The main blog discussions this week include …
There’s a quote I often use from John Oliver that cryptocurrency is “everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers”. That was 2018. It’s now 2024, and things are a lot worse. I’ve blogged about the confusion of money recently, and it is not only the fragmentation of money…
That annoying auto-renewal you forgot to cancel
There’s nothing more annoying than when you get that note saying that you have just been charged $149 to renew your annual subscription to Youreanidiot.com. I subscribe to lots of different things and often forget that I subscribed. Then you suddenly find that $100s are leaving your account each year on things you no longer…
Apple is all about privacy (which equals trust)
During my life, there have been many iconic marketing campaigns – the Shake & Vac comes to mind (Google it) – but Apple have definitely mastered the art. Their 1997 Crazy Ones campaign comes to mind … Why mention this today? Well, some friends have been posting about these ads including Bloomberg (are they a…
I find it hard to believe that some commentators are still talking about BaaS and the great unbundling of banking. The reason? Well that was the conversation we were having fifteen years ago. Today, the discussion is much more around embedded banking that is intelligent, ubiquitous, everywhere, anywhere, anytime … except that I was having…
AutoGPT gives a bank a brain on steroids
It’s interesting when we look at how AI is developing. First things first, AI is a large bucket of development. It’s not one thing. It’s so many things that are then applied to specific areas (I blogged about this the other day). So, it’s interesting reading various reports today about how AI is developing in…
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...
