Things we’re reading today include … China’s debt levels pose stability risk, says IMF Mifid II impact on investment banking ‘exaggerated’ Bitcoin to start futures trading, stoking Wild West worries UK banks have 2m customers stuck in permanent overdraft ‘Dear Mark Carney… capitalism stinks’: Bank complaint letters revealed The Queen’s bankers dismiss bitcoin as pure…
Things we’re reading today include … Tapping into India’s digital payments revolution Bank of England mulls ordering banks to raise buffers against disorderly Brexit Deutsche Bank’s €710bn asset management arm gets pre-IPO makeover Trump’s personal banking information handed over to Robert Mueller Bitcoin surges above $12,000 to record high on relentless demand UK group adds…
Things we’re reading today include … Brazil’s first online bank ramps up innovation Behind the rusty vault doors of an abandoned Alabama bank The survival hopes of big banks may rest on machines Big banks putting UK’s free-to-use ATM network at risk, warns peer Mastercard to repurchase up to $4 billion of its shares Confusion…
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…
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 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 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 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…
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…
