Things we're reading today include ...
- RBS says it will send small firms to peer-to-peer lenders
- Barclays banking services interrupted
- Monitise shares crumble as it reviews options
- UBS defeats lawsuit over late Indonesian statesman's accounts
- ECB launches 1 trillion euro rescue plan to revive euro economy
- European Bank to buy $1.1 trillion in bonds to try and avert economic stagnation in eurozone
- 11 questions you are too embarrassed to ask about Quantitative Easing
- U.S. fines Wells Fargo, JPMorgan over 'illegal mortgage kickbacks'
- Goldman and JPMorgan chiefs’ pay tops $20m
- Bankers say big is beautiful, safe and economic
- Dark pools: What's going on inside the secret stock exchanges?
This week's Economist:
- Financial technology: Connect 450
- Ukraine and the IMF: Bigger and better
- Standard & Poor’s: Berated
- Davos 2015: Delegates at World Economic Forum demand €1trn of QE
- Quantitative easing in the euro zone: Better late than never
- Global inequality: The wrong yardstick
- The Big Mac index: Oily and easy
- Development: The economics of optimism
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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...
