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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Firms like Digital Risk and Corelogic are experimenting with software that uses behavioral analysis to determine which homeowners will repay and which will default.
By John AdamsSeptember 24 -
Silicon Valley Bank's online and mobile payment portal for small businesses lets them create a single workflow for varied payment types.
By John AdamsSeptember 20 -
As branch traffic shrinks and the need to improve customer service grows, video-equipped ATMs are catching on. But is a small location with a video connection and non-existent staff a branch?
By John AdamsSeptember 18 -
By linking payments to mobile phone numbers, Payfone is hoping to avoid keystrokes for in-store mobile transactions. As the firm ramps up for a pilot this fall, it's found an early merchant acquiring partner in remote payment tech firm CardinalCommerce, which potentially opens the system up to thousands of stores.
By John AdamsSeptember 17 -
The holidays came six months early for some credit unions this year, in the form of an NCUA ruling that allows remote teller technology to qualify as service facilities.
By John AdamsSeptember 17 -
The City of Boston CU is looking into how members' relationships translate into profits in the hopes of moving to relationship-based pricing.
By John AdamsSeptember 17 -
Chief Technology Officer Tim Lenoff discusses how the bank melds technology and customer conversations to head off fraud.
By John AdamsSeptember 14 -
Fresh off new government guidance on cloud computing, firms such as CipherCloud and Coalfire are knocking on banks' doors with technology designed to increase security and protect data.
By John AdamsSeptember 13 -
The card network is strongly recommending that all ATMs be EMV-compliant by 2016. ATM owners that don't comply will face fraud liability.
By John AdamsSeptember 12 -
Billhighway, a payments firm that caters to nonprofits, plans to outfit clients with a device that attaches to a smartphone that can be used to receive payments from donors remotely.
By John AdamsSeptember 10 -
Forrester's new digital sales rakings laud the performance of Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Capital One, and say the new frontier of web sales calls for improvements in merchandising and onboarding.
By John AdamsSeptember 7 -
For community banks, the Dodd-Frank reform law presents a lot more questions than answers. For Washington State's Cashmere Bank, it was time to turn to outside help.
By John AdamsSeptember 5 -
The City of Boston Credit Union is studying data on its members' profitability in the hopes of moving to relationship-based pricing.
By John AdamsSeptember 4 -
Voice recognition and customer analytics are among the technologies helping USAA deepen online relationships.
By John AdamsSeptember 1 -
Crictics say the new FFIEC guidance on cloud computing defines the cloud too broadly and lacks specifics - leading banks to do added compliance for most outsourced services.
By John AdamsSeptember 1 -
Credit unions are giddy about a new NCUA rule that says advanced video terminals can be counted as full-fledged service facilities, providing a new way to compete with banks by attracting members in underserved areas.
By John AdamsAugust 30 -
As energy cost reduction and sustainability become key strategic elements for banks worldwide, General Manager Dennis McGee outlines an enterprise-wide initiative that uses the cloud to wring out IT efficiencies.
By John AdamsAugust 29 -
The American Bankers Association and the Financial Services Roundtable are accumulating endorsers for a plan to funnel registration applications for new .bank and .insurance domains. But the groups aren't alone in chasing the new bank-friendly domain.
By John AdamsAugust 28 -
Compliance software providers are pivoting off this summer's Libor crisis to sell products intended to help banks change controls, communicate policies to staff and ensure adherence to internal rules.
By John AdamsAugust 27 -
Can corporate policy training feel like an episode of CSI? Cristobal Conde believes it can in a big way. The former SunGard chief arrives at True Office, a firm that uses elements of gaming to help institutions teach corporate employees about how to prevent data breaches, money laundering and other standards and compliance issues that reside inside banks and other businesses.
By John AdamsAugust 24

