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- Metro bucks the bank closures trend with plan to open over 100 new branches
- $300 Billion Gone! What’s Really Happening in the Crypto Market?
- Trump supporters lose $12bn as president’s cryptocurrency coin collapses
- FBI fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit cryptocurrency heist • The Register
- February 2025: Top five banking technology stories of the month - FinTech Futures
- ECB fixes outage in multi-trillion-euro payment system | Reuters
- Innovate Finance Announces the Launch of RegTech UK
- Unzer unveils ‘Direct Bank Transfer’ based on Mastercard’s Open Banking infrastructure
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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...