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Nationwide Building Society experienced a crash course in the perils of social media advertising earlier this week when it found itself drawn into a row about the depiction of violence against women on Facebook.
31 May 2013
A Facebook poll conducted by Commonwealth Bank of Australia has provided fresh insights into customer perspectives of its online banking service, NetBank.
The use of social media by banks has 'plateaued', with the average spend stuck below EUR500,000 per annum, according to data from Efma and Wipro.
29 May 2013
NatWest is inviting customers to send a personalised video to remind friends and contacts about unpaid bills as part of a viral campaign to promote its mobile payments app.
Living up to their stuffy reputations, around two thirds of central banks do not operate any social media accounts, while many that do take a conservative approach to Twitter and Facebook.
13 May 2013
The UK's Co-operative Bank has been tweeting twitchy customers today promising that it is not seeking a government bailout in the wake of its debt rating being downgraded to junk by Moody's.
10 May 2013
MasterCard is reporting positive results from a year-long global social media monitoring campaign, tapping into conversations across 43 markets worldwide to gain insights and drive its business strategy.
03 May 2013
US securities regulators are seeking an exemption for some financial firms to state laws banning employers from monitoring the Facebook and Twitter accounts of their staffers.
24 April 2013
The Dow Jones briefly plummeted yesterday after hackers took control of the Associated Press's Twitter account and used it spread a bogus claim that the White House had been hit by a terrorist attack.
For the second time in a week Twitter has stopped a payments service that uses its platform, killing off the Flattr favourite-to-tip micro-donation system.
16 April 2013
Canadian coppers have turned to social media in a bid to catch 'the vaulter', one of the country's most notorious bank robbers.
12 April 2013
Within hours of launching, a Twitter in-stream payments service from start-up Ribbon has been killed off by the micro-blogging site.
11 April 2013
Bloomberg is to integrate real-time Twitter feeds into its market data terminal. The announcement follows this week's decision by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to allow companies to use social media for corporate disclosures.
04 April 2013
Publicly-listed US companies can share market-moving information on Facebook and Twitter, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ruled.
03 April 2013
The head of new City watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority has vowed to take a more proactive approach than his predecessors, monitoring social media sites like Twitter to sniff out illegal behaviour.
28 March 2013
ING Direct Canada is exploring the use of Facebook, spoken commands and voice biometrics for its next generation of mobile banking initiatives.
21 March 2013
Chirpify has brought its in-stream commerce system to Facebook, enabling users to transfer money to each other by commenting on news feeds.
20 March 2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission has sought to quell confusion among investment firms about the use of channels such as Facebook and Twitter for marketing communications by clarifying its social media rules.
18 March 2013
Bitcoin Tipper, a service, that lets users send the virtual currency to friends through Twitter, has launched.
15 March 2013
Location-based social networking outfit Foursquare has struck a deal with Visa and MasterCard that will see cardholders receive discounts for checking in at certain retailers.
26 February 2013
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