All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

UK fintech Sticky raises £1.5m seed funding

Fintech deploys NFC stickers to make every interaction and payment 10 seconds or less

Ripple diversifies hiring strategy away from US in line with evolving regulatory landscape: GlobalData

GlobalData’s Job Analytics Database analyses Ripple’s evolving hiring strategy

Global Payments launches real-time Ezidebit PayTo

Global Payments becomes the largest Australian payments service provider to introduce real-time PayTo capability to its 60,000+ Ezidebit customers

Fifth Third acquires Rize Money

Fintech platform advances Fifth Third’s embedded payments offerings

Demand for cross-channel gift cards increases across generations

Research from the Gift Card & Voucher Association and GlobalData reveals that a growing number of consumers across all generations expect to be able to use gift cards across various physical, digital and mobile channels

LuLu Exchange Bahrain partners with Arab Financial Services

Deal enables BPay and debit card payments at all LuLu Exchange branches, with aim of promoting digital payments

Cost-of-living crisis: Australians in early thirties and renters feeling most pressure: CBA

Cost-of-Living Insights Report from CommBank iQ shows discretionary expenditure remains elevated post-Covid

Splitit and APPS partner to simplify ISO & ISV instalment payments

APPS will integrate Splitit into its processing platform, enabling Splitit APIs via its front-end