Things we're reading today include ...
- HSBC off to a flier on results as profits almost double to $8.4bn
- HSBC profits surge as bad loans fall
- 'Crisis over' hopes after HSBC posts £5bn profit
- Standard chartered sees first-quarter profit decline on increased costs
- Commerzbank hit by cost of job cuts
- Credit Suisse names UK banker vice chair of EMEA investment banking
- Vatican bank regulator signs information-sharing deal with U.S.
- Debt worries 'feature payday loans'
- Bank accounts will be 'open to all'
- UK should quit EU, says Lord Lawson
- British savers could face losses in eurozone bank stress tests
- EU Commission or ESM could wind down ailing banks: report
- CFSI: Financial Technology Trends in the Underbanked Market
- Can we ever trust bankers again?
- Treasury boss who drove President Obama loopy hits on a new signature for bank notes
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...