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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Credit card issuers caught in the trap of chasing new customers with increasingly costly rewards-point programs are trying something new: letting more users redeem rewards directly with merchants instead of acting as the intermediary.
March 9 -
Wells Fargo hopes to anchor its debit card at the top of customers’ digital wallets with a promotion offering users a $5 credit.
March 6 -
Afterpay, whose online installment loans are seeing strong growth in the U.S. apparel sector, has partnered with Oakland, Calif.-based processor Marqeta to develop additional payment products and services.
March 5 -
The U.K. is the latest market where eBay will assume direct control of its payments experience, as part of its prolonged breakup with PayPal.
February 26 -
The decisions made five years ago are creating problems for contactless payments today.
February 26 -
As faster payments change how quickly companies get paid, these same organizations are looking to add speed to the way they manage internal expenses.
February 18 -
As well-funded rivals pounce, Dwolla founder and CEO Ben Milne is looking for new leadership and a new strategy.
February 14 -
Mobile apps enabling consumers to buy gasoline without stepping out of the car are a fast-growing category, but fuel marketers’ associated rewards programs have taken a bit longer to catch up.
February 14 -
Square has buttressed its deep-learning with the purchase of Dessa, a Toronto-based machine learning startup that specializes in advanced risk management.
February 12 -
Emburse, a new consolidation of several corporate expense management platforms, now supports instant reconciliation of business expenses at the moment the transaction occurs.
February 11
