All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
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
Saudi Central Bank grants Spotii and Madfu BNPL licences
SAMA grants BNPL licences to Riyadh start-up Madfu and Zip-owned Spotii
Forced verification and AI/deepfake cases multiply at alarming rates: Sumsub
Full-cycle verification platform, Sumsub, revisits North American fraud data statistics from 2022 after Q1 2023 reports come in