All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

NetGuardians powers TM-Pro’s financial crime prevention services

NetGuardians teams up with Banking-as-a-Service provider TM-Pro to help tackle financial crime

Signal: Zopa raises another £75m

Total capital raised by UK digital challenger, Zopa Bank, reaches £530m with £150m raised in 2023

Happy bankers

The UK’s happiest workers? Banking takes top spot ahead of law and education

Central Bank digital currencies going global

CBDCs will not dethrone the dollar but will boost de-/re-globalisation. ‘BRICS currency’ talk will in practice turn out to mean a common platform for cross-border payments in CBDCs, explains Christopher Granville of TS Lombard

US banks report second quarter net income of $70.8bn, 5.7% up on year ago quarter

Net income for the 4,645 FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions rises from the year ago quarter as growth in net interest income exceeded growth in provision expense and non-interest expense

Citi launches simplified banking amid efforts to simplify its business

GlobalData analyst Blandina Szalay discusses the thinking behind Citi’s launch last month of its Relationship Tier system

RBC 10-year survey compares impact of inflation on students’ financial dependence

Inflation crunches today’s post-secondary students, with almost half now living at home while assuming their parents will take care of their financial needs 

Metro Bank ramps up support for women’s cricket

Metro Bank and the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have pledged to treble the number of girls’ cricket teams in England and Wales by 2026

Signal: Atria Wealth Solutions completes acquisition of Grove Point Financial

Deal gives the rapidly expanding Atria access to 400 independent financial professionals and $15bn in assets under management

wamo partners with Modulr to strengthen SME business account offering

Collaboration enables wamo to widen its product offering and services to EU and UK companies