All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Mastercard adds card benefits through Peacock and Instacart for US consumers
Mastercard estimates that its US consumer credit card products empower cardholders with access to over $60bn+ in meaningful rewards and benefits
Payment transactions in Canada in 2022 rise by 7% y-o-y to C$11.7trn
Credit card use rises by 30% while cash use falls by 41% over last five years reports Payments Canada
Shifting power dynamics in digital commerce: New regulations propelling app developers
Ryan Blazadeh explains why regulatory changes are empowering app developers to offer alternative payment systems, thereby enhancing user choice and improving checkout experiences
Is low code the answer to higher payment revenues for banks?
Toine van Beusekom assesses the potential to use low code tools and platforms for payments processing
Alternative payments account for nearly 60% of e-commerce market in India, reveals GlobalData
Alternative payment methods such as mobile and digital wallets increasingly dominate the e-commerce space in India and are the most popular online payment method with 58.1% market share in 2023, according to GlobalData, publishers of EPI
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Star launches CardPro Accelerator
Solution designed to help retailers speed up roll out of card services
Neo-banking platform Leatherback launches in the UK
Leatherback says that it enables easier remittance and cross-border payments for migrants and businesses in multiple countries with users able to access up to 15 currencies from 21 countries
Signal: Financial wellbeing startup Mintago raises $4.75m
UK fintech will use funding to enhance its platform and accelerate its growth across the UK
Merchants increase spend to tackle e-commerce fraud crisis
Businesses are struggling to address spiralling fraud with UK merchants set to lose more than £39m to fraud in 2023
US banks: Weed and crypto and Trump
Bravo Chase. Ditto Mastercard. Chase UK will block crypto related payments while Mastercard orders US banks to block cannabis purchases. A bigger question is when they will stop funnelling financial support for the disgraced former President