All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

How small and mid-sized banks can harness AI to deliver for customers and their business

Dmitry Binkevich discusses how AI can help quickly identify customer issues and trends, automate workflows and actions and prioritise the problems that need a human touch for resolution

Remembering Michael Allen: influential, shrewd, kind and a total one-off

Michael Allen was one of the most significant figures in retail banking of modern times

ADCB joins Net Zero Banking Alliance, more than triples its 2030 sustainable finance target

The United Nations-convened NZBA brings together more than 130 global banks that have committed to financing ambitious climate action

How banks can safeguard the success of their digital transformation

The commercial value of digital innovation relies on its practical use – failure to properly prepare teams puts the success of transformations at risk, and customers will migrate to competitors, writes Aileen Allkins

Mitigating financial crime: the unseen role of whistleblower programmes

Pav Gill discusses how whistleblower programmes are essential tools in exposing and preventing financial misconduct, thereby ensuring corporate accountability

2024: “The Year of the Landing” – Bank of America

Lower inflation should allow central banks to cut rates, while US equities may reach a record level of 5,000 on the S&P by year-end says Bank of America

OCBC introduces money lock anti-scam security option

With OCBC Money Lock, funds locked in existing accounts cannot be digitally used or moved. Unlocking can only be done at an OCBC ATM or branch

Exceeding customer expectations when it counts most

Silvia Mensdorff-Pouilly says financial service companies need to predict the future needs of customers, in the same way that tech companies predicted the want for mobile phones