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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This week in global news: CaixaBank adopts softPOS; AI makes more inroads and more.
May 31 -
Credit-card issuers and other lenders are developing financing options focused on managing interest, rewards and credit scores for consumers who face ongoing economic pressures to their budgets.
May 25 -
This week in global news: Canada cuts Visa and Mastercard fees; PhonePe draws new funding, and more.
May 24 -
Data-aggregator Kasheesh enables consumers to fund purchases and build credit scores using a combination of credit, debit and gift cards, based on recommendations powered by artificial intelligence.
May 19 -
Ripple buying a Swiss crypto-custody firm, Binance leaving Canada, and more.
May 17 -
The U.S. Postal Service wants to help banks fight a rise in check scams by adding electronic locks and other security at mail collection sites, but the problem has many causes.
May 16 -
In their rush to control pandemic-related payment crime, many organizations deemphasized protections against older schemes that are now resurgent.
May 12 -
The buy now/pay later fintech said during its earnings report that it's rolling out new products, while also creating a way for borrowers' credit scores to reflect their repayments.
May 10 -
Interac launches ID verification, the U.K. cracks down on bitcoin ATMs, and more.
May 10 -
Capitalizing on consumer demands for simplicity and flexibility, TD Bank is rolling out an interest-free credit card with a flat monthly fee.
May 9 -
As foot traffic in stores slows, the prepaid card issuer is upgrading its technology to serve more customers via embedded finance and payroll partnerships.
May 5 -
For firms that get it right, there's a chance to capture profits and offset risk from rising interest rates and inflation, according to experts who spoke at our Payments Forum conference.
May 4 -
Discover, Capital One and other issuers began effortlessly reaping strong deposit inflows months before the banking crisis. The trend may not last much longer.
May 2 -
The credit card firm attracted new business in part from the consumers who were moving their funds over from traditional banks.
April 27 -
Amazon Pay — which provides one-click checkout on thousands of e-commerce sites — has added support for Citi Flex Pay, Citigroup's point-of-sale credit card loans, as competition for buy now/pay later customers expands to digital wallets.
April 27 -
Visa halts single-click payments in India, ING uses recycled beach plastic for payment cards and more.
April 26 -
U.S. consumers may earn 3.92% interest on their account balances, with the choice to add pass-through Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage through JPMorgan Chase for up to $250,000 of funds.
April 25 -
The card network has a new policy to determine who pays when consumers dispute certain e-commerce transactions, but many smaller sellers are unaware of new requirements and may run afoul of them.
April 24 -
Despite slower new-account growth, the card network had healthy overall sales, loan growth and deposit inflows in the first quarter. The performance gave credence to its ambitions to become a digital banking giant.
April 20 -
Reacting to a sharp uptick in charge-offs, Synchrony more than doubled its provision for credit losses during the first quarter to account for further shocks along with healthy loan-portfolio growth as more consumers revolve credit card balances.
April 19
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