All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Duty calls – but is industry picking up?
The Fairbanking Foundation questions if financial services firms have the cultural bandwidth to ensure that the new Consumer Duty provisions will make a real difference for customers
Emirates NBD launches new digital wealth offering
New platform enables customers to trade more than 11,000 global and regional equities and ETFs across 21 capital markets
UK financial services firms’ confidence increases: CBI
41% of UK financial services firms predict an optimistic last few months of 2023 according to a survey from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
ieDigital acquires Connect FSS
Headquartered in Utah, Connect FSS is an enterprise digital banking Credit Union Service organisation that exclusively serves credit unions
Your bank, your way: Leading the charge in the ‘everything app’ revolution
Alejandro Murcia explains why banks need to evolve their customer engagement strategies and how they can personalise services to both Gen Z customers as well as older generations
How to futureproof the financial services sector with AI
Balakrishna D R highlights six key benefits of AI in FS including AI powered investment and trading decisions, risk management, hyper-automation for financial processes, fraud and AML, streamlining compliance and improving customer experience and robo-advisory
AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock & new generative AI offerings
Five generative artificial intelligence innovations are released by AWS. The firm says it means that organisations of all sizes can build new generative AI applications, enhance employee productivity, and transform businesses
Cyberattacks on European financial services more than double in 2023
Financial services overtakes gaming as the top vertical for DDoS attacks according to research from cloud and cybersecurity vendor Akamai
GFT & Thought Machine partner to target US market
Fresh from their shared success in launching Mox, the digital banking arm of Standard Chartered in Hong Kong, the companies are taking their partnership stateside
Young disabled people three times more likely to turn to debt advice charities
Disabled people disproportionately hit by cost-of-living crisis, reports Creditspring