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News/Social media
The volatile nature of bitcoin trading has been brought into the spotlight by recent sharp rises and falls in the cryptocurrency after Mark Zuckerberg's grilling in Congress was countered by positive sentiment from China about blockchain and a future central-bank backed currency.
29 October 2019
News/wholesale
JPMorgan Chase analysts have created an index to analyse the influence of Donald Trump's tweets on US interest rates, finding that the President's 240-character outbursts are increasingly moving markets.
09 September 2019
UK fintech Tide will begin advertising their online business banking account on television, expanding on their One Less Thing to Improvise campaign having debuted on Sky AdSmart this week.
16 August 2019
WhatsApp is set to launch its P2P payments system later this year, beginning in India, before rolling out to its 1.5 billion users globally.
26 July 2019
News/payments
Closing EBAday 2019 with a lively debate on what is expected from fully integrated, open-access infrastructures for domestic and cross-border payments, banking executives and technology innovators discuss how regional initiatives fit into the pan-European context, while keeping P27 in mind.
19 June 2019
Social media platform Facebook has unveiled further details of its much-anticipated digital currency offering, which it hopes will transform financial services.
18 June 2019
Facebook is finalising a digital payments system called ‘GlobalCoin’, which is expected to be available across 12 countries by the start of 2020.
24 May 2019
Singapore's DBS has retrained more than 500 call centre employees for the digital age, creating new roles in areas such as social media, voice biometrics and live chat.
08 May 2019
Eating the dust of Barclaycard’s partnership with Alipay, Finextra reports on the dominance of Ant Financial and Tencent in China and the emergence of the platform ecology business model in South East Asia, which will be dissected in detail at Money20/20 in Singapore this week.
15 March 2019
Facebook's plan to introduce its own digital coin that people can send and receive, across borders, over WhatsApp is so advanced that talks are already underway with cryptocurrency exchanges about selling the new token, according to the New York Times.
01 March 2019
In another hint of its intentions in the payments space, Facebook has been advertising for a 'Technical Program Manager, Marketplace Payments Blockchain'.
15 February 2019
At this year’s London Blockchain Week, the event opened with a summary of how the perception of bitcoin, and its underlying technology blockchain, has changed over the past five years.
11 February 2019
Facebook has reignited speculation about its plans in the payments space by aqui-hiring the team behind London-based blockchain startup Chainspace.
05 February 2019
UK bank first direct has teamed up with social payments startup PayKey to let customers send money to friends from within apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
28 January 2019
Royal Bank of Canada has become embroiled in a privacy scandal engulfing Facebook after it emerged that the social network appeared to provide a raft of Big Tech companies with privileged access to user accounts.
19 December 2018
TD Ameritrade customers in the US can now do their research, access the markets and get support through Chinese social and messaging platform WeChat.
03 December 2018
A spate of online banking glitches has hit the UK's leading high street banks, leading inevitably to discussions of resilience and operational risk in the industry.
21 September 2018
Banks are increasingly turning to monitoring software in order to eradicate inappropriate behaviour on the trading floor.
29 August 2018
WeChat, China's most popular social media app, has launched its digital payments service, WeChat Pay, in Malaysia, marking its first product to be released in Asia outside of China and Hong Kong.
21 August 2018
Facebook has asked large US banks to share detailed financial data about their customers in an effort to deepen user engagement on its Messenger platform, according to the Wall Street Journal.
06 August 2018
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