Latest Social media News: Finextra Research

Is this the toughest job in finance? Goldman Sachs seeks social media strategist

Goldman Sachs is on the lookout for a community manager and social media strategist to help the poster boy for Wall Street excess build a "positive online presence".

01 May 2012

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Citi partners LinkedIn to develop professional networking group for women

Citi has launched a 'Professional Women's Network' group on LinkedIn, featuring curated content and moderated discussion for women who want get ahead in the workplace.

30 April 2012

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Banks take first tentative Pinterest steps

Having established a reputation as the cool new kid on the social networking block, photo and video sharing site Pinterest has attracted its first bank users, with Banco Sabadell and Sate Bank & Trust both dipping their toes.

27 April 2012

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Live: Social Media Day

Finextra's second annual Social Media day was held in London on Wednesday, with a line-up of speakers from banks and technology companies examining the practical application of the likes of Twitter and Facebook. For those of you unable to attend, we liveblogged the debate here.

25 April 2012

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Twitter commerce start-up Chirpify raises $1.3m

Twitter commerce start-up Chirpify has raised $1.3 million in a series a funding round and launched a platform that lets musicians use the microblogging site to sell digital content.

24 April 2012

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Scotiabank taps Facebook for 'richness' charity campaign

Scotiabank has launched a charitable campaign, donating C$1 for every Canadian who shares a Facebook photo or video that illustrates what 'richness' means to them.

23 April 2012

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Twitter overtakes Facebook in FS firms' affections

Twitter has overtaken Facebook as the social network most favoured by financial services firms, according to analysis from Corporate Insight, which singles out American Express' use of the channel for special praise.

20 April 2012

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Estimize challenges users to predict earnings results

Estimize, a US start-up that pools members' forecasts for earnings results at listed companies, has launched a competition offering cash prizes to its most accurate pickers.

16 April 2012

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Paycento lets users pay for digital content through Twitter, Facebook

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

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Is it possible to make money out of social media?

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

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Private banks 'amateurish' on social media - assetinum

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

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Researchers link tweets to stock prices

Researchers have outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average with a trading model built on data culled from Twitter.

23 March 2012

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NetBank Electronic Receipt scoops top honours in CommBank's IdeaBank contest

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

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Fedspeak comes to Twitter

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

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Bank employees bombarded with foreclosure-slamming Facebook ads

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

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Social trading network eToro secures $15 million funding round

Social trading platform eToro has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Spark Capital.

13 March 2012

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Thomson Reuters launches social media sentiment analysis service

Thomson Reuters is adding information and sentiment analysis from social media sites and blogs to its machine-readable news service.

07 March 2012

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American Express syncs cards to Twitter for hashtag discounts

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.

07 March 2012

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Barclaycard US crowdsources customer input for new credit card

Barclaycard US has unveiled a crowdsourced 'social credit card' that will have its features shaped by an online community of users.

06 March 2012

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Google scrapped plans for virtual currency over regulatory concerns

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