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#20 Articles (1-13 February 2011) – Social Media News in Banking, Finance, Insurance

I invite you to check my previous news articles on social media in banking, financial services and insurance.

Please find below 20 blog posts and articles you shouldn’t miss in February.

BANKING
Social Media – Risk & Guidelines
List of Social Media User Policies & Moderation Guidelines in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance (on Visible Banking)
Bank’s Social Media Policy Says Snitch & Spy on Your Friends or You’re Fired (on The Financial Brand)
Commonwealth Bank Employees get busy! (by Jim)

Personal Financial Management
American Express Now Offers Basic PFM Functions (by Jim Bruene)
Why are there so many PFM demo’s? (by Chris Skinner)
Visa joins PFM bandwagon with new spend management tool (on Finextra)
Lloyds TSB makes PFM move (on Finextra)

Strategy & Innovation

Guest Post #5 – From Israel, Bank Leumi’s Social Media Strategy (by Gidi Dorevitch)
The new customer interface: Virtualization and Digital Relationship (by Brett King)
Social Media ROI vs. ROA: Put Your Money Where Your Word-of-Mouth Is(by Ron Shevlin)
Study Shows Social Media Sentiment Towards Banks Turns Positive (on The Financial Brand)
Is Social Brand Engagement the new barometer for Trust? (by Jamie Anderson)
Innovation differs at banks and start-ups: it all comes from principles of financial success (by Daniel Gusev)

Events
Finovate Europe 2011: Top Demoing Companies, Pictures and Videos(on Visible Banking)
FinovateEurope 2011 Guide Available (by Jim Bruene)
Welcome to the newest members of the Social Media Business Council: PNC Financial Services, Zurich Insurance Company (on gasdepal)
  
Mobile & iPad
SEB launches iPad app for institutional clients (on Finextra)
   
FINANCIAL SERVICES & INVESTMENT
A Lite Analysis Of Mutual Fund Firms ‘Getting Hip’ To Social Media (by Pat Allen)

INSURANCE
Beware: Insurance companies are watching you on Facebook, Twitter (by Kevin Lyons)
How Insurance Industry Leaders are Using Social Media (on Hurddat Social Media)

What do you think?

Written by Christophe Langlois

Based in London for almost a decade, Christophe is an entertaining fintech marketing keynote speaker and a trusted advisor to the global financial services industry on the topics of digital marketing, innovation and B2B social media.

Christophe has contributed to over 140 events in 18 countries.

Currently, Christophe is advising a number of fintech startups on marketing and growth hacking and he is the Chief Marketing Officer of The Fintech Power 50, an exclusive annual programme helping fintech scale-ups to accelerate their growth globally.

Christophe's views on VisibleBanking.com are his own.

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