Things we're reading today include ...
- Get rich quick with UK challenger banks
- Ex-Rabobank traders face first U.S. trial over Libor manipulation
- Matchmakers seek bigger slice of the game
- Payments system to be smashed wide open for challenger banks
- Facebook paid only £4,327 in UK tax last year – less than the average worker
- UK group claims blockchain breakthrough
- Italy to launch landmark privatisation
- London Stock Exchange sells Russell Investments for $1.2bn
- Apple Pay to expand to Starbucks, Chili's, KFC
- Lagarde: China not all 'doom and gloom'
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...