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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MoneyGram has partnered with Visa to leverage debit push payments for P2P transfers in the U.S., with plans to eventually expand the service internationally.
September 9 -
The card builds on Mastercard’s goal of expanding products for underbanked consumers in sub-Saharan Africa.
September 6 -
Stripe is joining the throng of providers offering merchant loans based on payment receivables with Stripe Capital, a service for e-commerce companies already using Stripe for payments processing.
September 5 -
Many futurists and pundits predicted email would be obsolete by 2020, replaced by a new, superior communication channel.
September 5 -
Softbank is following an investment in Wirecard by adding the company's services to Brightstar, a Softbank subsidiary that distributes and manages wireless devices.
September 3 -
Months after Denmark’s Nets A/S completed its merger with Germany-based Concardis, the combined operation is rolling out a broad new digital payment service tailored for small businesses in Germany.
September 3 -
Bluefin cut its teeth developing point-to-point encryption to protect sensitive payment information from being intercepted by thieves during the transaction process, and now it’s adding tokenization protection for the consumer data merchants keep.
August 21 -
Bank of America’s P2P transaction volume via Zelle is surging, with millennials driving the bulk of its usage.
August 21 -
Apple is expanding the list of merchants where Apple Card users may earn 3% cash back, starting with Uber.
August 20 -
JCB International has formed a partnership with EVO Payments to enable acceptance of JCB credit cards at across the U.K. and Ireland.
August 19
