Things we're reading today include ...
- RBS to exit £100bn state insurance scheme
- Hester has cut RBS back to healthy tissue
- Government could sell shares in RBS before election
- Legal costs hit Bank of America
- Citi's Michael Corbat to be paid 10pc less than Vikram Pandit
- Pandit may have left but the risks remain
- Green bank cleared by commission
- Paul Volcker: UK bank reforms will be hard to achieve
- Volcker says Vickers' reforms are at risk from the bankers
- Andrew Tyrie: debt crisis is 'elephant in room of UK economy'
- Paul Tucker: 'worst may still be ahead' for UK banks
- Hong Kong's former development secretary charged with fraud
- Visa Estimates $109.1 Trillion in Global Commercial Spend in 2011
- MasterCard sells its data to marketers
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...