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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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 -
President Obama's moves to rein in patent litigation should ease the squabbling over intellectual property that's hampered innovation in payments and should also reduce banks' legal costs.
By John AdamsJune 4 -
President Obama's moves to rein in patent litigation should ease the squabbling over intellectual property that's hampered innovation in payments and should also reduce banks' legal costs.
By John AdamsJune 4 -
As EMV-chip cards spread, with most U.S. merchants expected to accept the card by October 2015, there is still a major hurdle to overcome as consumers either resist the change or remain oblivious to it.
By John AdamsJune 4 -
I-Free is offering a number of contactless payment services in Russia, including a mobile wallet that allows the remote issuance and download of mobile MasterCard PayPass cards, transportation fare services and geolocation-based coupons.
By John AdamsJune 4 -
Citi Commercial Cards had introduced CitiManager Mobile, a smartphone-optimized version of CitiManager, the institution's desktop portal for corporate cardholders.
By John AdamsJune 3 -
The youth payment company Virtual Piggy will integrate with the MWRC ExoVend electronic commerce platform to target a range of outdoor sports brands.
By John AdamsJune 3 -
Payleven is allying with Wirecard to pool their offerings as Payleven expands internationally.
By John AdamsJune 3 -
Prepaid Card Solutions (PCS) and Carta Worldwide are launching the Bread4Scrap prepaid corporate MasterCard for the British scrap metal industry.
By John AdamsJune 3 -
BlueSnap is among a growing number of vendors offering to manage the complex programming needs of emerging payments systems on behalf of other companies.
By John AdamsJune 3 -
Electronic invoicing provider Invoicera.com is integrating its technology with payments processor ACH Payments to add an additional gateway for Invoicera.com's clients to process card payments.
By John AdamsMay 31