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Things worth reading: 4th December 2017

Things we’re reading today include … Digital banking: a tough way to make money Best banking apps revealed IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency Bitcoin investors hoping to make billions may end up with a sack of fool’s gold UK banks warn over EU rules to ringfence foreign capital…

The Finanser’s Week: 27th November – 3rd December 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Proving digital transformation works for shareholder returns I wrote about the fact that digital transformation does not create greater shareholder value … yet … and then DBS announce that they are the first bank in the world to demonstrate the link between digitization and shareholder value creation on…

Things worth reading: 1st December 2017

Things we’re reading today include … Has the mystery over the LSE boss’s departure been solved? RBS axes a quarter of its bank branches with loss of 680 jobs ‘Tireless’ couple who investigated HBOS fraud settle claim with Lloyds RBS brings curtain down on ‘toxic’ bank Australia to hold royal commission inquiry into banks Is…

Things worth reading: 30th November 2017

Things we’re reading today include … Bubble trouble? Bitcoin tops $11,000, but fades after sharp rally Bitcoin bubble? Why India’s government is pumping money into banks Barclays hires Alphabet and Timpson bosses for board of UK ring-fenced bank Lloyds takeover of HBOS felt ‘like two ocean liners about to collide’, ex-bank boss tells High Court…

Things worth reading: 29th November 2017

Things we’re reading today include … RESEARCH: European banks’ reaction to PSD2 [PDF] Alibaba-Backed Paytm Aims to Become World’s Largest Digital Bank Rise of the robots to force 700m workers into new careers by 2030 Pound soars against the euro on Brexit divorce bill breakthrough UK banks can weather chaotic Brexit but RBS and Barclays…

The Finanser’s Week: 20th November – 26th November 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Banks could be dinosaurs and some of them know it I have bias. I admit it. I have a certain proclivity to be nice to people who hire me, so this is an upfront statement of subjectivity. I am not objective. Nevertheless, there are certain companies who warm…

Things worth reading: 24th November 2017

Things we’re reading today include … Zebras not unicorns Vince Cable: chancellor ‘irresponsible’ for selling off RBS LSE boardroom bust-up has gone too far to blow over Can digital financial assistant Cleo take on the banks? HSBC investment banking co-head leaving after less than two years Michael Bloomberg on Trump, Brexit and whether he’ll run…

Things worth reading: 23rd November 2017

Things we’re reading today include … HSBC closes Marine Le Pen bank account Federal Reserve interest rate rise expected in the ‘near term’ LSE lines up back-up boss as spat with top investor escalates Starling takes the challenger fight to big banks with European and wholesale push Uber’s messy data breach collides with launch of…

Things worth reading: 22nd November 2017

Things we’re reading today include … EU’s Barnier Says Brexit Means Banks Lose EU Passporting Too-big-to-fail banks keep getting bigger Brexit: Banks to start shifting jobs from London NatWest admits online banking glitch as some customers struggle to log in HSBC slapped with record Hong Kong fine over sale of products linked to Lehman Brothers…

Things worth reading: 21st November 2017

Things we’re reading today include … India’s biggest banks are piling on the losses, and investors are loving it Italian banks face long, uphill road to modernization It’s Frankfurt … and Paris: Goldman Sachs names post-Brexit hubs Future of Bitcoin limited by having no lender of last resort, BNP Paribas claims RBC GAM: blockchain will…

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