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Branch 2030: How GenAI Transforms the High Street
Four pressures are converging on the bank branch. GenAI is what makes the shift to advisory possible.
Risk · Culture · Change
Dall Gharra
Twenty years helping people navigate risk, change, and the systems around them.
Glasgow
The best risk work starts with people — understanding them, supporting them, backing them.
Journey
The person behind the process.
2005
Joined Lloyds Banking Group
Eight roles across digital banking, credit risk, global sanctions, commercial finance, and business banking.
Sanctions & Credit Risk
Global Sanctions & Credit Risk
Deep expertise in financial crime, credit risk frameworks, and regulatory compliance across the Group.
DE&I Strategy
Group Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Led the Group's Race strategy — budget, communications, and delivery. Built DE&I e-learning. Delivered heritage month programmes for South Asian and East and Southeast Asian communities.
Risk Culture
Lloyds Living & Local Support Risk
Embedded risk culture and control frameworks. Coordinated CIFD activity across Business & Commercial Banking as Local Support Risk Manager.
Present
Risk Manager, Chief Operating Office
Business & Commercial Banking. Leading CIFD process improvement, governance reviews, and risk coaching for Relationship Managers.
BBC Radio ScotlandChartered Banking DiplomaBSc Fire Risk EngineeringGlasgow Caledonian University
The people closest to the risk are the ones who should be shaping the response.
Writing
Recent
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