All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Zorrz and Sileon join forces for new credit products

UK and Swedish fintechs, Zorrz and Sileon, team up with Zorrz to deploy Sileon’s BNPL SaaS platform

Bloom Analytics launches embedded lending solution

Bloom Analytics leverages proprietary decisioning to help lenders grow across the credit spectrum

Why it’s always better to be safe than sorry

Regulation Renaissance: Mark Hartley explains the importance of regulation in the wake of a financial crisis and examines how it is becoming more essential from the perspective of customers

Addressing the unbanked, underbanked and uninformed – AI and the democratisation of FS

Eric Jorgensen discusses why more financial firms are banking on AI in an attempt to optimise the customer experience

UAE banking sector prioritises sustainable financing to support economic and social development

A total of AED190bn ($51.8bn) in green financing dedicated by six major UAE banks

Signal: Goldman Sachs eyes disposal of its investment advisery unit

The proposed disposal of Goldman Sachs Personal Financial Management unit follows Marcus retail loans portfolio sales and its embarrassing and costly BNPL foray via GreenSky

More than half of challenger banks neglect sanctions and PEP list checks: SmartSearch

Research from digital compliance firm, SmartSearch, reveals various aspects of compliance practices of incumbent and challenger banks

Student banking: half of students regret their choice of bank account

It’s that time of year again- Google trends data shows that this week in August is usually the time of year most people research the term ‘student bank account’

DirectID partners with LendInvest to streamline credit decisions in the property finance market

Collaboration deploys open banking data to enhance credit decisions, accelerating processes

Dock teams up with Feedzai, expands access to fraud prevention tools to LatAm SMEs

Feedzai’s application of AI and machine learning models will be accessible to Dock customers