All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Stablecoins: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
James Cope and Michael Goldfarb explain why stablecoins offer the potential to solve a number of issues surrounding cross border payments, particularly improving financial inclusion
PayU India: powering India’s rural financial inclusion with new climate finance mechanism
PayU India is providing climate finance for projects across 220 Indian villages using Distributed Renewable Energy Certificates
FreedomPay partners with Visa to offer global omnichannel network tokenisation
FreedomPay, Visa collaboration will keep merchants compliant with cross-border and in-region data and privacy regulations, while qualifying for lower interchange rates for certain Visa network tokenised transactions
Sumsub launches advanced deepfakes detector
Full-cycle verification platform enhances its facial biometrics verification with innovative deepfake detection technology
LHV Bank selected by Montonio for API-driven enhancements to e-commerce payments
LHV Bank collaborates with e-commerce checkout provider Montonio as it ramps up its strategy to broaden its services for e-commerce businesses
Mastercard and Alipay extend partnership to boost cashless payments in China
Pay like a local: Alipay, Mastercard collaboration gives international travellers another convenient way to pay
‘Payment orchestration’: the new buzzword in payments
What is “Payment Orchestration” and how can it help you conduct better business? Pat Bermingham writes
11% increase in European e-commerce spending in 2022: Nexi
e-commerce spending on travel grew by 52% y-o-y according to research from paytech Nexi
The changing nature of online shopping across Europe: Worldline
Consumers are realigning their shopping habits and adopting cost-saving behaviour: price, coupons and discounts are key decision factors
Why global mass deployment of biometric payment cards is coming
Robert Puskaric contends that biometric payment cards will demonstrate the fastest growth in adoption of a new technology in the payments industry yet