This week's blog discussions include ...
Is George Orwell’s vision coming true?
1948, 1984, 2030 We talk a lot about FinTech. Some of us then break it down and talk about InsurTech, WealthTech, TradeTech and more. But do we ever zoom out? What about just tech? What about just a digital world? It’s funny as I see …
What would our world be like if all our data was integrated?
There’s a movement to use data to track and trace every human on Earth. It’s an inexorable movement which citizens are allowing as they sleepwalk into George Orwell’s vision of 1984. The Ministry of Data brings together every bit and byte of your life, and …
Can regulations make data work?
I was reflecting on the fact that we work in our silo. Our silo is banking or FinTech or InsurTech or WealthTech or RegTech or whatever. What about HealthTech, FarmTech, PharmaTech, GovTech and all the other industries digitalising? What about if we linked them all …
I just stumbled across a great article about ethical banking. We can call it socially useful banking or green banking or whatever, but it’s all about a bank’s role in society and the scheme of things. Are banks doing the right or wong things? My …
Is ethical banking a generational thing?
I’ve been writing and thinking a lot about ESG – Environment, Sustainability and Governance – as it’s the theme of my next book. Then up popped a headline: Prince Harry and Meghan are joining Ethic, a fintech asset manager in the fast-growing environmental, social and …
This week's main headlines include ...
- Crypto could cause 2008-level meltdown, Bank of England official warns
- European rival to PayPal and Square makes $317 million acquisition to expand in the U.S.
- Analysts pin Google retail bank U-turn on fears of higher regulatory scrutiny, low profitability
- What's next for banks that partnered with Google now that the tech giant has scrapped its checking-account push
- JPMorgan Chase joins UN's Net-Zero Banking Alliance
- Why Chatbots Fail in Banking
- We may visit you at home, British financial watchdog warns bank staff
- Capgemini’s World Payments Report 2021
- MCKinsey Report: Unlocking the banking technology workforce
- McKinsey Report: Firms should prepare for the ‘inevitable changes’ of CBDC
- Are NFTs a Money Laundering Gold Mine?
- How to Explain NFTs to People Who Think Theyre Just JPEGs
- Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web
Chris M Skinner
Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...
