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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Demand for buy now, pay later (BNPL) services in the U.S. is surging as cash-strapped consumers welcome the opportunity to get instant loans minus any official credit inquiry.
December 15 -
JPMorgan Chase is partnering with Air Canada, the bank's first new cobranded card partner to be announced in years.
December 14 -
During his 18-year run at Visa driving innovation and strategic partnerships, one of Jim McCarthy’s frustrations was seeing how long it sometimes takes for financial institutions and issuers to embrace new technology.
December 11 -
FleetCor Technologies, whose peers with fleet-card roots include WEX and U.S. Bank Voyager, has been on an M&A streak that netted several B2B payments specialists in areas that take FleetCor in new directions, as rivals also diversify.
December 10 -
Stripe’s technology, which enables millions of merchants to easily accept payments online, also provides a window into the broader money-management pain points of the businesses it serves — and it is through this window that Stripe sees a path for growth.
December 3 -
Visa insists that the Department of Justice, in objecting to its proposed $5.3 billion purchase of Plaid, fundamentally misunderstands the changing role of data in the payments industry.
December 3 -
EBay has hired Discover’s top U.S. cards executive, Julie Loger, for the newly created position of global chief growth officer.
December 2 -
Japanese payment card network JCB has teamed with the State Bank of India to launch a cobranded debit card leveraging RuPay, the state’s domestic card scheme operated by National Payments Corporation of India.
December 1 -
In the push to get millions of cash-based micro- and small-business merchants to go digital, the two largest card networks are getting a boost from contactless payments' global surge.
November 24 -
HSBC for the first time is offering customers a way to send funds instantly across borders to other HSBC customers via a mobile device.
November 23
