All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Unlocking financial inclusion: the interconnected role of digital identity

A bank account – and the identity verification needed to open these – should be a right for all. Miguel Traquina explains why banks and financial organisations need to see these issues as two sides of the same coin

New EU legislation will remove friction in real-time payments

Blandina Hanna Szalay discusses the strategic importance of EU legislation to promote instant payments

Jordan Ahli Bank deploys Fintech Galaxy platform for open banking readiness

Jordan Ahli Bank will leverage Fintech Galaxy’s FINX platform to enable customers to share their financial and banking data with third parties and make account to account transfers, leveraging API technology

Advent International forms Circle, acquires myPOS

US-based private equity investor forms Circle, a payments and technology platform. As part of the strategy, Circle agrees to acquire UK-based myPOS in a deal reportedly worth in excess of $500m

UK debit card, credit card spending on the rise

UK cardholders debit card and credit spending rises by 0.9% and 2% respectively in August according to UK Finance

Visa Australia proposes preferential interchange rate for SMEs

Visa is slashing the fees incurred by small businesses for sending debit card payments through its network

Is it game over for Till Payments?

Once valued at over A$500m, Australia-based Till Payments is reportedly on the verge of being sold for around A$50m to Canadian-based payments processor Nuvei

Global fraud hotspots revealed

As International Fraud Awareness Week gets underway, FYST reveals the fraud hotspots in each geographical region according to Google Trend data

GlobalData bankable insights: Open banking retrospective, current state, future view

The latest episode in GlobalData’s Bankable Insights series features Gavin Littlejohn in discussion with lead analyst, thematic and fintech research at GlobalData, Stephen Walker

BR-DGE integrates Visa Instalments into Kenwood Travel’s checkout

Collaboration enables access to flexible payments for holiday goers and represents an industry first