Things we’re reading today include: Metro Bank plots capital-raise in bid to allay City concerns | Business News | Sky News Short sellers jump on Metro Bank after BoE rejection | Trustnet Indian fintech unicorn Slice secures rare approval to merge with bank | TechCrunch Swedish fintech Brite Payments secures $60M for instant bank payments…
Things we’re reading today include … Sam Bankman-Fried: Trial of ‘Crypto King’ begins – BBC News Banks behind 70% jump in greenwashing incidents in 2023 -report | Reuters Ripple Lands on 2023 Fintech 100 List (u.today) London beats San Francisco on fintech as chiefs rally behind reform (cityam.com) Revolut strikes share deal with SoftBank to…
Things we’re reading today include: Fed Report: Silvergate Bank Got Fatally Ensnared in Crypto While Examiners Shrugged (coindesk.com) Revolut Versus Starling Bank – Forbes Advisor UK FCA questions Revolut’s AML policies (LinkedIn) Watchdog installs monitor at Deutsche Bank after surge in Postbank complaints | Reuters Yoti launches digital ID app with Lloyds Bank (uktech.news) Dimon…
Things we’re reading today include … Top Takeaways on Open Banking from FinovateFall – Finovate Challenger bank Redwood to go public as Rowland engineers R8 tie-up | Business News | Sky News ANZ banking down: Bank suffers major outage with ATMs, internet banking, credit and debit cards affected | Daily Mail Online German regulator to…
Things we’re reading today include … Fortress Trust Sale to Ripple is Canceled (coindesk.com) Project Mariana: Cross-border exchange of wholesale CBDCs using automated market-makers (bis.org) Complacency of London’s stock exchange boss leaves the City in deep trouble Historian explains why men are actually obsessed with the Roman Empire (msn.com) Bank ring-fencing reforms to come into…
Things we’re reading today include … Timings of Basel 3.1 implementation in the UK | Bank of England Bank of England delays final Basel bank capital rules to July 2025 | Reuters It’s not all doom and gloom, says London fintech chief citing ‘shoots of positivity’ (cityam.com) Fintech loses UK funding crown as VCs bet…
Things we’re reading today include … The Bank’s latest blunder is costing billions (telegraph.co.uk) Europe’s banks helped fossil fuel firms raise more than €1tn from global bond markets | Banking | The Guardian JPMorgan’s UK digital bank blocks customers from buying crypto (cnbc.com) British Business Bank makes £135mn loss as tech valuations drop | Financial…
Things we’re reading today include … Bank of England costing taxpayers eye-watering £24bn to cover huge losses | Politics | News | Express.co.uk Bank of England launches hunt for ‘unconscious bias’ in finance industry (telegraph.co.uk) Coinbase (COIN) Entered Into Bank of Spain’s Crypto Registry (coindesk.com) Are “everything apps” the future of fintech? – Tech.eu Former…
Things we’re reading today include … A crypto firm sent a disability worker $10m by mistake. Months later she was arrested at an Australian airport | The Guardian State-owned British Business Bank makes £147m annual loss – BBC News ‘China’s World Bank’ plans to triple climate change lending by 2030 | Financial Times (ft.com) NatWest…
