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