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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Card marketing and production company Arroweye believes issuers are sitting on a ton of user data that can be used to quickly distribute personalized cards that carry pinpoint marketing messages.
By John AdamsSeptember 6 -
VeriFone's recovery from its earnings slump will rely heavily on merchants investing in new technology to respond to the impact of mobile on payments.
By John AdamsSeptember 5 -
A new group of payment terminal providers will add Isis specifications for payments and loyalty programs, enabling the telecom-driven mobile wallet to reach approximately 90% of the addressable market for point of sale hardware in the U.S.
By John AdamsSeptember 4 -
Elavon has hired Realex Payments to provide a number of digital payments services for the Elavon Payment Gateway in Europe.
By John AdamsSeptember 4 -
In an effort to shield merchants looking to expand into new markets, PayPal will launch an expanded seller protection policy for the Asia Pacific region on Oct. 11.
By John AdamsSeptember 4 -
The ATM Acquirers Alliance is restructuring its organization to accommodate new industry segments and payments technology and has changed its name to Integrated Payments Alliance.
By John AdamsSeptember 4 -
Western Union has introduced a mobile money transfer service that allows consumers to send money into a mobile wallet in Nepal.
By John AdamsSeptember 3 -
Christine (Chris) Lee has joined payments fraud prevention company SecureBuys board of advisors.
By John AdamsSeptember 3 -
The Affordable Care Act was meant to spark a major increase in electronic payments, yet progress has been slowed by confusion and lack of interest.
By John AdamsSeptember 3 -
Visa has made several changes in its management structure, including the expansion of Bill Gajdas duties.
By John AdamsAugust 30 -
Germany suffers from a high rate of card not present fraud, according to new data from predictive analytics and decision management software company FICO.
By John AdamsAugust 30 -
The terminal swapouts that accompany the EMV chip-card migration in the U.S. should help VeriFone recover from its performance slump, according to Northcoast Research.
By John AdamsAugust 29 -
Former Citigroup payments executive Raja Rajamannar will be the new chief marketing officer at MasterCard, effective September 9.
By John AdamsAugust 29 -
A new Jack Henry program can speed EMV-chip card migration for card issuers by up to a year but only for credit cards, since ongoing legal issues hamper the use of EMV for debit cards.
By John AdamsAugust 29 -
MasterCard, C-SAM and DNP are preparing to launch a white label mobile wallet service in Japan.
By John AdamsAugust 29 -
E-Commerce services provider Digital River is launching a mobile payment acceptance product called Beanstream Mobile.
By John AdamsAugust 29 -
Online and mobile payments processor WePay's has seen the number of developers using its application programming interface (API) grow by 284% in the past year.
By John AdamsAugust 29 -
TSYS' ProPay has launched a service to handle rent payments via mobile devices for the property management industry.
By John AdamsAugust 28 -
Payment processor Global Payments Asia-Pacific Ltd. and telecom service provider Dialog Axiata PLC are offering technology in Sri Lanka that enables smartphones or tablets to be used as mobile point of sale terminals.
By John AdamsAugust 28 -
PayPal Canada is collaborating with TouchBistro to allow customers to use smartphones to "check in" and pay at restaurants.
By John AdamsAugust 28