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Freelancer of the Year at Aviva Investors Sustainability Media Awards 2025. I am a former editor of The Banker, a Financial Times publication. I joined the publication in August 2015 as transaction banking and technology editor, was promoted to deputy editor in September 2016 and then to managing editor in April 2019. The crowning glory was my appointment as editor in March 2021, the first female editor in the publication's history. Previously I was features editor at Profit&Loss, editorial director of Treasury Today and editor of gtnews.com. I also worked on Banking Technology, Computer Weekly and IBM Computer Today. I have a BSc from the University of Victoria, Canada.

Saturday, 8 December 2018

APIs find an opening

1/08/2017
Joy Macknight examines the reasons behind the rash of financial services firms launching – or in some cases relaunching – open application programming interface developer portals over the past two years.

To read more: https://www.thebanker.com/Transactions-Technology/APIs-find-an-opening/(language)/eng-GB

Wirecard vice-president hails the power of paytech

1/08/2017
The vice-president for financial institutions and fintech at Wirecard, Jack Harris, talks to Joy Macknight about the European payments giant’s strategy and its post-Brexit market position.

To read more: https://www.thebanker.com/Transactions-Technology/Wirecard-vice-president-hails-the-power-of-paytech/(language)/eng-GB

Taking the pain out of fintech procurement

3/07/2017
Navigating a way through a bank’s procurement process can kill a fintech start-up – or dampen its innovative spirit. Joy Macknight explores the ways banks are changing their rules of engagement specifically for this community.

To read more: https://www.thebanker.com/Transactions-Technology/Taking-the-pain-out-of-fintech-procurement/(language)/eng-GB

Leveraging PSD2 to open up transaction banking

3/07/2017
While most of the buzz around the updated EU Payments Services Directive has centred on benefits to retail customers, its role in ushering in open banking will create new opportunities in transaction banking. Joy Macknight reports.

To read more: https://www.thebanker.com/Global-Transaction-Banking/Leveraging-PSD2-to-open-up-transaction-banking/(language)/eng-GB

Intraday credit: under the regulator’s microscope

3/07/2017
Deutsche Bank’s Christine Thomas talks to Joy Macknight about the increasing regulatory oversight of intraday credit and how market participants are responding to emerging regulations.

To read more: https://www.thebanker.com/Global-Transaction-Banking/Intraday-credit-under-the-regulator-s-microscope/(language)/eng-GB

How transaction banking is adapting to change

3/07/2017
The historically stable and secure transaction banking business is undergoing great change. Joy Macknight reports on industry initiatives and innovative technologies now coming to the fore.

To read more: https://www.thebanker.com/Global-Transaction-Banking/How-transaction-banking-is-adapting-to-change/(language)/eng-GB

Modernising Citi’s transaction banking capability

3/07/2017
Gulru Atak, the new head of Citi’s global treasury and trade solutions Dublin lab and innovation, talks to Joy Macknight about her innovation programme for growing the bank’s global transaction banking business.

To read more: https://www.thebanker.com/Transactions-Technology/Transaction-Bankers/Modernising-Citi-s-transaction-banking-capability/(language)/eng-GB