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News/Social media
Facebook's plan to introduce its own digital coin that people can send and receive, across borders, over WhatsApp is so advanced that talks are already underway with cryptocurrency exchanges about selling the new token, according to the New York Times.
01 March 2019
In another hint of its intentions in the payments space, Facebook has been advertising for a 'Technical Program Manager, Marketplace Payments Blockchain'.
15 February 2019
At this year’s London Blockchain Week, the event opened with a summary of how the perception of bitcoin, and its underlying technology blockchain, has changed over the past five years.
11 February 2019
Facebook has reignited speculation about its plans in the payments space by aqui-hiring the team behind London-based blockchain startup Chainspace.
05 February 2019
News/payments
UK bank first direct has teamed up with social payments startup PayKey to let customers send money to friends from within apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
28 January 2019
Royal Bank of Canada has become embroiled in a privacy scandal engulfing Facebook after it emerged that the social network appeared to provide a raft of Big Tech companies with privileged access to user accounts.
19 December 2018
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
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