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: Apple Pay expands in the U.K.; Smart contract group gets much larger; PayPal battles Pandora over logo; EU tries to settle screen scraping dispute.
May 23 -
Not all data breaches make headlines, and it's the quiet ones that might be the most dangerous.
May 23 -
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: Facebook enables restaurant ordering; Telegram adds payments; Amazon wants to open Go in Europe; WannaCry still a threat.
May 22 -
IBM's new Blockchain Founder Accelerator could better position the distributed ledger technology as a platform for mainstream payments, but the technology giant wants to start with baby steps.
May 22 -
Procure to pay is an old way to automate the relationship between obtaining supplies and accounting, old enough that it's rarely automated.
May 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: Alibaba makes another investment; Patreon's growing fast; A cosmetic company gets hacked; A twin fools HSBC's voice software.
May 19 -
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: Wells pushes IoT; Transferwise turns profitable; Wipro expands blockchain; Delta teams with Lyft.
May 18 -
For years, William Shatner plugged Priceline, an online portal to take costs out of travel by pitting hotels and airlines against their rivals. A similar idea is taking shape in the market for payment providers.
May 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. Today: What will come out of Google's conference; "Moderation app"; LendUp's financial education; Battle over screen scraping.
May 17 -
Royal Bank of Canada is applying blockchain technology to its loyalty program, in an effort to make its rewards more tangible and accessible.
May 17 -
Investors have poured $15 million into Nymi to help the Toronto startup commercialize its wearable authentication technology.
May 16 -
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: Swiss standardize ATMs; French wallet set for launch; India's response to ransomware; China examines AI for financial regulation.
May 16 -
One of the goals behind Canada's payments overhaul is to get it right the first time.
May 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: Ransomware hits gas station payments; Swift opens security sharing portal; Yandex's newsletter pay; Monzo halts API;
May 15 -
Despite a flood of new technology options, e-commerce still hasn't cracked the code of convincing shoppers to complete their purchases once they arrive on the checkout page.
May 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: P-to-P becomes maintream; Dogecoin fades; IoT may get more "things"; Is the shopping cart icon going away?
May 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: RBS offshores; Mizuho collaborates on innovation; Fraud continues to spike; Europe examines 'IoT.'
May 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: Visa, Square push mobile at surf festival; Bank of England tightens large transaction control; Hong Kong pushes tech; Canadians comfortable without paper.
May 10 -
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: Australia deregulates fintech; Mobile bank goes real-time in the U.K.; German companies collaborate on ID; Correspondent banks face regulatory expense.
May 9 -
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: Walmart's 'Dash' tech; A major hack in Germany; Fintechs opposed Euro screen scraping ban; Singapore payments technology investor eyes Europe.
May 8
