Things we’re reading today include … U.K. fintech used to be a side hustle for bored finance executives in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Now it’s an industry with the potential to rival the country’s big banks | Fortune Sam Bankman-Fried might not be the last crypto criminal – The Verge NatWest creates…
This week’s main blog discussions include … The rise and fall of a cryptopunk How could I not make a blog about Sam Bankman-Fried who, yesterday, was found guilty of running a Ponzi scheme smash-and-grab using cryptocurrency? Well, I couldn’t, so here it is. Yesterday Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the tousle-haired mogul who founded the FTX…
Things we’re reading today include … HSBC becomes first bank in the world to offer tokenised gold (finextra.com) NatWest combs customer accounts – and tells them to go vegetarian (telegraph.co.uk) Dutch fintech Fero raises $3M to reduce checkout abandonment of online purchases – Tech.eu Revolut appoints new UK boss as it struggles to get banking…
Things we’re reading today include … SNB says Credit Suisse intervention avoided ‘financial crisis’ (cnbc.com) Warning for Bank of England as Lagarde is accused of hammering eurozone economy (telegraph.co.uk) Atom Bank secures £100m from shareholders (uktech.news) HSBC introduces e-Bank Guarantees to digitise trade finance – Times of India (indiatimes.com) Would YOU bank with ‘X’? Elon…
Things we’re reading today include … Campaigners trick or treat the banks – Positive Money The Fintech Files: Your monkey jpegs are going to be regulated (fnlondon.com) Crypto proposals further weaken UK’s financial standing (globalcapital.com) Fintech apps: As money moves without changing hands, extra caution needed | Mint (livemint.com) Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland…
Things we’re reading today include … Fintech Projected to Become a $1.5 Trillion Industry by 2030 (bcg.com) What Revolut’s attempt to secure a UK banking licence could mean for its current customers and for the ‘unbanked’ (theconversation.com) “Much, much harder” to launch a UK challenger bank today compared to 10 years ago, says Atom and…
Things we’re reading today include: A look at how one fintech CEO’s PR decision backfired | TechCrunch After Brexit has Paris stolen London’s bankers? (thetimes.co.uk) October 2023 euro area bank lending survey (europa.eu) Bank of England Feedback Paper on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning | Bank of England Digital payments as a boon to financial…
Things we’re reading today include … Another Day, Another Stock-Price Collapse for European Fintech (wsj.com) The European Fintech Collapse Spreads to the U.S. (wsj.com) Watch Monzo COO on Fintech and Online Banking in Europe – Bloomberg Crypto firms breach rules more than 200 times in first fortnight (telegraph.co.uk) FTX: ‘King of Crypto’ to testify in…
