This is Eastbrook’s and Finansbarometern’s selection of blog posts and articles on Financial Services, Future Banking, Fintech and Disruptive Finance. (Some might be in Swedish.)

From around the world:

• Soon a challenger bank will fail – here’s why we should let it go belly up
• Fintech: time to change strategy
• How Big Data Analytics, AI and Machine Learning is Being Leveraged Across FinTech?
• Infographic: What’s keeping fin execs awake at night?
• Direct Lending – 100x growth in 5 years

• Digital User Experience for Institutional Clients as a Competitive Differentiator for Banks
• EY report: UK FinTech: On the cutting edge
• Three things banks need to learn about Freelancers
• Swedish payments firm Klarna shifts focus to U.S. as revenues swell
• 2016 Banking Trends by MX
• Chris Skinner: The top ten trends in banking innovation