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FCA warns FS firms and finfluencers to keep social media ads lawful

As it warns firms and so-called 'finfluencers' to keep their social media ads lawful, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority has published guidance for memes, reels and gaming streams promoting financial services.

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'Pig-butchering' tops payment scam threats

Pig-butchering, an investment scam involving fake crypto companies, has emerged as one of the top payment threats facing consumers.

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Finra fines M1 Finance over misleading social media influencer posts

M1 Finance has been fined $850,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) for social media posts made by influencers on the fintech's behalf.

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MPE 2024: AI-driven misinformation and consumer education in fraud

In an exclusive interview at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2024, trust and safety architect at Sift Brittany Allen spokes with Finextra on new challenges in the fraud space, and how the spread of misinformation on social media is a major concern with AI-driven technology.

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CFTC cautions against AI: 'be wary of the hype'

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a customer advisory warning to the public to keep an eye out for artificial intelligence (AI) scams.

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SEC says SIM swap attack behind X hack

The Securities and Exchange Commission says a "SIM swap" attack was to blame for the hack on its X account earlier this month.

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Nu Mexico lets customers receive payments from US via WhatsApp

Nubank customers in Mexico can now receive money from the United States via WhatsApp thanks to a partnership between the digital banking giant and Felix Pago

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X plans P2P payments this year

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, says it will introduce peer-to-peer payments this year.

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SEC X account hacked and used to send bogus bitcoin news

The US Securites and Exchange Commission has confirmeed that its X account was hacked and used to post spurious approval for the listing and trading of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products.

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Monzo Wrapped prompts outpouring of shame and anger

Monzo's end-of-year Wrapped campaign informing customers of how they've spent their money this year has prompted an outpouring of hand-wringing shame and anger on social media.

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Elon Musk’s X granted payment processing license in 13 US states - and counting

The social media platform formerly known as Twitter received approval for payments services from Pennsylvania, building on Musk’s ambitions of transforming X into an “everything app” where users can conduct their “entire financial life” on the app.

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Elon Musk wants X to replace users' bank accounts within a year

Elon Musk wants X to manage users' "entire financial life" so that they "won't need a bank account" by the end of next year.

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Barclays warns students about money mule risks

As the academic year gets underway, Barclays is warning of a sharp rise in the number of cash-strapped students being targeted by criminals to act as money mules.

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NatWest suffers ATM glitch

UK high street bank NatWest has resolved an IT problem with its ATMs that left thousands of customers believing they were missing funds.

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TikTok fined €345 million for EU privacy breaches

The Chinese-owned short-video platform has been fined over its handling of children's data in Europe between the 31st of July, 2020, and the 31st of December, 2020.

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X gains payment licences in seven US states

X, the social media platform formerly know as Twitter, has obtained money transmitter licences from seven US states over the past month.

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FNA awarded University of Cambridge grant to develop market monitoring tool

Network analytics and simulation firm FNA has been awarded $100,000 as part of the University of Cambridge’s SupTech Launchpad competition, to develop a working prototype of a tool for financial market monitoring via social media and web extraction.

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Yahoo buys social investing platform Commonstock

Yahoo has acquired Commonstock, a social platform that lets retail investors link their brokerage accounts and share their portfolio's performance and discuss their trades and strategies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Minister orders review after Bank of Ireland IT glitch

Ireland's minister for finance has called for an investigation into the robustness of banking technology infrastructure after a technical glitch with Bank of Ireland's (BoI) mobile banking app enabled customers to seemingly withdraw free money.

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AI risk management tool secures $20m fund raise

Blackbird AI, which develops AI-driven narratives for risk management, has raised $20m in a series B funding round.