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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Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Viking Cruise signs a card deal; Alipay expands in the Nordic region; A new ATM network for cryptocoins; Fime has a new CEO.
September 22 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Target taps Bluetooth marketing; Swiss exchange may sell payments unit; Bluefin adds college ticketing; Brunel U. in London adopts finger pay.
September 21 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: AXA uses smart contracts for flight delay payments; FCA issues PSD2 guidance; ING adds comparisons for transfer apps; iZettle draws investment.
September 20 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Equifax's 'other' breach; China cracks down on bitcoin; Apple Pay has a hard time in Australia; Web group pushes for easier payments.
September 19 -
iMessage funds will come from cards already stored in Apple's digital wallet, and the service will work with Siri, allowing payments via the personal assistant.
September 18 -
In India, dLocal wants to enable global e-commerce companies to accept payments from and make payments to India to serve consumers, contractors and supply chains.
September 18 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Google announces India payment app; Patreon gets funding; Dash expands; Japanese group offers blockchain testing.
September 18 -
Apple's Face ID is turning heads, but it is far from the first use of facial biometrics in payments. Here are several implementations that predate it.
September 15 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple's Face ID can be quickly shut off; Moviepass is snail mailing tickets; Investors flock to Hong Kong wallet; Student housing finance lures cryptocurrency.
September 15 -
Despite lowering barriers and eliminating borders for commerce, the internet still makes it clunky comparison-shop for products across multiple sites. E-commerce startup Shoppable aims to solve this by creating a universal shopping cart.
September 15 -
Blockchain is already taking a bite out of the fees traditional financial institutions extract from cross-border transactions by providing a workaround that avoids third parties.
September 14 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google's plans in India; A warning to ATM makers; A glossary for blockchain; Monzo's fee election.
September 14 -
Security professionals have long argued against the use of static identifiers like passwords and Social Security numbers, while consumers have long questioned why a handful of bureaus can claim to be the ultimate judges of their identities.
September 14 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alipay's restaurant app debuts as standalone; Connected car payments advance; Belgian cooperative payments expand; Nets adds to P-to-P service.
September 13 -
While the EMV fraud liability shift for most companies passed nearly two years ago, there are still pockets of stores that haven't switched over — and they can be particularly prone to the kind of fraud chip cards are designed to thwart.
September 13 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Venmo offers a payment card; More fallout for Equifax; Santander invests in financial inclusion tech; Tether adds U.S. dollars to blockchain.
September 12 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa hires new European chief; Alipay partners with fashion brand; ANZ adopts voice pay; Italian payment startup draws investors.
September 11 -
First Data is one of many payments companies working to get its customers back up and running in the wake of the severe storms, but it's also a victim — its center in Sugar Land, Texas, suffered flooding, causing the Atlanta-based company to set up operations at a hotel in Houston for 400 staff.
September 11 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Equifax breach's scope; 'Personal information' store; Cubic expands payments for London transport; Fintechs have mixed Brexit outlook.
September 8 -
Petal is using machine learning in its new card program to make the most of the scant financial data available from young consumers.
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