All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Citi highlights challenges ahead from accelerated settlements

Cash, funding and liquidity management remain greatest obstacles to achieving a shortened settlement cycle: Citi

Token.io and EchoPay join forces to transform payments for wholesalers

Account-to-account (A2A) payment infrastructure provider, Token.io teams up with EchoPay

Koverly debuts B2B BNPL platform, announces seed funding

Koverly launches “Pay in 30″ enabling businesses to defer FX payments for 30 Days at no cost to buyer or seller

FinMont incorporates ZooPay’s risk management solution into its payment eco-system

ZooPay collaboration aims to deliver tailored micro-hedging technology to fuel Finmont’s international growth

Swift cross-border payments processing speed surpasses G20 target

89% of cross-border payments are processed over Swift within an hour, placing its transaction speed ahead of the G20’s end -to-end target of 75% by 2027

Putting the customer first

Intix guide to the Consumer Duty: André Casterman assesses how changes to Consumer Duty have created new incentives for businesses in the financial services sector to go further than before in how they track and analyse data

Crypto Index launches tokenised ETF i20 token based on the top 20 cryptocurrencies

The i20 token represents an equal distribution of investments in the top 20 cryptocurrencies based on market cap, excluding stablecoins, with real-time price tracking and bi-weekly index updates

Fintech Avenues World eyes 10X growth of $27bn in MENA digital payments market

UAE’s second largest non-bank payment aggregator has a regional payment processing run-rate of $2.7bn currently

UK-fintech, Paysend, targets US Hispanic community

Global digital money transfer platform, Paysend, launches its first-ever above-the-line advertising campaign in the US

LatAm fintech Dock announces Chilean expansion, launches credit card with Tenpo Bank

Chile is the ninth market for Dock after launching in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and the Cayman Islands