All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Shift4 Completes Acquisition of Finaro
The deal significantly expands Shift4’s total addressable market, enhancing its cross-border ecommerce capabilities to deliver a unified global payments platform for merchants and partners around the world
Worldline Q3 2023 earnings: share prices plunge across sector after gloomy outlook
Worldline has lowered its forecasts for sales growth and ramped up cost savings plans
US credit cardholders fees and interest charges hit new record: CFPB
US credit card companies charged consumers more than $105bn in interest and more than $25bn in fees in 2022
Fed proposes cutting debit card swipe fees
The Federal Reserve is requesting industry comments on a proposal to lower the maximum interchange fee that a large debit card issuer can receive for a debit card transaction
Commercial payment providers eye $371bn revenue opportunity in value-added services: Accenture
One third of commercial payments clients are highly likely to switch to another provider if it offered more value-added services according to Accenture’s Commercials Payments Survey 2023
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Get industry leading news, data and analysis delivered to your inbox
Apple Wallet’s open banking integration hints at new use case for mobile wallets
The extension to Apple’s wallet in the UK is limited but Olujimi Oke argues it may pave the way for Apple to ramp up its ambitions to disrupt the country’s banking sector
Ingenico and Jifiti team up to simplify embedded lending integration for merchants
Jifiti’s white-labelled embedded lending platform integrates with Ingenico’s Payments Platform-as-a-Service system enabling merchants to offer bank financing to their customers at any point of sale
Payhawk partners with Wise Platform to integrate fast, low-cost international payment services
Collaboration enables Payhawk customers to make transfers in over 50 currencies across more than 160 countries directly from the platform
Mastercard launches First-Party Trust programme
Mastercard targets so-called ‘friendly’ fraud by helping merchants and issuers prove genuine purchases and prevent flawed disputes
The European Payments Initiative – can Europe become a world leader in payments?
The European Payments Initiative has lofty goals and aims to rival Asian and US counterparts with a seamless homegrown payments system. Alan Irwin discusses the key challenges of implementation