All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Pontera raises $60m to help people retire better in the US
Pontera was born out of its aspiration to be the bridge to better retirement
Saxo Bank 2024 Outrageous Predictions: The end of the road
Saxo releases its annual Outrageous Predictions for 2024. The predictions focus on a series of unlikely but underappreciated events which, if they were to occur, would send shockwaves across the financial markets
New Toronto Dominion study reveals distinct giving behaviour among Canadian female philanthropists
Donations made by women in Canada have nearly tripled since 2011
Why banks need to undergo a Hispanic transformation, not just a digital one
Carlos Garcia discusses what banks and financial institutions have done to attract Hispanics in the past, why it didn’t work, and how they can modify their offerings now to capitalise on Hispanics’ collective wealth
Standard Chartered Q3 2023 earnings miss forecasts, pretax profit dips by 2%
Standard Chartered forecasts for 2024 unchanged with income growth expected in the 8-10% range and a forecast RoTE greater than 11% RoTE
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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