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Things we’re reading today include … Crypto Market Watch: Bitcoin touches $63,000 mark; notable increase in cryptocurrency market cap – BusinessToday Monument Bank latest challenger bank to sell “in a box” tech, as snaps up first client – Tech.eu Spanish bank bosses go head-to-head after BBVA turns hostile | Reuters Traditional banking approach more valued... The post Things worth reading: 10th May 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … Ramses introduces Chris Skinner as its co-founder (zawya.com) Billionaire Barry Sternlicht expects one bank failure per week due to real estate’s ‘fragile’ loans | Fortune S&P Global Market Intelligence Global Bank Ranking: Chinese Banks Maintain Dominance in 2023 Despite Economic Headwinds (prnewswire.com) Crypto Exchange Bitpanda Extends Partnership With Austrian... The post Things worth reading: 9th May 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … BBVA proposes merging with Banco Sabadell to create a European leader – NEWS BBVA HKMA Launches FiNETech to Bolster Fintech Collaboration Across Hong Kong | The Fintech Times UK fintech raises £800M for AI that determines how much money you can borrow (thenextweb.com) Chinese fintech Ant to expand into... The post Things worth reading: 8th May 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … German central bank president calls for swift adoption of CBDCs to stay competitive. (cryptoslate.com) Buying a piece of an island: How crypto changes property deals | Euronews Robinhood Says SEC Planning Charges Against Cryptocurrency Arm (forbes.com) Palestinian Monetary Authority investigates $70 million bank thefts (alarabiya.net) UBS Returns to Profit... The post Things worth reading: 7th May 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … X ‘End Goal’ Revealed After Elon Musk Teased A Crypto Payments Bombshell (forbes.com) Crypto Is Anything But Strong Right Now – Bloomberg Gaza’s banks targeted by armed groups (lemonde.fr) Opinion: In Canada, we bank where we buy – The Globe and Mail Investors Were Burned by European Banks for... The post Things worth reading: 6th May 2024 appeared...

This week’s main blog discussions include … There is no next big thing in banking I’ve been trying to think of the next big thing. Someone asked me on a conference call: what’s the next big thing? I’ve always been on top of the next big thing. Whether it’s the metaverse, AI, blockchain, cloud computing... The post The Finanser’s Week: 29th April – 5th...

Things we’re reading today include … Nearly 200,000 people have signed petition to stop bank spying powers — Big Brother Watch Government could snoop on Landlords’ bank accounts … (landlordtoday.co.uk) Goldman Sachs removes bankers’ bonus limit – BBC News Deutsche Bank Plans to Double Assets in Southeast Asia, Middle East in 5 Years – Bloomberg... The post Things worth reading: 3rd May 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … Jack Dorsey’s Block is under investigation by US Prosecutors for crypto lapses, says NBC (fxstreet.com) Reporting on Crypto-Assets – why you need to act now on CARF! | UK Finance Nearly 500 Fintech deals were completed in Q1 (digit.fyi) FinTech Australia and Thai Fintech Association Partner to Unleash Growth... The post Things worth reading: 2nd May 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … Meet Froda, the unique morph between a tech company and a bank – Maddyness UK Statistical release: BIS international banking statistics and global liquidity indicators at end-December 2023 Royal Bank of Scotland and its sad, sad tale of hopes dashed | The Herald (heraldscotland.com) 3-year-old British fintech Abound becomes... The post Things worth reading: 1st May 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … HSBC CEO Noel Quinn to Retire in Surprise Announcement – Bloomberg Starling Bank’s SaaS business can be bigger than the bank, says its boss, who has no ambitions to be a future Starling CEO – Tech.eu SoFi reports strong Q1 revenue and profits | Fintech Nexus Top 10 fintech... The post Things worth reading: 30th April 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … Stripe’s big changes, Brazil’s newest fintech unicorn and the tale of a startup shutdown | TechCrunch Digital bank Monzo expands fundraising to £500m in deal with top tech investor | Business News | Sky News Volt: Meet the fintech taking on Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly (cityam.com) Capital levels are... The post Things worth reading: 29th April 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … Consensys sues SEC over Ethereum crackdown (crypto.news) Stripe Brings Back Cryptocurrency Payments Via Circle’s USDC Stablecoin (coindesk.com) Enhancing fintech programs, empowering innovation | Mastercard Newsroom Walmart-backed fintech One launches ‘buy now, pay later’ services, source says | Reuters Deutsche Bank first-quarter 2024 earnings (cnbc.com) “This way for modern banking”:... The post Things worth reading: 26th April 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … Goldman Sachs becomes latest bank to withdraw from London – The CFO (the-cfo.io) JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Has a Tech Rival: Silicon Valley Bank – Bloomberg UK bankers warned of ‘severe losses’ if they fail to monitor private equity exposures | Private equity | The Guardian The Fintech Files: Has... The post Things worth reading: 24th April 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … Billionaire Mark Cuban Issues Post-Halving Bitcoin Warning Amid ‘Unprecedented’ Crypto Fee Price ‘Chaos’ (forbes.com) HSBC-backed fintech Monese plots break-up amid mounting losses | Business News | Sky News Central banks embark on tokenisation project (finextra.com) Shadow banking collapse would ‘put millions of jobs at risk’ (telegraph.co.uk) Anger in the... The post Things worth reading: 23rd April 2024 appeared...

