Shaping the future of finance
Things we’re reading today include … Foreign banks have expressed UBS merger interest, Swiss newspaper reports Buyout firm Advent eyes Monzo stake amid £10bn Nubank bid talks | Sky News Revolut gets green light to buy Argentinian bank London’s investment bankers and lawyers make more than £1bn in takeover frenzy US seizes bank accounts of…
This week’s main blog discussions include … How many employees does it take to create $1 billion of value? I was looking at some numbers comparing the world’s biggest banks with the world’s biggest fintech firms and realised that we may have been measuring the wrong thing. We normally compare banks and fintechs by customers,…
Things we’re reading today include … Revolut Wins Central Bank Approval to Acquire Argentine Bank Big Brother Watch comment on digital bank Revolut rolling out ‘pay by face’ technology Eurozone Bank Loans to Businesses Halved in August After ECB Interest Rate Hikes MPs to consider whether Bank of England’s remit is ‘fit for purpose’ UK…
Things we’re reading today include … AI regulation must be grounded in human rights CADA, DORA, AI Act: Can EU Banking Rules Simplify? Connecting payment systems, linking economies ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market Connecting payment systems, linking economies (by the ECB) Fintech Wants the Keys to the Bank AI won’t save us…
Things we’re reading today include … Deutsche Bank estimates 30% uplift in client onboarding by deploying KYC AI Danske Bank expects further job cuts in AI push Invesco launches behavioural intelligence platform technology Banks issue urgent warning using AI to shop online raises scam and fraud risks Panic as advanced AI systems develop a chilling…
Things we’re reading today include … Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks Russian fintech A7 exploited Swift controls to funnel billion of dollars in sanctioned payments ECB launches ‘Pontes’ to settle tokenised assets in central bank money Deutsche Bank’s Hong Kong Wealth Boom Fed by Chinese Flows Scammers busted buying real Rolex watches…
Things we’re reading today include … Nik Storonsky’s plan for Revolut: a global bank with ‘effectively zero risk’ Making it easy to pay for your meal with crypto U.S. seeks crypto, saying it’s from Iran oil sales to Chinese buyers How Poland lost $230mn trying to buy Venezuelan oil with crypto OCC Opens Three Bank Doors…
This week’s main blog discussions include … What the FinTech Book Club thinks of “Intelligent Bank” The FinTech Book Club recently devoted its discussion to my latest book Intelligent Bank, and the overall reaction was strongly positive. That was a relief as I’m a good friend of these guys, but that does not make them…
The FinTech Book Club recently devoted its discussion to my latest book Intelligent Bank, and the overall reaction was strongly positive. That was a relief as I’m a good friend of these guys, but that does not make them biased. All views are their own and independent and objective. The reviewers are leading fintech experts…
Things we’re reading today include … Bank of England’s QT Tweak Gives Andy Burnham’s Labour Breathing Space The Bank of England is shaking up its bond sales – why does it matter? How has Bank of England changed its bond sale programme? Japan raises interest rate to new 31-year high to curb rising prices Bank…
