All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Mastercard’s embedded finance solution highlights the growing focus on Gen Z consumers

Jonathan Vaughan Burleigh explains the thinking behind the launch of Mastercard’s One Credential proposition and suggests that the strategy will increase consumers’ lifetime value for Mastercard

Real-time payments, real-time risk: Fighting financial crime in a faster world

Steve Marshall explains the importance of effective payment screening with regulated institutions under increasing regulatory pressure to prevent money laundering and other financial crime in real-time

Amex, Alipay partnership revolutionises payment access to international travelers in China, says GlobalData

Amex members can now link their cards to the Alipay digital wallet, enabling seamless and secure payments at tens of millions of merchants across the Chinese mainland, providing local businesses with greater opportunities to attract international customers

The opportunities and challenges of open banking in the UK

The UK government has placed open banking high on its financial agenda, to revolutionise how consumers and businesses handle transactions, writes Philip Plambeck. Is this vision realistic and does it align with consumer needs?

ISO 20022 for CBPR+: are institutions prepared for the future of financial messaging?

Andy Turner discusses financial institutions state of readiness to adopt CBPR+, explains the consequences of non-compliance and sets out six recommendations for banks to follow to ensure timely compliance

Tap the wealthiest generation in history with AI-enabled payments

As today’s consumers come to expect companies to be more digitally savvy, the payments industry needs to focus on the front-end user experience to win over Gen Z, explains Vivek Dwivedi

A fingerprint reader-enhanced credit card will only work in a market such as Japan

Japanese consumers are only just becoming comfortable with the use of payment cards. As Arnie Cho explains, it is the only market left likely to adopt the fingerprint reader-enhanced payment card

Over 2.4 billion BLIK transactions in 2024 and 7 billion in 10 years

BLIK turns ten with stats highlighting that it is now one of the most widely used payment methods in Poland

Five reasons that ISVs need a payments solution

Paul Clarke explores what independent software providers specifically need from their payment providers

Worldline and OP Financial Group ink new 12-year agreement

New deal builds on a decade of collaboration between Finland’s largest retail bank and the France headquartered payment services provider