This week’s main blog discussions include …
I saw the news that landlines are due to be dead by 2025 in the UK. Shame? Nah, who uses a landline these days? Twenty years ago, we depended on dial-up lines for AOL. Today, with WiFi and mobile everywhere, we’ve moved on. It …
Banking is not easy, which is why most don’t get it
A long time ago, I predicted that telecoms and retailers would acquire and buy banks and vice versa. Hasn’t happened. Will it happen? I don’t think so. After so many years, I’ve realised something. Banking is difficult and does not have the same features as …
Never mind the MLOCs, here’s the system
I just picked up this chart from Systems Innovation … …. and it immeditately struck me how complicated the world is. Way back when I started out as a programmer – maybe I should go back there? – and most of my programming was greenfield. …
How do you regulate what cannot be regulated?
One of my regular rants is that, even with all of this innovation and disruption with technology, no one has really reinvented banking and finance. The nearest we get are companies like Ant Group, PayTM, NuBank and a few others who are offering truly differentiated …
Green finance is becoming a USP
I see five major groups squeezing the financial markets these days. The first one is obvious: it’s the FinTech start-up community, which is now valued as a third of all banking value. The second is clear too: it’s the Big Tech firms like Facebook and …
This week's major headlines include:
- Klarna sees losses quadruple amid surging demand for buy now, pay later
- Revolut acquires point-of-sale system Nobly to expand its services into hospitality
- India seeks to block most cryptocurrencies in new bill
- ECB extends oversight of electronic payments to digital wallets and crypto-assets
- US regulators promise crypto oversight clarity
- Stripe says it's open to accepting crypto for payments
- Banks failing to tackle climate risks says ECB
- SocGen makes play to be a data-driven bank
- Singapore bank DBS hit by worst outage in a decade
- Citigroup to create 100 roles in digital asset push
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...
