All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Paysend signs strategic partnership deal with TelevisaUnivision
Deal aims to bring simple money transfers to 60 million Hispanic Americans
Bank Alfalah takes $1.7m equity stake in BNPL fintech QistBazaar
Milestone for Pakistan: commercial bank takes equity and embedded finance partnership with BNPL fintech
Standard Chartered expands partnership with Tazapay
Standard Chartered, Tazapay global partnership designed to power seamless payments for cross border ecommerce
Barclays, TransferMate launch international receivables payments solution
TransferMate and Barclays agree a new collaboration that will bring an international receivables solution to the market
Cost of living crisis: more and more workers accessing wages early
More evidence of the cost-of-living crisis biting hard as the number of workers accessing their earned wages before payday increases significantly
King Charles coronation: Brits to spend big… but not with cash
Brits are set to up their spend during the extra bank holiday weekend to mark King Charles coronation but will not be splashing out with cash
Mastercard heads DiversityInc’s list of top 50 companies for diversity
Mastercard is ranked the top company in the US for diversity with the financial services prominent in the top 50 firms with 7 banks also recognised
Crown Agents Bank FY2022 earnings: record revenue and profits
Crown Agents Bank reports adjusted EBITDA surges 338% to £56m for 12 months to end December 2022
Card payments in Philippines to grow by 10.1% in 2023, forecasts GlobalData
Philippines card sector revives post-Covid but is now confronted with the challenge of rising inflation
How embedded payments became a big slice of the embedded finance pie
Embedded payments represent the biggest opportunity in embedded finance and is estimated to be worth $2.1trn by 2026 writes Ralph Dangelmaier