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Visa joins PFM bandwagon with new spend management tool

Visa has launched a personal money management tool for bank customers to categorise and track their spending across multiple Visa card products.

10 February 2011

News/Personal finance

BillGuard raises $3m to beat hidden card charges

BillGuard, a US start-up that crowdsources information on hidden credit card charges and then alerts users, has raised $3 million in angel funding, according to TechCrunch.

03 February 2011

News/Personal finance

Lloyds TSB makes PFM move

Lloyds TSB has launched an online money management tool designed to help customers track spending across their current and credit card accounts.

01 February 2011

News/Personal finance

Temenos trio jump ship to form new company

A group of Temenos executives have quit the Swiss core banking vendor and set up as new outfit hawking customer channel experience technology.

01 February 2011

News/Personal finance

UK PFM start-up Money Dashboard goes live

UK-based personal financial management start-up Money Dashboard has gone live following months of beta testing with 10,000 pilot users.

19 January 2011

News/Personal finance

Microsoft bundles Bundle into MSN Money

Microsoft has relaunched its MSN Money Web site with a fresh design and new tools, including Bundle, the social spending comparison tool developed in conjunction with Citibank and Morningstar.

18 January 2011

News/Personal finance

BMO latest to integrate PFM with online banking

BMO Bank of Montreal has launched BMO MoneyLogic, an online personal financial management tool that enables customers to set and track savings goals.

12 January 2011

News/Personal finance

Wells Fargo launches PFM 'Money Map'

Wells Fargo has bundled its personal finance management (PFM) tools into one online feature called My Money Map.

11 January 2011

News/Personal finance

North American bank IT spending on the up - Celent

Following a rocky couple of years, North American bank IT spending is recovering, with a four per cent rise this year to $53.4 billion, according to research house Celent.

10 January 2011

News/Personal finance

PFM site Rudder shuts

Houston-based personal financial management site Rudder has shut down, telling members "business has simply become unsustainable".

05 November 2010

News/Personal finance

Sibos Innotribe Labs take centre stage

A business that aims to create a complete view of a bank's financial health by using recycled financial messages is the favourite to win the Innotribe Lab pitching contest held at Sibos, the annual conference held by financial messaging body Swift.

28 October 2010

News/Personal finance

Third of Americans use online banking tools - Intuit

Over a third of Americans now use online banking tools to manage their finances, according to research from Intuit which also shows that visits to branches are becoming less frequent.

19 October 2010

News/Personal finance

Think Finance targets unbanked after securing $90m credit facility

Think Finance, a US start-up tapping technology to provide services to the unbanked and underbanked, has secured a $90 million credit facility to help it develop new products.

24 September 2010

News/Personal finance

Kiva pilots student micro-lending

Online person-to-person micro-lending outfit Kiva is piloting a student loans feature designed to help people in developing countries raise money for their education.

22 September 2010

News/Personal finance

Amex targets Gen Y with social Currency - personal finance advice site

American Express has launched Currency, a personal finance advice site for "young adults" that offers blogs on spending and saving from experts, money management-related courses and an iPhone app developed with Foursquare.

22 September 2010

News/Personal finance

Americans prefer to access PFM tools though bank sites - survey

Americans prefer to access personal finance management (PFM) tools through banking Web sites, with security concerns trumping the advantages, such as account aggregation, offered by third party providers, according to a survey from Fiserv.

23 August 2010

News/Personal finance

Citi signs for MasterCard inControl tech

Citi is set to roll out MasterCard's inControl technology, giving customers the ability to set spending controls and receive real-time information about their accounts.

17 August 2010

News/Personal finance

Kids money management site launches

MoneyBunny, a Web site using stories, video and audio podcasts and online colouring pages to help teach young children about financial skills has launched.

13 August 2010

News/Personal finance

Strong UK demand for online money management tools - Yodlee

Over half of Brits are "highly interested" in managing their money online through a single Web site, according to a survey from Yodlee.

11 August 2010

News/Personal finance

Barclays launches online game

In a bid to attract teenage customers, Barclays has launched an online game that sees players arrive in a virtual city broke and improve their status through work and sound money management.

26 July 2010