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Facebook brings P2P payments to Messenger

American Facebook users will soon be able to send money to each other through the social network giant's Messenger app.

17 March 2015

Wall Street heavyweights join $130m funding round for big data firm Dataminr

Some of the biggest names on Wall Street, including John Mack and Vikram Pandit, have joined a $130 million funding round for Dataminr, a startup that trawls through tweets and other data sources to create alerts for clients such as banks.

17 March 2015

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Women in FinTech - Kitty Parry, founder of the Social Media Charter

In our continuing series, in association with the Breaking Banks radio show, looking at accomplished and interesting women working and changing the FinTech sector, Liz Lumley sits down Templars PR CEO and founder of the Social Media Charter, Kitty Parry.

13 March 2015

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Barclays launches Twitter payments service

In a UK first, Barclays is launching a service that lets people pay each other and small businesses using just their Twitter handle.

25 February 2015

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Finextra Future Money returns for 2015

Created as the premier event bringing both the most innovative minds in banking together with the exploding FinTech community, Finextra Future Money returns to London on April 21 and 22 for an exciting two day event.

16 February 2015

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Finovate Europe 2015 - Day 2 Roundup

The second and final day of Finovate Europe saw 32 startups take the stage to try and impress a packed crowd of fintech VCs, journalists, bankers and experts. PFM, mobile payments and wealth management all made an appearance, often to a critical audience - while other firms attempted to push the boundaries of fintech, causing a huge buzz within Old Billingsgate and on social media.

11 February 2015

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Icici introduces Twitter-based money transfers

India's Icici Bank has introduced a convoluted process that lets customers send money to friends and family via Twitter.

20 January 2015

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ANZ serves up an ace with social media tennis rally

ANZ is aiming to create the world’s largest tennis rally on social media, with a $100,000 dollar pot to be shared by community campaigns in return for a photo or video of customers hitting a tennis ball.

16 January 2015

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Kotak Mahindra Bank taps social media for savings account

India's Kotak Mahindra Bank has launched a savings account that can be opened and managed via Twitter and Facebook.

15 January 2015

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Bank of England turns to Twitter and Facebook to help set interest rates

The Bank of England is setting up a taskforce to monitor social media posts and online jobs boards to get a clearer picture of economic activity and help inform monetary policy decisions.

02 January 2015

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Icici Bank launches banking by Facebook for non-resident Indian customers

ICICI Bank (NYSE:IBN), India’s largest private sector bank, announced the launch of ‘Pockets by ICICI Bank’, an innovative desktop application that enables its NRI customers across the globe to access their bank accounts on Facebook.

22 December 2014

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Social trading network eToro secures $27 million funding round

Social investment network eToro has secured $27 million in new financing from venture capital funds associated with two of the world's largest financial services organisations, China's Ping An Insurance and Sberbank of Russia.

10 December 2014

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RBS to measure customer engagement levels with Artesian social intelligence software

Artesian, the innovative developer of social intelligence software has today announced that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is using its solution to help it to measure the levels of engagement between its relationship managers and their customers.

08 December 2014

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Japanese messaging outfit Line launches m-payments service

Japanese messaging giant Line is rolling out its mobile payments service for online and in-store transactions to users around the world.

05 December 2014

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Twitter lets users add coupons to cards for in-store redemption

In its latest foray into the commerce sphere, Twitter is testing a feature that lets users add discounts from advertisers on the social network to their payment cards.

25 November 2014

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Post Office launches Twitter donation service for Children in Need

Twitter users can now tweet to donate cash to the UK's Children in Need charity campaign, 'Be a Hero', through a service developed by the Post Office and IMImobile.

18 November 2014

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Snapchat partners Square on P2P payments

Snapchat has teamed up with Square to enable users to send each other money through the Photo sharing app.

17 November 2014

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BNZ opens online community

Bank of New Zealand has launched an online banking community site, where customers can share financial management tips and provide input to BNZ product development.

11 November 2014

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Bank of China partners IBM to build first smart branch

Bank of China (BOC) Tianjin Branch and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the successful completion of the bank's first smart branch.

03 November 2014

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Zuckerberg plays down Facebook payments ambitions

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has played down the value of payments to the social network, saying that it will partner with card firms and PayPal rather than try to build its own system.

29 October 2014