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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Diebold Inc. has completed its $1.8 billion deal to acquire Wincor Nixdorf, becoming the worlds largest maker of ATMs.
August 16 -
ItzCash and Indias RBL Bank have formed a partnership to launch the countrys first cobranded prepaid card powered by the government-backed RuPay Network, the latest example of India's efforts to rapidly accelerate financial inclusion.
August 15 -
A rash of scams targeting foreign students is turning the business of handling tuition payments from a relatively low-risk proposition to one fraught with challenges.
August 11 -
Walmart Pay has been available nationwide at Walmart stores for several weeks, but consumers havent taken much notice a foreboding sign for those hoping for a breakthrough with merchant-branded mobile payment apps.
August 11 -
Payza, a U.K.-based global online payments platform, has expanded the reach of its prepaid Mastercard, which is linked to an existing mobile wallet, to 190 countries.
August 10 -
Dubai-based payment service provider Payfort has formed a partnership with Mastercard to improve fraud-screening and streamline the checkout process for e-commerce and mobile point of sale transactions for hundreds of merchants across the Middle East.
August 9 - PSO content
Fourteen banks in Taiwan have launched a mobile wallet using a shared technology platform developed by Mozido, marking one of the first rollouts of the Austin, Texas-based companys global Host Card Emulation (HCE) solution.
August 8 -
A coalition of Canadas largest vending machine operators has formed a partnership with Portland, Ore.-based payments technology startup PayRange Inc. to add mobile payments through Bluetooth technology.
August 8 -
The U.S. EMV migration has been rough, but one of the sharpest pain points of all was felt by merchants not yet processing chip cards who were hit by a costly surge in chargebacks.
August 8 -
Overall card fraud losses in Europe have declined slightly over the last five years, but that trend is starting to reverse course, based on new data from FICO and Euromonitor International that points to sharp regional upticks in card-not-present fraud.
August 4 -
The nomadic nature of renters creates a lot of friction for companies that match apartment-seekers with available housing. But a California startup says it's beating that problem with a payments solution that asks neither renters nor landlords to change their habits.
August 4 -
Three months shy of the EMV liability shifts one-year anniversary, issuers are making brisk progress but merchants are stuck at a crawl.
August 3 -
Samsungs newest handset enables users to authenticate mobile payments by gazing at the screen, in the latest expansion of biometric security for smartphones.
August 3 -
As digital wallet strategies begin to fall into place for more large banks, many smaller banks are feeling the pressure to develop apps of their own.
August 3 -
Prague-based CSOB has launched the first mobile wallet for Near Field Communication-based mobile payments in the Czech Republicalready a bastion of contactless paymentswith plans for e-commerce payments down the road.
August 2 -
India-based rail line Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp. (IRCTC) and mobile payments company Mobikwik have added a feature enabling passengers to order and purchase food thats delivered directly to trains along the route.
August 1 -
More mobile wallet consortiums failed last month, with two folding in New Zealand and Canada, escalating doubts about the prospects for cooperation among competitors in mobile payments.
August 1 -
DMI Inc., a mobile technologies software developer based in Bethesda, Md., has announced a collaboration with Cambodia-based mobile banking provider Wing for a mobile app enabling consumer and commercial funds transfers within the country.
July 29 -
Retailers insist that the EMV migration in the U.S. is weak because there is no PIN requirement to verify chip-card transactions, a process that is standard practice in other nations.
July 28 -
Payment Data Systems (PDS), a San Antonio, Texas-based payment solutions provider, has introduced a streamlined approach for mobile app developers to enable payment acceptance from all Apple Inc. mobile devices.
July 28