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 Federal Trade Commission singled out Mastercard in its recent proposed consent order, but other implicated card networks and issuers are unlikely to escape censure.
January 17 -
Some Affirm customers reported duplicate charges this week to their bank accounts for Affirm's buy now/pay later loans. The San Francisco-based fintech on Friday said it's resolved the problem.
January 13 -
Amex signed a deal to buy Nipendo, a Tel Aviv-based startup whose technology reduces business check usage by laying the groundwork to digitize payments between buyers and suppliers.
January 12 -
Ant Group's Alipay teams up to expand mobile wallet acceptance, CaixaBank forms a cybersecurity consortium, Santander plans buy now/pay later for businesses, and more.
January 11 -
A Visa executive explains how China's long lockdown held back Asia's travel-spending recovery and why government policies, economic trends and even the hit Netflix series "Bridgerton" caused post-pandemic cross-border travel spending to spike in many parts of the world.
January 10 -
The rise of legalized online sports betting has pushed the payments industry to create some of its stiffest defenses against scams.
January 5 -
The bank-owned payments network The Clearing House said David Watson, Swift's chief product officer, would succeed Jim Aramanta, who is retiring.
January 3 -
The industry is taking lessons from instant point-of-sale lenders to help homeowners embarking on major projects.
December 30 -
The fintech is working with third-party marketplaces and similar partners to deliver its newest services, rather than try and sell directly to end users.
December 29 -
A new law in New York nearly doubles the required shelf life of gift cards to nine years, as more states move to wipe out expiration dates contributing to $21 billion in unused U.S. gift card balances.
December 28
