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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As more merchants worry about EMV card slowdowns ahead of the holiday shopping seasonwhen bottlenecks at checkout points could lead to many lost salesmore companies are coming up with their own ways to slash EMV payment times.
October 6 -
The biggest surprise for many who awaited the Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus final rule for prepaid cards was discovering that its reach extends to some of the payments industrys highest-profile tech firms, such as PayPal Inc.s Venmo, Square Inc.s Square Cash and Dwolla.
October 5 -
U.S. Banks Voyager Network enables fleet managers to track and control commercial fuel purchases, and now the platform also provides key fuel and vehicle usage data from fill-ups at private, unattended fueling sites.
October 5 -
Independent ATM operator Cardtronics plc is expanding to Australia and New Zealand with the purchase of Canadas DirectCash Payments Inc., which operates ATMs in several regions.
October 3 -
The traditional audience for prepaid cards is the underbanked or unbanked, many of whom are excluded from the mainstream financial services system due to their lacking credit histories. Green Dot is nevertheless pursuing this audience with a Platinum Visa secured credit card that requires an upfront cash deposit and carries a raft of fees.
September 29 -
The traditional audience for prepaid cards is the underbanked or unbanked, many of whom are excluded from the mainstream financial services system due to their lacking credit histories. Green Dot is nevertheless pursuing this audience with a Platinum Visa secured credit card that requires an upfront cash deposit and carries a raft of fees.
September 29 -
British cosmetics powerhouse The Body Shop this week will accept Alipay at three of its London stores, through a new integration by Germany-based Wirecard.
September 28 -
IBM is introducing a set of new systems and tools to help banks in the U.S., Europe and Asia adapt to certain global initiatives to modernize financial services, including advancing real-time payments and sharing customer data with third parties through APIs.
September 27 -
Visa Inc. is trying a new gambit offset consumers' irritation with hassles surrounding the messy EMV chip-card migrationit's introducing a winsome young woman to console the masses.
September 27 -
After several years of a sharp decline in B-to-B check payments, in the last year or so the trend has begun to level off, the latest AFP data suggests.
September 26
