All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Regulated firms exposed to serious red flags without new business verification checks

Research commissioned by AML and digital compliance solution provider, SmartSearch, highlights compliance failures by regulated firms

NAB Bookkeeper launches to help small businesses reduce paperwork and increase profits

Innovative new product developed by NAB Ventures backed start up, Thriday, helps reduce admin time by up to five hours per week

LATAM leads for start-up environments: Lanistar CEO

With rapid growth potential, Jeremy Baber, CEO of payment card provider, Lanistar, tells EPI why Brazil and Latin America represent a new hotbed for fintech activity

‘To grow the UK economy, the Bank of England must end its over-regulation of financial services’

Yerbol Orynbayev, former Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, former Governor of the World Bank on behalf of Kazakhstan, and international banking expert tells RBI that the Bank of England is strangling the UK’s economy

‘Holding pattern’ for small business investment is suppressing growth: FSB

UK Small firms are hampered by late payments and have dampened growth expectations for 2024 according to the Federation of Small Businesses, Small Business Index for Q4 2023

Gap widens between leaders and non-leaders – digital transformation reaches new level of maturity

Firms pacing investments in core technologies and cyber while promise of GenAI and the war for talent becomes the next battleground, says Broadridge

CFPB director Rohit Chopra stresses open banking finally coming to US

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra argues that proposed US open banking rules will benefit consumers and offers smaller financial institutions an opportunity to compete with bigger rivals

EPAM highlights AI success with a 96% consumer satisfaction rate – but usage remains low

EPAM’s 2024 Consumer Banking Report underscores increasing consumer expectations for enhanced digital capabilities, with the emergence of fintech disruptors offering more personalised and convenient digital experiences

Tech fragmentation: A new wave of consolidation

As banks and wealth management firms ramp up investments in technology, Russell Andrews discusses the challenges firms are facing as they re-evaluate their tech stack with the prospects of a new wave of tech consolidation on the horizon

The time to act on ‘AI compliance’ is now

Compliance management for AI: Jan Stappers sets out timely advice on how the C-suite can stay in sync with the latest regulations