The Poetry of Actor William Smith. You may be familiar with William Smith as a "that guy" from hundreds and hundreds of movie performances, usually the heavy, such as bare-knuckle brawler Jack Wilson in 1980's Any Which Way You Can. But his poetic contributions have gone largely unnoticed, and courtesy of his still-up website -- Williams passed in 2021 -- you can read poems...

For the past five years or so, I’ve read books on my phone. The practice started innocently enough. I write book reviews from time to time, and so publishers sometimes send me upcoming titles that fall roughly within my interests. When a publisher provided a choice between a PDF of a book and a physical copy, I woul...

This week’s main blog discussions include … Am I financial marmite? At a conference the other day, a banker came up to me and said “oh, you’re that fintech guy who throws rocks at us all the time”. A short while later, a fintech founder came up to me and said “oh, you’re the banking... The post The Finanser’s Week: 9th April – 21st...

I have a log file with simple(no meta characters) text lines. Each entry starts with a + followed by the name of the person who added an entry to the log. So for example: +Alan line1 line2 ...

Things we’re reading today include … Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’ | Brazil | The Guardian Blair Institute sets out ‘progressive vision’ for fintech (finextra.com) What Is the World Bank, and What Does It Do? (investopedia.com) What is the Bank of England and why does... The post Things worth reading: 18th April 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include: “People are scared to say the wrong thing” says fintech leader, heading up new disability inclusion campaign – Tech.eu New York threatens London’s fintech dominance, says Revolut UK chief (telegraph.co.uk) Bank of America accused of religious and political ‘discrimination’ by ‘de-banking’ or refusing to service Trump supporters | Daily Mail... The post Things worth reading: 16th April 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … Fintech boards lack AI skills needed to drive future growth, survey finds (cityam.com) Fintech funding slows to the lowest level since 2017 | TechCrunch UK digital bank Zopa turns a profit as it eyes an IPO (ft.com) Bank of England forecasts undermined by out-of-date methods, report finds | Bank... The post Things worth reading: 15th April 2024 appeared...

This week’s main blog discussions include … Selling customer data – good or bad idea? Be careful with data Many years ago a few banks debated the idea of selling customer data to get a payback. It was the wrong decision – if you sell customer data, it should the customer who gets the payback,... The post The Finanser’s Week: 8th April – 14th...

Things we’re reading today include: Fintech has a gender problem – here’s why you should care (theconversation.com) Mapping the contextual fintech evolution | Ctech (calcalistech.com) Bank branch closures: Labour vows to ‘guarantee face-to-face banking’ as 385 towns see last site close (gbnews.com) Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire accused in multi-billion dollar bank fraud – BBC... The post Things worth reading: 11th April 2024 appeared...

Things we’re reading today include … Jamie Dimon: Bank boss warns US interest rates could rise to 8% – BBC News Lloyds Bank axes risk staff after executives complain they are a ‘blocker’ These Are the 32 Most Exciting Fintech Startups in Europe in 2024 (businessinsider.com) Commonwealth Bank reveals the surprising trend among Millennial investors... The post Things worth reading: 10th April 2024 appeared...