Kate Fitzgerald

Responding to growing competition for merchants' loyalty, PayPal has enabled its small-business customers to accept Apple's mobile wallet, along with other features previously only available to large enterprises.

Pinwheel, which automates the setup of direct deposit at new accounts, endured a brief and unexpected surge in traffic during mid-March's bank runs.

By integrating its new installment product with its widely popular mobile wallet, Apple is more likely to capitalize on spending data than to focus on creating a large loan portfolio.

Klarna adds chatGPT, BNP Paribas outsources to the Nordics, Mastercard teams with a French fintech and more.

Despite the shift to digital payments, higher prices are bringing some people back to paper bills to manage their finances.

Early Warning Services' upcoming bank wallet will go live in June with certain merchants, supported by EWS's seven large-banks owners, representing 150 million Visa and Mastercard accounts.

Early Warning Services is poised to unveil the name of its new bank wallet, hoping to repeat the branding success of its peer-to-peer payments app.

U.K. regulators warn payment companies, Goldman Sachs invests in Saudi fintech, and more.

Retailers are increasingly working with banks to implement loyalty programs that keep the merchant in control — but which still encourage spending from a specific bank account.

Digital apps drive 53% of cross-border transfers in key remittance zones, while one in 10 users move cash across borders in person, according to a Visa survey of 14,000 consumers.

Finzly was among the first fintechs to offer banks an API link to the Fed's instant-payments pilot last month, helping the firm hone its capabilities.

NatWest joins U.K. banks in limiting crypto, Mastercard teams with fintech in the UAE, and more.

FutureCard, which originally resisted offering a physical card, is adding a recycled-plastic version to reach a wider audience.

The major payment card networks are "pausing" the rollout of a new merchant category code to identify purchases at stores that sell guns and ammunition, following pushback from lawmakers in Florida and elsewhere.

The pandemic's push to expand contactless mass-transit payments has produced a 120% increase in Discover's transit transactions since 2020 as more commuters opt for the pay-as-you-go approach versus prepaying.

The bank has agreed to acquire Big Data Healthcare, a Texan fintech that automates commercial payments flowing to and from hospitals and medical groups. It's the latest example of banks' deepening health care investments.

This week's global news roundup includes Apple Pay securing a lingering holdout; a CBDC project that targets FX rates, and more.

After a three-decade climb up the corporate ladder, Reda took on her most daunting task yet: launching the card network's new consumer banking unit.

This year's Most Influential Women in Payments honorees are uniquely positioned to make the most of disruptive factors such as the advancement of artificial intelligence, central bank digital currencies and real-time payments. 

New research from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau indicates consumers relying on BNPL loans are much more likely to use payday and pawn loans, revolve credit card balances and overdraw their bank accounts.