Things we’re reading today include … Stripe makes banking-as-a-service play The Banker’s Bank of the Year Awards 2020 Settling tokenised assets in central bank money Bank shareholders are squealing for their dividends. They should be ignored Bank of England enlists development partner to unlock cloud Call for probe into ‘missing’ …

I was struck by a comment made on LinkedIn that most media miss what’s going on in the rest of the world. In this case, it was a comment about Starling Bank getting plaudits for being the first challenger to be profitable. What it should have said is the first challenger …

Things we’re reading today include … All Bank Branches to Close by 2034 Absa bank embroiled in data leak, rogue employee accused of theft How a national infrastructure bank could transform the UK economy Monzo raises £60 million Trump’s Deutsche Bank Loans Appear To Be In Trouble European allies pushed …

I wrote the other day about machines becoming human, and said they would not be … but what if they were or, more importantly, what if machines stopped needing humans? This is the dystopian future of Terminator and more, where humans become redundant and we create our own destruction and …

Things we’re reading today include … Every major US bank has now come out against Arctic drilling Bank account shutdown hurting communities sending $10 billion a year to family overseas Equivalence row looms over London ETF hub role Lloyds chief António Horta-Osório to chair Credit Suisse Bitcoin peaks at record …

I wrote this the other day for Channel News Asia: FinTech firms may look like banks soon The gist of my thread is that, due to Ant Group offloading all of their risk to banks, the authorities are now stepping in to say that any innovator, even one as big …

Things we’re reading today include … China banking regulator says property market is biggest ‘grey rhino’ Break up UK’s big high street banks, say cross-party MPs EU doesn’t need Brexit ‘at any price’, says Angela Merkel – video Watchdog suspects EY knew it issued ‘factually inaccurate’ Wirecard audit Lloyds Banking …

As bitcoin’s pricing goes up and down as usual – almost $18,000 today (who bought a few for a $1?) – it seems like the world is moving towards cryptocurrencies, as they are now respectable. They’re not respectable in the eyes of governments and banks … Bitcoin has no role …

Things we’re reading today include … JPMorgan, Lloyds Set Sights on Starling Bank, Times Reports Warning lights are flashing for Big Tech as they did for banks TSB owner Sabadell considers bank’s future as BBVA deal scrapped ‘Piles of cash at home’: Hong Kong leader says US sanctions mean she …

The main blog discussions this week include … Is Google going head-to-head with banks? We talk a lot about Big Tech moving into big banking … but then we have talked about that for years. Now, with the revamped strategy for Google towards payments and finance, is Big Tech finally …

We talk a lot about Big Tech moving into big banking … but then we have talked about that for years. Now, with the revamped strategy for Google towards payments and finance, is Big Tech finally making its move into big banking? If you didn’t catch the announcements, here’s the …

Things we’re reading today include … Bank Of America Option Trader Makes $2.6M Bet The Stock Is Headed Lower By January Noteworthy: Clydesdale Bank’s demise German watchdog reports EY to prosecutors over Wirecard audit Europe’s finance sector braced for ‘peak uncertainty’ ahead of January Britons ‘misunderstand and distrust economics data’ …

We have terrible moments of human strife and suffering. Wars, famine, pandemics, earthquakes and more. People dying, parents and friends lost, grief and tears, a world that could not be worse … … But for some, it’s good times. There’s always money to be made out of a crisis. I …

Things we’re reading today include … Bank of America says these 2 areas in technology are still undervalued and have room to run in 2021 Banks looking to confidential computing for solutions to money laundering, theft, and fraud Wall Street banks slam lending proposal as ‘unworkable’ and ‘political’ Ethical funds …

I’ve been talking quite a bit about CBDCs lately. CBDCs? Central Bank Digital Currencies. Central banks worldwide are looking at digital currencies as a great new future. Instead of letting citizens move to bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, have ours. Well, that’s the idea anyway. China was leading the way here, …