Things we're reading today include ...
Companies
Northern Rock directors fined and banned by City
watchdog - The Times
UBS reports best quarterly profit since before the
financial crisis - The Telegraph
Regulations
Brown admits mistakes on banking regulation - The Independent
Bonuses 'should have £2,500 cap' - BBC
Disjointed reforms ‘will fail to stop financial crises’
- The Times
Markets
EU tries to break logjam on hedge funds - Financial Times
Spain's savings banks - Financial
Times
Why we need to fix our broker society - The Telegraph
Cash is being 'replaced by cards' - BBC

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...