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Banks Must Up Their Social Media Game to Connect with Digital Natives

Gonzobanker

Traditional financial institutions that want to compete with fintech disruptors like Chime and X (formerly known as Twitter) need to up their social media game. hours per day on social media. Sofi has built strong engagement through its Richer Lives social media strategy and influencer Vivian, “your rich BFF.”

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Bitcoin Joins American Express and PayPal on 2017 List of Social Media Darlings

Bank Innovation

American Express is the “most-loved” financial service on social media in 2017, according to a recent report, followed by PayPal, Vanguard and bitcoin. NetBase examined 55 brands across sectors including banking, credit cards, investment banking, payment services, insurance, online lenders and crypto.

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Revolutionizing the Way We Pay: The Top Payment Industry Trends You Need to Know in 2023

Perficient

Here are some of the biggest payment trends we’re forecasting for the new year. Security/Biometric Payments With the widespread popularity of digital payments continuing to grow, security remains at the forefront of concern for payment companies and their vendor partners.

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Why mobile social media money transfers are going to be huge

Payments Dive

FIs and payment processors have a major opportunity to collaborate with FinTech pioneers such as Moneymailme to serve the growing market for mobile social media money transfers.

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The Role of Social Media in Extending Financial Opportunities – FinTech Examples

Let's Talk Payments

Facebook alone gathers 98 personal data points for targeted ads The number of worldwide social media users reached 2.34 billion, and is expected to grow to ~2.95 billion by 2020.

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Facebook Likes Payments: Cryptocurrency, Not So Much

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE – Payments might not be a substantial portion of social media platform Facebook’s revenues, but it is an important one — particularly as non-payment companies increasingly begin to launch payment capabilities for social media platforms such as Messenger. That’s […].

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B2B Venture Capital: Corporate Social Media, Marijuana Procurement, and Big Data

PYMNTS

B2B FinTechs in the U.S. This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. Software-As-A-Service (SaaS).