All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Brookfield wins battle for Network International

Canada’s Brookfield to acquire Network International in $2.76bn deal

Westpac launches accessible cards for visually impaired

Westpac taps Mastercard’s Touch Card feature to roll out new suite of card designs

UK payments fintech Atoa secures $6.5m in seed funding

Atoa funding round led by Wise, Xero, and N26 backers Valar Ventures

The £169bn opportunity: empowering shoppers with technology 

Unified commerce gave UK retailers a 16-percentage point boost to their growth in 2022 reports Adyen

Tim Hortons and Neo Financial introduce Tims credit card

The Tim Hortons, Neo partnership represents one of the most significant BaaS deals of the year

Thunes completes Series C funding, raises $60m to accelerate growth

Global B2B payment infrastructure platform backed in funding round led by Marshall Wace

Worldpay from FIS teams up with Volt

Collaboration brings the power of open banking to merchants

Flutterwave selects Token.io for UK and EU A2A payments

Collaboration enables Flutterwave to give its African e-commerce merchants enhanced access to UK and EU customers

PPS and Edenred Corporate Payments rebrand as Edenred Payment Solutions

Edenred Payment Solutions spots opportunity to align its products and services for maximum impact under a new brand

UK consumers embracing embedded finance

New payment solutions reach mainstream adoption reports Marqeta