Kate Fitzgerald

Leveraging new technology and APIs, Fiserv has rolled out CheckFree Next, a major update of the core CheckFree bill payment technology Fiserv acquired in 2007.

American Express has updated its classic Green card with a new set of travel and dining perks and a significantly higher annual fee.

Visa is retooling its small-business credit cards by expanding credit card lines, adding travel insurance and product-warranty extensions and making it easier for business owners to integrate card accounts with accounting software.

HTC's blockchain phone; South Korea's digital ID project; Kik still kicking; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web.

Following months of preparation, Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover announced the launch of "click to pay," a new streamlined checkout process that functions similarly at all participating e-commerce sites.

U.S. Bank wants to disrupt the way consumers pay their bills by offering billers a new platform fit for faster payment rails, new messaging formats and digital assistants.

U.S. Bank has hired payments veteran Peter Gordon to fill a new post as head of emerging payments product and strategy, tapping his years of experience developing real-time payments technology.

Eliminating checks from corporate payments will take many more years, but Nacha’s latest data suggests the B2B category is playing a key role in Same Day ACH's growth.

Galileo has raised $77 million in its first round of venture capital funding backed by Accel and Ryan Smith, CEO of the software firm Qualtrics.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Paytm draws new investment; Interac expands mobile payments; Klarna and Samsung collaborate; Shopify and Splitit team up; Aliant pays staff in crypto.

American Express is adding a new dimension to its year-old partnership with PayPal by giving credit card customers more options for splitting a restaurant check and paying with loyalty points.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Alipay makes a move in Russia; Google Pay expands transit support; Unicef adds crypto; BofA's hiring blockchain experts.

Intuit has partnered with Visa to enable QuickBooks users to get faster access to funds through Visa Direct, the network’s debit push payments service.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: PayPal loses on its Uber investment; Rapyd gets a license in Singapore; Masabi builds interoperable transit payments in Ohio; Binance finds partners for crypto in China.

Following a two-year pilot, several Sri Lanka banks are rolling out co-branded credit and debit cards connecting LankaPay, the local payments network, with Japan’s JCB brand, extending the cards’ reach to any global merchant or ATM that accepts JCB.

Small merchants often have to squeeze a hodgepodge of hardware onto their counters to manage government electronic benefit transfers, a distinct niche Novo Dia Group is working to solve with an investment from Square.

Contactless payment transaction volume is soaring in Canada to the point where total credit card transaction volume is edging out debit card transactions for the first time because many consumers are using credit cards to tap and pay.

NatWest is expanding its test of cards that use biometric fingerprints to authorize transactions, citing expanded use cases for contactless payments in the U.K.

Samsung Pay users can use the app to send funds across borders to recipients with a bank account through a new service powered by Travelex.

Seeking relief from rising synthetic fraud, U.S. companies next year will be able to quickly verify whether Social Security numbers match other consumer data in government files, in a bid to thwart fraudsters from creating fake identities with stolen information and SSNs.