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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Walter Merricks, a consumer ombudsman represented by the U.K. law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, said a tribunal judge's analysis of the case was wrong.
August 14 -
Mastercard and Visa have also opened development centers in India, where digital payments are growing quickly.
August 14 -
Barry Rodrigues most recently was head of digital payments for Citigroup.
August 11 -
Bank of America is readying a premium credit card that boosts the rewards customers may earn based on funds kept in savings and investment accounts at the bank.
August 10 -
Lowe’s has long offered financing through its private-label credit card programs, but for many construction crews, a corporate credit card is a poor fit for handling ongoing expenses.
August 10 -
The difference between regular credit card applicants and fraudsters is experience — scammers know their way around an application form.
August 9 -
Point-to-point encryption (P2PE) advanced with the Payment Card Industry data security standard's updated guidelines in 2015, but the technology has not held the spotlight much since then.
August 9 -
MoneyGram’s total revenue declined slightly during the second quarter to $410 million, resulting in flat growth compared to the previous quarter based on constant currency.
August 7 -
Bank Asia in Bangladesh has partnered with Western Union, enabling consumers to send and receive funds via a network of 1,250 bank agents throughout Bangladesh.
August 7 -
Credit card issuers are beginning to see significant upticks in credit card account charge-offs, with Discover the latest to report a spike, flagging a 55% hike in losses during the most recent quarter. But what exactly is driving the increase?
August 7