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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The U.S. played host this week to the first cross-border transaction for Brazil's Elo credit card through a partnership with Discover Financial Services, enabling global acceptance to one of Brazil's largest card brands.
July 27 -
International payment services provider Planet Payment and South Africas Absa Bank are expanding availability of Planet Payments Multi-Currency Pricing Solution through a new partnership with Xpressa, a Johannesburg-based company offering online and point of sale payment solutions.
July 26 -
Mastercard has announced a partnership with Singapores mass-transit agency, Land Transport Authority (LTA), for a contactless payment pilot, marking the first example in Asia of a transit system enabling open-loop payments, Mastercard said.
July 26 -
Now that Verizon has nailed down a deal to buy Yahoo's search and advertising business, it's starting to look a lot more like Google and it might even have the tools to take a second stab at the payments industry.
July 25 -
B of A says customers are becoming inundated with wallet options, so they are holding out on building their own.
July 25 -
The notion that if you build it, they will come clearly doesnt work with mobile payments, and Apple Inc. is ready to try another approach.
July 25 -
Paris-based SlimPay, which built a following among European consumers using its service to make online purchases directly from their bank accounts, is broadening its reach to the U.S.
July 20 -
More big banks are committing to their digital wallet strategies, creating the opportunity to extend their brands into new realms as payments and shopping go mobile under their own brandsbut there are some notable holdouts.
July 20 -
An NFC-based mobile wallet and the bold creation of Canadas largest wireless carriers, suretap looked promising at first. But in the end, it couldn't keep up with juggernauts like Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay.
July 15 -
The faster payments revolution has arrived for person-to-person payments, but its also disrupting business-to-business payments in a way that might render certain payment options obsolete.
July 15
