All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

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

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

SME’s don’t deserve to be underserved

BankiFi chief product officer Marijke Koninckx discusses the need to ensure small businesses are not overlooked in the spectrum of financial inclusion. SME’s are at the heart of our economy and financial institutions need to do more to help them she says

Embedded Finance, Web3 and ESG lead 2023 UK fintech investment amid recessionary pressures: FIS

The inaugural FIS Global Innovation Report reveals the investment priorities for the FS and fintech C-suites, reports Douglas Blakey

The inevitable Year of the Rabbit

As we herald the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit, the investment thesis for China has made a remarkable return. There is now a sense of optimism for 2023, writes James Hart

How payments can navigate customers through the cost-of-living crisis

Jos Henson Gric explores how companies and the payments industry have been working to help people face financial pressures