All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
CapitalBox acquires Omniveta to boost liquidity for SMEs
Alternative lender for small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe makes its first acquisition in Denmark
BMO and 1871 support progress of women-led start-ups
North America’s largest non-profit fintech accelerator for women-led startups, developed by BMO and 1871, calls for applications for its new WMNfintech programme
Lloyds Banking Group joins Open Property Data Association
Collaboration aims to deliver a better homebuying process
Fintech savings platform Flagstone records five consecutive quarters of profitability
In 2023, Flagstone broke records across multiple KPIs including total assets under administration, customer growth and bank and building society partnerships
Canadians worry about rising fraud risks: RBC
Nine in ten Canadians believe the use of AI will increase scam attempts over the next year and could make everyone more vulnerable to fraud
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Mastercard Open Banking enhances debit and prepaid digital account opening experience
New core benefit programme launched by Mastercard for select US debit and prepaid products, designed to streamline and secure account opening
CFPB to rein in rigged comparison-shopping results for credit cards and other products
Manipulative advertisements and kickbacks undermine competition and can violate federal law says CFPB
Flagging false positives: How banks can use data to stop wrongly closing people’s accounts
Gabriella Bussien advises banks large and small on how to reduce that 98% false positive rate and keep customers loyal amid a growing pool of alternative banking options
12 months on from the mini crisis of 2023, are more bank failures on the cards?
One year on from the collapse of Silvergate, SVB and Signature, might the ending of the Bank Term Funding Program trigger fresh banking failures or is the troubled CRE sector a bigger threat?
More financial services providers turn to Gen-AI for fraud prevention
Mastercard and Revolut are two of the most prominent providers to launch Gen-AI tools to ramp up consumer protection, writes Harry Swain