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.
-
Consumers may not care much about mobile payments, but many of them care a lot about mobile loyalty.
January 26 -
Fleet card provider WEX is realizing an unexpected marketing opportunity in preparations for Winter Storm Jonas: Its mobile app can enable snowbound users to instantly locate of the nearest operating gas station.
January 22 -
The newest audience flocking to omnichannel shopping is the one no one invitedfraudsters.
January 22 -
Global Payments Inc. has finalized an agreement to distribute Mobeewaves contactless mobile card acceptance technology to its Canadian clients beginning this spring.
January 21 -
Consumers growing dexterity with banks mobile apps has been a welcome shot in the arm for card-linked, merchant-funded marketing programs.
January 20 -
To promote Android Pay, Google dangled up to $25 in gift cards to boost enrollment. Now the web search giant is offering a different set of rewards to spur repeat usage of the mobile payments service.
January 19 -
Ingenico Group has unveiled a new brand, Ingenico ePayments, as the latest step for the payment terminal maker in its evolution to becoming a provider of diversified global payment services.
January 19 -
The majority of consumers, or about 70%, still rely exclusively on banks for their financial services, but that figure will likely slip below 60% within the next five years as technology companies chip away at banks' grip on financial services, a new survey from TransferWise, a London-based money-transfer company, predicts.
January 14 -
Canadas prepaid card marketstill relatively smallis experiencing a healthy growth surge, according to new data from the Canadian Payments Association, and key industry players confirm the trend.
January 14 -
Apple Pay is seeing a surge in U.S. bank support, with the number of participating banks rising past 900 with the recent addition of 60 regional and community banks, bringing it closer to full coverage in its home market. But Apple isn't having the same luck everywhere else.
January 11