Things we're reading today include ...
- RBS works up plans for standalone digital bank
- FCA calls for global effort to speed up fintech growth
- Aldermore to push into business banking following FirstRand takeover
- Catching cyber-crooks
- From Wall Street to weed: How the financial crisis lit up the pot industry
- U.S. bans transactions with Venezuela's digital currency
- Barclays wakes up to find a bull called Bramson in the shop
- New York activist investor takes Barclays stake to mount campaign to double share price
- US-educated Yi Gang becomes head of China's central bank
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...