Highlights and links
RIP Tina Turner – she might not have been the first to sing “Simply The Best” but she certainly was one of the greatest artists of all time in our books. Another great lady to hit the headlines this week was “The Darling of Starling” – Anne Boden, who announced she will be stepping down as CEO after achieving record profits.
In other news, Klarna made a surprising change this week too.
Links to the stuff we spoke about:-
- Klarna made a bold move and calls on other providers of credit to consider doing something similar
- WeWork stock dropped nearly 25% – we didn’t know they were still a thing, did you?
- Newchip files for Chapter 11
- The ECB celebrates its 25 th anniversary as it contemples the Future of Money and the digital Euro
- Who will replace the Darling of Starling as CEO?
- These are the articles about Anne that Chris was referring to about her spat with Tom
- That hasn’t seem to affected Tom’s reputation as he now joins y-combinator
- Will N26 ever be able to IPO?
- Chris wrote a great article about the challenges of challenger banks and why some are bound to fail
- It will be interesting to see what the lawsuit against HSBC brings to light given the rumours around SVB employees
- Meanwhile, JP Morgan axed over 1,000 jobs at First Republic
- We wish the CFO of Wise a full recovery – but the market didn’t react well to the news of the CEO taking some time out at the same time
- Some astonishing stats in the banner on this page from Andreessen Horowitz about American healthcare
- What are the potential impacts of the withdrawal of the 2,000 rupee note in India?
- Will de-dollarisation catch on and will it fuel more investment in gold?
- Crypto and drugs ………
- Hong Kong is taking a strong stance
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