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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Months after acquiring credit card program management startup Power, Marqeta has introduced a service to embed credit offers within brand marketers' websites and applications.
October 23 -
Retailers fed up with interchange are trying numerous strategies to offset these costs, including piloting Pay by Bank use cases and even, in some cases, refusing to accept cards altogether.
October 22 -
Consumers with Discover cards spent less on travel and everyday purchases, but more on entertainment, driving loan growth in the third quarter. The company also benefited from the Fed's enforcement of online debit-routing rules, but these boons couldn't offset investor concerns over its issues with the FDIC and its CEO search.
October 19 -
NCR has completed the spinoff of its ATM business, Revolut doubles its number of fraud-fighters in two years, China builds a zone for digital yuan users, and more.
October 18 -
In search of new revenue streams, the card network has researched companies' working-capital and cash-flow headaches to see where it could play a bigger role.
October 12 -
Customers of community banks and credit unions using Fiserv's core banking platform will soon directly control third-party access to their account information among Plaid's network of 8,000 third-party applications and services.
October 12 -
The Financial Conduct Authority issued 146 alerts on crypto asset marketing, multiple payment companies in Canada are trying to spur adoption of open banking, and more.
October 11 -
The addition of branded debit cards is bringing BNPL fintechs' products closer to traditional credit cards, both in terms of consumer perception and the fees the cards generate.
October 9 -
Singapore's regulators grant payment licenses to Ripple and Coinbase, Stripe expands pay-by-bank in Africa, U.K. regulators pressure Revolut and more.
October 4 -
The financial institution released details of an FDIC consent order, weeks after the unexpected departure of longtime CEO Roger Hochschild. The bank must submit several action plans to address consumer protections within three months.
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