All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Banco do Brasil wins 2026 Celent Model Bank of the Year Award
Celent reveals 11 winning financial institutions at its annual Model Bank of the year awards
Celent Innovation & Insight Day: Last chance to register
Winners of the annual Celent Model Bank Awards will be revealed later today
Fraud Strategy shifts the burden upstream – and banks are in the firing line
Josie Welland outlines the steps management must take to embed fraud prevention, strengthen controls, improve authentication, and design fraud risk out of their operations before regulators hold them accountable
Are banking customer expectations moving faster than retail banks can keep up with?
Banks are misreading how quickly customer expectations are shifting towards AI customer support, explains Robbie Tilleard
The translation trap: Why AI won’t solve the COBOL crisis
Although many banks are still running decades-old platforms, Claudio González argues that this is where AI can make a bigger difference than most realise, by using it to finally decode these legacy systems
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Perpetual KYC implementation: How banks are managing risk now
Perpetual Know Your Customer has become table stakes, but how can banks implement continuous monitoring without eroding the trust and loyalty of good customers? Mark Rubin writes
When customers move between channels, banks and credit unions must move with them
Dr Gulzar Singh reflects on the growing importance of continuity across physical and digital channels, and why customer journeys are becoming increasingly important for banks and credit unions alike
Pay by Bank is fragmenting: That’s a sign it’s working — but there’s a catch
As Pay by Bank moves into the mainstream, different industry and regulatory-led schemes are starting to emerge, creating fragmentation but with it comes flexibility and greater payment choices for consumers and businesses, writes Todd Clyde
New Celent Report Alert: AI Change Agents in Corporate and Transaction Banking
The front office – reimagined. A steady stream of significant announcements and notable advancements that touch corporate and transaction banking inspire the new Celent report, authored by senior analyst, Alenka Grealish
Rethinking communications surveillance in banking for 2026
Rob Mason explores how the shift in the way banks are communicating exposes the limits of traditional surveillance approaches, including the growing use of internal “fire drills” to test employee behaviour, and argues that banks need to move towards embedded, technology-driven compliance models that allow staff to use modern channels without creating regulatory risk