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 bank is using its dominant share of the U.S. payment card market to provide granular insights that can improve small business' marketing decisions and business management.
June 9 -
Multiple class actions claim that banks and credit unions are not doing enough to prevent scammers from exploiting the near-instant peer-to-peer payment network.
June 7 -
The California tech giant's take on pay-in-four installment loans has a top-of-wallet positioning that banks and merchants are unlikely to be able to match.
June 6 -
Bruised by recent public relations gaffes, the buy now/pay later pioneer is forging ahead with a plan to complement its installment loans with a physical Visa card.
June 3 -
Tandym, headed by a former Capital One executive, is rolling out a digital private-label credit card program that ties into sellers' loyalty programs. It has $60 million in backing from investors including Google’s AI-focused venture fund Gradient.
June 1 -
After lying low for a couple of years, wealthy consumers are poised to unleash nearly a quarter-trillion dollars in a card-spending binge that only a COVID-19 resurgence could derail, according to Visa's chief economist, Wayne Best.
May 24 -
For women, the path to leadership isn't always the same one that men take. Talus Pay CEO Kim Fitzsimmons says her career moved fastest whenever she refused to stay in her lane.
May 23 -
Segpay's employees returned to their Florida desks nearly two years ago. Oregon-based Umpqua Bank has permanently adopted a hybrid approach. Both strategies are succeeding, executives at the companies say.
May 18 -
The BNPL fintech's new Debit+ card, which allows consumers to split purchases within 24 hours, is popular for buying food. Experts worry that this use case may prove more rotten than fruitful for lenders.
May 13 -
The tech giant abandoned the Google Wallet brand years ago as it refined its mobile payment strategy. The 11-year-old brand now returns as a means to store vaccine cards, event tickets and more.
May 11
