Opinion

Opinion

Chase hammers home branch advantage

Douglas Blakey contrasts the Chase branch strategy with its two largest US retail banking peers, a policy that dates back to the financial crisis

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Resilient for now: why the US economy still stands strong

Opinion

Opinion: Why financial firms must rip up the open banking playbook in the AI economy

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H1 UK current account switching drops by over 30%

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Welcome swing back to the black at Metro Bank

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The monetisation of power is turning politics into a marketplace

Opinion

Opinion: Blocking CBDCs and making the US dollar great again in Trump 2.0

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The inconvenient truth for ESG evangelists

Opinion

A call for change: three main challenges that the wealth management industry has to address

Patrick Brusnahan

Opinion

“There’s no drama, no drama at all!”

Patrick Brusnahan

Opinion

Hargreaves Lansdown’s acquisition by private equity could herald a new era for wealth management

Patrick Brusnahan

Opinion

What DORA & NIS2 means for financial institutions

Robert Prendergast

Opinion

Who is better on sustainability: the Conservatives or Labour?

Patrick Brusnahan

Opinion

A day visiting five branches-some random jottings

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

FCA v UK Government: to name or not to name

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Latest quarterly account switch stats again highlight the power of switch incentives

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Coffee, streaming platforms, and credit: What do they all have in common?

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Sustainable investing in a tech-driven future

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Why BaaS has reached a turning point

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

US card fees just got very political

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Flagging false positives: How banks can use data to stop wrongly closing people’s accounts

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

12 months on from the mini crisis of 2023, are more bank failures on the cards?

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

DORA is a chance for the financial sector to evolve

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Take a bow bunq-but is UK strategy wise?

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Post COP28: a surprising outcome in a volatile context

Patrick Brusnahan

Opinion

Consumer Duty is just the first step in overhauling the credit market in 2024

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Why all retail banks should copy HSBC’s Zing

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Customers’ virtual health: a new frontier for banking value

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

How important is ESG when it comes to consumers choosing their bank?

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Is BaaS in a doom loop?

Douglas Blakey

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What can UK businesses do to attract and retain a diverse workforce in today’s financial services sector?

Patrick Brusnahan

Opinion

Fintech and the fight against climate change

Douglas Blakey

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Private credit: stand to attention! It is inspection time

Douglas Blakey

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UK banks still unprepared for sanctions despite rising tensions with China

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel: take a bow

Douglas Blakey

Opinion

Opinion: The UK has lost more than a monarch with the passing of Queen Elizabeth II

richardgardham

Opinion

Opinion: The UK is better off for Boris Johnson’s departure

Jon Whiteaker

Opinion

Opinion: Ukraine makes it harder for companies such as HSBC to remain ‘apolitical’ about China

Sebastian Shehadi