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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Modern Woodmen Bank, a relatively small direct bank, had to build and maintain a website that delivers more than what its two tech staffers could handle alone.
August 19 -
The more Needham Bank encourages employees to access systems remotely via mobile devices, the more it has to tighten security. The bank is building what it calls a private cloud to get the benefits of outsourcing without losing ownership of its data.
August 18 -
Web fields were turning into mine fields for Dollar Bank's customers, who were getting trapped by a simple navigation error that was cutting off their online banking sessions.
August 17 -
The bank is offering web data backup to U.K. businesses, regardless of whether the businesses are Barclays clients.
August 16 -
ISIS, the telecom consortium intent on offering a mobile payment scheme, is building out a wider range of mobile wallet capabilities to keep up with its aggressive rival, Google.
August 15 -
For borrowers with little credit history and therefore no credit score, one mortgage company is looking at other type of payments to determine creditworthiness.
August 12 -
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
