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News/retail
Elon Musk wants X to manage users' "entire financial life" so that they "won't need a bank account" by the end of next year.
27 October 2023
As the academic year gets underway, Barclays is warning of a sharp rise in the number of cash-strapped students being targeted by criminals to act as money mules.
03 October 2023
UK high street bank NatWest has resolved an IT problem with its ATMs that left thousands of customers believing they were missing funds.
22 September 2023
News/regulation
The Chinese-owned short-video platform has been fined over its handling of children's data in Europe between the 31st of July, 2020, and the 31st of December, 2020.
15 September 2023
News/payments
X, the social media platform formerly know as Twitter, has obtained money transmitter licences from seven US states over the past month.
31 August 2023
Network analytics and simulation firm FNA has been awarded $100,000 as part of the University of Cambridge’s SupTech Launchpad competition, to develop a working prototype of a tool for financial market monitoring via social media and web extraction.
30 August 2023
News/markets
Yahoo has acquired Commonstock, a social platform that lets retail investors link their brokerage accounts and share their portfolio's performance and discuss their trades and strategies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
24 August 2023
News/security
Ireland's minister for finance has called for an investigation into the robustness of banking technology infrastructure after a technical glitch with Bank of Ireland's (BoI) mobile banking app enabled customers to seemingly withdraw free money.
17 August 2023
News/crime
Blackbird AI, which develops AI-driven narratives for risk management, has raised $20m in a series B funding round.
16 June 2023
Business banking platform Tide has called on the government to introduce a tax on social media and telecoms companies to fund and train more police officers to tackle what it calls Britain's "fraud epidemic".
09 May 2023
US Congress grilled TikTok CEO, Shou Zi Chew, when he appeared before Congress yesterday, as the company faces increasing calls for a US ban.
24 March 2023
Ireland's central bank has become the latest financial institution to ban its employees from using the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT.
03 March 2023
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reached a settlement of $30 million with crypto platform Kraken, for the exchange’s failure to register its staking-as-a-service program.
10 February 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission is widening its probe into Wall Street's use of WhatsApp for conducting business to include major hedge funds, according to Bloomberg.
06 February 2023
New data published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reveals that the regulator blocked over 8,000 misleading advertisements and promotions during 2022.
03 February 2023
News/startups
Investing social network yeekatee has raised $1.9 million in a pre-seed funding round joined by Avaloq co-founder Ronald Strässler.
18 January 2023
Atom Bank has decided to shut down all of its Twitter accounts over the increasingly unhinged behaviour of new owner Elon Musk.
15 December 2022
American Express is partnering with TikTok to help small business owners reach a new generation of shoppers on the viral video platform.
16 November 2022
Young Brits are turning to TikTok for financial information, with many of them believing that influencers on the app provide better advice than traditional media.
15 November 2022
Online payments giant PayPal is unlikely to suffer any significant impact from a customer backlash over a supposed charge for users spreading misinformation, acccording to financial analysts.
14 October 2022
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