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American Express may begin operations in China soon, with a PBOC statement yesterday that it has now accepted the American Express application to do business....
It's going to be a long road for Goldman Sachs' consumer bank Marcus, which has a digital bank offering in the US and the UK, and made headlines...
Welcome to 2020, where Singapore is doing us all a favour and providing a flavour of what digital credit is doing to the established banking system. Sifting...
Singapore's financial regulators now have eight applications for virtual banking licences, according to various reports, and the players looking for...
The UK Conservative Party, running on a 'Get Brexit Done' platform/fantasy, has achieved a stunning victory in the national election, taking what...
Many new details emerged yesterday about the FT investigation into accounting and business practices at German payments business Wirecard: there are spooks...
The UK's mid-tier and challenger banks say that banking competition policy in the UK has failed, leaving the six incumbents with just as much of a...
Lafferty Group has been predicting the emergence of digital credit as a major theme of 2019, and the evidence is starting to arrive. Take Mobikwik, the...
Bank regulators are expert at saying very little, emerging to pronounce on important matters in a manner expected to be impenetrable to the general population,...
Facebook is worried that Chinese app TikTok is stealing its young audiences as the Bytedance-owned business keeps users engaged for longer than the other...
We've been arguing for some time that central bankers talking about launching cryptocurrencies is a joke, if not a diversion. The FT's banking...
Julian Sawyer, one of the co-founders of Starling Bank and its chief operating officer up until July this year, is to take up a new role as European Managing...
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