Shaping the future of finance
Things we’re reading today include … Taylor Swift’s London Eras Tour could delay Bank of England rate cut (cnbc.com) UK fintech job vacancies surge as investors flock back to London (cityam.com) Bank of England issues urgent warning to anyone with a mortgage (gbnews.com) HSBC boss knighted despite bank’s controversial links to China (telegraph.co.uk) How do…
This week’s main blog discussions include … What the Finternet? The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the guys who create the Basel rules and control much of the way the global banking system works, released a paper the other day about the Finternet: “the financial system for the future”. The idea is that all of…
Things we’re reading today include … Trump Says ‘All’ Bitcoin Mining Should Be In The US (forbes.com) NHS chief calls for controls on cryptocurrency gambling after rise in addiction problems (telegraph.co.uk) This new King Charles £5 note sells for £11,000 at Bank of England auction | This is Money Wells Fargo fires workers over fake…
Things we’re reading today include … US widens Russia sanctions in banking crackdown – BBC News Another boost for City as Digital bank Starling plots UK flotation after profits jump 55% | This is Money Grim milestone as number of bank branches to close hits 6,000 today (yahoo.com) 5 Banking Services Gen Z Should Be…
Things we’re reading today include … ‘Consider yourselves challenged’: Monzo CEO takes aim at legacy banks (uktech.news) Co-op Bank: Anger as payments taken twice from business accounts – BBC News World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’ | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian 7 signs you need a new bank (yahoo.com)…
Things we’re reading today include … Urgent warning issued to Android users over bug that can empty bank accounts (yahoo.com) The Growing Cyber Risks in Fintech and How to Mitigate Them | Woodruff Sawyer – JDSupra InvestHK and Crypto Valley Association Sign MoU to Boost Fintech Collaboration Between Hong Kong and Switzerland – (99bitcoins.com) ‘Palestine…
Things we’re reading today include … Money20/20 Europe Unveils Six Incredible Fintech Startups And Industry Disruptors (crypto-reporter.com) Project mBridge reaches minimum viable product stage and invites further international participation (bis.org) Watchdog orders Deutsche Bank to re-examine 20,000 risky customers by June (yahoo.com) NatWest’s virtual ‘assistant’ handling double the number of customer queries | Express &…
This week’s main blog discussions include … What’s hot and what’s not in fintech? In a long strategy session yesterday, we were trying to list the things that are hot and what’s not in fintech. So, what’s hot? Obviously crypto and AI. However, those are the headline buckets, what’s the detail? The detail is the…
Things we’re reading today include: Elon Musk is hiring HFT quants and fintech engineers at AI his new AI startup (efinancialcareers.com) Fintech Conference Shows Mixed Sentiments Amid Uneven Growth – Finimize ‘Mastercard for Fintechs’, introduced to support the fintech ecosystem in Western Europe – ThePaypers Banking turmoil and regulatory reform | CEPR How U.S. Bank…
Things we’re reading today include … Money 20/20 Europe 2024: Day One in Amsterdam | The Fintech Times Business Reporter – Payments – Navigating five years of UK fintech amid Brexit and Covid-19 (business-reporter.co.uk) Standard Chartered: UK bank accused of helping to fund terrorists – BBC News King Charles III banknotes enter circulation – BBC…
