All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Temenos expands relationship with AWS to offer core banking as SaaS

Temenos says that Amazon Web Services collaboration creates comprehensive offering supporting banks with greater agility, higher performance, scalability, and security  

Grupo Mexico closes in on $7bn deal for Citi’s Banamex unit

Citi is close to selling its Mexico-based retail banking unit Banamex to Grupo Mexico for around $7bn

FICO launches Inclusion Accelerator Program and Financial Inclusion Lab

Initiative represents the next phase of FICO’s commitment to financial inclusion innovation while making it easy for the market to rapidly test and adopt alternative data solutions

Visa partners with Prove to make customer onboarding 79% faster

Visa clients now have access to Prove Pre-Fill identity verification solution

Financial Services plagued by bad bots and account takeover attempts: Imperva

Bad bots now make up 26.9% of total FS website activity, causing technical problems and raising fraud levels, according to research released by Imperva

Transforming finance to support consumers – what can financial services learn from healthcare?  

Sho Sugihara explains why the finance system needs to change to better support consumers and suggests it needs to follow in the footsteps of the US healthcare system

Bank of Valletta adopts Resistant AI’s Transaction Forensics AML solution

Resistant AI’s anti-money laundering product tackles financial crime and meets evolving regulatory expectations

AGAM International and Swisscontact partner to accelerate financial inclusion in Bangladesh

AGAM International and Swisscontact initiative aims to accelerate financial access for thousands of factory workers

Swissquote deploys NetGuardians AI-based tools to fight financial crime

NetGuardians AI-based financial crime solutions to monitor all Swissquote transactions

Westpac H1 2023 earnings beat forecasts, net profit +22% y-o-y to A$4bn

Westpac boosted by rise in its net interest margin and rise in lending for the six months to end March but pulls cost-cutting target on inflation worries