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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PayPal's freshly announced support of in-app payments for Uber and McDonald's illustrate that the eBay unit is fast adapting to a world that demands more of its payments technology vendors.
By John AdamsNovember 19 -
VeriFone will provide payment services to Reseau Clubs Bouygues Telecom, the consumer retail affiliate of Bouygues Telecom, one of France's largest mobile operators.
By John AdamsNovember 19 -
The Chinese online payment provider Alipay has added a number of security products from CyberSouce, a Visa-owned e-commerce management provider.
By John AdamsNovember 19 -
Retail website developer Weebly is using Stripe's technology to add shopping and payments capabilities to the sites it supports for small merchants.
By John AdamsNovember 19 -
VeriFone has launched UX Solutions, a suite of payment devices that support EMV-chip and mag-stripe payments.
By John AdamsNovember 18 -
Microsoft and mobile commerce provider FreedomPay have developed a system that integrates digital payments with a company's underlying business processes.
By John AdamsNovember 18 -
About half of the population of Belgium will be using smartphones by the end of next year, making the time ripe for a mobile payments push.
By John AdamsNovember 18 -
Don't get distracted by the big-name telecoms that designed the Isis mobile wallet, or you'll miss the wizard behind the curtain: American Express, which stands to see a jolt in adoption of its Serve account if Isis succeeds.
By John AdamsNovember 15 -
GrowLife, a company that serves the legal cannabis industry, has developed kiosk-based retail point of sale software.
By John AdamsNovember 15 -
Western Union has launched a transactional website in Russia, extending its Internet transaction network to 24 countries.
By John AdamsNovember 15 -
Government payment processor General Payment Systems has signed an agreement with Riverside Superior Court in California to support alternative payments.
By John AdamsNovember 15 -
Payments processor Cardis USA and mobile commerce vendor Spindle are joining with vending machine manufacturer Multi-max to enable mobile payments at its machines, where most consumers still buy coffee with cash.
By John AdamsNovember 15 -
Now that Isis has launched its mobile wallet nationwide at AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile stores, the venture says its next priority is bringing more merchants on board.
By John AdamsNovember 14 -
ROSEMONT, Ill. Quatrro, a business processing company based in India, is launching payment processing services for credit unions, community banks and other payment companies in the United States.
By John AdamsNovember 14 -
Isis, the mobile wallet venture led by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, is launching nationally after extended public tests.
By John AdamsNovember 14 -
Smaller banks are turning to mobile payments in droves, though the services still mostly resemble Web banking on a mobile device support for full-featured mobile wallets is still in its infancy.
By John AdamsNovember 14 -
Quatrro, a business processing company based in India, is launching payment processing services for credit unions, community banks and other payment companies in the U.S.
By John AdamsNovember 14 -
Square has eliminated holds and deposit limits for manually entered transactions in the U.S., and is marketing these changes to frustrated PayPal users.
By John AdamsNovember 13 -
Swedish mobile payment company Seamless has introduced its SEQR mobile wallet in Belgium in collaboration with bpost bank, with an initial deployment at Belgian McDonalds locations.
By John AdamsNovember 13 -
Blackhawk Network has completed its purchase of InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions, which will operate as a business unit of Blackhawk, a distributor of gift cards and prepaid telecom products.
By John AdamsNovember 13
