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News/Personal finance
Ribbit Capital, a new Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund focused purely on investing in innovative, tech-led financial services firms, has launched after closing its own $100 million fund.
23 January 2013
The UK government has warned banks that it is prepared to legislate to force them to hand over current account and credit card data to customers who request it.
19 November 2012
A British start-up is encouraging parents to ditch cash and take pocket money into the digital age, offering pre-paid cards to children as young as eight which can be used online, in-store and at ATMs.
15 November 2012
NAB unit UBank has launched a site that pulls together anonymous transaction data to identify trends and allow visitors to compare their spending with that of their fellow Aussies.
09 November 2012
A new online and mobile-centric bank, called Knab, has launched in the Netherlands, promising to use social media tools and technology to offer a more transparent and personalised service.
28 September 2012
Handset-centric start-up Movenbank has struck deals with three vendors for the provision of payment, mobile and personal finance management technology.
13 September 2012
Intuit is opening up the APIs to its financial data service - which powers Quicken, QuickBooks, Mint and FinanceWorks - to third party developers, inviting them to build their own services.
11 September 2012
Poland's first digital bank has launched, complete with virtual branch, mobile, app, Facebook payments, personal finance management tools and an "entertainment area".
18 June 2012
US bank Wells Fargo has opened an online community where students and parents planning for college can get money tips.
01 May 2012
Peer-to-peer loan specialist Lending Club has added former Morgan Stanley chairman and CEO John Mack to its board of directors.
12 April 2012
US giant Citi has unveiled what it claims is the first banking app designed specifically for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.
08 March 2012
South African banks are warning customers not to hand over their login details to a new money management site called 22seven, citing security concerns.
27 January 2012
Personal finance management (PFM) outfit HelloWallet has raised $12 million in a series b funding round led by Morningstar and TD Fund.
26 January 2012
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
Royal London Group has launched MoneyVista, a Web site offering Brits personalised financial planning services and tools.
21 November 2011
Intuit-owned personal finance management (PFM) outfit Mint has launched an iPad app it claims takes advantage of the tablet's large multi-touch screen to offer users a more interactive experience.
27 October 2011
Finextra TV/Personal finance
Frank Eliason, SVP of social media at Citi, discusses mobile banking, customer service and social media with Finextra.
04 October 2011
Theresa McLaughlin, EVP and CMO of Citizens Bank, sees the branch remaining a part of the overall bank offering for some time to come.
Linda Verba, head of retail banking at TD Bank (and considered to be a guru of bank customer service in the US) discusses a 'return to civility' for bank call centres and customer service.
Citibank has re-launched its online banking site in a move designed to meet CEO Vikram' Pandit's vision to become "the world's digital bank".
03 October 2011
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