All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

CredAble secures INR300m from SIDBI to facilitate financing for India’s MSMEs and women-led businesses

CredAble to use the funding to expand its operations and bridge the funding gap for MSMEs and women-led enterprises

Citi, Emirates NBD, partner to launch first-of-it-kind 24/7 USD cross-border payments in Middle East

Collaboration reflects another important milestone for Citi’s 24/7 USD clearing multibank solution for its bank clients globally

TCS launches WisdomNext

Tata Consultancy Services describes the product launch as an industry-first GenAI aggregation platform

US regional banks must triple investment in their digital apps – leading financial consultant 

As the Fed looks to cut rates and ease economic pressures, there’s a risk regional banks will go back to their old ways and give out risky loans or make unpredictable investments, says Yerbol Orynbayev

CFPB proposes to ban medical bills from credit reports

Rule would remove as much as $49bn of medical debts that the CFPB says unjustly lowers credit scores for 15 million Americans

Eurobank Cyprus goes live on Temenos for digital and core banking

Modernisation and digital transformation strengthen the bank’s customer services, competitive position and forms an IT blueprint for Eurobank group

Yabx and Fintech Galaxy partner to boost financial inclusion in the MENA region

Yabx specialises in alternate data-based lending and loan portfolio management for underserved segments of the population

Ozone API & Tuum partner to accelerate open banking

Collaboration aims to create a seamless and comprehensive ecosystem and help customers comply with open banking regulations and commercialise open finance anywhere in the world

Over half of UK businesses rejecting potential customers due to lack of risk visibility

Dun & Bradstreet releases research into business compliance, with a focus on identifying the pressures and challenges that compliance teams are facing

UK SME Savings Tracker reveals banks have reduced average interest rates for small business customers

The gap in business savings rates offered by challenger banks vs those offered by big banks remains at nearly 3% reports Allica Bank