{"id":70439,"date":"2026-08-28T05:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/things-worth-reading-27th-august-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:11:21","slug":"things-worth-reading-27th-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/things-worth-reading-27th-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Things worth reading: 27th August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things we\u2019re reading today include \u2026 US fintech investment tops $80bn in H1 2026, driven by mega-deals UK fintech funding drops to a decade low, with AI bucking the trend Fintech Funding Trends Research \u2018challenges assumption\u2019 that older generation is less confident with fintech Britain plans new Bank of England objective to support payments innovation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/2026\/08\/things-worth-reading-27th-august-2026\/\">Things worth reading: 27th August 2026<\/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 US fintech investment tops $80bn in H1 2026, driven by mega-deals UK fintech funding drops to a decade low, with AI bucking the trend Fintech Funding Trends Research \u2018challenges assumption\u2019 that older generation is less confident with fintech Britain plans new Bank of England objective to support payments innovation&#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-70439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70439","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=70439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}