All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

TCS launches WisdomNext

Tata Consultancy Services describes the product launch as an industry-first GenAI aggregation platform

US regional banks must triple investment in their digital apps – leading financial consultant 

As the Fed looks to cut rates and ease economic pressures, there’s a risk regional banks will go back to their old ways and give out risky loans or make unpredictable investments, says Yerbol Orynbayev

CFPB proposes to ban medical bills from credit reports

Rule would remove as much as $49bn of medical debts that the CFPB says unjustly lowers credit scores for 15 million Americans

Eurobank Cyprus goes live on Temenos for digital and core banking

Modernisation and digital transformation strengthen the bank’s customer services, competitive position and forms an IT blueprint for Eurobank group

Yabx and Fintech Galaxy partner to boost financial inclusion in the MENA region

Yabx specialises in alternate data-based lending and loan portfolio management for underserved segments of the population

Ozone API & Tuum partner to accelerate open banking

Collaboration aims to create a seamless and comprehensive ecosystem and help customers comply with open banking regulations and commercialise open finance anywhere in the world

Over half of UK businesses rejecting potential customers due to lack of risk visibility

Dun & Bradstreet releases research into business compliance, with a focus on identifying the pressures and challenges that compliance teams are facing

UK SME Savings Tracker reveals banks have reduced average interest rates for small business customers

The gap in business savings rates offered by challenger banks vs those offered by big banks remains at nearly 3% reports Allica Bank 

Santander’s Zinia to provide consumer finance services for Apple in Germany

Zinia has been present in Germany since 2022, offering a range of financing solutions including buy now pay later and instalment plans

Entrust enables governments to transform citizen interactions with digital identities

New Citizen Identity Orchestration solution from Entrust enhances the experience for digital public services