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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Miami-based NovoPayment, a payment provider with broad reach in Latin America, has upgraded its platform to support corporate bots enabling consumers to conduct person-to-person payments and other transactions within Facebook Messenger, the company said in a Jan. 9 press release.
January 9 -
ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf plans to unveil its smallest EMV-enabled payment terminal yet, a self-checkout unit that’s designed to fit into small retail spaces and supports cash, cards and contactless payments, but lacks a magnetic stripe reader, the company said in a Jan. 9 press release.
January 9 -
More than a year after leaving a top post at iPayment Inc., Philip Ragona is returning to serve the payments processor with new responsibilities.
January 9 -
Banks such as TCF Financial and Citigroup are adding Near Field Communication to their EMV cards to address consumers' displeasure.
January 6 -
The Internet of Things may be ripe for development, but the process of adding secure payments to Internet-connected products is an evolving concept.
January 6 -
When Diebold wrapped up its $1.8 billion Wincor Nixdorf acquisition last August, there was one asterisk on the deal: The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)—which this week threw a flag on Mastercard’s proposed acquisition of VocaLink—wanted to explore whether the ATM network giants’ merger stifled local competition.
January 6 -
India’s latest efforts to shift to digital payments and reduce the nation’s tight grip on cash are in the spotlight, following the government’s recent cash recall and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) giving its blessing to about a dozen digital payments startups. The newest, BHIM, is controlled by India’s government and is off to a fast start after its first week.
January 5 -
Engage Financial Technology, a provider of prepaid card programs for banks, healthcare providers, retailers and other organizations, has partnered with software provider Ensenta for a cloud-based approach to loading funds to prepaid cards.
January 3 -
Ant Financial, parent of the Chinese online payment giant
Alipay , may soon expand to South Korea with a new service called Korea Pay.January 3 -
On the heels of India’s move last month to discourage cash-hoarding by demonetizing certain bills, Prime Minister Narenda Modi on Dec. 30 announced the rollout of a government-managed mobile payments app.
December 30
