All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
No madness in March spending: Bank of America
US card spending fell back in March after a strong start to the year according to Bank of America
Link renews cash access pledge
Link is continuing to do a pretty good job as regards its drive to ensure accessibility to cash for UK consumers
Cash displacement gathers pace in Spain
While cash remains the preferred method of payment in Spain, government steps to improve banking penetration and bank sector efforts to accelerate electronic payments are bearing fruit
How SMEs can regain control of their payments to recession-proof their business
Andrea Dunlop explores the steps SMEs can take to prevent valuable resources being taken up with managing late or missed payments
The Bank of England’s digital pound: what’s in store?
Jeremy Boot assesses the Bank of England’s strategy for adopting central bank digital currency and how it could develop over the next decade
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How payments can navigate customers through the cost-of-living crisis
Jos Henson Gric explores how companies and the payments industry have been working to help people face financial pressures
Investing in growth becomes RBC’s next chapter in the Caribbean
With a relentless client focus, simpler ways of working and greater decision-making authority in local markets, RBC sees growth in the region, reports Douglas Blakey
India: shift from cash to electronic payments gathers pace
Cash usage in India has declined from over 90% as recently as 2017 to below 60% of overall payment transaction volume according to GlobalData research
Cash remains king in Croatia but signs of progress as banks, government boost cashless drive
Croatian consumers are adapting quite slowly to electronic payments, mainly due to a strong inclination toward cash, which accounted for 64.5% of total payment transaction volume in 2022, according to GlobalData
Worldline agrees multi-year deal extension with ING
Worldline will support ING on handling their issuing processing in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany