All articles by Douglas Blakey

SIBOS 2017: BIAN releases API ready service landscape to boost Banking Cloud development

SIBOS 2017:Bofa Merrill launches CashPro Assistant

Deutsche Bank launches first paperless import payment solution in India

Sibos 2017: BofA Merrill expands payments offering with Multicurrency Netting

Fiserv strengthens its payments offering by snapping up Dovetail

iZettle celebrates 5th birthday with lower pricing model and new features

Sweden-headquartered mPOS vendor iZettle is five today. It is celebrating its birthday with the launch of a a number of improvements designed to help small businesses sell smarter and keep growing.

Tangerine claims a Canadian first with Secure Chat

Tangerine has become the first Canadian lender to launch Secure Chat, enabling customers to interact securely with the bank over a real-time chat session, to discuss not only general enquiries but also confidential banking matters that previously could only be discussed on the phone. Douglas Blakey reports

Samsung Pay will struggle to match Apple Pay hype and faces other hurdles

Here we go again. This time, the plethora of over- excited PR pitches and ludicrously exaggerated projections for take-up relate to Samsung Pay. Samsung has now partnered with MasterCard and Samsung Pay is slated to roll out in the UK later this summer.

Atom Bank to deploy Intelligent Environments’ Interact software

So. Now we know. In one of the most interesting and eagerly awaited UK banking supplier deals of this or recent years, Atom Bank has plumped for Intelligent Environments’ Interact software to underpin their customers’ digital experience.

Now that Apple Pay UK is up and running, it is time to dispel a few myths

I stopped counting at 100-the number of emails received in the past week or so ahead of and following the UK launch of Apple Pay, Douglas Blakey writes