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 cryptocurrency exchange plans to roll out a rewards Mastercard this summer, targeting cryptocurrency neophytes.
April 27 -
On its path to diversify beyond check printing, Deluxe has agreed to purchase Texas-based merchant services firm First American Payment Systems for $960 million.
April 22 -
More than 50 countries support Apple Pay, which launched seven years ago, but adoption still lags in certain developed regions including Israel, Mexico and South Africa.
April 22 -
It is the largest global treasury bank so far to implement Mastercard’s direct debit service.
April 21 -
Two years after the country laid out plans for an instant-payments service backed by Saudi Arabia’s central bank, the project has gone live through a collaboration with Mastercard’s Vocalink and IBM.
April 21 -
Cardholders get a discount, but anyone can use the issuer's new airport lounge — even kids.
April 21 -
Cardholders get a discount, but anyone can use the issuer's new airport lounge — even kids.
April 21 -
As more electric-powered commercial vehicles enter the market, fuel card operators like FleetCor must confront a future where gas stations become less relevant.
April 20 -
Mastercard is buying Ekata, a startup that has been rapidly developing AI-powered digital identity tools that weed out online fraud during the recent surge in e-commerce during the pandemic.
April 19 -
The surge in digital and cloud-based payments technology hasn’t killed off point-of-sale terminals; their role is simply changing, as cloud-based payment providers like Podium roll out their first hardware.
April 16
