Douglas Blakey

Interview: Reward CEO Jamie Samaha on making everyday spend more rewarding retailbankerinternational.com/features/inter… via @RetailBanker Most enjoyable quick video interview with Reward CEO Jamie Samaha

Saxo Bank launches 2025 Outrageous Predictions retailbankerinternational.com/features/saxo-… via @RetailBanker Always an annual highlight-a pleasure to speak with John Hardy of @saxobank

AI regulations in Financial Services: Unlocking innovation and driving growth retailbankerinternational.com/comment/ai-reg… via @RetailBanker

Why are UK banks so cheap and how many assistants does it take to draft a speech? retailbankerinternational.com/comment/why-ar… via @RetailBanker

CMA survey: Virgin Money and RBS again rank bottom for overall service quality retailbankerinternational.com/news/virgin-mo… via @RetailBanker

Banking and payments experts share sector forecasts for 2024 retailbankerinternational.com/comment/2024-r… via @RetailBanker Thanks to all who took time out to comment!

The new challenges CFOs are facing: GlobalData webinar on 6 December retailbankerinternational.com/news/the-new-c… via @RetailBanker Join @DouglasBlakey Christopher Granville of @TS_Lombard and Aarti Mohen of @Oracle

Remembering Michael Allen: influential, shrewd, kind and a total one-off retailbankerinternational.com/news/rememberi… via @RetailBanker

US banks: Weed and crypto and Trump electronicpaymentsinternational.com/comment/us-ban… via @Payments_News

Avanti rail passengers suffer 11-hour journey from London to Edinburgh mol.im/a/12561251 via @MailOnline Shame on @AvantiWestCoast same thing happened to me twice this yr taking 16.40 EUS-EDB terminating early at Preston. Ought never to have had franchise extended.

I grew up hearing from my dad and grandfather of the great forward line of Ralph Brand, Jimmy Millar, Davie Wilson and Willie Henderson with Jim Baxter in support-helped Rangers to two European finals and was an absolute gent as well as a Rangers great

Brilliant. Terry Butcher on good form and well said Gove and the Dep Speaker a life long bear prominent

So one arrest out of 160,000 football fans-compared with the recent conduct of politicians and their inability to avoid arrest that is an impressive stat

I agree w you & when one looks at ipsos.com/en-uk/personal… each quarter yr view on VM is shared by many others re the app & cust service in general. I only have the product in question here for LNER cashback as I am on LNER most weeks

Rangers in Seville: No arrests as Gers fans impress Spanish police with their good behaviour scotsman.com/sport/football… This must come as a mega disappointment to those in the media who were forecasting mayhem and the destruction of Seville-the fans did the club proud

well argued @marshalla99 banks can either compete on customer service or price-with the credit card product VM is competing on price eg the cashback offering-I agree with you re the quality of the app-that is why I said I was commenting as a customer and not in my day job role

Mega effort. Not to be. Players deserve huge credit and thanks for giving us a great run and memories-heart-breaking end-superb turnout by the fans. Now get home safe.

Not speaking as editor of Retail Banker International but simply as a customer of @virginmoney no I do not agree fwiw-I closed my amex a/c and replaced with VirginMoney credit card as it gives 5% cashback on LNER and I spend a lot with LNER-I concede the Amex app was far better