All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
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
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
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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
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