All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Signal: Financial wellbeing startup Mintago raises $4.75m
UK fintech will use funding to enhance its platform and accelerate its growth across the UK
Merchants increase spend to tackle e-commerce fraud crisis
Businesses are struggling to address spiralling fraud with UK merchants set to lose more than £39m to fraud in 2023
US banks: Weed and crypto and Trump
Bravo Chase. Ditto Mastercard. Chase UK will block crypto related payments while Mastercard orders US banks to block cannabis purchases. A bigger question is when they will stop funnelling financial support for the disgraced former President
Neo clears €10bn as firms diversify banking partners
Neo now works with more than 400 corporates across 28 countries and delivers payments in more than 100 countries with more than 8,000 banks reachable
Worldline Consulting Services aims to sets new benchmark in payments sector
Dedicated consultancy service for global e-commerce customers key element of Worldline’s evolution to become a strategic growth partner
Xbox credit card appeals to a niche group of customers
Xbox credit card initiative will strengthen its relationship with customers and secure a new revenue stream, writes Harry Swain
Signal: Flex raises $120m, launches finance super app for business owners
Flex launches business credit card and banking solution; funding round led by Florida Funders with participation from Home Depot
Mastercard highlights Credit Card Competition Act concerns to Congress
Mastercard’ tells US Congress that the proposed legislation would remove consumer choice, erode security, eliminate rewards, and prevent small businesses from investing in their future
Harris & Trotter to provide independent, third-party attestations to Chainlink Proof of Reserve
Its advocates argue that Chainlink Proof of Reserve is a game-changer for the tokenised index market and decentralised finance, providing verifiable proof of the assets backing tokenised indexes
Sift unveils new PayPal and Adyen integrations
Sift says that customers can efficiently win even more disputes through the power of a combined Sift Payment Protection and Dispute Management solution