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TD Ameritrade customers in the US can now do their research, access the markets and get support through Chinese social and messaging platform WeChat.
03 December 2018
A spate of online banking glitches has hit the UK's leading high street banks, leading inevitably to discussions of resilience and operational risk in the industry.
21 September 2018
Banks are increasingly turning to monitoring software in order to eradicate inappropriate behaviour on the trading floor.
29 August 2018
WeChat, China's most popular social media app, has launched its digital payments service, WeChat Pay, in Malaysia, marking its first product to be released in Asia outside of China and Hong Kong.
21 August 2018
Facebook has asked large US banks to share detailed financial data about their customers in an effort to deepen user engagement on its Messenger platform, according to the Wall Street Journal.
06 August 2018
Bloomberg is launching a real-time feed of curated Twitter data, sifting through the deluge of social media sentiment to pick out the most useful content for its algorithmic trading clients.
19 July 2018
Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has been accused of spying on its customers after it emerged that it monitors mortgage holders' social media accounts
14 May 2018
A long-running court battle between Microsoft and the US government about whether the latter had the right to access emails held in Microsoft's Irish data centre has come to an anticlimactic end after a judge dismissed the case, ruling it to be "moot" due to the recent passing of the Cloud (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act.
05 April 2018
BMO has partnered with two tech startups to roll out chatbot service assistants for Facebook Messenger and Twitter.
15 March 2018
Deutsche Bank is extending the reach of its social media presence to Instagram, opening a channel to "visually convey a different side" to the company's activities.
07 March 2018
Mastercard is to use the popular Facebook Messenger platform as a vehicle for encouraging small businesses in Africa and Asia to move to QR-code based mobile payments.
28 February 2018
Customers of US brokerage TD Ameritrade can now research and trade stocks and exchange traded funds through Twitter direct messages.
08 February 2018
Belgian bank Belfius is rolling out a service that lets users make payment requests through Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.
01 February 2018
Researchers from a Dutch university have developed an algorithm that scans tweets about stocks, successfully predicting price fluctuations.
24 January 2018
Deutsche Bank is looking to keep in touch with its Chinese-speaking customers by jumping onto WeChat, the social media giant with nearly a billion active users.
30 November 2017
Nordea has collaborated with Nordic payments processor Nets on a service which enables consumers to post invoices and pay their bills via Facebook Messenger.
29 November 2017
Was £3000 on a SnapChat geofilter to promote the new £10 note money well spent by the Bank of England? We'll never know because the bank did not put together a business case prior to the campaign or carry out any evaluation once it was completed.
24 November 2017
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has launched a digital assistant that helps clients track foreign exchange rates and send money overseas through Facebook Messenger.
07 November 2017
High street bank HSBC was forced to apologise to UK customers after its online banking service went down for a chunk of Friday.
27 October 2017
Citi is to launch its first natural language chatbot for Facebook Messenger in Singapore ahead of a wider roll out across the Asia Pacific region.
11 September 2017
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