'Silicon Valley Is Coming' Warns JP Morgan CEO
For sure, defeating banks in the matter of customer interaction seems like low-hanging fruit. As the article says, they are too slow, too cumbersome, and I'll add that they are too unfun, and their sales departments are pushy and intrusive.<p>Do we even need monolithic financial entities in this day and age? Most transactions would be better handled by smaller, specialized and modern service companies. Banks are to financial startups what taxi driver unions are to Uber.<p>And the financial sector definitely deserves a shakedown, after they essentially plunged the rest of the world into a decade of misery with their securities fraud during the housing crisis, and went unpunished for it.