All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Fed & policymakers increasing bank supervision & regulatory standards one year after SVB: S&P
One year on from the collapse of regional lenders, Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate and Signature Bank in the US and subsequent failure of Credit Suisse, what are policymakers doing to allay the risks of another crisis?
CDP Venture Capital’s accelerator selects 14 startups
Fin+Tech, the fintech and insurtech accelerator of CDP’s National Accelerators Network, reveals the 14 startups selected for its third acceleration programme
Cooperative Bank of Oromia launches new apps with Temenos
Launch aims to elevate digital experience and advance financial inclusion in Ethiopia
SAM Corporate offers FICO’s Advanced Decision Science to Middle East and India
Partnership will bring advanced decision management solutions to businesses in financial services and insurance
Regulated firms exposed to serious red flags without new business verification checks
Research commissioned by AML and digital compliance solution provider, SmartSearch, highlights compliance failures by regulated firms
NAB Bookkeeper launches to help small businesses reduce paperwork and increase profits
Innovative new product developed by NAB Ventures backed start up, Thriday, helps reduce admin time by up to five hours per week
LATAM leads for start-up environments: Lanistar CEO
With rapid growth potential, Jeremy Baber, CEO of payment card provider, Lanistar, tells RBI why Brazil and Latin America represent a new hotbed for fintech activity
‘To grow the UK economy, the Bank of England must end its over-regulation of financial services’
Yerbol Orynbayev, former Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, former Governor of the World Bank on behalf of Kazakhstan, and international banking expert tells RBI that the Bank of England is strangling the UK’s economy
‘Holding pattern’ for small business investment is suppressing growth: FSB
UK Small firms are hampered by late payments and have dampened growth expectations for 2024 according to the Federation of Small Businesses, Small Business Index for Q4 2023
Gap widens between leaders and non-leaders – digital transformation reaches new level of maturity
Firms pacing investments in core technologies and cyber while promise of GenAI and the war for talent becomes the next battleground, says Broadridge