All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Zilch launches Pay over 3 months interest-free regulated product 

Zilch expands its consumer credit offering with launch of longer-duration zero-interest payment option, adding to its existing ‘Pay over 6 weeks’ product 

Remitly FY2023: active customers +41%, revenue +39%

Remittances provider, Remitly, releases full year earnings for fiscal 2023 with send volume up by 38% y-o-y and forecasts 2024 revenues to rise by 30%-32%

BVNK goes live as an e-money institution in Europe

Payment provider bolsters B2B payment services in the UK and Europe

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