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A community for discussing the application of Web 2.0 technologies to financial services.
Wells Fargo's Guided by History blog has unearthed a great architectural curio from the early 1970s. To celebrate its centennial year in 1972, NorthWest National Bank created and staffed a space age ...
The sheer number of emerging technology start-ups is staggering, and even in the face of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the pace of innovation is showing no sign of slowing. Th...
When viewed against the total universe of Facebook applications (numbering in the tens of thousands), the subset of financial applications is by all measures a tiny one. Most are related to “financial...
At the risk of becoming a Twitter bore, here's another innovation from the land down under: NAB direct banking offshoot UBank is offering a free IGB USB flash drive to its first 1000 followers on Twi...
Twitter ye not. Brian Hartzer, CEO of ANZ's Australian operations has just announced his resignation - on Twitter. In a valedictory tweet posted Monday, Hartzer says: "Folks, this is my last twe...
LloydsTSB's James Gardner has caused a bit of a stir with some provocative comments on his BankerVision blog about the value of Twitter to banks. The Twitterati don't take kindly to criticism (constr...
Rumors continue to swirl concerning the deployment of a Facebook payments system. Recently the company unveiled that it was beta testing (via the VentureBeat and Facebook networks) functionality whic...
Twitter seems to be coming into its own as a medium for reporting fast-moving events. Up-to-the-minute citizen reportage on the G20 protest rally can be found here. This just in: Protestors urinating...
So, everyone's a'flutter over Twitter? I wouldn't count on it. Here at Finextra we set up our own Twitter feed last year, just as an experiment. To set the ball rolling, we identified all Community m...
This is good. It was sent to me by a close friend. It has been around a little but given the US employment figures is so true and such a WAKE UP call to Brown, Obama, Rudd and so many other world lead...
Bank of America twitterer David Knapp at BofA_help has outed an impersonator operating under the monicker bofabanker. The anonymous BofA imposter set up his Twitter account yesterday and claimed to ...
Couple of interesting, not unrelated stories. Mr Jeff Jarvis gets a knock back for a new style of bank while in Davos. Whereas Mr Barack Obama applies a salary cap to failed bank execs. Is there a...