{"id":52657,"date":"2026-02-01T07:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/the-finansers-week-26th-january-1st-february-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:04:44","slug":"the-finansers-week-26th-january-1st-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/the-finansers-week-26th-january-1st-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finanser\u2019s Week: 26th January \u2013\u00a0 1st February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s main discussions include \u2026 Why bank branches still matter Many have argued for years that branches are dead. Many in the fintech world believe that people don\u2019t need branches. Wrong. A bit like cash, the pandemic forced a change of behaviour. Human needs for human service (why branches matter, part two) I\u2019ve recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/2026\/02\/the-finansers-week-26th-january-1st-february-2026\/\">The Finanser\u2019s Week: 26th January \u2013\u00a0 1st February 2026<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/\">Chris Skinner&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s main discussions include \u2026 Why bank branches still matter Many have argued for years that branches are dead. Many in the fintech world believe that people don\u2019t need branches. Wrong. A bit like cash, the pandemic forced a change of behaviour. Human needs for human service (why branches matter, part two) I\u2019ve recently&#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-52657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52657","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=52657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}