Things we're reading today include:
Citigroup back in the black for first time since 2007 (Independent)
Citigroup has better quarterly figures but waits for results of stress test before converting stock (Times)
Exchange traded funds: the City's best kept secret (Telegraph)
Recovery on the horizon for banks and the Budget (Times)
2 more banks fail, lifting this year's tally to 25 (Associated Press)
The global dimension of the crisis (Speech by Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB)
Best friend a credit card user ever had (CNN Money)
Earning six figures and just scraping by (MSN)
Jobless bankers go back to school (Telegraph)
The Web in Numbers: The Rise of Social Media (Mashable)
Secret to Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Success? Billboards (Advertising Age)
Oprah, Ashton Kutcher mark Twitter 'turning point' (CNN)
Chris M Skinner
Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...
