All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Plata and Revolut target Mexico’s growing digital banking demand

Mexico represents one of the most compelling battlegrounds for digital challenger banks in Latin America, writes Harry Swain

Resilience Moves from Program to Performance: New Celent report alert

Why post-deadline execution is exposing the limits of traditional governance, risk and compliance

Yaspa Index reveals Pay by Bank wake-up call

Kate Marsden, chief marketing officer of Yaspa, discusses the key findings of the second annual Yaspa Index with RBI editor Douglas Blakey

UK Chancellor Spring Statement – financial services sector reaction

Today’s forecasts today exclude any effect of the US/Israel-Iran conflict. As Andrew Sanford, Partner at Blick Rothenberg comments: “One has to question, with such uncertainty, what value can be placed on the forecasts?”

US-Israel / Iran conflict – industry reaction

Industry leaders from Lombard Odier, Saxo, Capital.com and Bentley Reid, discuss how the market is absorbing the impact of the US-Israeli attacks on Iran and what to look for next

Ed Davey calls out tax exiles: Roger Gherson responds

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey is just one public figure calling out so-called tax dodgers in the UAE. Roger Gherson, senior partner at Gherson Solicitors and adviser to HNWs begs to differ

Full value: Mitigating operational risk to prevent value dilution on foreign equities

Stephen Everard assesses key issues likely to affect foreign portfolio investment over the rest of the decade, including geopolitical risk and re-alignment, re-shoring trends and incentives to increase investment in domestic stocks

Institutional crypto adoption remains flat in 2025: GlobalData

Findings of the exclusive GlobalData survey are not necessarily a negative signal

When financial judgement becomes infrastructure

Dr Gulzar Singh explores how judgement in modern banks has gradually shifted into operating structures and workflows, and why responsibility has not been redesigned to match that shift

Interview: Unlimit’s Yulia Shevchenko on the regulatory reality behind global fintech expansion

Fintechs often describe themselves as “global” – but few understand what it truly takes to operate globally at scale. Yulia Shevchenko, Head of Authorisations at Unlimit, does