Things we're reading today include ...
- Stripe’s big changes, Brazil’s newest fintech unicorn and the tale of a startup shutdown | TechCrunch
- Digital bank Monzo expands fundraising to £500m in deal with top tech investor | Business News | Sky News
- Volt: Meet the fintech taking on Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly (cityam.com)
- Capital levels are a poor predictor of bank failure (ft.com)
- Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest urged to stop bank closures and ‘restore branches’ (gbnews.com)
- NatWest becomes latest UK bank to report sharp drop in profits | Business News | Sky News
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...