Payments Monitor

Daily #Podcast: Distributed Ledger Technology could render the Central Banks useless (cites a BIS report), Spanish Bank BBVA now owns nearly 30% of UK Challenger Bank: Atom, Samsung Pay adds more issuers, Apply Pay plans to launch in China and Jeff Bezos rockets lands back. Turkey's action with the downing of Russian jet, causes markets to fall, and oil to move up slightly, and in closing thoughts, the Saudi stubbornness on oil production.