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Belgian start-up Paycento has unveiled a platform that lets companies accept payments for digital goods and services through Twitter and Facebook.
04 April 2012
That's the question we'll be asking at the launch of Finextra's second annual Social Media Day event on 25 April at Thomson Reuters' meeting centre in Canary Wharf.
30 March 2012
Private banks have amateurish social media strategies, often failing to establish anything more than a token presence on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, according to research from investment portal assetinum.
27 March 2012
Researchers have outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average with a trading model built on data culled from Twitter.
23 March 2012
A 22-year old industrial design student from Brisbane has won Commonwealth Bank's 'future of banking' crowdsourced IdeaBank contest with a proposal that would enable consumers to store, view and print receipts electronically through their online banking account.
21 March 2012
The Federal Reserve is to distill its typically cryptic statements on economic issues to 140 characters with the launch of an official Twitter account.
16 March 2012
American advocacy group Rebuild the Dream is buying up Facebook ads targeting Freddie Mac and JPMorgan Chase employees, telling them the "truth" about the consequences of foreclosure policies.
15 March 2012
Social trading platform eToro has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Spark Capital.
13 March 2012
Thomson Reuters is adding information and sentiment analysis from social media sites and blogs to its machine-readable news service.
07 March 2012
American Express is to offer cardholders the ability to sync their plastic to Twitter so that when they tweet using special offer hashtags, couponless savings are loaded directly to their cards.
Barclaycard US has unveiled a crowdsourced 'social credit card' that will have its features shaped by an online community of users.
06 March 2012
Google chairman Eirc Schmidt says the Internet search giant once considered creating its own peer-to-peer money system, dubbed Google Bucks, but binned the idea because of regulatory concerns.
01 March 2012
American Express has launched a Facebook app for its Serve digital wallet platform, enabling customers to send, receive and request money from directly within the social network.
Standard Bank's decision to tell the Twitterverse that it planned to take rival FNB to South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) appears to have backfired, drawing scorn on the social networking site.
28 February 2012
UK start-up Vidivici has launched a beta version of its community-powered investment search engine, which pools the views of users, examines them and then taps the data to offer tailored trading advice.
24 February 2012
UK bank first direct has overhauled its Web site after collecting ideas from customers through its crowdsourcing portal.
20 February 2012
American Express is partnering with Twitter to give away $1 million in free advertising to small businesses who sign up for a new promotional service on the microblogging Web site.
17 February 2012
Romance and humour may not be qualities typically associated with the Federal Reserve but economists have taken to Twitter to show their creative sides under the #FedValentines hashtag.
13 February 2012
Australia's ANZ is to cut 1000 middle management, back office and support jobs by the end of 2012 in response to higher costs, regulatory demands and weakened consumer buying.
UK-based mobile billing and analytics firm Bango says it has signed an agreement to "provide payment services to Facebook".
08 February 2012
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