All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
2024 BMO Celebrating Women Grant Program launches to back women-owned businesses
Grants will be awarded to ten women-owned businesses that address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Birdwingo launches EU’s first investing app for under-18s, lands €1.2m investment
With an average starting salary of €23,500/year and house prices in cities across Western Europe soaring to an average of €305,000, is society sufficiently guiding the youth in their financial journeys?
Incore Invest backs SAVR to revolutionise the Nordic investment landscape
SAVR describes itself as a disruptive fintech dedicated to transforming the investment experience for long term savers
Without transparency, banks will continue to find themselves as political prey
Bank of America should take the opportunity to be upfront about its de-banking policies and lead a path for other banks in the US to do the same argues Phoebe Hodgson
SumUp raises €1.5bn, funding round led by Goldman Sachs
Funding represents one of the largest European private credit deals of its kind in recent years
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Monument hits £2bn in customer deposits, attracting £1bn within four months
Monument is the first neo-bank in the UK specifically targeting the mass affluent segment and launched its app and first suite of savings products in early 2022
TD Bank takes an initial provision of $450m in US regulatory hit
TD’s AML programme ‘insufficient to effectively monitor, detect, report, and respond to suspicious activity’
9Spokes introduces multi-bank view to expand financial insights for SMBs
Initiative aims to give SMBs a consolidated view of their financial accounts tapping open banking and open data
Higher price complexity leads consumers to pay more
As part of its anti-junk fee initiative, CFPB publishes research finding higher price complexity leads consumers to pay more
Westpac extends moratorium on regional branch closures until at least 2027
Support for the physical channel includes investing more than A$150m ($97.2m) in the Westpac branch network over the next two years