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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Mastercard has expanded its relationship with Pizza Hut to support mobile ordering in Japan.
June 30 -
Wearables are a clear evolution of the mobile wallet, but companies are still experimenting with use cases. Here are a few of the latest concepts.
June 30 -
More consumers will soon be able to withdraw cash at ATMs by using their mobile phones as a remote control via Cardtronics, which has decided to extend FIS Cardless Cash to all of its U.S. ATMs over the next two years.
June 29 -
Global payments technology provider ScanSource has agreed to purchase POS Portal, a payment device supplier to the small-business market, for $145 million.
June 29 -
International cross-border transaction enabler TransferTo has partnered with the e-commerce platform MallforAfrica enabling nearly 300 million African consumers with mobile money accounts to shop abroad.
June 28 -
Toronto-based nanopay Corp. is making MintChip, a digital currency it acquired in 2015 from the Royal Canadian Mint, available to merchants looking for a lower-cost payments channel by leveraging digital cash.
June 28 -
Another goal of the integration is to encourage more small businesses to convert from paper to electronic payments.
June 28 -
Visa said its investment in Klarna will advance online and mobile commerce across Europe, but there are broader implications for other markets and consumer groups.
June 28 -
The card network is additionally providing new and experimental application programming interfaces with its latest release.
June 27 -
Users shop and make selections in a catalogue through eye motions via the headset, and use the same approach to pay.
June 27 -
Punchh is betting NFC will be widespread, and it hopes to get an edge with clients with a direct connection to Apple Pay, enabling consumers to simultaneously earn and redeem restaurant loyalty program points.
June 27 -
The service only became available to customers around the third week of June, which is much later than the timeline Discover initially laid out for Samsung Pay’s availability.
June 26 -
As the company diversifies beyond international tuition payments, it's also looking to diversify transaction options.
June 26 -
As the U.S. chip card migration crawls ahead, companies that have not made the switch are at a particularly high risk for fraud.
June 23 -
The partnership is designed to serve the increasing numbers of tourists visiting Sri Lanka from India, providing payment card options that have local ATM support.
June 22 -
A suit alleges former inmates in Arizona's state prison system were charged $15 fee for teller-assisted transactions, compared with other customers who were charged nothing.
June 22 -
The move comes as more banks migrate to faster processing to support mobile payments and other digital transactions.
June 21 -
The exchange is adding Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Dash, Monero, Zcash and dozens of other cryptocurrencies in exchange for U.S. dollars.
June 21 -
Theresa Dold joins LevelUp in the new role of vice president of agency strategy to head the company’s focus on restaurant engagement. Dold previously was director of product at sweetgreen, a fast-casual salad chain that last fall stopped accepting cash payments at some of its stores.
June 21 -
With midsize businesses still handling the majority of their accounts payable via checks, large corporations are reaping the benefits of digital or card payments. A lot of this has to do with a misunderstanding of the options available to them.
June 19
