Chris Skinner

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CHRIS SKINNER

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Skinner’s blog, books, and speaking continued to provide the most historically grounded and strategically coherent perspective on where banking and fintech are genuinely headed rather than where the marketing wants you to believe they are.

Intelligent Bank

By Chris Skinner

Summary

Banking’s Third Great Technological Revolution

Intelligent Bank is not a book about technology alone. It is a warning and a roadmap. Banks that fail to move from digital to intelligent will not survive—not because they lack apps or AI, but because they fail to earn trust in an autonomous, AI-driven world.

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ENDORSEMENTS

  • Chris has this unique ability to make us question everything, and more importantly, he instils that constructive unease that reminds us there’s still so much to do. With his provocative tone and fantastic sense of humour, he challenged us to rethink our strategy in the face of the technological revolution impacting our sector and its clients. His insights are not just thought-provoking—they push us to innovate and adapt continuously.

    Miguel Teixeira Santos, Chief of Staff to the CEO, Santander Portugal

  • Chris takes you on an intellectual journey as he methodically thinks through where technology will take us. I greatly enjoyed this rare and refreshing optimistic vision.

    Konstantin Peric, Deputy Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  • Chris is a tour-de-force.

    Piyush Gupta, CEO, DBS

  • Skinner presents a compelling vision of the future of financial services.

    Jesse McWaters, Financial Services Project Leader, World Economic Forum

  • Chris has a sharp eye for industry trends and cuts through a lot of noise with actionable insights.

    Kim Fournais, CEO and founder, Saxo Bank

  • Chris Skinner has the remarkable ability to distil complex issues to their simplest form.

    Wayne Brown, Managing Partner, The Walker Group

  • Any banker the world over would benefit from Chris’ practical clarity about where the evolution of financial services will lead us.

    Chris Nichols, Chief Strategy Officer, CenterState Bank

  • If you’re a traditional banker, Chris Skinner will feel like a SoulCycle kick-your-butt spin class, but you will walk away healthier.

    Mary Wisniewski, American Banker

  • Chris Skinner – one of the most authoritative voices on Fintech.”

    Seth Wheeler, Former Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House

  • Chris Skinner is simply one of the most brilliant minds in banking.

    The Financial Brand

  • Chris Skinner argues, persuasively, that the combined technologies of mobile connectivity and distributed ledgers could deliver disruption for the benefits of billions of citizens.

    Andy Haldane, Chief Economist, Bank of England

  • The Bloomberg TV team is very grateful to have had such an insightful guest in such critical times.

    Producer, Bloomberg Television

  • Chris knows how to entertain and educate at the same time … I am constantly in awe of the amount of content he produces at a consistent quality through his blog.

    Brett King, Author

  • Financial services is up for huge disruption. Skinner’s sweeping and well-researched analysis of the big technology trends shake the windows and rattle the walls of the industry.

    Don Tapscott, Best Selling Author and recently named the world’s most influential digital thinker by Thinkers50

About Chris

Author and Commentator

Chris Skinner is a globally recognised author, commentator and keynote speaker on the future of money, banking and technology. Best known for The Finanser and author of more than 20 books, his latest work, Intelligent Money, explores AI, agentic finance and the rise of autonomous money. He is also the creator of Pulp Finction, an interconnected universe of financial thrillers that makes money and markets entertaining, and Captain Cake, a children’s series that takes younger readers on adventures through space. Whether writing about intelligent money, the dark side of finance or adventures across the universe, Chris has one obsession: making the complex understandable, the serious entertaining and the future impossible to ignore.

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