Things we're reading today include ...
- Gangsters flood Italian banks with €500 notes known as 'Bin Ladens' because they are notorious, but rarely sighted
- Pawn to cushion payday lenders from regulatory blow
- New City Index boss attacks lax checks on 'Kermit' customers
- Argentina sues Citibank over deal with holdout creditors
- Co-operative Group returns to profit
- JPMorgan CEO defends bank size and breadth of product offerings
- Wall Street sanguine as it heads into worst earnings season in six years
- Banks are biggest earners in the Shell-BG merger
- IMF seeks stress tests for asset managers
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...