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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For Kristy Cook, group manager of bankcard strategic projects at Target Corp., there couldn't be a more better time to lead the payments team at one of the nation's most forward-thinking retailers.
February 8 -
Being a working mom who "at times has a tough time balancing it all," Hund-Mejean sees firsthand how MasterCards breakthroughs to connect shopping and payments via household appliances could make life easier for busy people.
February 8 -
Arriving at PayPal six months ago to head its credit operations, Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore felt an immediate and refreshing change in the atmosphere, compared with the stuffier air at her previous financial services jobs.
February 8 -
Kazazeans ability to drive collaboration across diverse teams will be a critical asset as she faces Walmart's ambitious shift to omnichannel commerce this year.
February 8 -
Its too soon to connect the U.S. EMV migration to a statistical spike in e-commerce crime, but fraudsters already could be reacting to the growth in new chip cards and fast consumer credit approvals by turning to new account fraud, according to Javelin Strategy & Research.
February 4 -
Payments startup Coin Inc. has weathered challenges since its splashy crowd-funded launch in 2013, and now its got a new one: A lawsuit claiming the all-in-one payment card product didnt live up to its initial promises.
February 3 -
At the four-month mark after the U.S. EMV liability shift went into effect, it's still a waiting game; larger issuers and merchants tend to be on top of the chip-card situation and many smaller ones are not, but experts say it's too early to draw conclusions.
February 2 -
Though most of the fanfare behind mobile wallets is around in-store contactless payments, consumers are cutting through the hype and devoting more of their attention to in-app payments.
January 28 -
Twitter's move to pluck American Express' top exec for digital partnerships as the social media network's first marketing chief was more than an executive reshuffleit signals a new strategic direction for Twitter to double down on in-app e-commerce, some observers say.
January 27 -
Apple Inc. measured a strong pickup in mobile payments during the last six months of 2015, CEO Tim Cook said on Jan. 26 during a discussion about the companys results from the final quarter of the year.
January 27