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