All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Interview: BNY’s Carl Slabicki on RTP – an invaluable payment option for corporate customers

Carl Slabicki, Head of Commercial, Global Payments & Trade at BNY, tells EPI why the bank is so well placed to tap into the demand by corporates for faster, more secure, and more transparent payment solutions

Mastercard $1.8bn BVNK deal signals stablecoins shift to mainstream payment infrastructure: GlobalData

Mastercard can defend and potentially expand its role in global money movement as settlement technology evolves following its most recent acquisition

Beyond scale and verticalisation: Why payments leaders must think diagonally

Stephen Faust explains why the traditional horizontal vs. vertical divide isn’t cutting it anymore; “diagonal thinking” is the way forward, combining infrastructure scale with the workflow depth that actually solves business problems

Orchestrating the instant payments economy

Nadish Lad explore why orchestration, not just acceleration, will define the next phase of payments modernisation

Stablecoins go mainstream, but compliance hasn’t caught up

Chris Ostrowski explains how financial institutions should approach stablecoin compliance as digital assets move deeper into the payments mainstream

The future of payments in the UK

Johannes Kolbeinsson highlights the muddled thinking of the ill-informed that propose a UK or European card network without thinking through what this would involve or if it could even deliver for consumers or merchants

Beyond the card giants: Why Europe needs a new vision for sovereign payments

As digital payments evolve and instant transfers become more normal, it’s time to broaden the payments landscape rather than attempt to replace the card networks outright, explains Dean Wallace

The evolution of instant payments in Europe

Paco Huerta explains how SEPA Instant, interoperability and unified platforms are reshaping cross-border payments

Interview: B2B commerce is broken – innovation can fix it says Bharat Sharma

E-commerce expert Bharat Sharma tells EPI editor Douglas Blakey that the majority of existing B2B online commerce is broken and how the purpose-built Apex B2B platform addresses merchants’ pain points at scale

Fraud, flights and frustration during the holidays

Justin Pike explores how fraud across the airline industry is quietly costing billions each year, particularly during peak travel periods when booking volumes and onboard spending surge