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The funny thing about AI in banking is that the headlines are completely wrong. Every week there’s another breathless prediction claiming that AI will “replace banks”, “eliminate core systems” or “create autonomous financial institutions”. Reading these articles, you would think that we are just months away from robo-banks running the global economy whilst human bankers…
Is our future wars or trekking?
I spent the morning thinking about the bank of the future. It’s something I do every day. You could be simple and say that it’s embedded, invisible, everywhere, all the time. And that is true. But that is today’s bank, not tomorrows. I then have this debate about currencies. What currency do we believe in?…
Are we living through a Sputnik Moment?
What is a Sputnik moment? A Sputnik moment is the moment the world suddenly wakes up and realises someone else may have leapt ahead technologically. The phrase comes from 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, into space. Technically, it was just a metal sphere orbiting the Earth. Politically and psychologically,…
What does the clash in Iran mean for your money?
BEAR IN MIND I AM NOT A FINANCIAL ADVISOR For the past three decades, investors have lived through an extraordinary illusion: the belief that globalisation makes the world safer. It doesn’t. It just made conflict more expensive. I always remember when the Iraq war began in the 1990s and my colleagues in the government defence…
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...