Things we're reading today include ...
- Anger as former Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King walks away with £6.3million pot
- Bank of England told to put woman engineer on bank notes
- Swiss central bank says UBS, Credit Suisse debt still too high
- Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi to pay N.Y. $250 million for wire violations
- EU finance ministers work on a plan to handle failing banks
- Fledgling P2P industry eyes progress
- Lloyds, RBS, Barclays, Co-op and Nationwide responsible for higher-than-expected capital shortfall of £27.1bn
- Lloyds gets £1.6bn dividend from Scottish Widows after regulator reveals £7bn hole in its balance sheet
- EU to decide who pays when banks fail
This week's Economist:
- Professional-services firms: Desperately seeking scepticism
- China’s banks: The Shibor shock
- Mobile money: Charging the mobile
- The G8 summit: T time
- America’s monetary policy: Tinker, taper
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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...
