All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Over 30% of financial services firms have opted for lower returns on climate-friendly investments – PwC

Despite the challenging macroeconomic environment, FS firms are taking demonstrable steps to support the ongoing climate transition reports PwC

APAC VC deal volume suffers across all funding size ranges in 2023: GlobalData

Investor sentiment impacted by a number of factors such as macroeconomic challenges, geopolitical tensions and market uncertainties

UK families need help to meet ‘triple savings challenge’

UK families have a £74bn shortfall of funds saved for emergencies and retirement compared with a country in which every family had at least three months of income kept in precautionary savings: Resolution Foundation

Maybank champions financial inclusion and independence among PwDs in ASEAN

In conjunction with Chinese New Year, Maybank premieres a film entitled “Unspoken” and shares measures to support marginalised communities

Spending a source of conflict for a third of couples: BMO

35% of partnered Canadians believe their significant other spends too much money while 36% admit they are not always truthful to their partner and/or spouse about their finances

Cascading AI secures $3.9m in pre-seed funding

California-based fintech aims to revolutionise the banking industry with its AI-native loan origination system

illimity FY23 net profit rises by 39% y-o-y to record high

illimity growth in fiscal 2023 driven by an 11% rise in revenue to €359m, propelled by core business expansion and the value enhancement of illimity’s digital platform

NatWest first UK bank accepted onto new UK open banking DPS

NatWest is confirmed as a supplier on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) new Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for open banking services

G10 Bank opens first digital bank branch in the favelas in Paraisópolis

Latin American-based payments and digital banking enabler, Dock, is responsible for the digital banking technology deployed by the bank

Finance surpasses healthcare as most breached industry in 2023: Kroll

Finance emerges as the most breached industry in 2023, accounting for 27% of the breaches handled by risk and financial advisory solutions provider Kroll, as opposed to 19% in 2022