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 U.K.’s Payment Systems Regulator and the Bank of England have officially formed the New Payments Systems Operator (NPSO), a regulatory body that will soon replace three existing payment systems.
September 13 -
Shanghai-based Allinpay has become an acquirer for the Discover Global Network, enabling Allinpay merchants to accept all Discover and Diners Club cards in Hong Kong, Diners Club International announced this week.
September 13 -
Apple's next iPhone could add — and lose — features that change the way people handle mobile payments. Here is the latest roundup of rumors and predictions.
September 8 -
Onosys enables ordering ahead at Outback Steakhouse, Round Table Pizza, Boston Pizza, and others.
September 6 -
The directory has ways to get deeper information or contacts on Mastercard’s tokenization engine MDES, Masterpass, Mastercard Send, Qkr and mPOS providers.
September 6 -
The cross-border payments specialist has developed a workaround to comply with a format that requires Chinese characters for certain transactions.
September 6 -
Apple Pay Cash will likely integrate with Apple’s iMessage platform when iOS 11 is released.
September 1 -
The product uses virtual card technology and offers a way to pay multiple invoices.
September 1 -
In a market seemingly dominated by "Pays" from smartphone makers, a few companies are taking a much different approach to mobile payments. Here are some of the more extreme examples.
September 1 -
The card brand will run tests in Poland, which has a high penetration of contactless cards but many small merchants concerned about the technology's cost.
August 31 -
Compliance is improving, but more than 40% of companies still have work to do, according to a new Verizon report.
August 31 -
London-based Jumio has partnered with Plynk, a consumer messaging app available to consumers in Europe, for verifying new customers’ identities during the onboarding process.
August 30 -
Costco is testing self-checkout lanes at some of its U.S. stores as part of a push to speed up the brick-and-mortar shopping experience.
August 30 -
LevelUp is working with LuvJo, a New York-based firm that specializes in online ordering technology for small restaurants, to support order-ahead capabilities for thousands of coffee shops, juice bars and food trucks across the U.S.
August 29 -
A situation brewing in movie theaters that hinges on card network rules could have broad implications for the entertainment industry.
August 29 -
Passwords are widely distrusted for verifying identity and have been blamed for more than 80% of data breaches, but with biometrics and other approaches not yet ready for broad adoption, many innovators are rushing in to fill the gap.
August 28 -
NCR Corp. has entered a strategic referral relationship with Performance Food Group Co. (PFG) to promote NCR’s payments services to hundreds of restaurants via the food service operator’s 36 national distribution centers.
August 25 -
Ant Financial's Alipay is a big deal in China, and it wants to be a big deal globally. It's got several strategies already in motion, some of which have very big implications for other markets.
August 25 -
DipJar’s mission when it launched in 2012 was to provide a simple, secure device for consumers with no cash in their pockets to leave a small tip for cashiers through a computerized tip jar. The company quickly learned that consumers wanted to be more generous.
August 25 -
Payroc has introduced a mobile acceptance program leveraging iTransact, a Utah-based mobile payments technology firm it acquired last year.
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