All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Bank of America doubles support for veteran loan fund

Pioneering fund aims to grow to $100m to aid growth of veteran-led small businesses

Cooperative Bank YTD pre-tax profits dip by 19% to £81m

Bid rumours surround Cooperative Bank as it posts a drop in profits despite margin boost

Jenius Bank unveils new savings account product

Savings marks the digital bank’s latest offering with the aim of fuelling more positive financial futures in a roster of upcoming new services

Fintech MPOWER Financing crosses $300m in financing capacity to support international students

Debt funding includes commitments from Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Värde Partners

US banking M&A activity bucks FS trend in Q3

Banking is the only FS subsector where M&A activity increased in Q3’23 versus Q2, reports KPMG

Royal Bank of Canada expands sponsorship with Taylor Swift

RBC Avion Rewards members get access to an exclusive allocation of Vancouver tickets

Can disruptive technologies bolster the competitiveness of North American banks?

North American are banks significantly more bullish on technology investment and adoption versus regional peers, according to research from Temenos

DBS apologises for digital disruptions – lays out comprehensive roadmap to improve technology resiliency

Roadmap includes measures to strengthen technology governance, people/leadership, systems and processes

UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel: take a bow

If measured by share price performance for the year to date in the global banking sector, UniCredit is in a league of its own

Navigating real-time payments: the intersection of fast fraud and machine learning in finance

As the financial sector increasingly embraces the real-time model, it becomes imperative to understand that if we move in real-time, so too does fraud, writes Alex Jimenez