{"id":67877,"date":"2026-07-28T07:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/banks-exist-because-trust-doesnt-scale\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:10:45","slug":"banks-exist-because-trust-doesnt-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/banks-exist-because-trust-doesnt-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks exist because trust doesn\u2019t scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, the financial news seems to have nothing whatsoever in common but yesterday there were four stories where I saw a link. The first is a US senator demanding answers from Barclays over Jes Staley\u2019s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Then there are UK banks are facing political scrutiny for restricting customers from making crypto&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/2026\/07\/banks-exist-because-trust-doesnt-scale\/\">Banks exist because trust doesn\u2019t scale<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/\">Chris Skinner&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, the financial news seems to have nothing whatsoever in common but yesterday there were four stories where I saw a link. The first is a US senator demanding answers from Barclays over Jes Staley\u2019s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Then there are UK banks are facing political scrutiny for restricting customers from making crypto&#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-67877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67877","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=67877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}