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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The service only became available to customers around the third week of June, which is much later than the timeline Discover initially laid out for Samsung Pay’s availability.
June 26 -
As the company diversifies beyond international tuition payments, it's also looking to diversify transaction options.
June 26 -
As the U.S. chip card migration crawls ahead, companies that have not made the switch are at a particularly high risk for fraud.
June 23 -
The partnership is designed to serve the increasing numbers of tourists visiting Sri Lanka from India, providing payment card options that have local ATM support.
June 22 -
A suit alleges former inmates in Arizona's state prison system were charged $15 fee for teller-assisted transactions, compared with other customers who were charged nothing.
June 22 -
The move comes as more banks migrate to faster processing to support mobile payments and other digital transactions.
June 21 -
The exchange is adding Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Dash, Monero, Zcash and dozens of other cryptocurrencies in exchange for U.S. dollars.
June 21 -
Theresa Dold joins LevelUp in the new role of vice president of agency strategy to head the company’s focus on restaurant engagement. Dold previously was director of product at sweetgreen, a fast-casual salad chain that last fall stopped accepting cash payments at some of its stores.
June 21 -
With midsize businesses still handling the majority of their accounts payable via checks, large corporations are reaping the benefits of digital or card payments. A lot of this has to do with a misunderstanding of the options available to them.
June 19 -
Mastercard is extending the amount of time it allocates to global employees for bereavement to 20 days, following Facebook’s adoption of a similar policy.
June 16
