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 information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Uber Eats expands inside restaurants; Alipay adds beauty filters to selfie-pay; Japan's regulators pressure Libra; Legal battle brews over currency policy in Zimbabwe; BigCommerce and Klarna expand partnership.
July 5 -
Adyen has added support for Interac, enabling Canadian merchants to accept Canada’s domestic debit payment method for in-app and online purchases.
July 3 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: QR codes for education payments; Tencent and Paytm mull investment in streaming service; Dutch ministers call for cash removal; Retailers lobby against Amazon and Google; FIS adds job board tech.
July 3 -
It’s too early to measure the market effect of New York City's contactless transit payment acceptance pilot launched barely a month ago, but many merchants in the immediate area may not be ready if demand spikes.
July 3 -
PayPal is working with Visa to enable consumers and small businesses in Canada to move funds instantly from PayPal to their bank accounts using Visa’s debit push payments service.
July 2 -
Abercrombie & Fitch and Klarna are following a successful launch of short-term installment loans on apparel in Germany by adding more markets.
July 1 -
Most large banks have declared their strategies for adopting contactless cards, but the rank and file of FIS’ midsize and smaller issuers are still weighing their options about when to flip the switch.
July 1 -
Wirecard’s platform for delivering corporate disbursements is expanding to the Philippines.
June 28 -
H&M will enable Klarna as a payment option in its 580 U.S. stores beginning this fall, building on a partnership the two Swedish companies established last year.
June 27 -
Visa’s chief economist recently warned that fintechs are disintermediating banks’ credit card businesses with instant access to installment loans. Now Visa is looking to disrupt the fintechs by giving issuers a way to do the same.
June 27
