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Fastacash and Xpress Money launch money transfer service via social media

Fastacash, a global platform enabling payments across social networks and messaging apps, and Xpress Money, one of the world’s most dependable international money transfer brands, have launched XOPO

28 October 2015

Company update/Social media

Western Union targets messaging and social media platforms

The Western Union Company (WU), a leader in global payment solutions, today launched WU Connect, an innovative technology platform that integrates with leading consumer messaging and social media platforms to give users a unique way to quickly and conveniently transfer money worldwide.

26 October 2015

News/Social media

Royal Bank of Scotland to connect all staff to Facebook at Work

Royal Bank of Scotland is to connect 100,000 staff across the bank to Facebook at Work, an enterprise version of the social network, to encourage collaboration and allow employees to communicate faster and more efficiently.

26 October 2015

News/Social media

Goldman Sachs ditches Business Wire for Q3 results - Reuters

Goldman Sachs will not release its third quarter earnings report through Business Wire, instead posting the results on its website and through Twitter, according to Reuters.

09 October 2015

News/Social media

Dorsey stays on at Square despite becoming Twitter CEO

Jack Dorsey has confirmed that he will stay on as CEO of Square, despite taking on the same role at the other multi-billion dollar company he co-founded, Twitter.

05 October 2015

Company update/Social media

EarlyBird hatches to bring tweets to trading desks

London-based technology startup Axius Data Systems today Monday 5th October unveils Market EarlyBird, an application designed to help traders, investors, analysts and research professionals use Twitter in a more compliant way.

05 October 2015

Company update/Social media

Twitter expands 'buy' button

Today we’re excited to announce a number of partnerships that will make it easier for retailers of any size to sell products, digital goods, or services directly within a Tweet via Buy Now.

30 September 2015

News/Social media

Bloomberg and Twitter ink data licensing deal

Bloomberg has extended its partnership with Twitter in an agreement that will see more data from the social media platform make its way to Bloomberg terminal users.

16 September 2015

News/Social media

Twitter partners Square on political donations service

Twitter has teamed up with Square to let Americans donate to presidential candidates through the social network.

15 September 2015

News/Social media

CommBank customers rage on Twitter over 18-hour outage; NatWest clients duped by bogus account

Customers raging on Twitter about an 18-hour outage at Commonwealth Bank that crippled the bank's computers overnight should beware a recent scam that saw NatWest clients duped in to handing over account details to a bogus handle posing as a bank helpline.

11 September 2015

Company update/Social media

Total-Apps announces interactive video and payment system for Facebook

With more than 4 billion videos being streamed each year on Facebook, ample opportunity exists for nonprofits and political groups to utilize their library of videos for fundraising efforts on the social network.

09 September 2015

News/Social media

HSBC glitch leaves thousands of customers without salaries

An IT problem at HSBC has affected some 275,000 Bacs payments and left thousands of customers without their monthly salaries just before a bank holiday.

28 August 2015

News/Social media

Kenya's NIC Bank links to Twitter and WhatsApp

Kenya's National Industrial Credit (NIC) Bank is set to enable customers to view their balances and make payments via WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter.

26 August 2015

Company update/Social media

FriendlyScore launches social media analysis app to create risk profiles for new borrowers

UK based FinTech solutions provider, FriendlyScore, has announced the launch of its SAAS application that analyzes real time social media data to assist lenders in creating risk profiles for potential borrowers with little to no credit history.

24 August 2015

Company update/Social media

Hearsay unveils social business maturity model

Hearsay Social, provider of the Predictive Social Suite for financial advisors and insurance agents, today announced its Social Business Maturity Model during the Limra Loma Social Media Conference for Financial Services in San Francisco.

19 August 2015

News/Social media

Bank of England Twitter test scores home run

An American football match in September led to some heart-stopping moments for a Bank of England team tasked with monitoring Twitter for sentiment about a potential bank run in the build up to the Scottish independence referendum.

19 August 2015

Company update/Social media

TD vows to 'Bank Human'

Banking often seems cold and impersonal, more about transactions than real, human relationships. But one bank is on a mission to make banking human again. TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®, today announced its third "Bank Human" campaign, which uses cinematic-style advertisements to illustrate that it doesn't take superhuman powers to solve customer problems.

27 July 2015

News/Social media

Startup vows to 'humanise' credit market via social media data

A fintech startup is attempting to humanise the credit market by using unstructured data such as social media signals.

21 July 2015

Company update/Social media

Startupbootcamp FinTech unveils startups for London programme

Startupbootcamp FinTech, the leading accelerator focused on financial innovation, has today announced the 10 international startups selected to join the London program.

20 July 2015

Company update/Social media

Revolut raises £1.5m in funding

Revolut, an alternative foreign exchange service, has recently raised investment in a round led by Balderton Capital, Europe’s leading tech venture capital firm, to launch its ground-breaking international money-transfer app on iOS and Android.

20 July 2015