Kate Fitzgerald is an Arizona-based senior editor for American Banker and longtime payments reporter. Fitzgerald began her journalism career at the San Diego Tribune, and has worked as a reporter and editor at several other publications, including Advertising Age and the Arizona Republic. She is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College and holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
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Diebold Nixdorf has developed new technology to streamline and personalize the shopping and checkout experience at stores and restaurants.
January 11 -
Wirecard will provide a platform for enabling immediate payments for temporary workers who sign up with Moonrise, a gig-economy startup backed by American Family Insurance.
January 10 -
It's been a little more than three years since Apple Pay made its debut. Today it is joined by Samsung Pay and Android Pay/Google Pay—along with several proprietary concepts from major banks and merchants. But despite millions spent on promotions and marketing for the various concepts, mobile payments volume is still weak.
January 10 -
Alliance Data Systems is developing a co-branded credit card and a private-label credit card program with Sweden-based Ikea’s U.S. furniture store operations.
January 9 -
Google is moving to corral its various mobile wallet concepts under a new umbrella—Google Pay—but it won’t be an overnight cure for the confusion many consumers and merchants are likely to experience as the new “G Pay” logo starts to appear.
January 8 -
U.S. financial institutions expect it will take another two to five years before consumers broadly adopt mobile payments, and most banks see more obstacles than opportunities in supporting these emerging payment technologies.
January 5 -
San Francisco-based Arxan Technologies, which got its start in 2001 providing security tools to protect gaming and medical-device applications, says financial services companies are one of the fastest-growing sectors seeking help in barricading their mobile apps from hackers.
January 5 -
The use of QR codes for mobile payments and coupon redemption will surge more than 300% over the next five years, as more merchants rely on the technology, according to a new Juniper Research report.
January 3 -
Prepaid2Cash has launched a mobile app enabling recipients of card network-branded gift cards to convert them to cash — targeting what the National Retail Federation says is nearly $30 billion in funds spent via gift cards in the U.S. during the holiday season.
January 2 -
The recent explosion of activity around biometrics and other new forms of authentication should seem like a good thing for the development of connected commerce. But right now it's more of a wild west that needs to be tamed.
January 1
