Things we're reading today include ...
- Apple in talks with U.S. banks for person-to-person payment service: WSJ
- Alibaba's Singles' Day sales surge 60 percent to $14.3 billion
- Alibaba's Singles' Day generates $3.9 billion in GMV in first hour
- 4 charts that show Singles Day cannot save China from economic slowdown
- Exclusive: Morgan Stanley turns to stodgy bank accounts to boost profit
- Cut taxes and open Britain's borders or risk losing the City, says Barclays' John McFarlane
- Financial regulator vows to keep punishing banks
- Bad bankers are like shoplifters, says George Osborne
- We were wrong about universal banking
- People still don’t trust financial industry, says Bank of England Governor
- Challenger banks get help on capital costs
- Three men charged with largest cyber hacking scheme in US history
- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos overtakes Carlos Slim as fourth richest person in the world
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...