All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Parkopedia partners with Plugsurfing: seamless in-car payments for over 500,000 EV chargers

Collaboration allows drivers direct access to Plugsurfing’s network of chargers across Europe

DEALS FOCUS: Robinhood to acquire X1

Stock trading app agrees $95m deal to acquire San Francisco-based no-fee credit card platform

Trovata and PNC Treasury Management partner to provide integrated payment processing

Trovata and PNC leverage APIs to automate client financial operations

Wise FY2023: profit rises by 234%, beats on FY23 margins

Overall income rises by 73% to £964.2m boosted by interest rate rises and a rise in customer balances

CaixaBank launches wallets service for international payments

Spanish first for CaixaBank: FXWallets enables companies to open virtual accounts instantly in more than 50 currency pairs

Synectics partners with Kount for fraud detection with even less friction

Synectics National SIRA users can now use Kount’s verification technology

Fuel and expense card provider Allstar teams up with Fastned

Partnership aims to accelerate UK EV adoption and increases total number of charge points on Allstar EV charging network by 20%

Stablecoins: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

James Cope and Michael Goldfarb explain why stablecoins offer the potential to solve a number of issues surrounding cross border payments, particularly improving financial inclusion

PayU India: powering India’s rural financial inclusion with new climate finance mechanism

PayU India is providing climate finance for projects across 220 Indian villages using Distributed Renewable Energy Certificates

FreedomPay partners with Visa to offer global omnichannel network tokenisation

FreedomPay, Visa collaboration will keep merchants compliant with cross-border and in-region data and privacy regulations, while qualifying for lower interchange rates for certain Visa network tokenised transactions