All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

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

Worldline helps ECB to shape future digital euro by successfully delivering a front-end prototype

Worldline is one of five companies selected by the European Central Bank to participate in offline digital euro front-end prototype testing, as part of the ECB’s investigation exercise

Asia Pacific continues growth trajectory in real-time payments: ACI and GlobalData research

Governments and central banks in the APAC region are playing a crucial role in driving real-time payments adoption

Ebury announces strategic growth plans in Brazil

Follows acquisition of Bexs with Brazil expansion a key part of global growth strategy