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Meta’s payment plays may pay off this year: report

Payments Dive

A partnership between tech giants Meta and Amazon “could represent the tipping point of transforming social media into a transaction platform,” Mizuho Securities analysts said in a report this week.

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Burger King, Steak-umm And Next-Level Social Media Marketing

PYMNTS

Brands have flocked to social media in an attempt to meet their consumers where they are and display a different side of themselves. Social media can be a terrific place to build bonds with one’s customers and show off a clever, avant-garde sense of humor – if a brand is good at it. In their defense. Did it work?

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HSBC To Staff: Stay Off Bank’s Social Media Accounts

PYMNTS

21) to stay off the bank’s social media sites after a report was leaked to BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). . In another case, the news outlet reported that when investigators for HSBC in the U.S.

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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. To find out which brand was the consumer favorite, at least on social […].

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Amex Study: Social Media Shout-Outs Could Pump $197B Into SMB Economy

PYMNTS

As the holidays grow closer, American Express says research has shown that social media promotions and engagement could be a big boost for this year's Small Business Saturday event, according to a press release. The majority of those businesses included restaurants, with retail close behind.

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Report: Hackers Hit 2,000 Robinhood Accounts

PYMNTS

A recent hack compromised around 2,000 Robinhood Markets accounts, suggesting the attacks were more widespread than previously realized, Bloomberg reported. Social media saw a deluge of complaints about the attacks, Bloomberg reported. Some users reported not hearing back from the company for multiple days.

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TD Ameritrade Chatbot Lets Users Trade Over Twitter

Bank Innovation

Brokerage TD Ameritrade has created a Twitter “chatbot” that will allow its users to initiate trades over the social media platform, the Wall Street Journal reported today.