All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Key relationship between financial confidence and credit scores: FICO
US consumers’ feelings about their credit scores are strongly linked to their financial well-being according to research from FICO.
The outlook for banking sector M&A in 2023
Alan Bainbridge and Albert Weatherill highlight key trends across the banking sector and share their insights on the forces shaping deal activity
Data privacy day: Interac, Dufrain, Yapily and ID Pal assess how businesses can ramp up protection of customer data
Data Privacy Day takes place annually on 28 January and is an international effort to create awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, enabling trust and promoting best practice. Douglas Blakey reports
Forter acquires Immue to enhance bot detection capabilities in wake of rampant attacks
Michael Reitblat, CEO and co-founder of Forter, tells RBI why the firm’s first acquisition is so significant
Think your workplace is safe from electronic intrusion? Think again
Roger Bescoby highlights the very real, and often unnoticed risk that financial services firms face from hidden devices and corporate sabotage
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The key issues with data privacy and the cloud
For global organisations, the sharing of data across borders and facilitating collaboration across teams to best utilise the data their organisation holds, is becoming increasingly complicated, writes Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon
How banks are closing the digital-first gap
As the neobank challengers struggle with profitability with only 5% of them breaking even, traditional banks are in a unique position to close the digital-first gap and provide products and offers that go above and beyond challengers, writes John Barber
How the Web3 payment services stack will overcome legacy financial limitations
The Web3 ecosystem offers the potential to transform banking argues Mark Smargon
Is ANZ rebuilding (literally) the future of branch banking?
Ciaran Yates highlights ANZ’s Breathe branch concept: an elegant and sustainable branch design solution, demonstrating ANZ’s commitment to doing business responsibly in the 21st century
7 day account switching: switching rose in 2022 but remains low and a work in progress
Douglas Blakey takes a careful look at the latest UK current account switching statistics