223 results about this entity
Period: 25 May 2007 - 08 Feb 2024
News
PayPal has signed up a slew of big names, including Facebook and FT.com, to a new micropayments system for digital goods and services.
27 October 2010
New Zealand's ASB Bank is trialling a "virtual branch" on facebook where people can "talk" to staff about their finances.
13 September 2010
Social media giant facebook is to offer gift cards loaded with Credits at retail stores across the US, beginning with the Target supermarket chain.
01 September 2010
HSBC is bidding to bag young customers with a competition on facebook giving students the chance to win £15,000 bursaries.
24 August 2010
The US Financial Inustry Regulatory Authority (Finra) has warned investors to be on their guard against social media-linked ponzi schemes, in which scam artists use YouTube, Twitter and facebook to promote high-yield investment programmes (Hyips) with the promise of unrealistically high returns.
16 July 2010
Social network facebook is taking its virtual currency to the streets of South East Asia through a partnership with Internet payment group MOL Global.
09 July 2010
ANZ is investigating allegations that members of its debt collection department set up a fake facebook profile in order to befriend customers with bad credit and track down their current contact details.
26 May 2010
FaceTime Communications has upgraded its Web gateway for firms looking to monitor and control employee content posted to blogs, wikis and social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
19 May 2010
Tapping information found online at sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, an anti-hacking specialist has successfully taken over the entire IT infrastructure of a client bank.
29 April 2010
From facebook friends to Al'Qaeda terrorist cells, the Bank of England's cerebral executive director for financial stability Andrew Haldane draws on a rich variety of source material to argue that banks with assets over $100 billion may be just too complex to manage.
01 April 2010
Social networking site Facebook has the potential to wipe out the traditional banking industry by moving agressively into peer-to-peer lending, says Thomas Power, CEO of online business network ecademy.
15 March 2010
People who use social media tools that can reveal their location, such as Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Buzz, could face hikes in home insurance premiums, according to price comparison site Confused.com.
19 February 2010
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