All articles by Douglas Blakey
Douglas Blakey
Reclaiming the vote. What the rise of pass-through voting means for banks
Siobhan Archer discusses how the ESG backlash and rising regulatory pressure are forcing a rethink of investor influence for the banking sector
The E&I advantage: Why Swift’s 2027 requirements could be a turning point for banks
Cian Fernando explains why banks that adopt native processing early will gain faster, more resilient operations, while those waiting until the 2027 deadline risk falling behind
Why banks shouldn’t wait for AI to fix the Gen problem
Chris Eley highlights the issues caused by banks’ continued reliance on dated, inflexible legacy systems and why there are unsuitable for a modern, cloud-based banking ecosystem
Why data lineage breaks before technology fails
Dr Gulzar Singh explains why data issues in banks rarely surface as technology outages but instead emerge when institutions are asked to explain outcomes under scrutiny
Payments failures are discovered by customers, not systems
Dr Gulzar Singh examines how payments failures are most often detected outside institutional monitoring layers, and why customer, merchant, and dispute signals typically surface breakdowns before internal metrics respond
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Scotland-based Financial Regulation Innovation Lab reveals winners
The FRIL has awarded £50,000 each to four fintechs to accelerate consumer wealth support
Transformation towards real-time, intelligent banking gathers pace-new Celent report alert
Are European banks, electronic money institutions and payment institutions ready to capture the SCT Inst opportunity?
The new leadership problem in banking institutions
Dr Gulzar Singh explains why decision-making, not vision, is now the real constraint
When software becomes an actor, identity becomes the bottleneck
The last wave of enterprise software automated tasks. The current wave is beginning to act, explains Dr Gulzar Singh
The Bank of Tomorrow and the architecture that will shape it
The idea of the “Bank of Tomorrow”. Dr Gulzar Singh reflects on how long-term institutional design, operating structure, and governance choices quietly shape the future of banking over time