This week's main blog discussions include ...
If you think Open Banking is where it’s at, think again
As someone who has set up a number of small businesses, there are three major tasks that I hate: Doing the accounts Tax returns Invoices As the business owner, all I want to do is my job, to have fun, to get on with creating …
The radical restructuring to be digital – did you miss it?
I posted a joke the other day. The joke was that we had not ordered anything online yesterday, and our usual delivery guy called by today to check we were OK. The joke made me realise something. The realisation is that we really have pivoted …
The drive to be a digital-native bank
I posted a joke the other day. The joke was that we had not ordered anything online yesterday, and our usual delivery guy called by today to check we were OK. The joke made me realise something. The realisation is that we really have pivoted …
Money 2020 has just dropped an interesting report talking about FinTech 2.0 (although I’m already on FinTech 5.0). In fact 2.0 is a pretty old idea, as outlined in this blog from June 2016, so I think the context of the report is a bit …
HSBC? Helping Suckers Become Castaways?
I love the Darwin Awards. For those who are unfamiliar – is anyone not aware of these awards? – they are given to those who remove themselves from the gene pool in the funniest or stupidest manner. My faves include the guy who launched himself …
And the top reads of the week (via Citadel Advantage):
- The Merging Of Human And Machine. Two Frontiers Of Emerging Technologies
- Banks' pandemic-era flexibility reaches its pivot point
- Are Consumers Ready for a World Without Bank Branches?
- AI Will Fuel the Financial-Services Revolution. Here's What to Know
- Basel suggests strictest risk weighting for crypto
- Gig economy workers gravitating to faster pay
- Morgan Stanley, Bank of America CEOs break relative silence on office returns
- The Biggest Business Risks Around the World in 2021
- How payments became a magnet for money
- Mastercard faces pushback over executive pay
- Overlap concerns grow as more federal cyber officials join the ranks
- CFOs rethinking cost savings of just-in-time supply chains
- JPMorgan to buy robo-adviser Nutmeg to bolster UK footprint
- Visa pilots US merchant phone-tap system
- CFOs rethinking cost savings of just-in-time supply chains
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...