Kate Fitzgerald

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.

As the company diversifies beyond international tuition payments, it's also looking to diversify transaction options.

As the U.S. chip card migration crawls ahead, companies that have not made the switch are at a particularly high risk for fraud.

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.

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.

The move comes as more banks migrate to faster processing to support mobile payments and other digital transactions.

The exchange is adding Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Dash, Monero, Zcash and dozens of other cryptocurrencies in exchange for U.S. dollars.

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.

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.

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.

Amazon is working aggressively to change the way people shop — especially in the grocery space — but not all of its activities focus on products and store design. The e-commerce giant has also influenced a lot about how people use their payment cards.

In the race between China’s two leading mobile wallets—Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay—to expand their users and merchants around the world, WeChat Pay is drawing even in Europe.

The global push to expand financial inclusion takes many paths, based on the challenges—and unique market advantages—in countries where vast portions of the population lack access to modern banking services.

Corporate fleet card giant WEX is getting into the consumer market for the first time through a partnership with GasBuddy, an app that helps drivers find the nearest gas station with current fuel prices.

Copenhagen-based digital payments specialist Nets is rolling out a service in the Nordic region to screen against fraudulent transactions online, with a particular focus on “clickbait fraud” that aims to entice consumers to unknowingly authorize recurring payments in exchange for nothing.

Consumer frustration with passwords is nearing a peak, with average users currently registered via password to more than 90 online accounts, and one in four consumers forgetting at least one password daily, according to a new study from Mastercard.

WorldRemit is integrating with Android Pay, taking a big step toward streamlining the process for sending mobile cross-border remittances.

Due in part to the U.S.'s lackluster adoption of contactless cards, mobile wallets had a slow and difficult time gaining hold among consumers and merchants that were unfamiliar with the tap-and-pay process or didn't have the right technology. The opposite problem plagues Canada, where contactless cards are so widely used that mobile adds little value.

A year after announcing plans to collaborate with U.K.-based Featurespace to develop fraud-fighting tools with artificial intelligence and machine learning, Total System Services (TSYS) has rolled out a new offering that aims to predict new and unknown fraud types, while cutting back on “false positive" fraud warnings.

Fintech is full of payments technology ideas in search of a mission, and Wholesome Wave, whose mission is to improve low-income consumers’ nutrition, has searched for years to find a better way to reimburse its constituents for buying healthy food.