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