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 American tech giant's agreement to open up to other firms may give other tech firms the chance they need to offer an updated mobile wallet.
By John AdamsJuly 11 -
The card networks extended an agreement to keep interchange the same for cards issued outside of the European Union; meanwhile Ant Group's Alipay adds a number of AI-powered assistants.
By John AdamsJuly 10 -
The financial institution, which downsized earlier this year, is trying to broaden its scope to retain businesses that don't want to use multiple providers.
By John AdamsJuly 9 -
The bank is working with Adyen and Stripe to improve the transaction information that feeds AI-powered payments crime fighting. Can it convince other firms to join?
By John AdamsJuly 8 -
Experts from Tipalti, Tulane, Cigniti and Ingenico discuss what skills will be in demand, and the importance of not being intimidated by the speed of innovation.
By John AdamsJuly 5 -
Circle, Stripe and Coindesk all make moves to add scale for digital asset transactions.
By John AdamsJuly 3 -
The court didn't rule on the merits of any regulation, but made it much easier to challenge rules governing banking.
By John AdamsJuly 1 -
The technology company faces fines over potential anti-competition practices; Takis Georgakopoulos is on his way to Fiserv.
By John AdamsJune 26 -
The two financial institutions are testing a combination of machine learning and blockchain to catch errors and block fraud on international transactions.
By John AdamsJune 25 -
U.K. banks are testing machines that can accept deposits from multiple machines.
By John AdamsJune 21 -
Publicly traded companies are showing signs of improvement, but it may take some time until venture capital funding for fintechs recovers.
By John AdamsJune 20 -
A London judge has issued an order that could lead the bank to sell the Greek fintech, while two large French financial institutions plan to build a processor.
By John AdamsJune 19 -
The organization says 'request for pay' has gotten early traction with billing and account-to account transfers. Now it's targeting consumer-to-government and digital wallet disbursements.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
Longtime payments chief Takis Georgakopoulos is leaving the bank. New co-heads Umar Farooq and Max Neurkirchen are inheriting a powerhouse, but they face lots of challenges.
By John AdamsJune 13 -
An iOS 18 update will enable a Tap to Pay-like system for peer-to-peer payments. Meanwhile, will BNPL rules be different in Australia than in the U.S.?
By John AdamsJune 12 -
PayPal has brought on expert pitchmen from Uber and Plaid to build an advertising platform for merchants. Its rivals are on a similar path.
By John AdamsJune 11 -
Digital assets have never caught on for mainstream payments, but the card network isn't giving up hope. Its latest effort aims to reduce complexity by learning from the successes of digital wallets.
By John AdamsJune 10 -
By making it easier to enroll and access financial services such as buy now/pay later lending, the search giant hopes to enhance connections with users.
By John AdamsJune 6 -
Mastercard launches palm checkout in Uruguay, the U.K. commits to a gradual rollout of King Charles banknotes starting this week, and more.
June 5 -
The technology is adept at working with partial account numbers and other shreds of data to alert banks of ongoing and potential crime, the network contends.
By John AdamsJune 3




















