All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
CBA helps farmers measure emissions, model abatement options
Commonwealth Bank of Australia and emissions platform Ruminati team up to launch a pilot enabling the bank’s agri customers to baseline and model different options to help reduce net emissions
National Australia Bank launches Green Finance for Commercial Real Estate
Initiative aims to help support investment in – or the development or retrofit of – eligible, commercial buildings
CapitalBox launches SME-focused collateral lending
Loans of up to €1m will be available to small- and medium-sized enterprises to help with major asset and equipment purchases
CMA survey: Virgin Money and RBS again rank bottom for overall service quality
Douglas Blakey assesses the latest CMA UK banks’ ranking and looks back over all 12 surveys since the series began in August 2018
Scottish financial services experts forecast economic headwinds
Research released by Core-Asset Consulting highlights global challenges impacting key sector
Revolut launches AI feature to protect customers from card scams and break the scammers “spell”
Revolut observes a 30% reduction in fraud losses resulting from card scams where money has been sent for investment opportunities
More than a quarter of over 55s Brits fear they won’t be able to afford their mortgage
Research released by Perenna reveals that over a quarter of Brits aged over 55 fear they can’t afford their mortgage provider’s Standard Variable Rate if they were moved onto it
i2c empowers leading financial institutions and innovators across Latin America, Caribbean
Global banking and payments solutions provider continues expansion throughout Latin America and Caribbean, adds more than 15 additional banks and fintechs to its client base in the region
PayNearby launches Digital Naari platform to generate sustainable self-employment for women across Bharat
Aims to onboard and uplift over 100,000 women ‘Lakhpati Didis’ by 2025
5 ways AI is transforming financial crime compliance
Art Mueller discusses how leveraging AI advancements can help enhance efficiency and effectiveness in handling large volumes of unstructured data, enable perpetual KYC and transform AML compliance