Kate Fitzgerald

As foot traffic in stores slows, the prepaid card issuer is upgrading its technology to serve more customers via embedded finance and payroll partnerships.

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.

Discover, Capital One and other issuers began effortlessly reaping strong deposit inflows months before the banking crisis. The trend may not last much longer.

The credit card firm attracted new business in part from the consumers who were moving their funds over from traditional banks.

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.

Visa halts single-click payments in India, ING uses recycled beach plastic for payment cards and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ryan Reynolds bets on Canadian fintech, Virgin Money expands its offerings, and more.

Supermarket chain Kroger refused to accept Apple Pay and similar options in stores for nine years. It's changed its mind — but Walmart, Home Depot and Lowe's remain holdouts.

Early Warning Services' peer-to-peer transfer service drove $180 billion in funds transfers during the first quarter of 2023, up 31% over the same period last year.

The boutique fitness industry is seeing strong growth, powered by a mix of payment tech and software that enables studio owners to accept onsite and remote transactions via mobile apps, QR codes and online.

Betting the road to mass adoption of faster payments won't be smooth, the data technology company's new head of payments is rolling out products to fill potholes between slower and faster payments systems.

Bank of England seeks CBDC experts, BNP Paribas' bonus pool gets larger and more

Marqeta's new CEO faces steep challenges in dismantling the fintech's heavy dependence on Square and finding alternative sources of revenue as consumer spending slows.

The card network vows to make all of its new cards from recycled plastic by 2028, but even the most ardent digital-first card issuers have met obstacles in finding affordable alternatives to using virgin plastic.

PhonePe backs away from a buy now/pay later acquisition, Germany fines EY for Wirecard scandal, and more.

JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Mastercard will extend Hello Alice's do-it-yourself "business health" score to entrepreneurs looking to improve their creditworthiness.