All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Visa joins AWS partner network to help simplify global digital payments

Visa to streamline access to select Visa services for its cloud-native fintech, financial institution, and enterprise clients

Marqeta partners with OakNorth Bank

Collaboration aims to provide UK SMEs with bespoke banking

Volt launches one-click PayTo payments in Australia

Real-time payments provider, Volt, debuts secure one-click payment solution for its retail customers in Australia, designed to simplify the payments experience for customers and eliminate credit card surcharges

Standard Chartered partners with Visa to enhance cross-border payments

In addition to participating in the Visa B2B Connect multilateral payment network, the bank also joins as a new settlement partner

Trustly unveils major move to guarantee growth for European businesses

Global open banking provider launches ‘Trustly Growth Guarantee’ initiative, designed to change European checkout performance

UniCredit switches to Mastercard Touch Card

Pan-European bank is the first banking group to launch the card with accessibility features for blind and partially sighted people at scale in 12 markets and across all products

Sopra Banking Software and Paymentology agree strategic partnership to revolutionise global card issuing services

Through the collaboration, Sopra can now offer seamless end-to-end card-issuing and transaction processing services within its SaaS core banking platform, SBP Digital Core

AU10TIX prevented over $18bn in business fraud since 2021

In the payments sector, AU10TIX’s solutions have prevented over $13bn in fraudulent transactions. Other impacted sectors include cryptocurrency and trading ($2.7bn), banking (over $1bn), and shared economy ($776m)

Tennis pro Grigor Dimitrov becomes Payhawk’s brand ambassador

Global spend management solution provider, Payhawk, partners with Bulgaria’s most successful ever tennis star

Stc pay can drive emerging Saudi digital banking market with new platform

Blandina Hanna Szalay assesses the prospects for stc pay as it ramps up plans to transition into a full-fledged digital bank