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Lenddo delves into credit card applicants' social media data

Startup Lenddo has launched a 'social network' credit card in Colombia that will see applicants approved or declined based on their reputations on Facebook and Twitter.

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Twitter acquires social media sentiment tracker Gnip

Twitter has acquired Gnip a provider of aggregated social media content which is used by hedge funds, banks and signal providers to assess market sentiment and conduct analytics.

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Khosla leads all-star investment in small business finance start-up Fundbox

Fundbox, a San Francisco-based start-up that helps business owners fix their cash flow by transferring the amount of outstanding invoices to their bank accounts, has secured a $17.5 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures and featuring an all-star team of private investors, including former Citigroup chief Vikram Pandit, ex-Reuters head Tom Glocer, ISE chairman David Krell, and Jay Mandelbaum, one-time head of strategy and e-commerce at JPMorgan Chase.

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Big Data start-up ERN hires former ANZ CIO Ian Rae

ERN, a start-up promising to help banks and merchants aggregate and analyse data generated by card transactions, has hired former ANZ Bank CIO Ian Rae as its chief operating officer.

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ING retreats from plan for targeted ads based on spending history

Following a public outcry, Dutch bank ING has pulled back from plans to enable firms to push adverts to its customers based on payments history.

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Kensho raises $10m to build a Siri-like assistant for capital markets trading

US start-up Kensho has raised $10 million in seed funding to build an "intelligent market research assistant" that will answer complex financial questions asked in natural language.