Things we’re reading today include … Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News – Finovate Governor Of Reserve Bank Of India Talks Fintech, CBDC – Pilot Reports Over 5 Million Users | Crowdfund Insider Fintech for Good: A Burgeoning Movement for the Sustainable-Finance Age (internationalbanker.com) Bank Card Fraud in EU: France Accounts for Nearly…
Things we’re reading today include … UniCredit to Buy Vodeno, Aion Bank for €370 Million in Digital Push – Bloomberg Does the Bank of England have a plumbing problem? (ft.com) Expert warns anyone with smartphone risks being locked out of bank account – Birmingham Live (birminghammail.co.uk) The next fintech to go public may not be…
Things we’re reading today include: How To Rob a Bank: the wild true story of ‘Point Break’ robber Scott Scurlock, the (telegraph.co.uk) Beware the Bank of Mum and Dad’s grey areas (ft.com) Major bank with 1.5 million customers axes popular service ‘after 25 years’ (yahoo.com) Bank of Canada cuts rates by 25bp | articles |…
Things we’re reading today include … Record rate-profits sees EU banks give shareholders €120bn (euobserver.com) Bank of England builds ‘proactive case’ to regulate non-banks | Reuters Why economists are warning of another US banking crisis (theconversation.com) Will Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) Impact Cross-Border Payments in 2024? | The Fintech Times Bitcoin mystery deepens as…
Historically, there are some technology stories that stand out. Alan Turin; Tim Berners-Lee; Bill Gates; Mark Zuckerberg; Jeff Bezos; Elon Musk … but what about Hedwig Kiesler? Shared extensively on social media, her story is all about the invention of WiFi. If you Google who invented WiFi? the name that comes back is John O’Sullivan…
Things we’re reading today include: $112 million stolen from founder of Ripple cryptocurrency platform (therecord.media) My first boss: Jaidev Janardana, Zopa Bank CEO (yahoo.com) ‘Circular economy’ fintech Twig closes after raising £32m (uktech.news) Why one San Fran fintech snubbed Nasdaq for the London Stock Exchange (cityam.com) How Lithuania became a fintech hub in Europe –…
Things we’re reading today include: How HSBC became the world’s most accident-prone bank (telegraph.co.uk) Shares plunge for saviour of failed Signature Bank (ft.com) How bots and short sellers brought down First Republic Bank | Daily Mail Online Augmentum CEO Tim Levene: ‘A lot of Fintech AI is a bubble’ (citywire.com) UBS-backed fintech Fnality eyes US…
Things we’re reading today include … Reserve Bank chief issues a chilling warning about Australia going cashless and what this will mean for Aussies | Daily Mail Post Office sees surge in cash withdrawals as Britons budget and bank branches close (gbnews.com) The world’s most counterfeited currencies: where the pound ranks (msn.com) Santander passes key…
Things we’re reading today include … Deutsche Bank Executive Testifies Loan to Trump Wasn’t Unusual – Bloomberg Powerful Lords committee damns Bank of England over inflation forecasts | The Guardian Inflation falls mask bumps on the ‘last mile’ for central banks (ft.com) Monzo chief says bank has earned ‘the right to dream bigger’ (cityam.com) JPMorgan…
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…
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Chris Skinner - Financial Markets Advisor of the Year - The Finanser - UK 2023
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