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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Mastercard has developed a service called Threat Scan to help card issuers get ahead of fraudsters by running scans on their card authorization systems based on the latest evolving global card scams.
October 1 -
How PayPal obtained a payments license to operate in China — an achievement that’s long frustrated the biggest U.S. banks and payments networks — sheds light on the unique challenges of breaking into the world’s biggest payments market.
September 30 -
When health care executive Raj Rajamannar joined Mastercard as marketing chief six years ago, his background at Humana and WellPoint hinted at a different perspective.
September 26 -
Mastercard signaled a new direction for corporate payments when it bought VocaLink a few years ago, and the company’s emerging vision for a B2B payments network suggests a new challenge for its commercial cards business.
September 26 -
Visa has launched an online portal for fintechs to explore payments technology and find resources such as shortcuts to applying for fintech licenses.
September 25 -
PayPal must pay a fine to the U.K.’s top financial watchdog for failing to keep its operations completely separate from iZettle while authorities investigated competitive effects of PayPal's purchase of the Sweden-based mobile POS provider.
September 24 -
Fair Isaac Corp. has added a platform alongside its 25-year-old FICO Falcon fraud-detection solution for credit and debit cards that aims to ferret out risky and fraudulent real-time payments.
September 23 -
Infosys has joined Visa B2B Connect, a four-month old Visa hub that cuts indirect processes and intermediaries out of global business transactions.
September 20 -
TouchBistro, an iPad-based restaurant order-and-payment system, has reaped $120 million in a new funding round led by Canadian pension fund Omers, with JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, BMO Capital Partners also participating.
September 19 -
Arguing more work is needed in the wake of new security protocols, Nets will team with KPMG to jointly develop machine learning-powered fraud monitoring and prevention.
September 18
