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    The crime committed by finding Knights Templar’s Crusader Coins in a field - Chris Skinner's blog

    I know that my blog is focused upon finance, technology and the future, but there are...

  • Things worth reading: 28th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Cryptocurrency prodigy Sam Bankman-Fried may get 40-50 yrs in jail...

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    Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the oldest bank in the world became the newest? - Chris Skinner's blog

    I’m working with a cryptobank start-up, and we’re looking at options for licensing. Various countries have...

  • Things worth reading: 27th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Barclays bank payments restored after app went down in outage...

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    With no funding, you can't fight - Chris Skinner's blog

    As you know, I don’t like entering the political sphere too much as it’s way too...

  • Things worth reading: 26th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Irish fintech investment plunges 94% amid global decline, KPMG says...

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    Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea - Chris Skinner's blog

    I’ve just had several incidents with traditional banks digitally that made me realise they really are...

  • Things worth reading: 25th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … EU Anti-Money Laundering Laws Ban Provision of Services for Anonymous...

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    The Finanser’s Week: 18th March – 24th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    The main blog discussions this week include … The Dunning-Kruger effect, as inspired by a bank...

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    The Dunning-Kruger effect, as inspired by a bank robbery - Chris Skinner's blog

    I had never heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect until the other day. Inspired by a bank...

  • Things worth reading: 22nd March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … PAY360 2024: Day Two Highlights | The Fintech Times Pay360...

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    BaaS is nothing new ... it started over thirty years ago - Chris Skinner's blog

    Way back in the 1990s, we all talked about object-oriented architectures and modular computing. In the...

  • Things worth reading: 21st March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Sibstar named FinTech’s Pitch Winner at Pay360 for dementia focused...

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    The pros and cons of digital identities - Chris Skinner's blog

    Thirty years ago, I presented at a conference with the theme being the end of cash....

  • Things worth reading: 20th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Goldman Sachs Reports Interest in Cryptocurrency (pymnts.com) Ethiopian bank seeks...

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    You've been Goxed again! - Chris Skinner's blog

    Way back in 2012, I invested £1,000 in bitcoins on Mt.Gox, the Japanese-based exchange that was...

  • Things worth reading: 19th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions –...

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    We are all virgins of technology - Chris Skinner's blog

    A long time ago, before most of you were born, I worked with Dr. An Wang,...

  • Things worth reading: 18th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Millions more in cash needed to fund UK’s open-banking watchdog...

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    The Finanser’s Week: 11th March – 17th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    This week’s main blog discussions include … How the Wirecard story unravelled: an interview with Dan...

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    eToro shows why old banks just don't get it - Chris Skinner's blog

    It’s not just AI that’s hot, but there is still the metaverse, augmented reality (AR), virtual...

  • Things worth reading: 15th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Judge rules computer scientist not Bitcoin inventor – BBC News...

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    Whatever happened to Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek? - Chris Skinner's blog

    After yesterday’s chat with Dan McCrum of The Financial Times who broke the Wirecard story, wrote...

  • Things worth reading: 14th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Stripe reveals it passed $1 trillion in total payment volume...

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    How the Wirecard story unravelled: an interview with Dan McCrum who broke the truth - Chris Skinner's blog

    I’ve been following Dan McCrum, the investigative journalist with The Financial Times, for quite a while....

  • Things worth reading: 13th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … The Fintech Files: Scandals that shook the sector (fnlondon.com) With...

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    Is it true that challenger banks no longer challenge? - Chris Skinner's blog

    In the 1990s, I got very excited about a number of challenger banks. Sainsburys, Tesco and...

  • Things worth reading: 12th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Deutsche Bank’s new top engineers are AI specialists and Meta...

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    Half of start-up founders are ready to quit - Chris Skinner's blog

    A really interesting survey by Sifted appeared this week* about start-up founders. It’s not specific to tech...

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    Who do you trust? - Chris Skinner's blog

    There are perennial questions that come around all the time: Do banks need branches Why are...

  • Things worth reading: 11th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Revolut investor slashes $5bn off valuation (telegraph.co.uk) ‘Banking as a...

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    The Finanser’s Week: 4th March – 10th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    This week’s main blog discussions include … Introducing the Dimonsaur For the past decade, Jamie Dimon...

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    How old banks are alienating GenZ - Chris Skinner's blog

    I have found that several of my major bank account providers have started to question me...

  • Things worth reading: 8th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … So much for the challenge from ‘challenger’ banks | The...

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    Introducing the Dimonsaur - Chris Skinner's blog

    For the past decade, Jamie Dimon has regularly been decrying bitcoin as a scam. Here’s a...

  • Things worth reading: 7th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Fed likely to make ‘material’ changes to controversial bank capital...

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    What are the biggest competitive threats to banks out there today ... could it be the regulator? - Chris Skinner's blog

    You may or may not know Cornerstone Advisors. If you don’t, you are missing out on...

  • Things worth reading: 6th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Stop Bank Spying — Big Brother Watch US banks abandon...

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    Are fintech firms friends or foes? - Chris Skinner's blog

    I just received an interesting report released in January by ClearBank and Celent, looking at how...

  • Things worth reading: 5th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Why we’re fighting to keep London first for fintech |...

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    The Willy Wonka World of AI - Chris Skinner's blog

    Is AI a good or bad thing? As I write my daily blog, I’ve realised that...

  • Things worth reading: 4th March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include: Banks call for crackdown on Apple over claims it stockpiles UK...

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    The Finanser’s Week: 26th February – 3rd March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    This week’s main blog discussions include … Is a cashless world OK? There has been a...

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    How does cashless work in the gig economy? - Chris Skinner's blog

    One of the biggest challenges in moving to cashless is that there are a lot people...

  • Things worth reading: 1st March 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … How Buy Now, Pay Later Became a Fintech Fixture |...

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    Is a cashless world OK? - Chris Skinner's blog

    There has been a movement over the past years to create a cashless world. Is that...

  • Things worth reading: 29th February 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … HSBC is paying salaries like a Wall Street bank now...

  • Things worth reading: 28th February 2024 - Chris Skinner's blog

    Things we’re reading today include … Debanking fears as over 140k business accounts closed | Sky...

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    When the network fails, what do you do? - Chris Skinner's blog

    I was driving to pick up my dog the other day from his kennel stay. We...

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    Why is Coca-Cola important? - Chris Skinner's blog

    It’s a little known fact that Coca-Cola was launched as a way to relieve the anxiety...