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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Rhode Island, while geographically small, represents strong business prospects for London-based WorldRemit.
October 18 -
Visa unexpectedly announced the resignation of CEO Charlie Scharf, making way for longtime Amex executive Alfred F. Kelly, Jr., a current board member, to take over the role effective Dec. 1.
October 17 -
Visa unexpectedly announced the resignation of CEO Charlie Scharf, making way for longtime Amex executive Alfred F. Kelly, Jr., a current board member, to take over the role effective Dec. 1.
October 17 -
Big-box retailers arent the only ones being forced to change the way they do business as giants like Amazon reshape the way consumers shop and consume servicessmall businesses also get caught in the storm.
October 14 -
Small businesses often need a short-term cash infusion to make purchases and pay bills due immediately, but the paperwork, timing and fees surrounding short-term loans can be prohibitive.
October 13 -
Restaurants are already busy adjusting to consumer trends toward mobile payments and a rough transition to EMV payments. But there's also a back office payment problem with slow, costly paper checks and invoices for payments to restaurant vendors and suppliers.
October 12 -
Mastercard will make its broad product portfolio available to Germany-based solarisBank to enhance the programming tools the bank extends to early stage payment businesses.
October 11 -
Millennials are experts at navigating social media and messaging apps, but they could use some help when it comes to managing their money, concluded the U.K. fintech team behind Plum, a new app aiming to bridge this chasm.
October 11 -
Mastercard has joined PayPal, Square, Stripe and a handful of banks offering bug bounties to volunteers willing to comb some of its websites in search of glitches.
October 7 -
For many restaurants that originally put EMV on the back burner because of technical complexities and a lower general risk of counterfeit card fraud, waiting to support chip cards has proven to be the right decision.
October 6
