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
Checkout.com becomes first global payments provider to secure acquiring licence from UAE Central Bank
Checkout.com cements its position in MENA
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
Credit card balances outstanding in Singapore to grow by 4% in 2023, forecasts GlobalData
Singapore credit card sector primed to flourish post-Covid
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