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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Capital One's planning to add an Android app to its iPhone and mobile offerings as part of an expanding digital strategy that also includes mobile payments.
August 10 -
A new system called DTS covers the entire lifecycle of deposits, and is a new lure for treasury management clients.
August 9 -
Bank of New Zealand is the first in its nation to launch a mature Android app.
August 4 -
Most dangerous financial malware strains common in infected PCs, Trusteer says.
August 4 -
Fremont Bank's contactless chip cards are safer than magnetic stripe cards, but they require reluctant merchants to open their IT wallets for an upgrade. Sound familiar?
August 3 -
Global payments and commercial cards chief Wilco Dado juggles lots of challenges in building out a mobile strategy that battles new competitors, attempts to lure corporates and merchants, and leverages regs such as SEPA to build a multi-national payment infrastructure.
August 2 -
As social network-friendly CEO Mark Mullen plans to take the helm, the HSBC web bank's lab gives consumers a line into product development.
August 1 -
Expanding beyond credit will enable merchants to expand products offered online
July 29 -
Bankers are relying on account notifications to break the ice for mobile banking and to diminish fraud. But if an alert is hard to understand, the message is lost.
July 28 -
State Street, UBS, Credit Suisse and HSBC have recently shed IT jobs, but the overall job market for bank IT workers is as good as it’s been since the start of the credit crisis.
July 21 -
It's also planning new P2P and mobile wallet services in the coming months.
July 20 -
New research from Javelin reveals staggering growth in overall smartphone usage, but tepid growth in smartphone banking driven by an increase in those who feel the venue's unsafe for banking.
July 20 -
A new CyberSource/Trust Wave survey says merchants have put PCI on the back burner.
July 19 -
By providing T24 on the Windows Azure platform, the two vendors are enabling local banks to offer services to people who live on less than $2 per day.
July 19 -
The Australian bank, which has recently used social media stunt marketing to boost mortgage sales, is back with a new campaign in which someone will be chosen for an in-home installation of an ATM.
July 18 -
The mobile wallet app will be available to Sprint Zone customers on Android.
July 18 -
Members of the GOP claim the Office of Financial Research — which will likely require banks to invest in data compliance technology — is a government overreach, and could be targeted by hackers.
July 15 -
The U.N.'s credit union is enjoying big success with EMV compliant cards. Meanwhile, a new international card crime wave puts more pressure on U.S. banks to offer chip-and-PIN cards, which most of the world considers more secure than magnetic stripe.
July 15 -
Banks are still trying to figure out the best ways to use social media, and in particular, how to manage the risk and compliance issues. BITS, the tech arm of the Financial Services Roundtable, this week issued a white paper on the various risks.
July 14 -
The agency’s update of its 2005 digital banking recommendations is getting poor reviews. Critics claim it’s still widely open to interpretation and doesn’t plug all of the security holes
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