Finextra site news

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Group founded 23 Jan 2007
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We'll use this to announce new features and let you know if there is any maintenance in the pipeline. Feel free to post questions/tips/requests here.

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Introducing a new member

I'd like to welcome Dirk Kinvig to the community. Dirk started yesterday on the Finextra web team as senior developer and will be rolling out all manner of exciting new developments to the site over ...

04 Feb 2009
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Improved on Finextra - the search engine

One of my colleagues here pointed out that our search engine on the site wasn't bringing back the right results if you typed in web 2.0. I thought it was just displaying good taste - the phrase web 2....

20 Jan 2009
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New on Finextra - the Fintech blog round-up

Now in public BETA is our new BEST OF THE WEB section. You'll find this in the left navigation on our community pages and it rounds up our editorial team's personal pick of the best Fintech blogging s...

06 Jan 2009
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New on Finextra - personal blog RSS feeds

As requested by the community, we're now providing an individual RSS feed for every Finextra community member. All you need do is post a blog item and you'll see an RSS logo appears on your postings. ...

08 Dec 2008
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Commenting on Finextra now even easier

Yes, even easier than it was last week. In fairness, we have responded to some user feedback and we've made some adjustments to make it a little more straightforward. In case you missed last week's po...

02 Dec 2008
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New on Finextra - it's easier to comment!

Commenting on news and features We've made it quicker and easier to comment on the news. You still need to be a full community member to comment, but you now have a choice: Comments - quick and simpl...

26 Nov 2008
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Keeping tabs on the community

We've just rolled out another new feature for the Finextra Community. If you've upgraded to full community membership, you can now receive a weekly email alert tailored to your interests. It's a conci...

27 Oct 2008
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Changing your profile picture!

If you want to change or upload a picture for your profile (ie: the one that appears against all your blog posts) then you do that from the right hand panel options on your home page when you log in. ...

22 Sep 2008
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Finextra market data feed - now in living colour

Another small change for the better - our market data pages are colour coded green and red where appropriate to indicate positive or negative values. Seems to be a lot of red at the moment.... Also I'...

16 Sep 2008
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Using Word to compose your blog post? Take care!

If you're using Microsoft Word to compose your blog post - I recommend you just use it to write the text - don't bother with any formatting. Paste it into our system using the paste from Word or paste...

04 Sep 2008
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New on Finextra - get snap happy!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words - personally I think it depends on the photographer and the writer - but that's just me. If you're a full community member you can now upload a photo to ap...

02 Sep 2008
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Put yourself in the picture at Finextra

I've just replaced our photo uploader with a new and improved version which does a much better job of compressing and resizing pictures. The end result is much higher quality. So if you're a full comm...

13 Aug 2008

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