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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Samsung Pay users had the advantage over Apple Pay and Android Pay when it launched last year with a technology enabling mobile payments through virtually any merchant terminal—contactless or not—but that advantage quickly diminished.
December 13 -
The recent history of mobile wallets includes a lot of crashes and failures, but the people behind those projects are still around and are wiser for their experiences.
December 12 -
Mobile payment initiatives have largely failed because they focus on changing transactions instead of changing the way consumers and merchants engage with each other, according to Carta Worldwide, which touts new tokens as a way to reverse that.
December 12 -
The collaboration will help consumers use WorldRemit funds to accounts in six new markets in Africa.
December 9 -
The deployment is aimed to make a national mobile payments migration more smooth and less costly.
December 9 -
Amazon.com has set the standard for e-commerce with fast delivery, invisible payments and many other perks that keep consumers coming back to its site. Increasingly, the e-tailer has been experimenting with ways to streamline the payment process outside of the trappings of its website.
December 9 -
There's been a rapid growth of cross-border payments and remittance startups, and CIBC responded with a major project designed to streamline transactions.
December 8 -
Maikki Frisk will become the Mobey Forum's executive director early next year, replacing Sirpa Nordlund, who is moving to a payments startup.
December 8 -
Already under fire from companies like Square, another outsider threatens to cut terminal makers out of the loop. It's up to device makers to adapt.
December 7 -
Amazon’s latest attempt to disrupt retail—a store that automatically handles the whole checkout and payment process via an app—is a concept that could have far-reaching effects as the millennial generation brings its digital expectations into the brick-and-mortar world.
December 5
