Kate Fitzgerald

As U.S. counterfeit card fraud declines with the advance of EMV, researchers say fraudsters seeking richer ground are reviving a familiar card scam based on creating fake credentials, known for many years as synthetic identity fraud.

WEX Card Australia has announced two agreements with Chevron International to handle the petroleum retailer's fuel card processing in five countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

American Express Co. is the latest to add voice controls for card services via the Amazon Alexa digital assistant.

MoneyGram’s stockholders have voted to approve a deal to be purchased by China’s Ant Financial for $1.2 billion.

U.S. payment companies frustrated by Chinese regulations blocking direct access to its vast consumer market could get a break under the terms of a new U.S.-China trade deal.

U.K.-based global online payments provider Payza is streamlining the process for consumers who transact with bitcoin by making the cryptocurrency directly accessible within its eWallet.

Verifone and Global Payments are the latest payments industry providers to try speeding up the EMV checkout process, with each company agreeing to adopt Mastercard’s M/Chip Fast technology.

Every year, payments experts gather at SourceMedia's Card Forum to discuss the trends shaping our industry. Here are some of the major topics discussed at this year's event in Austin, Texas.

The U.S. shift to EMV technology has dramatically reduced levels of counterfeit card fraud, but merchants and the card networks are divided on whether it caused the expected shift of fraud to digital channels.

Visa and Cambia Health Solutions, a Portland, Ore.-based health care technology company, are teaming up to offer consumers health care reimbursements directly through debit cards, instead by check or bank transfer.

Payments stayed the same for years, then started evolving rapidly. That has issuers considering different ways to help consumers manage the change.

A range of backgrounds provides different perspectives on problems, according to executives at the Most Influential Women in Payments panel at SourceMedia's Card Forum.

The Bokis wallet's new app is scheduled for broad release this summer. It's a rare success for collaborative wallets, as others have failed, such as the U.S.'s Softcard and CurrentC, the U.K.’s Weve, Canada’s suretap and Singapore’s SmartWallet.

The company's original markets are India and China, but it plans to reach 10 major markets for B-to-B cross-border payments in the next year.

The card network and the aid organization have also worked together in China and Myanmar.

The plastic card is an aging tool in payments, but there's still room for innovation in its design and features. Here are a few new concepts that favor technology and style as differentiators.

The Bokis wallet's new app is scheduled for broad release this summer. It's a rare success for collaborative wallets, as others have failed, such as the U.S.'s Softcard and CurrentC, the U.K.’s Weve, Canada’s suretap and Singapore’s SmartWallet.

CVS Pharmacy is the latest retailer to join PayNearMe’s network for walk-in bill payment, expanding the service’s geographic reach by about 40%, to 28,000 U.S. stores.

Regulators are calling for the boards of the three separate faster-payments initiatives to review and endorse the consolidation plan and complete most of the consolidation before the end of 2017.

The move will help consumers directly authorize payments to third parties without providing the physical card or full account details.