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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Stripe has raised $80 million in a new round of funding and is reportedly working on a payments deal with Twitter.
By John AdamsJanuary 23 -
Vienna-based prepaid payment provider paysafecard has updated its mobile app to include augmented reality, a technology that displays data over a view of the physical world.
By John AdamsJanuary 23 -
Payment service provider EVO Payments is partnering with fraud prevention company ReD to provide integrated fraud prevention to EVO's e-commerce merchants.
By John AdamsJanuary 23 -
Swedish mobile point of sale company iZettle has launched a software development kit (SDK) to allow other companies to leverage iZettle's technology to build payments services.
By John AdamsJanuary 23 -
Banks have long struggled to migrate financial relationships onto mobile devices and to attract the underserved. Carriers like T-Mobile, on the other hand, come into the market with a distinct advantage.
By John AdamsJanuary 22 -
Whereas banks have long struggled to migrate financial relationships onto mobile devices and to attract the underserved, carriers like T-Mobile come into the market with a distinct advantage.
By John AdamsJanuary 22 -
Global payments company Payoneer and Japanese fulfillment company Quantium Solutions have signed an agreement to jointly offer cross-border payment products to Quantium's international e-commerce and mail order clients.
By John AdamsJanuary 22 -
RBC has rolled out its mobile wallet, enabling consumers to use certain smartphones to make payments funded by Visa credit cards or Interac, Canada's national debit card program.
By John AdamsJanuary 22 -
Financial data company Accuity has completed a massive data management project to deal with the concurrent challenges of a merger conversion, new compliance mandates and the growth of digital and cross-border payments.
By John AdamsJanuary 22 -
Youth payments company Oink has partnered with processor WorldPay in an attempt to broaden its merchant base.
By John AdamsJanuary 21 -
Swedish bank Swedbank will close down Bart, its proprietary mobile payment program.
By John AdamsJanuary 21 -
McAllen, Texas police have arrested two people from Monterrey, Mexico that the local cops say were in possession of fake credit cards made with information obtained from the Target data breach.
By John AdamsJanuary 21 -
McAllen, Texas police have arrested two people from Monterrey, Mexico that the local cops say were in possession of fake credit cards made with information obtained from the Target data breach.
By John AdamsJanuary 21 -
McAllen, Texas police have arrested two people from Monterrey, Mexico that the local cops say were in possession of fake credit cards made with information obtained from the Target Corp. data breach.
By John AdamsJanuary 21 -
Kofax is launching new image capture technology that can be used for mobile marketing and offer redemption tied to multi-channel payments.
By John AdamsJanuary 21 -
Danish payments manager Pensio and London-based fraud prevention provider ReD have partnered to offer a fraud screening service to Pensio's merchant clients.
By John AdamsJanuary 17 -
Total System Services has developed a product that allows consumers to control their card accounts from smartphones or computers.
By John AdamsJanuary 17 -
Starbucks has released an update to its mobile app that's designed to enhance security following reports of vulnerabilities related to how its app stores passwords.
By John AdamsJanuary 17 -
Ingenico's Roam has added staff management functions to its mobile point of sale technology as the company pursues a broader range of businesses.
By John AdamsJanuary 17 -
American Express has escaped serious harm from the recent and massive Target data breach, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Campbell told investors Thursday.
By John AdamsJanuary 16
