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Responding to user concerns, start-up Movenbank has moved to allay privacy and security fears over its use of Facebook for registration and log-in to the site.
29 November 2011
New mobile-oriented products from SunGard and VocaLink have been released as the industry's biggest vendors respond to pressure on banks to deliver tactical innovations for customers that can be applied to back-end legacy processes and infrastructures.
23 November 2011
PayPal has introduced a Facebook application that lets users send money to friends within the social network.
18 November 2011
Halifax bank is asking Facebook users to record themselves singing a classic Christmas song and add their effort to an online choir to raise money for the Save the Children charity.
16 November 2011
Bank of America has been beaten to the Google+ punch by pranksters who have set up a parody business page for the firm.
15 November 2011
Barclays has teamed up with TV station Channel 4 to launch an online competition that will see young Brits pitch business and community ideas for a slice of £100,000 in funding.
14 November 2011
Companies, including banks, rushing to create Twitter feeds and Facebook and Google+ pages, have been warned that the majority of people have no interest in 'engaging' with 'brands' via social media.
10 November 2011
New Zealand's ASB Bank has been taking advantage of Google+ Hangouts, using the video chat service to communicate with a group of customers beta testing its Android app.
Thousands of people switched their accounts from banks to credit unions on Saturday as part of the Facebook-organised Bank Transfer Day.
07 November 2011
To celebrate its centenary, Commonwealth Bank of Australia is launching a Facebook-based treasure hunt called the Time Vault.
JP Morgan Chase has taken to Facebook to promote its Chase Freedom credit card, entering people who 'like' it on the social networking site into a million dollar sweepstakes.
28 October 2011
Pygg, an Australian service that enables users to transfer money to each other through Twitter, has launched.
25 October 2011
Facebook is seeking to extend the reach its virtual currency, teaming up with developers to test Credits outside of the social network.
US Bank is offering $15,000 in prize money to entice small business owners to join its Facebook network and share their success stories.
20 October 2011
Citi has unveiled an application that lets mobile network operators accept top-up payments from customers through Facebook.
17 October 2011
Far more Brits go online to bank than use social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, according to a survey for Nationwide Building Society.
11 October 2011
In its latest wheeze to drum up support for a financial transaction tax, the Robin Hood campaign is inviting people to make their own interactive videos on the issue.
07 October 2011
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is inviting firms to bid for the chance to build a system to monitor what people say about it on social media sites.
29 September 2011
Financial heavyweight Citi has faced off a challenge to old-bank hegemony with a powerful display of its technological prowess that knocked the wind out of a room-full of Bank 2.0 innovation gurus and digital evangelists at an Innotribe session at Sibos in Toronto.
22 September 2011
Bank of Melbourne's Twitter account has been taken over and used to send out direct messages designed to acquire personal information.
16 September 2011
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