Kate Fitzgerald

Big data was supposed to unleash a lot of powerful insights for banks, but many financial institutions still haven’t found a way to harness their own data because the amount of available information is so vast.

As the holiday shopping season kicks off, retailers are preparing for an influx of payment volume from shoppers and scammers alike. Here are a few of the problems they face.

U.S. fuel cards were a relatively complacent niche until a few years ago, when a wave of consolidations and digital innovations transformed the $66 billion-plus industry into a hotbed of competition.

The spread of new payment technology and omnichannel commerce are changing the way people shop during the holiday season, even in brick-and-mortar stores. Here are a few noteworthy trends this season.

Google's Android Wear products came to market well ahead of the Apple Watch, but in one category they have always been a step behind: contactless payments.

Merchants’ frustrations with the painful U.S. EMV shift could come to a head this week when Black Friday kicks off the crucial holiday shopping season with large swaths of the merchant landscape unable to handle EMV transactions, more than a year after the U.S. EMV liability shift.

A full year into the EMV migration, crooks are expected to be even more aggressive about attacking soft spots in online and mobile transactions.

The Scan & Go mobile app went live last month at Sam’s Club, allowing consumers to scan their own items as they shop and pay within the app, an innovation that could cut down on checkout lines.

Comdata says the majority of fleets are relatively small, and are underserved by most existing platforms.

Connected devices is the key innovation behind Optus and Frank Green's coffee cup that can also support contactless payments.