Kate Fitzgerald

Five months after the U.S. EMV liability shift for counterfeit card fraud went into effect, most restaurants aren't processing chip cards, and that's not changing anytime soon, according to a top executive at Heartland Payment Systems.

Mobile payments have failed to wow consumers in the 15 months since Apple Pay launched, but adults under age 25 may provide a clue to the technology’s future.

The blackout at Powa Technologies has some in payments industry circles wondering whether the company’s sudden collapse is a sign of harder times for fledgling fintech companies.

The smallest merchants, such as food trucks and local restaurants, will be some of the toughest to convert to EMV, but Lavu Inc. sees an opportunity to use Bluetooth instead.

Powa Technologies Ltd., the London-based mobile payments startup, has a new owner after running out of funds earlier this month.

To Diebold Inc., the nation’s largest ATM maker, the ongoing shift to omnichannel commerce is as much a threat as it is an opportunity.

As Apple Pay crossed the 15-month mark, a new report suggests consumer awareness and usage of the mobile wallet are falling, despite robust support from banks and an exponential increase in the merchants that can accept Near Field Communication payments.

By now, many merchants should be wondering if they made the right decision by failing to act before last fall’s EMV liability shift.

The smartwatch revolution didn't begin with Apple, and the early adopters of wearables may not want to upgrade just to add payments. Fit Pay Inc. has a plan to meet this audience halfway.

Visa is rolling out a new transaction-notification service service today through the application program interface-based Visa Developer Platform the network unveiled last week.

Kazazean’s ability to drive collaboration across diverse teams will be a critical asset as she faces Walmart's ambitious shift to omnichannel commerce this year.

Living up to the word "enterprise" in her job description is serious business, but for Colleen Taylor, head of treasury management and enterprise payments at Capital One, success also means staying true to herself and finding joy in work.

For Kristy Cook, group manager of bankcard strategic projects at Target Corp., there couldn't be a more better time to lead the payments team at one of the nation's most forward-thinking retailers.

Being a working mom who "at times has a tough time balancing it all," Hund-Mejean sees firsthand how MasterCard’s breakthroughs to connect shopping and payments via household appliances could make life easier for busy people.

Arriving at PayPal six months ago to head its credit operations, Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore felt an immediate and refreshing change in the atmosphere, compared with the stuffier air at her previous financial services jobs.

It’s too soon to connect the U.S. EMV migration to a statistical spike in e-commerce crime, but fraudsters already could be reacting to the growth in new chip cards and fast consumer credit approvals by turning to new account fraud, according to Javelin Strategy & Research.

Payments startup Coin Inc. has weathered challenges since its splashy crowd-funded launch in 2013, and now it’s got a new one: A lawsuit claiming the all-in-one payment card product didn’t live up to its initial promises.

At the four-month mark after the U.S. EMV liability shift went into effect, it's still a waiting game; larger issuers and merchants tend to be on top of the chip-card situation and many smaller ones are not, but experts say it's too early to draw conclusions.

Though most of the fanfare behind mobile wallets is around in-store contactless payments, consumers are cutting through the hype and devoting more of their attention to in-app payments.

Twitter's move to pluck American Express' top exec for digital partnerships as the social media network's first marketing chief was more than an executive reshuffle—it signals a new strategic direction for Twitter to double down on in-app e-commerce, some observers say.