Things we're reading today include ...
- Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms
- US starts criminal inquiry against JP Morgan over subprime sales
- Fannie Mae sending $10.2 billion to taxpayers as profit swells
- EU Tobin tax could force portfolio rejig
- Banks must help businesses create jobs or become 'socially useless' says Bank chief Mark Carney
- Pope Francis tightens bank controls
- Serious Farce Office: SFO in biggest criminal data breach ever
- London Whale 'won't face charges over $6.2bn loss at JPMorgan'
- The trial of Fabrice Tourre: Collective guilt
- Raghuram Rajan joins the RBI: Out of the frying pan
- Buttonwood: Carry on trading
- The race to head the Federal Reserve: Summers v Yellen
- Europe’s bail-out programmes: What Angela isn’t saying
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...