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News/regulation
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.
27 March 2024
News/crime
Pig-butchering, an investment scam involving fake crypto companies, has emerged as one of the top payment threats facing consumers.
21 March 2024
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.
18 March 2024
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.
15 March 2024
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.
26 January 2024
News/security
The Securities and Exchange Commission says a "SIM swap" attack was to blame for the hack on its X account earlier this month.
23 January 2024
News/payments
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
11 January 2024
Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, says it will introduce peer-to-peer payments this year.
10 January 2024
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.
09 January 2024
News/retail
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.
18 December 2023
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.
15 December 2023
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.
27 October 2023
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.
03 October 2023
UK high street bank NatWest has resolved an IT problem with its ATMs that left thousands of customers believing they were missing funds.
22 September 2023
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.
15 September 2023
X, the social media platform formerly know as Twitter, has obtained money transmitter licences from seven US states over the past month.
31 August 2023
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.
30 August 2023
News/markets
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.
24 August 2023
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.
17 August 2023
Blackbird AI, which develops AI-driven narratives for risk management, has raised $20m in a series B funding round.
16 June 2023
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