All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Billions of dollars stored on popular payment apps may lack federal insurance: CFPB

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau advises consumers to transfer balances to insured banks and credit unions

PayNearMe secures $45m in Series D funding

Queensland Investment Corporation leads investment round, enabling PayNearMe to accelerate payments innovation and accelerate market expansion

Future of money: Will we see bank cards swallowed up for good?

Jeremy Baber discusses the future of bank cards and suggests that the days of physical card payments may be numbered with digital payment innovations leaving traditional payments behind

Giesecke+Devrient calls for a more accessible payments landscape

G+D argues that the payments sector must work together to make the payments ecosystem more accessible and socially sustainable

Worldline and VTEX partner to help LATAM e-commerce players enter untapped markets

Strategic alliance enables merchants using VTEX’s platform to leverage Worldline’s payment processing capacity via its plug-in solution

Middle East payment gateway provider Telr teams up with JCB

Telr merchants in UAE now have access to more than 150 million JCB cardholders

NomuPay raises $53.6m in Series A capital raising

NomuPay steals march on competitors by facilitating payments both ‘in and out’ via simple, single API integration

Vartana raises $20m in Series B funding led by Activant Capital

San Francisco-based enterprise sales and payments platform, Vartana, says it is on a mission to ‘fix antiquated B2B payments’

Nium enhances global payroll payments solution

Real-time global payments outfit offers transparent foreign exchange rates for more predictable payroll by removing regulatory complexities and reduced settlement times

Worldline, HEC Paris and HEC Foundation team up to explore future of payments

Three-year partnership aims to develop knowledge about payments through research and education and to train future talent in the sector