the dust has yet to settle on the facebook cambridge analytical scandal in which the data of millions of users was harvested to further political agendas that facebook apparently now wants to collect detailed information on bank customers to broaden its range of services and increase user engagement on its messenger app which has one point three billion users the wall street journal says facebook has approached several major banks including j.p. morgan chase and citi group but many of them have turned their request down unhappy about the idea of passing client bank account data on to facebook. facebook has denied it's been asking banks for their clients' account data. it insists it simply works together with banks as a way of offering users a connection to check their account balance or to check with their bank.