in the market, but banks are getting more competitive as they seek to plug a revenue drain the new rules threaten.
May 11
