All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Mastercard partners with Live Nation

Collaboration offers exclusive live music benefits and experiences for cardholders around the world

UAE to join emerging markets’ pursuit for digital sovereignty by launching a domestic card scheme

The UAE is the latest country to shift away from reliance on Western-owned card platforms, writes Blandina Hanna Szalay

CellPoint Digital partners with Riskified to give airlines better defence against online fraud

CellPoint Digital, the airline payments and payment orchestration supplier, teams up with fraud and risk intelligence vendor Riskified

Netspend and Rêv combine global portfolio under parent brand, Ouro

New name reflects ethos of reinvention, transformation and rebirth of company that launched an industry 25 years ago

Mastercard and EedenBull introduce card and spend management solution for SMEs in APAC

The Q business platform provides small and medium-sized businesses with a one-stop digital solution for managing and optimising operational spend

JCB expands partnership with Stripe

Partnership represents a key pillar in the growth of JCB’s acceptance network, boosts e-commerce merchant acceptance in Europe, Singapore and Hong Kong

Rethinking banking payments for the high-risk industries

Sofian Berrahal asks if banking is fit for purpose, when it comes to the needs of the gaming and gambling industry? 

Why retailers need to grasp the many benefits of open banking

Ralf Gladis examines the current market and addresses what PSPs and retailers must do to prepare themselves for future demand, and the advantages they can realise from open banking

PSR publishes first APP fraud performance report

Data from the Payment Systems Regulator shows for the first time how well banks and other payment firms performed in tackling APP scams and how they treated those who fell victim in 2022

Navigating real-time payments: the intersection of fast fraud and machine learning in finance

As the financial sector increasingly embraces the real-time model, it becomes imperative to understand that if we move in real-time, so too does fraud, writes Alex Jimenez