Shaping the future of finance
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…
This week’s main blog discussions include … Can you answer these four questions? It made me laugh. Someone posed the question: what is the hiring process for fintech? After a short thought, my reply was to ask the candidate four questions: What do you think about banks? Define Python for me. Why did Schrodinger have…
Things we’re reading today include: EU bank chief warns against ‘Colonialism 2.0’ as green transition progresses – EURACTIV.com U.S. FSC supports the “Anti-Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)” bill – Fintech Org Blog (fintechinfo.org) Bitcoin (BTC) Price Slides as USD, Interest Rates Surge (coindesk.com) Launching a new digital proposition: Lloyds Bank 360 – Lloyds Banking Group…
Things we’re reading today include … Monzo to be leading banking app by 2024 (fintech.global) ‘No proof’ bank accounts being closed over views, says watchdog – BBC News Germany will become the sick man of Europe without change: Deutsche Bank (cnbc.com) Ex-Deutsche Bank Employee Pleads Guilty to Crypto Fraud – Decrypt Fintech giant Ant Group…
Things we’re reading today include … Deutsche Bank struggles with fallout after huge Postbank IT migration | Financial Times Majority of Americans are concerned about bank branch closures | Daily Mail Online Nigel Farage fury as regulator finds no evidence of bank account closures due to political views | Business News | Sky News Revolut…
Things we’re reading today include … Sibos 2023: The era of instant payments – global banks must turn to the latest technology – FinTech Futures Citigroup Token Service Is Bank’s Latest Digital Assets Move – Bloomberg Mark Carney’s attack on Liz Truss has disgraced the Bank of England | The Spectator “The French bank I…
Things we’re reading today include: Bank chiefs relish prospect of AI boost to productivity | Financial Times (ft.com) Liz Truss turned Britain into ‘Argentina on the Channel’, says ex-Bank of England governor Mark Carney | UK News | Sky News Teen becomes ‘accidental multi-millionaire’ after finding £8.9m in his bank account – Daily Star Why…
The main blog discussions this week include … A new Payment Services Directive, PSD3: what’s in it? In June, the EU put forward proposals for a new Payment Services Directive, PSD3. Having been involved in these developments since their inception in the 2000s, I was intrigued to read the text of PSD3, particularly as the…
Things we’re reading today include … Deutsche Bank to hold crypto for institutional clients | Reuters Cash payments rise for first time in 10 years – BBC News Why the over-regulation of banks needs to stop (fnlondon.com) London fintech bank announces 144 per cent growth ahead of US expansion plans | Bdaily Ant Group’s AI…
Things we’re reading today include … European fintech funding drops 70% in first half of 2023 (thenextweb.com) 2023 “painful” for European fintech but longer-term outlook positive, says leading European VC – Tech.eu European BaaS and embedded finance fintech Swan raises €37m Series B – AltFi US bank reform is going backwards | Financial Times (ft.com)…
