All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

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

Worldline partners with Travelplanbooker.com

Partnership responds to revitalised globetrotter preferences, aims to offer seamless self-service booking and payment across a multitude of platforms

fumopay successfully closes seed round

Pay by Bank payment platform, fumopay, closes its first funding round as payment experts join, positively indicating the bright future of Open Banking

FCA grants agent EMI licence to PayFuture 

UK-based payments fintech PayFuture has processed over $2bn in transactions since 2020

Billions of dollars stored on popular payment apps may lack federal insurance: CFPB

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau advises consumers to transfer balances to insured banks and credit unions

PayNearMe secures $45m in Series D funding

Queensland Investment Corporation leads investment round, enabling PayNearMe to accelerate payments innovation and accelerate market expansion

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