Things we're reading today include ...
- UKAR: Taxpayer owned 'bad bank' returns £10bn
- Taxpayer-owned 'bad bank' UKAR will take a decade to repay Treasury
- Barclays cuts several hundred investment bank jobs: sources
- Lloyds pulls out of £1bn finance deal to help BP buy Russian oil
- UK challenger bank Shawbrook swings to profit
- Royal Bank of Scotland caps risky mortgages
- France wades into BNP Paribas US row
- France says BNP Paribas' $10 billion U.S. fine 'unreasonable'
- France goes into battle with US over $10bn BNP Paribas fine
- Fed may shun global risk rules banks spent billions to meet
- With euro zone inflation disappearing, ECB poised to act
- Currency markets brace for clampdown after scandals
- More than half a trillion spent on credit and debit cards in 2013
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...