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The Wild West meets Wall Street
Today is a huge landmark in the world of social networking and in business. LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, and one of our partners, has gone public. They are now one of the first billion-dollar web 2.0 exits since YouTube.
Social media ≠ Social business
It seems like you can’t go a day without seeing another story on social networks, social media, social marketing…the list goes on and on.
Advisers failing to communicate with clients
A new article from American Banker points out how Advisers are deficient in client communication. In the article they highlight findings from SEI, a provider of asset management, investment processing, and investment operations solutions for institutional and personal wealth management.
American Century releases new social media study
According to the new American Century Investments’ 2011 Financial Professionals Social Media Adoption Study, the number of financial professionals who said regulatory or compliance concerns were a barrier to their social media use dropped to 38% from 47% in last year’s survey.
Why LinkedIn should be your new homepage
LinkedIn recently announced their new social news platform for professionals, called LinkedIn Today. This platform is essentially a daily digest of all the information that your network, your peers or your industry is reading right now.
SEC Swept Up by Social Media (PART 2)
For Part 2 of our discussion on the SEC social media sweeps letter I’d like to address the following questions that I suspect many of you are asking:
SEC Swept Up by Social Media (PART 1)
There has been a lot of buzz lately about the regulatory happenings in the financial sector. No, this isn’t about Dodd-Frank, this is about Social Media.
IIROC Publishes Social Media Notice
This week started off with the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) releasing updated guidelines for the review, supervision and retention of advertisements, sales literature and correspondence.
2010: Social Media & Financial Services (a look back)
We’ve rung in the New Year and with the finalizing of 2011 goals and priorities it is worth taking a step back to see how exactly we got here.
Banks rushing for social media gold
While some doubt the measurable impact of social media on the financial services market, a few recent articles underscore that customers want to interact – and some banks are answering the call.
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