Things we're reading today include ...
- Exclusive: SWIFT confirms new cyber thefts, hacking tactics
- Fed gives banks five years to comply with Volcker Rule limits
- City watchdog to review mortgage market competition
- $1,570,000,000,000: how much the world spent on arms this year
- Barclays exits retail banking in Europe after selling off last vestiges of French business
- Europe set to pare down its competition probe into London Stock Exchange merger
- Chancellor urges Brexit interim deal
- Venezuela to swap highest denomination banknotes for coins
- Even professional investors struggle to grasp company reports
- Meet the Ma family: How millennials are changing the way China thinks about money
- How blockbuster donations from billionaires have helped reshape charity
- Monte dei Paschi races to raise €5bn cash by end of year
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...