All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Worldline extends partnership with BNP Paribas Fortis
Collaboration aims to deliver best-in-class and customer-centric issuing solutions
Global deal activity fell by 34.1% y-o-y in January 2024: GlobalData
Following the 2023 trend of declining deals activity, subdued deal-making sentiments prevail in January
JCB and The Bicester Collection expand partnership
The partnership expansion offers more luxury shopping opportunities for JCB’s 156 million cardmembers worldwide across eight luxury shopping villages
The challenges of IBAN discrimination: Why sending money across the EU isn’t plain sailing
Euro transactions between any bank in any SEPA transaction should be seamless but internal risk management guidelines within banks make blocked payments based in the IBAN prefix commonplace. Maya Kumar discusses potential solutions
FINBOA and MEA Financial agree partnership
Collaboration will offer MEA customers single, sign-on payment dispute intake through mobile and online banking services
Detected collaborates with Visa to offer improved SMB onboarding in US and Canada
Detected Onboarding Intelligence will improve speed, efficiency and compliance
Paytm teams up with Axis Bank
Indian regulator extends deadline from 29 February to 15 March for Paytm banking affiliate and its customers to make alternative arrangements after India’s central barred Paytm from accepting new deposits in its customer accounts or mobile wallet
USI Money and Enjaz agree strategic partnership
Collaboration enables real time payment processing in Saudi Arabia
Spending rebounds on Ant Group’s cross-border merchant networks during Chinese New Year break
Alipay overseas number of transactions surpasses 2019, with Hong Kong leading in payment volume as outbound tourism rebounds
UK credit card balances rise by 9.8%
UK Finance releases card spending data for November 2023 covering the monthly value and volume of transactions across debit and credit cards, both in the UK and of UK-issued cards across the world