All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Monese’s XYB partners with Google Cloud

Fintech, whose backers include PayPal, Investec and HSBC, incorporates Google’s generative AI within its platform

Xbox credit card appeals to a niche group of customers

Xbox credit card initiative will strengthen its relationship with customers and secure a new revenue stream, writes Harry Swain

DBS should focus on digitalisation to capitalise on its acquisition of Citibank’s Taiwan operations

DBS’s move to acquire Citibank’s consumer banking operations in Taiwan (Province of China) will prove highly beneficial for the bank, as long as it can tap into the digital needs of Taiwanese consumers writes Phoebe Hodgson

RBCx: Redefining what a bank can do

RBCx is on a mission to fuel Canada’s tech innovation economy.

Australian consumers more scam aware as losses fall: CBA

Commonwealth Bank of Australia protects customers from more than A$228m ($147m) scam attempts via its prevention and detection programme

BankVic partners with NextGen to transform lending experience

Australia-based mutual selects NextGen as its technology partner for retail and broker application lodgement right through to loan processing and approval

Signal: Flex raises $120m, launches finance super app for business owners

Flex launches business credit card and banking solution; funding round led by Florida Funders with participation from Home Depot

Standard Life and Moneyhub to deliver commercial pensions dashboard

Powered by Moneyhub’s Open Finance capabilities, the dashboard will be embedded into Standard Life’s existing customer app

Emirates NBD unveils ENBD X

New mobile banking app offers access to more than 150 everyday banking services and features an embedded digital wealth platform on which users can invest in and trade over 11,000 global and local ETFs and equities

Monzo Investments launch will help create new young investors

Yasha Kuruvilla explains the thinking behind the launch of Monzo Investments