Shaping the future of finance
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…
Things we’re reading today include … Central banks around the world are now reshuffling gold reserves for a new era of uncertainty Russians locked out of bank accounts as Ukraine hits Yandex data centers Italian bank chief linked to death of colleague who ‘fell out of window’ What Is Barclays Being Investigated Over By The…
Things we’re reading today include … Banking tax raid fears hit London lenders’ shares ahead of budget UBS capital rules have Swiss stuck between a rock and a hard place Deutsche Bank targets Asia crypto custody expansion in 2027 as German launch nears Banking tax raid fears hit London lenders’ shares ahead of budget Payward…
This week’s blog discussions include … If banks cannot connect their own systems, how can they connect global trade? For years, the global trade conversation has been dominated by one question: where should we move our supply chains? China is risky, America is unpredictable, Europe is expensive and geopolitical tensions are making international commerce look…
Things we’re reading today include … How Ukraine’s biggest bank is run in a war zone New automated bank screening could create ‘surveillance state’ across EU Epstein-linked banks face judgment day as Trump deteriorates Banks say Healey is planning Budget tax raid on their profits Poland’s central bank crisis exposes European hypocrisy China has banned…
Things we’re reading today include … Kraken parent eyes EU license with bank acquisition The Shockwaves of US Inflation on Asian Markets and Cryptocurrency EU Banking Regulator Takes Over Key Oversight of Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Neobanks beat other fintechs to profit thanks to SME lending gap Bank of America profits drop 17% after $1.2bn money…
Things we’re reading today include … Citi profit tops estimates on higher investment banking, services and wealth revenue Bank of America fined $1.2bn over failing to stop money laundering Bank Bosses Are Too Optimistic About the AI Boom Russia’s largest bank Sberbank secures approval to trade crypto Zcash Continues to Outperform Every Other Major Cryptocurrency…
