All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Mondu secures FCA registration

BNPL provider launches with 16 UK business clients

Marqeta announces partnership with Scalapay

Collaboration with Scalapay, Southern European BNPL market leader with over 5 million customers, will deliver BNPL across Europe

Finzly closes Series A funding round of $10m, led by TZP Growth Equity

Funding will be used to enhance Finzly’s platform offerings to enable the connected, embedded and real-time economy

BNPL and financial stress: who to believe?

Clearpay, the UK-unit of Block’s BNPL unit Afterpay and the New York Fed have rather contrasting views on BNPL and financial stress

2024: Call for banking and payments sector forecasts

It is that time of the year again. Now that we are into Q4, I am reaching out to the banking and payments sector for their end of year review comments/or 2024 forecasts

Trovata and JP Morgan Payments announce new solutions suite

Expansion of partnership aims to revolutionise treasury management and create new offerings for corporate investment banking customers

TreviPay launches Financial Partner Gateway

The new suite of APIs enables banks to offer new B2B payments and invoicing services

Two-thirds of businesses plan to cut the number of payment providers they use

Cost-cutting remains a top priority but businesses will still pay a premium to protect heard-earned revenue and provide customers more payment choice says GoCardless  

Cross-border payments are crucial to small businesses – but when they go wrong, everyone loses

Alan Marquard draws on the findings of Mastercard’s upcoming 2023 Borderless Payments report which has surveyed thousands of individuals and businesses to understand their views and attitudes towards making international payments

What to expect from the future of AI in payments

Roy Aston, COO of Paysafe, outlines the risk, reward, and vast potential of the future of AI in payments