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The great payments shake-up: Why consolidation Is reshaping everything

Douglas Blakey — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:18:52 +0000

Strategic consolidation offers a way to cut costs, unlock new revenue streams, and respond to merchants’ demand for simplified, seamless solutions, explains Roger Alexander

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Friendly fraud: The broken system fuelling a silent crisis for merchants

Douglas Blakey — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:46:06 +0000

Why card chargebacks represent a quiet payments loophole with growing cost, reputational risk and zero regulatory scrutiny. Johannes Kolbeinsson explains that the real problem isn’t fraud but is actually abuse after authentication

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Bringing consumer trust to open banking is crucial to unlocking growth

Douglas Blakey — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:32:56 +0000

Open banking must go mainstream to unlock economic growth and as Nicole Green explains, urgent reforms would make it more useful and trustworthy for consumers and merchants and unlock a new era of fintech innovation

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Is accounts payable fraud worsening?

Douglas Blakey — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:00:33 +0000

How can CFOs protect themselves? Tom Santacroce explains why CFOs need to invest in future-proof strategies to safeguard not just their firms’ balance sheets but also their reputations and resilience

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From patchwork to platform: How payment orchestration is becoming core infrastructure

Douglas Blakey — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:51:15 +0000

Tom Voaden explains why payment orchestration is no longer optional but instead is becoming shared infrastructure that benefits both merchants and providers

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It’s time for Big Tech to stand up to fraudsters

Douglas Blakey — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:42:08 +0000

With fraud now the most common crime in the UK and fake finfluencers on the rise, Silvija Krupena urges social media platforms to take urgent action against financial scams

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The fraud epidemic demands a smarter response

Douglas Blakey — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:08:29 +0000

Jason Blackhurst explains why education, technology and collaboration are the best defences against fraud

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How European SaaS platforms can unlock €3bn in hardware revenue

Douglas Blakey — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 02:04:48 +0000

Point of sales terminals offer high margin, low risk, real growth and as Tom Hay argues, need to be viewed as a potential strategic revenue stream

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Modernising acquiring: What banks must consider in a changing payments landscape

Douglas Blakey — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 01:16:34 +0000

Robert Kraal explains why banks must determine if they view acquiring as a necessary service to support broader relationships, or as a core business in which they want to lead

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Certainty, not speed, will define the future of payments

Douglas Blakey — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:52:59 +0000

The future of payments depends not on what users see but on what they can rely on and reliability requires infrastructure built for irreversibility, explains Ram Sundaram

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