All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Financial flexibility disappearing for Canadians

Financial uncertainty is the new normal for the majority as rising costs continue to hammer savings: Royal Bank of Canada research

Partech acquires stake in productivity SaaS company UpSlide

Tech investment firm’s support to accelerate UpSlide’s plans for global expansion, talent growth and client-centric innovation

Scotiabank teams up with Vente a Canada

Collaboration extends support and resources for international students arriving from Latin America

CFPB aims to remove medical bills from credit reports

Proposals would help end coercive debt collection tactics, clean up inaccurate data, and improve credit score predictiveness

Temenos extends digital currency innovation

Temenos prepares for the digital currency future and demonstrates consumer CBDC wallet capabilities built with the Temenos banking platform

UK home-buyers slam lenders for using “outdated” affordability assessments

Almost half of consumers call on mortgage lenders to embrace new technologies like open banking

Crown Agents Bank agrees talent partnership with US Department of State

Programme will allow for knowledge sharing on keeping hard-to-reach markets connected to global financial infrastructure

Investment bank DAI Magister forecasts over 250 European deep tech M&A deals in 2024

A contraction in VC funding and non-existent IPO market will stimulate an M&A resurgence for growth-stage European deep tech companies

International students turning to fintech to ease costs of studying abroad as inflation rises

As the academic year begins, Revolut anticipates a significant increase in foreign money transfers to young people in Britain. Akshat Mittal, says that up to £50m could be transferred to these students in the month of September alone

The iron law in the trillion-dollar FX swaps market has broken. What now?

Ganesh Viswanath Natraj discusses the evolution of the growing FX swaps market