All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Retail Banker International on-demand webinar: Generative AI in retail banking

Steve Walker, GlobalData, Alex LaPlante, RBC, Zor Gorelov of Kasisto, John Duigenan of IBM, Raffael Maio of Net Guardians and Russ Cohn of IDVerse discuss generative AI in retail banking

Retail banking and AI: banks need take no lessons from the rail companies, airlines

Compared to other major industries such as travel, banks are doing a pretty decent job in tapping into AI

Signal: Yahoo acquires CommonStock to expand community

Acquisition aims to deepen insights for Yahoo Finance users and extend its capabilities to social investor communities

LiveMore creates unique affordability calculator covering all later life lending options

The LiveMore affordability calculator provides brokers and their clients with the maximum amount of borrowing available on all of its products in one visual display

Citi launches simplified banking

US retail banking arm of Citi introduces relationship tiers and streamlines product range, all with aim of helping customers achieve their financial potential

Zorrz and Sileon join forces for new credit products

UK and Swedish fintechs, Zorrz and Sileon, team up with Zorrz to deploy Sileon’s BNPL SaaS platform

Bloom Analytics launches embedded lending solution

Bloom Analytics leverages proprietary decisioning to help lenders grow across the credit spectrum

Why it’s always better to be safe than sorry

Regulation Renaissance: Mark Hartley explains the importance of regulation in the wake of a financial crisis and examines how it is becoming more essential from the perspective of customers

Addressing the unbanked, underbanked and uninformed – AI and the democratisation of FS

Eric Jorgensen discusses why more financial firms are banking on AI in an attempt to optimise the customer experience

UAE banking sector prioritises sustainable financing to support economic and social development

A total of AED190bn ($51.8bn) in green financing dedicated by six major UAE banks