Abstract: Systems and methods for transferring funds from a financial account held at a financial institution to a recipient using a social media platform include a social linking application programming interface (API) that establishes a link between a sender social media account that is associated with sender financial account data and at least one recipient social media account that is associated with recipient financial account data; a database that maintains the link between the at least one linked sender financial account and at the least one linked recipient financial account, an input/output interface that receives, via a network, a request from a sender financial institution identified in the linked sender financial account data to transfer funds from a sender social media subscriber associated with the sender social media account to a recipient social media subscriber associated with the recipient social media account, wherein the request identifies the linked recipient social media account and includes a tra