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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Early Warning Services, which operates the peer-to-peer network, is among the latest to take a creative approach to educating consumers about the relentless onslaught of fraud schemes.
December 4 -
Zelle owner Early Warning Services has completed a test of its digital wallet, which it sees as a tool to streamline payments and combat the rising tide of fraud schemes, including those driven by generative AI.
December 1 -
How the next generation of payments technology is being developed in fields such as public transit, sports and long-haul trucking.
November 30 -
Australia plans to put Apple Pay and Google Pay under the same rules that apply to credit cards, NatWest is inviting customers into its branches for a tabletop game about the perils of financial scams and more.
November 29 -
Two years after acquiring the installment lender Afterpay, Block, which also owns Square, is seeing the payoff of a strategy that focuses on the sale of specialty items.
November 29 -
Cybercrime-as-a-service tools are using generative artificial intelligence in new ways to crack payment card security, according to a report from Arkose Labs.
November 27 -
Canada's government is preparing legislation to promote open banking development, Mastercard has gained approval to process payments in China, and more.
November 22 -
The instant-payments environment is encouraging more consumers to participate in rewards through checking accounts, earning them a cash-back bonus or a discount that gets funded faster than interchange-based rewards.
November 22 -
By nabbing the creators of ChatGPT during a leadership crisis at its parent company, Microsoft put itself on track to become the leading provider of generative AI for financial institutions, experts say.
November 20 -
San Francisco-based Cushion's technology shows buy now/pay later borrowers their upcoming bill payments and helps them build a credit history by reporting certain loan payments to Experian.
November 20
