This week’s main blog discussions include …
Is digital making people switch off?
For years, we have been told that digital makes everything better by making everything faster, cheaper and easier, and that the ultimate objective should be a world in which we can click here, tap there, buy now, pay later and complete the whole process without thinking about it. The great mantra of digital commerce has…
Why are we banking like it’s 1999?
The Bank of England has released its latest report on artificial intelligence in financial services. The numbers are impressive. The reality is less so. Banks are embracing AI at extraordinary speed, but are they transforming banking or just making yesterday’s banking cheaper? The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority have just published their latest…
Will John Healey’s bank tax work?
It is Halloween week and, by coincidence, the same week as the Chancellor’s Budget which is announced tomorrow. I say by coincidence as it seems likely that the Chancellor wants to drink the banker’s blood by restoring higher taxes upon them. There has been a huge debate over increasing taxes on British banks. The contest…
How one penny became an anti-fraud technology
I found myself wondering the other day why almost everything seems to end in .99. Books cost 9.99. Electrical goods are 99.99. Cars are advertised at 19,999. Even software subscriptions seem incapable of charging a clean 10 or 100. One penny appears to have become one of the most valuable numbers in commerce. Most people…
Sylvester Stallone was broke. He couldn’t pay his bills. All he had was a screenplay called Rocky. Studios wanted the script but not Stallone. They were happy to buy his idea, provided somebody else played the lead. He refused. It was an extraordinary gamble …
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...