Things we're reading today include ...
- City braced for EU ‘Tobin’ tax ruling
- Barclays feels shareholder anger on pay
- Barclays in row with top investor over attack on pay
- Stop moaning about our bonuses: Barclays boss slaps down investors angry at bank's pay practices
- RBS plan for 200% bonuses blocked
- RBS scraps bonus plan after UK government intervenes
- Ulster Bank refunds debit customers
- Visa says revenue growth to slow, Russia sanctions hurting volumes
- In a pickle: The Gherkin to be auctioned off as receivers called in
- Gherkin tower in receivership
- Labour to break Co-op ties
- How We Pay: Results from the Federal Reserve's Latest Payments Study
- Ex-KPMG auditor sentenced to 14 months
- New bank code on reclaiming wrong payments
This week's Economist:
- Arrears and foreclosures: Staving off the repo man
- Banks and commodity trading: Sell signals
- MiFID 2: A bigger bang
- Buttonwood: Sound the retreat
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...