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The Bank of England is setting up a taskforce to monitor social media posts and online jobs boards to get a clearer picture of economic activity and help inform monetary policy decisions.
02 January 2015
Social investment network eToro has secured $27 million in new financing from venture capital funds associated with two of the world's largest financial services organisations, China's Ping An Insurance and Sberbank of Russia.
10 December 2014
Japanese messaging giant Line is rolling out its mobile payments service for online and in-store transactions to users around the world.
05 December 2014
In its latest foray into the commerce sphere, Twitter is testing a feature that lets users add discounts from advertisers on the social network to their payment cards.
25 November 2014
Twitter users can now tweet to donate cash to the UK's Children in Need charity campaign, 'Be a Hero', through a service developed by the Post Office and IMImobile.
18 November 2014
Snapchat has teamed up with Square to enable users to send each other money through the Photo sharing app.
17 November 2014
Bank of New Zealand has launched an online banking community site, where customers can share financial management tips and provide input to BNZ product development.
11 November 2014
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has played down the value of payments to the social network, saying that it will partner with card firms and PayPal rather than try to build its own system.
29 October 2014
Eagle Alpha, a startup which scans online chatter to discern profitable trading patterns, has scored $1.2 million in funding from individual industry investors.
28 October 2014
European Union antitrust regulators have asked banks to hand over the Facebook messages of foreign exchange traders, according to Bloomberg.
27 October 2014
Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) has introduced a 'Facebook branch', enabling customers to check their accounts and transfer funds from within the social network.
16 October 2014
India's Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) has launched a bank agnostic mobile money transfer service for Facebook friends.
14 October 2014
Japanese messaging giant Line has become the latest social media player to enter the payments market, unveiling a service for both online and in-store transactions.
13 October 2014
Accenture's Fintech Innovation Lab is landing in Ireland, with banking and tech giants throwing their weight behind the Dublin-based accelerator programme.
09 October 2014
Facebook has built a feature that could soon let friends send money to each other through Messenger, screenshots posted by a Stanford University student suggest.
06 October 2014
MasterCard is working with Facebook and other social media platforms in Asia Pacific to garner insights on consumer sentiment which can be sold on to banks.
Already working with Twitter, startup Stripe has been named as the payments power behind Facebook's new 'buy' button.
26 September 2014
The European Central Bank's social media unit has moved beyond parody with the launch of a new campaign that encourages citizens to take a 'selfie' of themselves holding the new EUR10 banknote.
23 September 2014
Canada's Sun Life Financial is hailing the success of an online gamification programme in motivating participants to increase their investments in workplace retirement savings plans.
22 September 2014
French banking group Banque Populaire Caisse d'Epargne (BPCE) has teamed up with Twitter to let customers tweet money to each other.
15 September 2014
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