All articles by Douglas Blakey

2024: Call for banking and payments sector forecasts

It is that time of the year again. Now that we are into Q4, I am reaching out to the banking and payments sector for their end of year review comments/or 2024 forecasts

Israel-Hamas conflict: markets reaction latest

On 7 October 2023, Hamas led attacks into Israel and six days on, the markets are still reacting

Wells Fargo extends advice and planning, LifeSync access to all retail banking customers

Strategic expansion gives more Wells Fargo customers personalised, digital goal-setting experiences

Emirates NBD launches new digital wealth offering

New platform enables customers to trade more than 11,000 global and regional equities and ETFs across 21 capital markets

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

CGI: enhancing the payments value chain

Ainsley Ward, VP Payments Consulting Services at CGI, tells EPI why CGI has a compelling story to tell clients and prospects at SIBOS as it ramps up its innovative payments solutions supporting the entire payments value chain

Signal: Yahoo acquires CommonStock to expand community

Acquisition aims to deepen insights for Yahoo Finance users and extend its capabilities to social investor communities

Signal: Kirkland & Ellis top M&A legal adviser in financial services sector in H1 2023, reveals GlobalData

Kirkland & Ellis outpaces its peers by a large margin in both volume and value terms

Tifin and JP Morgan launch Tifin.AI

Tifin has evolved from its roots as a startup incubator. It is now collaborating with JP Morgan to accelerate thematic AI-powered fintech innovation

Temenos expands relationship with AWS to offer core banking as SaaS