All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
One Europe, many payments: Cracking the code of growth in a fragmented market
Stijn Gasthuys explains why moves towards replacing multi-provider patchworks with unified, end-to-end payment architectures that consolidate acceptance, routing, risk and settlement into a single platform target the weaknesses of a fragmented payments sector
Tag Systems helps UK banks and fintechs prepare for the next generation of payment card security
Tag Systems reinforces its position as a long-term technology partner rather than simply a card manufacturer
European sovereignty is also a matter of payment infrastructure
As payment infrastructure becomes an increasingly strategic issue for Europe, Robert Bueninck outlines what needs to change to strengthen Europe’s position without turning away from international cooperation
EthSwitch explores Huawei partnership on AI and China payment connectivity
Initiative reflects Ethiopian drive to accelerate digital finance
The hidden cost of going global: Payments infrastructure debt
Brian Gaynor explains why CFOs and CTOs need to treat payments infrastructure debt with the same urgency as software tech debt
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Why payments trust has to be built in, not bolted on
Tareq Shaheen explores why safeguarding must evolve from a compliance process into a core architecture of trust in today’s real-time payment landscape
Why 99% of sanctions screening alerts are false positives
Parth Desai explains why the industry has largely been solving the wrong problem. While most focus has been on tuning screening algorithms, he argues that the bigger issue sits upstream: poor-quality, unstructured address data
A question of value: What makes a premium card worth it?
Mathieu Altwegg explains how the definition of “premium value” is changing for Gen Z/Millennial VHNWs
Visa announces Visa Threat Intelligence Platform to strengthen cyber and fraud defence
New platform brings together cyber and payments intelligence to help institutions detect threats earlier and reduce downstream fraud risk
Worldline, ING and Visa complete a live agentic payment transaction in Europe
The example, executed in Germany, illustrates how agentic payments can operate securely with strong customer and biometric authentication