Shaping the future of finance
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…
Things we’re reading today include … North Korea Steals USD 6.36 Billion From Binance in the Largest Hack in History Bitcoin market in chaos amid fears Binance crypto exchange has been hit by biggest hack in history Bank of England sets out approach to tokenised collateral in central clearing Lagarde quits European Central Bank ahead…
Things we’re reading today include: Fintech: Europe’s 10 most-funded companies in H1 2026 SoFi earnings breakdown – The fintech bank story heading into 2026 Monzo Opens in Spain in Fintech’s Latest European Expansion Deutsche Bank’s Bankim Chadha on why the firm downgraded tech World Bank Forecasts 23% 2026 Commodity Price Rise Amid Supply Shocks Ahmedabad…
Things we’re reading today include … Meet the crypto executives spending US$56mn on US elections Not Just Oil, US-Iran War Is Hitting Bitcoin Too. What Investors Must Know Six people charged in alleged international cryptocurrency, romance scam Dutch fintech firm Adyen’s revenue tops forecast; trims 2026 margin goal AI cuts some Deutsche Bank corporate loan…
Things we’re reading today include … Artificial intelligence in UK financial services – 2026 | Bank of England – the UK’s central bank Open a second bank account in case of cyber attack, FCA chief warns Ripple Wins U.S. Charter for a National Trust Bank Bank of England orders review of Revolut product approvals, FT…
Things we’re reading today include … HMRC to take money directly from bank accounts of tax dodgers How a Democratic Congress could derail Trump’s bank deregulation agenda Politicians should ‘look at the UK economy as a CEO would’, says Lloyds Bank’s boss Banks lag behind investors on biodiversity Netanyahu rebuked for plan to use crypto…
This week’s main blog discussions include … I can see clearly now the clouds have gone When Google Goes Down, Your Bank Goes Down. Who Is Really in Control? We spent decades worrying about banks being too big to fail. Now we have a handful of technology companies that are too important to fail, and…
Things we’re reading today include … Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs as it increases reliance on AI AI Agents Are Logging Into Bank Accounts And Banks Can’t Tell AI oversight needs a different model to banking (op-ed by CEO of Goldman Sachs) China’s rich turn to U.S. banks as Beijing scrutinizes offshore wealth Healey’s bank heist…
Things we’re reading today include … The single market exists on paper, but not yet in practice Europe’s financial regulators query Google over cloud outage that hit banks Can Nubank Really Crack the US Market? Fintechs top banks and stablecoins for cheap cross-border payment Payment fintech funding doubles in H1 as infrastructure leads Latvia Issues…
Things we’re reading today include … Digital bank Revolut suffers worldwide outage: everything you need to know Google Cloud down: Revolut and other banking apps crash after system outage Major internet outage appears to have taken down Lloyds Bank and more Bank of England investigates Google outage Google says cloud outage affecting UK banks and…
