This week's main blog discussions included ...
Hello, would you like to be our CEO?
I was imagining if I walked into a big bank job today. You are hired as CEO of Mega-Global-Bank PLC. What’s going on? Well, number one, no-one has any idea where the economy is going. There’s a global pandemic. Everything is up in the air, …
Debt keeps us under the State’s thumb
I didn’t think about it until recently, but every generation is paying the debts of their parents and ancestors. When you say it, it’s obvious. It’s clear. Yet, why are we always thinking about the future whilst gorging on the past? I can see this …
The Idiocracy that is Britain: COVID or COVOID?
I’m reflecting on COVID rules. As a guy who lives in Europe, the rules are that I need to fill in passenger locator forms, get a pre-flight COVID test (fit to fly), and a landing form registered with a QR code. It’s challenging and clunky, …
My yesterday blog about COVOID idiocrasy annoyed a few people. I was accused of writing a common tabloid ranting column, railing against the government. Yea … … so? So? So … so, I wrote it with a point. How are they implementing these COVOID regulations? …
I grew up as an Englishman. Then I became British. Now, I’m a European. But then we had Brexit and all the other stuff. Yet now I live in Poland. I believe in a world of the future that has no borders, no flags, no …
And this week's main headlines are (via Citadel Advantage):
- Banks prepare for 2021's second act with office-return, banker-pay pledges
- Cloud targeted in widespread brute force campaign
- Cybersecurity Ignorance Is Dangerous
- Risk management rises to No. 1 accounting priority during pandemic: ACCA
- Wells Fargo shuts down personal lines of credit
- Bank of America becomes last US SIFI to make crypto push
- Kaseya: What's known (and unknown) about the ransomware attack
- Tech savviness soars following pandemic but personal touch still key to customer experience
- If open banking were a colour - it would be green
- DeFi Is Ready to Disrupt Fintech
- World’s First Mobile Banking Service for Migrants MAJORITY Expands to the US
- Chime, Current lead U.S. banking app downloads in first half of 2021: report
- Paysafe builds up online betting, gaming payments systems
- Crypto exchange Binance responds to Barclays move to halt payments
- The pandemic pushed us toward a cashless economy. It could be the new normal
- Clash over debit card routing persists in comments to Fed
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...