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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Klarna adds chatGPT, BNP Paribas outsources to the Nordics, Mastercard teams with a French fintech and more.
March 29 -
With FedNow set to launch in July, UMB is looking at ways to implement the instant settlement network with payroll and other transaction types.
March 29 -
This year's conference, hosted by American Banker, comes during a time of almost unprecedented change for the economy and the payments industry. The industry's top minds will gather in San Diego for discussions that will matter for years to come.
March 29 -
The beleaguered sector hopes machine learning will reduce the odds of defaults and delinquencies.
March 27 -
A letter from U.K. regulators threatening to close risky companies is an example of how governments are pressuring firms that manage cash flow and fraud risk.
March 24 -
U.K. regulators warn payment companies, Goldman Sachs invests in Saudi fintech, and more.
March 22 -
The neobank has added tools for payments, booking and other uses, while it's also receiving an influx of customers who fled Silicon Valley Bank.
March 22 -
The company is adopting the fast-growing language recognition technology to improve its billing, checkout and subscriptions offerings.
March 20 -
Amid the fallout from the Silicon Valley Bank shutdown, some argue that reduced processing time could mitigate systemic disruptions.
March 16 -
NatWest joins U.K. banks in limiting crypto, Mastercard teams with fintech in the UAE, and more.
March 15 -
Micro-merchants that sell on Etsy and Shopify were briefly unable to accept payments — an issue that could have been catastrophic had it lasted longer.
March 14 -
When Circle USDC broke its peg to the dollar days after SVB's crisis, it revealed new uncertainties for cryptocurrency that's designed to resist volatility.
March 13 -
Co-Op Solutions, which represents more than 1,800 credit unions, used its scale to negotiate a favorable deal with the STAR Network.
March 13 -
Brett Mooney returns to the card network as the country manager for Canada, a digital-forward market that is attracting more competition from banks and fintechs.
March 10 -
The card network is examining how to make incentives more personal by using advanced technology to sift through a trove of consumer spending data.
March 9 -
This week's global news roundup includes Apple Pay securing a lingering holdout; a CBDC project that targets FX rates, and more.
March 8 -
Associate partner Mary Ann Francis is a risk taker — the kind who jumps off a waterfall without a parachute. She brings this same boldness to her work at IBM, where her decades of banking experience help the tech giant find new opportunities for artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
March 7 -
This year's Most Influential Women in Payments honorees are uniquely positioned to make the most of disruptive factors such as the advancement of artificial intelligence, central bank digital currencies and real-time payments.
March 7 -
A new product enables consumers to initiate a transaction by typing in a merchant's web domain — even if that business doesn't have an e-commerce site. It's the web-hosting company's latest bid to provide more to small proprietors.
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Citizens Financial Group, which has offered point-of-sale financing for iPhones sold through Apple since 2015, is finding that as objects such as refrigerators become more complex and internet-connected, they are also more frequently replaced — creating new categories for installment lending.
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