All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Finmont partners with digital payment provider, Pax2pay

Collaboration incorporates travel virtual cards solutions for European merchants

Token.io joins SEPA Payment Account scheme

Account-to-account payment infrastructure provider, Token.io says that the initiative will deliver innovation in European payments

Ecospend becomes first provider accepted onto open banking DPS

Ecospend, a Trustly company, says that its latest initiative reaffirms its position as the leading provider of open banking solutions to the UK public sector

Viva.com teams up with Conecs

Viva.com becomes the first acquirer in France to accept meal vouchers on any device

Payment optimisation: The gateway to profitability for SaaS companies

Nikhita Hyett discusses how payment orchestration is helping software platforms monetise their payments, earn a slice of transactions they process and see a possible five-time increase in value per customer 

Biometrics will soon replace passwords once and for all: Mastercard 

Biometric-based authentication service rolled out by Mastercard to make digital interactions as simple as they are secure  

Consumer Duty is just the first step in overhauling the credit market in 2024

James Lynn discusses the impact of Consumer Duty in 2024 including how consumers struggle to build credit without accumulating debt and how they can be supported by financial providers

From software to finance – navigating the interplay between fintech models

Alex Axelrod discusses the challenges of SaaS and fintech, their differences and related regulatory issues and shares his vision of a better SaaS cross-border payment platform

Worldline and Commerzbank expand partnership

Worldline collaboration with Commerzbank now enables the bank to offer instant payments across various European countries and Switzerland

COBOL: A ticking time bomb in the financial system

Anne-Willem de Vries, co-founder and CEO of payment processing platform Silverflow, tells EPI why reliance on COBOL could prove to be the financial system’s downfall, and explains how to move away from it once and for all