The main blog posts this week were ...
Next generation insurance and the future of humanity
Building on yesterday’s InsurTech theme, I remember being taught the principles of insurance some years ago. A key difference between insurance and any other business is that it is seller beware rather than buyer beware. This is why the industry is built with a principle …
InsurTech: changing the world of risk
I haven’t blogged about InsurTech much, as this is a banking blog, but having started life in the insurance industry I guess it’s time to shine a light on this corner of the financial world. My first hearing about InsurTech, or InsTech if you prefer, …
RegTech: Brother in Arms with FinTech
During recent months, I’ve enjoyed a real ding-dong of conversations between Europeans, Asians, Americans and Brits about FinTech and, to be more specific, RegTech. RegTech is a couple of years in catch-up with FinTech, and is all about how to use technologies to make regulations …
Many of the people I meet believe that bitcoin is bad and will fail. It’s rare to meet anyone who says that it could change the world and will succeed. But I’ve found one and he happens to have written a very good blog about …
I was having a nice relaxing Sunday, when alerted to a tweetfest taking place between industry heavyweights Simon Taylor (an ex-banker) and Mariano Belinky (a banker). It all started with: Fintech didn’t disrupt banks but banks are slowly dying. Creating an ever growing opportunity for …
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...
