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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Finzly was among the first fintechs to offer banks an API link to the Fed's instant-payments pilot last month, helping the firm hone its capabilities.
March 17 -
NatWest joins U.K. banks in limiting crypto, Mastercard teams with fintech in the UAE, and more.
March 15 -
FutureCard, which originally resisted offering a physical card, is adding a recycled-plastic version to reach a wider audience.
March 15 -
The major payment card networks are "pausing" the rollout of a new merchant category code to identify purchases at stores that sell guns and ammunition, following pushback from lawmakers in Florida and elsewhere.
March 9 -
The pandemic's push to expand contactless mass-transit payments has produced a 120% increase in Discover's transit transactions since 2020 as more commuters opt for the pay-as-you-go approach versus prepaying.
March 9 -
The bank has agreed to acquire Big Data Healthcare, a Texan fintech that automates commercial payments flowing to and from hospitals and medical groups. It's the latest example of banks' deepening health care investments.
March 8 -
This week's global news roundup includes Apple Pay securing a lingering holdout; a CBDC project that targets FX rates, and more.
March 8 -
After a three-decade climb up the corporate ladder, Reda took on her most daunting task yet: launching the card network's new consumer banking unit.
March 7 -
This year's Most Influential Women in Payments honorees are uniquely positioned to make the most of disruptive factors such as the advancement of artificial intelligence, central bank digital currencies and real-time payments.
March 7 -
New research from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau indicates consumers relying on BNPL loans are much more likely to use payday and pawn loans, revolve credit card balances and overdraw their bank accounts.
March 2
