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 new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: JetBlue's onboard Wireless migration's complete; Android Wear 2.0 gets closer; Belgium wants Brexit collaboration; Stripe and Payoneer score big in VC.
January 12 -
Disruptors have chased banks for years with the promise of easier and more social payments and other services, but only recently have they started wielding a weapon that should have incumbents worried, says investor Adam Dell.
January 12 -
Swedish mobile point of sale company iZettle has raised about $80 million in funding, in part from U.S. investors.
January 11 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Today: Buy buttons suffer; South Korea plans to get rid of coins; Toronto enhances its 'hub' status; Alibaba plans to digitize Chinese malls.
January 11 -
Nana Murugesan, Samsung vice president and general manager, spoke to PaymentsSource about Samsung's strategy for making its mobile wallet stand out in the increasingly competitive digital payments market.
January 11 -
Luminate Capital Partners has made an investment in Financial Information Technologies (Fintech), a company that sells data management, payment and software to the spirits industry.
January 10 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Today: Yahoo will keep Alibaba stake post-Verizon deal; payroll app draws VC; e-grocers add food stamps; Aon builds a Brexit risk management tool
January 10 -
Digital merchants don't necessarily have to open a store, but they can still benefit from the tactics of brick-and-mortar retailers, according to David Schwartz, vice president of e-commerce at Wix, a Tel Aviv-based technology company.
January 10 -
Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay may seem to have a marketing edge over retailers' mobile wallets, but there is strong momentum among apps that serve individual merchant brands.
January 10 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa sponsors e-sports; Sprig uses e-tips to keep staff; ING builds a mobile donor box; a crook sues Verizon for "allowing" his crime.
January 9 -
Automakers are rushing to embed payment capabilities and web-enabled features in their cars, with Honda being the latest to make tasks such as parking and fueling an automated part of the driving experience.
January 6 -
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is full of big ideas, from Internet-connected toasters to AI toothbrushes. A few inventions revealed at this year's show could have big implications for payments.
January 6 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart and Visa end Canadian fight; Amazon plans a bookstore in NYC; Salesforce invests in e-commerce tech; ATMs and cybercrooks are busy in the U.K.
January 6 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Carnival gets into wearables; blockchain players head to Davos; a Scottish university offers a Masters of Fintech; Amazon ties Alexa to order ahead app.
January 5 -
It's possible to use mobile wallets such as Apple Pay to enroll vending machine customers into a loyalty program — a concept that seems at odds with the impulsive and anonymous nature of most vending machine purchases.
January 5 -
Clarity Money, an artificial intelligence-driven payment concierge, launched on Wednesday, a move its founders hope will provide consumers with an advanced financial health tool.
January 4 -
Mastercard's $900 million acquisition of British payment company VocaLink is under fire, as the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority contends the deal will give the card network an unfair advantage in ATM-related negotiations.
January 4 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. pressures Mastercard on VocaLink deal; Samsung plans new web refrigerators; Synaptics consolidates biometrics; voice command tech accelerates.
January 4 -
By using some of the sales and performance analysis associated with e-commerce, Revel says the inherent advantage that stores have in connecting with consumers can be enhanced for the next generation of retail competition.
January 4 -
Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: China starts a fintech investment fund; Trump says computers are unsafe; Topps gets breached; The U.K. plans a new coin.
January 3
