Things we're reading today include:
- RBS to retrench in investment banking, cut 30,000 jobs: FT
- BBVA Acquires Simple for $117 MM
- Is it time to bin Basel?
- RBS to slash 20,000 jobs
- Deutsche Börse in talks for Singapore push
- Citi CEO Corbat gets $14.1 million in 2013
- Deal with activists lets JPMorgan avoid battle over chairman
- Global banking: Inglorious isolation
- Cryptocurrencies: The great hiccup
- Derivatives: Data dump
- EU reforms Euribor amid rigging investigation
- Nigeria's central bank head ousted
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...