All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
The future of card payments: ESG, accessibility and personalisation in 2025
Environmental responsibility is playing an increasingly critical role in shaping the payments landscape explains Maya Tuyen Reisinger, while key European inclusivity legislation becomes effective in June, impacting all banking and financial services
How can cash recycling shape the banking industry?
Cash continues to play a significant role in many people’s lives says Brendan Thorpe. Banks must ensure consumers have access to cash while contending with the logistics to deliver notes, insurance costs and the cost of cash itself
AI is supercharging cybercrime — here’s how financial institutions can stay ahead
Identity remains the weakest link. Arun Shrestha explains how security teams can use AI tools to detect suspicious access patterns, automate the cleanup of dormant accounts and excessive permissions, and strengthen behavioural analysis
Trump’s tariffs to hurt payment industry revenue amid trade shifts
The payments sector is negatively impacted by US tariff strategy due to reduced trade volumes but the silver lining is potential new revenue opportunities for payment processors, merchant acquirers and payment gateways, writes Arnie Cho
Open banking’s role in redefining Accounts Payable
Joey Glazer explains how open banking is set to revolutionise Accounts Payable much like it has transformed consumer payments
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Trump’s tariffs will dampen revenue for the payment industry
Payment volumes and average transaction values will decline as a direct result of US tariffs, ultimately hurting the revenues of card issuers, payment processors, networks and acquirers, warns Arnie Cho
Shaping up for Smart Data
What does smart data sharing mean for the financial services sector? Nima Montazeri explains how providing access to a wider variety of high-quality data can improve the use of gen AI
Regulation, openness, and a modern platform needed for legacy banks to embrace cryptos
Western banks and regulators need to take note of Emirates NBD’s crypto innovation argues Blandina Szalay
The digital Euro & Co.: Does Europe really need a new payment system?
Digital Euro, open banking, instant payments. But here’s the question almost no one dares to ask: Do consumers actually want any of this, asks Robert Bueninck
Tariff turmoil: How SMEs can navigate the FX storm
As geopolitics turn up the heat on currency volatility, Laurent Descout, co-founder and CEO at Neo, explores the FX strategies that can help SMEs weather the storm