All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
European tech investment in Q2 2026: How capital is organising around strategic sectors
Oleg Khusaenov examines the broader structural shifts shaping Europe’s technology investment landscape and explores how capital is increasingly organising around strategic sectors such as AI infrastructure, defence technology, quantum computing, and deep tech
Indian banks eye rural branches to unlock inclusion and stabilise funding
India urges public sector banks to expand rural branches, boosting inclusion, service use, deposits, and sustainable growth, writes Bhavya Patel
Have banks forgotten how customers think?
Dr Gulzar Singh explores whether the banking industry’s growing ability to measure customer behaviour has been matched by an equal understanding of customer judgement, uncertainty and decision-making in an increasingly digital environment
Narmi to launch AI Decision Assist
AI-powered capability will streamline customer account opening for community banks and credit unions
Preparing bank security operations for faster, more connected investigations
Karl Pardoe discusses how banks can move from manual, siloed investigations to faster, connected ones, to keep pace with the scale and speed of fraud today
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Unlocking success in agentic banking
Barley Laing sets out a strategy for banks looking to create autonomous AI agents that can effectively operate beyond the back office, and yet adhere to strict industry-wide regulations
Why 99% of sanctions screening alerts are false positives
Parth Desai explains why the industry has largely been solving the wrong problem. While most focus has been on tuning screening algorithms, he argues that the bigger issue sits upstream: poor-quality, unstructured address data
AI industrialisation: The next phase of banking transformation
As AI adoption scales across payments, compliance, fraud and customer functions, Tasmin Crossland explains why the focus has shifted from proving value to deploying it safely, integrating with legacy systems and ensuring strong governance
FCA tells banks to improve access to basic accounts
Nine banks, building societies committed to improving widespread poor practice identified by the FCA
Mills Review – AI review and the future of agentic payments: Industry reaction
The FCA has released its landmark review into the impact of AI on retail financial services