Things we're reading today include ...
- FCA drops three-year probe into 'London Whale'
- Barclays: investment bank blues
- Barclays has staged its own Shakespearean tragedy
- Website turns free time into money
- Swiss banks agree US settlement
- Greece debt crisis live: EU comes round to US demands to scrap Greek debt... but Merkel has other plans
- Mastercard fees 'harm consumers'
- NYSE says software problem led to trading outage
- Challenger banks to lobby George Osborne over controversial new tax
- Libor still not repaired, warns global watchdog
- Budget 2015: new bank tax is flawed, warns IFS
- China's regulator moves to prop up market as shares still plunge
- Banks' gripes about tax changes are just hot air
This week's Economist:
- The debt trap
- Costly comparison
- The trials of Saint Antony
- Aiming for the net
- Tax them and they will grow
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...