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 card network is testing two artificial intelligence-powered programs that it says give banks some of the benefits of faster payments without requiring the immediate movement of funds.
February 2 -
Walmart’s warehouse unit Sam’s Club is introducing digital features and new rewards tiers to modernize its Synchrony-issued Mastercard.
January 28 -
Flywire braced for disaster last year when the pandemic struck, with millions of foreign students canceling their academic plans indefinitely.
January 27 -
Fast has received a new round of funding from backers including Stripe.
January 26 -
The pandemic has made for strange bedfellows. Case in point: Western Union and MoneyGram will soon share Walmart as a landlord.
January 19 -
The pandemic has made for strange bedfellows. Case in point: Western Union and MoneyGram will soon share Walmart as a landlord.
January 19 -
The question isn't whether things will magically return to the 2019 status quo, but where is there still pent-up demand among consumers and merchants?
January 18 -
Walgreens is collaborating with Synchrony to roll out a cobranded credit card with an eye on the convergence of digital tools for spending and health care.
January 13 -
Synchrony wasn’t unscathed by the pandemic — consumer spending slowed during the first half of the year — but its mix of private-label and cobranded cards for everyday items suffered far less than other issuers' cards that emphasized luxury and travel.
January 12 -
The widespread shift to e-commerce and touchless payments during the pandemic has escalated fraud risk in those channels, including the possibility of fraudsters combining altered photos with synthetic ID, Experian warns.
January 11
