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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Kids' school lunch money has become a new payments-industry battleground.
July 12 -
A France-based firm that certifies handsets for Near Field Communication payment applications is betting heavily on the technology becoming the dominant mobile-payment standard.
July 11 -
Architects of the emerging mobile-payments industry may not have bargained on potentially significant regulations some legal experts are envisioning for it.
July 10 -
The tom-toms are beating louder for action among issuers, merchants and processors in the U.S. migration to EMV smart card technology.
July 9 -
Heartland Payment Systems Inc. has landed another school-meals payment player, further boosting its market share in the educational foodservice arena.
July 9 -
At first, Google seemed to have all of the necessary ingredients for a mobile wallet and Isis had the uphill climb of convincing banks to agree to a system designed by a group of telcos. Isis now has several top banks firmly behind it, but it faces many challenges as well.
July 9 -
ATM industry players are reluctant to embrace the EMV secure card standard, according to a survey from the ATM Industry Association.
July 6 -
As Facebook and Google work to become trusted names in payments, fraudsters are quick to exploit that trust.
July 6 -
Despite warnings from a few years ago that issuers would react to new regulations with higher annual card fees, most did not.
July 5 -
Private-label credit card portfolios haven't looked so healthy in years, at least in terms of credit quality.
July 3 -
Citigroup is testing new mobile payment features with its U.S. commercial cardholders in anticipation of a global rollout.
July 3 -
Banks today struggle to make money from electronic person-to-person payments, but some have a more distant goal in sight: they are counting on P2P as the foundation of mobile payments.
July 2 -
Visa is putting some of its most sophisticated commercial card features within reach of small and mid-sized businesses that use credit cards to cover expenses.
June 29 -
Even as American Express Co. seeks a less elite audience in the U.S. for its digital wallet and gift cards, its unit in Canada is aiming for the big spenders by boosting its platinum-level perks.
June 29 -
The reloadable debit card PayPal introduced early this year has finally hit the streets.
June 28 -
Despite constant calls to action, U.S. credit card issuers may still be too complacent about card fraud — even as the fallout from massive data breaches snowballs.
June 28 -
Toys "R" Us' relaunched credit card from GE Capital has a bunch of new features to drive repeat purchases in its latest play against competitors such as Target and Wal-Mart, both of which lack such specialized rewards.
June 27 -
U.S.-based card networks are making it clear they are hungry for a bigger piece of Canada's debit card market, which is making the nation's merchants nervous.
June 27 -
Fraudsters are taking their attacks on banks and payment companies to alarming new levels using automation and cloud-based servers, according to a new report from Guardian Analytics and McAfee.
June 26 -
Consumers weary of shuffling through various credit cards to get the best rewards could get relief from a new service that automates the selection of the proper card.
June 26