{"id":50588,"date":"2025-12-24T05:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/things-worth-reading-23rd-december-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T05:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:06:52","slug":"things-worth-reading-23rd-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/things-worth-reading-23rd-december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Things worth reading: 23rd December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things we\u2019re reading today include \u2026 FCA Launches UK Payments Initiative to Scale \u2018Pay by Bank\u2019 Adoption Mastercard Forms Strategic Alliances to Advance Blockchain Innovation in the Middle East 2025 in review: The key fintech trends of the year Banking boss targets fintech to double Australian business Bitcoin\u2019s wild ride and can the cryptocurrency really&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/2025\/12\/things-worth-reading-23rd-december-2025\/\">Things worth reading: 23rd December 2025<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/\">Chris Skinner&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things we\u2019re reading today include \u2026 FCA Launches UK Payments Initiative to Scale \u2018Pay by Bank\u2019 Adoption Mastercard Forms Strategic Alliances to Advance Blockchain Innovation in the Middle East 2025 in review: The key fintech trends of the year Banking boss targets fintech to double Australian business Bitcoin\u2019s wild ride and can the cryptocurrency really&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}