Chris Skinner's blog Shaping the future of finance
Things we’re reading today include …
- What would Google do to reboot banking?
- Norway is the world’s most cashless country – but its central bank isn’t keen on bitcoin
- Wall Street banks diverge in views on bitcoin boom
- Bank lending to fossil fuel industry down 9% in COVID-hit year
- Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser calls for Zoom-Free Fridays
- David Cameron lobbied Bank of England to help finance firm where he worked
- ClearBank: Third of fintechs face regulatory scrutiny due to agency banking partners
And a special: McKinsey report on payments, issue 31, including:
- US digital payments: Achieving the next phase of consumer engagement
- The future of payments is frictionless-now more than ever
- Reimagining transaction banking with B2B APIs
- Building a successful payments system
- A strategy for a new normal in European payments: An interview with Worldline CEO Gilles Grapinet
- Banking utilities: Succeeding amidst acceleration
- European consumer finance: Moving to a “next normal”
- How the COVID-19 crisis may affect electronic payments in Africa
