Category: FinTech

  • I live at Buckingham Palace but am secretly a Russian launderer

    Building on yesterday’s blog about onboarding me as a client based in Buckingham Palace – or was that 10 Downing Street? – there is some interesting reporting about Revolut. Why haven’t they got their UK credit license sorted? After several years of discussion with the regulators, they finally got the green light to launch a……

  • I live at Buckingham Palace but am secretly a Russian launderer

    Building on yesterday’s blog about onboarding me as a client based in Buckingham Palace – or was that 10 Downing Street? – there is some interesting reporting about Revolut. Why haven’t they got their UK credit license sorted? After several years of discussion with the regulators, they finally got the green light to launch a……

  • I live at Buckingham Palace but am secretly a Russian launderer

    Building on yesterday’s blog about onboarding me as a client based in Buckingham Palace – or was that 10 Downing Street? – there is some interesting reporting about Revolut. Why haven’t they got their UK credit license sorted? After several years of discussion with the regulators, they finally got the green light to launch a……

  • I live at Buckingham Palace but am secretly a Russian launderer

    Building on yesterday’s blog about onboarding me as a client based in Buckingham Palace – or was that 10 Downing Street? – there is some interesting reporting about Revolut. Why haven’t they got their UK credit license sorted? After several years of discussion with the regulators, they finally got the green light to launch a……

  • Neobank Revolut seeks $65B valuation, a year after its $45B deal

    Europe’s fintech darling Revolut is looking to raise a new funding round that would give it a $65 billion valuation, the Financial Times reports.  The UK-based company is reportedly in talks to raise around $1 billion by issuing new shares and selling existing ones. The US-based firm Greenoaks is said to be leading the round,…

  • Things worth reading: 8th July 2025

    Things we’re reading today include … Revolut banking license in doubt as deadline set to slip Major UK bank to disappear from high street with five million customers impacted Labour is acting like communist China, says Lloyds Bank chief Charlie Nunn There are now more than half a billion mobile money accounts in the world,……

  • The future of money movement is not just APIs and open banking … it’s agentic finance

    I just received an interesting report by Deloitte about API Banking and Banking-as-a-Service … the things I talked about back in the 2000s. The report is called the future of money movement, although I would argue it is the present of money movement along with embedded finance and open banking, which are also mentioned in……

  • The future of money movement is not just APIs and open banking … it’s agentic finance

    I just received an interesting report by Deloitte about API Banking and Banking-as-a-Service … the things I talked about back in the 2000s. The report is called the future of money movement, although I would argue it is the present of money movement along with embedded finance and open banking, which are also mentioned in……

  • The future of money movement is not just APIs and open banking … it’s agentic finance

    I just received an interesting report by Deloitte about API Banking and Banking-as-a-Service … the things I talked about back in the 2000s. The report is called the future of money movement, although I would argue it is the present of money movement along with embedded finance and open banking, which are also mentioned in……

  • The future of money movement is not just APIs and open banking … it’s agentic finance

    I just received an interesting report by Deloitte about API Banking and Banking-as-a-Service … the things I talked about back in the 2000s. The report is called the future of money movement, although I would argue it is the present of money movement along with embedded finance and open banking, which are also mentioned in……