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News/Social media
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
Company update/Social media
Arriving just in time for the holiday shopping season, Amazon introduces #AmazonWishList, allowing customers to add items to their Amazon Wish List without leaving Twitter.
25 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
Twitter has begun testing a 'buy' button that merchants can embed in tweets so that shoppers are able to make purchases from within the social network.
08 September 2014
YouTube has introduced a feature which enables viewers to make donations to their favourite content creators through Google Wallet.
02 September 2014
Citi CEO Mike Corbat has become the latest Wall Street heavyweight to prove that bankers do have hearts, and marketing savvy, by taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
29 August 2014
The Dutch services and software company Virtual Affairs has developed functionality that enables customers to transfer money to someone’s Facebook account or mobile number, without having to know the bank account number.
28 August 2014
A social network app for finance that uses gamification to crowdsource market sentiment data has been launched by former Deutsche Bank executive Kerim Derhalli.
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has launched a money transfer service for friends using Facebook.
07 August 2014
A marketing campaign in which Canada's TD Bank turned its ATMs into 'Automated Thanking Machines' that distributed gifts to customers has proved a viral hit, racking up more than two million YouTube views in less than a week.
30 July 2014
Fintech vendor Iress is promising to bring market data to the masses through a tool that allows people to request share process information through Twitter.
23 July 2014
Facebook has begun testing a 'buy' button which lets users purchase products advertised on the social network. Meanwhile, Twitter is also stepping up its commerce game, acquiring payments outfit CardSpring.
18 July 2014
Photo sharing app Snapchat could be preparing a move into the payments arena, two recently filed trademarks suggest.
17 July 2014
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