All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Marqeta and Credi2 team up, enable new instalment capabilities for European banks

Collaboration creates a card-led instalment platform that enables issuers to more easily offer flexible instalment plans for credit and debit cardholders

Taulia, Mastercard partner to launch virtual card B2B payments solution

Taulia virtual cards provides a seamlessly integrated working capital tool to simplify B2B payments

Identity fraud to peak during Christmas shopping season

Identity Fraud is up by 22% in 2023 compared to 2022 reports Experian, with the trend forecast to peak over November and December

Payhawk targets the Procure-to-Pay market, launches Purchase Orders

New solution enables businesses to automate their procure-to-pay process to further increase the efficiency and control in business purchases

Lithuanian fintech Paystrax launches in the UK

Paystrax provides card transaction acquiring and payment solutions for more than 500 merchants and retailers across the UK & Europe, helping reduce friction and time taken to adopt digital payment methods

Underpay launches in the UK

Founded in early 2023, the fintech is on a mission to popularise account-to-account payments

Cardlytics partners with Monzo to deliver new targeted cashback rewards programme

Monzo becomes the first bank globally to deploy Cardlytics’ new cloud-based platform

Unlocking financial inclusion: the interconnected role of digital identity

A bank account – and the identity verification needed to open these – should be a right for all. Miguel Traquina explains why banks and financial organisations need to see these issues as two sides of the same coin

New EU legislation will remove friction in real-time payments

Blandina Hanna Szalay discusses the strategic importance of EU legislation to promote instant payments

Jordan Ahli Bank deploys Fintech Galaxy platform for open banking readiness

Jordan Ahli Bank will leverage Fintech Galaxy’s FINX platform to enable customers to share their financial and banking data with third parties and make account to account transfers, leveraging API technology