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Millions of Australian banking customers were unable to access ATM and Eftpos services on Sunday after severe storms on the east coast caused widespread damage, including a major outage at a cloud computing service used by several banks.
06 June 2016
European smartphone-only bank Number26 is facing a Twitter backlash after cancelling the accounts of hundreds of customers, many of whom claim to have been given no explanation.
01 June 2016
As they increasingly bank online and through their mobiles, many Europeans say that they would leave providers that do not offer up-to-date technology, a survey from Fujitsu shows.
04 May 2016
UAE-based bank Emirates Islamic has begun letting customers request account information - such as balances and recent transaction details - over Twitter.
25 April 2016
Jack Dorsey has upset rapper and part-time witch Azealia Banks, who has threatened a hex on the Twitter founder, claiming he has reneged on a deal to promote her mixtape in exchange for her pimping of his Square Cash app.
14 April 2016
Bank of America is to tap Facebook's Messenger app as a new channel for communicating with customers.
13 April 2016
Singapore is looking into the creation of a payments system similar to the UK's Paym that would let someone send money using only the recipient's mobile number, email address or social network account.
06 April 2016
Oliver Bussmann, the global CIO for UBS and the man credited with transforming the bank's IT, has left his role at the Swiss giant.
30 March 2016
In its latest step to becoming a one-stop-shop for small businesses, Square has introduced Facebook Ad integration, enabling clients to use its platform to buy and target advertising on the social network.
23 March 2016
The hordes of very tall men descending on Toronto this weekend for the NBA All Star game won't need to crouch down to access their equally large bank accounts thanks to a newly installed 10 foot tall Bank of Montreal ATM.
12 February 2016
ABN Amro is to use popular file-sharing app Snapchat as a channel for communications with its customers.
04 February 2016
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has banned employees from tweeting from its Twitter account on personal devices after it was forced to hastily delete a political micro-missive.
Bloomberg has acquired the technology assets of an Australian company capable of scanning enterprises for inappropriate communications in social media, using pattern matching technology.
12 January 2016
A Scottish citizen who allegedly tweeted false information about publicly traded companies causing over a million dollars of losses has been indicted for securities fraud by a federal grand jury in San Francisco.
06 November 2015
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
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
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
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
Twitter has teamed up with Square to let Americans donate to presidential candidates through the social network.
15 September 2015
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
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