All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
The debate on autonomy
Pedro Barata makes the case for a new approach in financial crime prevention, taking into consideration the potential impact of AI agents
Role of AI in financial reporting: Hype or reality?
Mark Brown looks at the real-world impact of artificial intelligence within the actuarial and financial reporting landscape
Composable banking and the changing shape of product design
Dr Gulzar Singh reflects on how banks are assembling products across multiple systems and what this means for operational flow
Tokenization reaches the real world: New Celent report alert
GlobalData’s Celent division releases a flash report on Composable Finance and Programmable Money
US Buy Now Pay Later usage surges as new products proliferate: JD Power
While fintech offerings are driving much of US BNPL growth, it is traditional financial institutions that are delivering better user experiences, according to JD Power
78% of UK businesses now using AI – less than a third see financial benefits
The vast majority of UK firms to invest in AI tools have yet to experience any return on their AI investments, according to research from Studio Graphene
AI vs dirty money: Using open‑source intelligence to expose illicit financial flows
Chad Longo analyses what ‘actionable intelligence’ looks like in practice for retail banking fraud and financial crime teams when monitoring mainstream and obscure platforms and why specialist OSINT technology is becoming essential
Building beyond the core ceiling: how open-close architecture enables a 2040-ready core
Miles Wilson sets out the core tech problem limiting what banks can achieve in terms of modernisation, and the ‘open-close’ principle they need to embrace to break free
Celent launches AI-enabled intelligence to help financial institutions make quick technology decisions
GlobalData’s Celent unit brings research, advisory expertise, proprietary data, and AI-driven discovery into a single platform
Hybrid banking and the coordination challenge behind modern financial systems
Dr Gulzar Singh reflects on how banks are managing the growing complexity of hybrid banking environments and the need to better coordinate systems and workflows across modern financial infrastructure