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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Corduro has added technology to its PayMobile app to locate and attract nearby customers when a merchant's business is slow.
By John AdamsJune 13 -
ZenPayroll has launched a contractor payments service that includes direct deposit and tax reporting.
By John AdamsJune 13 -
Western Union Business Solutions has partnered with IndusInd Bank to offer payments technology to small and medium-sized businesses in India.
By John AdamsJune 12 -
Nacha, the electronic payments association, is working to get its members on board with faster processing to accommodate the growth of mobile and other electronic payments, though this would require a change to the association's rules.
By John AdamsJune 12 -
Gravity Payments now allows PayPal card acceptance at about 10,000 merchants in Washington State.
By John AdamsJune 11 -
PayAnywhere will provide mobile credit card processing to Camp Masters, the popcorn brand sold by the Boy Scouts of America for fundraising.
By John AdamsJune 11 -
Toopher and miiCard have partnered to provide faster authentication by tying location to user identity.
By John AdamsJune 11 -
The National Security Agency's PRISM surveillance program has sparked a major outcry over phone monitoring, but the less-publicized government accumulation of credit card and other payments data can provide far more granular intelligence, according to payments experts.
By John AdamsJune 10 -
MasterCard will make the card network's Expert Monitoring Fraud Scoring for Merchants available to Kount's merchant clients.
By John AdamsJune 10 -
Wex Inc. and Alegeus Technologies are offering an electronic settlement method for healthcare claim payments thats designed to be an alternative to automated clearing house (ACH) transactions.
By John AdamsJune 10 -
American Express and ShopRunner are promoting a system designed to mitigate online 'cart abandonment' as more e-commerce moves to mobile devices.
By John AdamsJune 10 -
EVO Payments International LLC has completed its acquisition of Deutsche Card Services, which was a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank.
By John AdamsJune 7 -
The data security risk that accompanies the growth of electronic commerce can be met by surgical removal of the data itself, Chase Paymentech says.
By John AdamsJune 7 -
Kathy Herziger-Snider is the new vice president of channel management for Fiserv's Card Services division.
By John AdamsJune 6 -
MasterCard has approved a pair of EMV-chip cards jointly developed by Inside Secure and CPI Card Group.
By John AdamsJune 6 -
Law enforcement officials have arrested 11 people suspected in a $200 million global credit card fraud operation, according to the Serious Organized Crime Agency, a unit of the British government.
By John AdamsJune 5 -
Signature Card Services will give away EMV-enabled point of sale terminals to client merchants in the U.S. in an attempt to ease the transition to the chip-card standard.
By John AdamsJune 5 -
Visa is aggressively building its presence with mobile point of sale vendors in an effort to attract the merchants that still don't accept electronic payments and rely heavily on cash and checks.
By John AdamsJune 5 -
Kuapay has finished a design upgrade and enhancement to its mobile wallet that borrows from the pastconsumers see actual images of cards and coupons when looking at the screen
By John AdamsJune 5 -
Visa is working to approve more mobile point of sale hardware, including products from iZettle, SumUp and Swiff.
By John AdamsJune 5