GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — England is banking on Harry Kane's golden touch returning in the knockout phase of the European Championship.
England's all-time record scorer has made a habit of saving his best for the late stages and aims to continue that streak on Sunday against Slovakia in the round of 16.
Kane has six goals in his last six knockout games at the Euros and the World Cup.
“It’s kind of the process of tournament football. Naturally you get physically stronger. Naturally, you get sharper as you play more games," the England captain said on Saturday. “A lot of the players come into their peak sharpness at the knockout stage.”
Compared to recent tournaments, Kane is already ahead of schedule after scoring a record- extending 64th goal for England in the 1-1 draw with Denmark during the group stage.
He failed to score at the same stage of the last Euros three years ago and the World Cup in 2022.
He followed that with four goals in the knockout phase of the Euros in 2021 to help fire England to the final, and scored two more in the round of 16 and quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar.
“Knockout football," Kane said, "is a different prospect to the group stage. We’ve handled that well in the past and now it’s time to do that again.
“Being the the striker in the team, obviously I want to score goals and help the team get through.”
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AP Euro 2024: https://apnews.com/hub/euro-2024
England's Harry Kane challenges for the ball with Slovenia's Jaka Bijol during a Group C match between the England and Slovenia at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
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Blend (NYSE: BLND), a leading provider of cloud banking services, today announced its recognition as a representative vendor in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Digital Banking Platforms.
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Built with agility in mind, Blend’s Builder Platform is designed to deliver innovative banking products with speed and scale by leveraging reusable components and best-in-class workflows to create differentiated borrower experiences. We believe this acknowledgment highlights Blend’s commitment to driving rapid transformation in the banking sector.
According to Gartner’s Market Guide, “A successful end-to-end digital banking platform enables banks to leverage a broader set of transaction types, new products and engagement models. It can create new revenue opportunities, reduce operating costs and enable banking transformation that stretches beyond just delivery channel transformation.”
Problem statement
Differentiation in today’s market is difficult. Consumer expectations are constantly evolving, yet financial institutions are still using legacy infrastructure developed decades ago, making deploying innovative new products difficult, expensive, and lengthy.
Built with agility in mind, Blend Builder is an omnichannel platform designed to serve customers across origination channels with a unified platform that synchronizes across all service and product delivery touchpoints. The Blend Builder Platform allows for rapid innovation and offers guided application flows, a responsive design, and data pre-fill to drive higher conversions.
Gartner’s Market Guide also states, “Clients cite creating omnichannel as the top driver for investing in digital banking platforms, followed by delivering new customer experience capabilities and improving existing customer experience.”
Key platform benefits
Additionally, using a single platform across multiple solutions eliminates the need to work with multiple vendors, simplifies and reduces training for bankers, and allows financial institutions to offer a consistent, holistic experience to their customers across all products and channels.
As stated in the Gartner Market Analysis, “Gartner conducted a targeted vendor survey to analyze the evolution and maturity of DBP (Digital Banking Platform) capabilities for this Market Guide. The survey included 27 participant vendors that Gartner believes broadly represent the global vendor landscape.”
About Blend
Blend is the infrastructure powering the future of banking. Financial providers—from large banks, fintechs, and credit unions to community and independent mortgage banks—use Blend’s platform to transform banking experiences for their customers. Blend powers billions of dollars in financial transactions every day. To learn more, visit blend.com.
About Gartner
Gartner, Market Guide for Digital Banking Platforms, Ali Merji, Jeff Casey, 20 May 2024
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