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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WEX Card Australia has announced two agreements with Chevron International to handle the petroleum retailer's fuel card processing in five countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
May 17 -
American Express Co. is the latest to add voice controls for card services via the Amazon Alexa digital assistant.
May 16 -
MoneyGram’s stockholders have voted to approve a deal to be purchased by China’s Ant Financial for $1.2 billion.
May 16 -
U.S. payment companies frustrated by Chinese regulations blocking direct access to its vast consumer market could get a break under the terms of a new U.S.-China trade deal.
May 15 -
U.K.-based global online payments provider Payza is streamlining the process for consumers who transact with bitcoin by making the cryptocurrency directly accessible within its eWallet.
May 15 -
Verifone and Global Payments are the latest payments industry providers to try speeding up the EMV checkout process, with each company agreeing to adopt Mastercard’s M/Chip Fast technology.
May 12 -
Every year, payments experts gather at SourceMedia's Card Forum to discuss the trends shaping our industry. Here are some of the major topics discussed at this year's event in Austin, Texas.
May 12 -
The U.S. shift to EMV technology has dramatically reduced levels of counterfeit card fraud, but merchants and the card networks are divided on whether it caused the expected shift of fraud to digital channels.
May 12 -
Visa and Cambia Health Solutions, a Portland, Ore.-based health care technology company, are teaming up to offer consumers health care reimbursements directly through debit cards, instead by check or bank transfer.
May 11 -
Payments stayed the same for years, then started evolving rapidly. That has issuers considering different ways to help consumers manage the change.
May 11
