Things we're reading today include ...
- RBS hit with £56m fine for IT breakdown
- RBS fined £56m over computer failure
- VIDEO: 'This was a really serious failure'
- Third Wonga chief fails to last the year
- Wonga boss quits after five months
- Wonga loses third chief executive in disastrous year
- Square to launch Register app worldwide
- Banks hit back over commodities risks
- Commerzbank to charge big depositors
- Brussels cap on bankers' bonuses is knee-jerk and ill-conceived
- Top EU lawyer dismisses UK’s challenge to bank bonus cap
- EU bonus cap: What you need to know
- U.S. Federal Reserve to review how it supervises major banks
- BoE: Avoiding jail "too modest" an aim for bank executives
This week's Economist:
- Behavioural economics: Lying, cheating bankers
- Business-development companies: Shadowy developments
- Buttonwood: Thinking outside the Bank
- Mobile payments: The cheque is in the tweet
- The People’s Bank of China: Covert operation
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...