Finovate Alumni News– December 19, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgThe Chicago Tribune lists Planwise, SigFig, Jemstep and FindaBetterBank as tools to fix your finances.
  • peerTransfer announces record setting 2013, bringing total customer base to 400 institutions.
  • Tradeshift brings in $15 million of a $57 million equity round.
  • Trustev brings in $500k from Notion Capital, Adding to the $3 Million it Garnered in October.
  • Business2Community features PaySimple.
  • Allied Payment Network teaming up with ACI Worldwide to provide same day bill pay via PicturePay.
  • Klarna acquires Sofort to become 10% of Europe’s $100 billion e-commerce market.
  • Les Muma, former Fiserv CEO, to join board of directors of FIS.
  • UAE’s Bank of Sharjah to offer CR2’s BankWorld-powered mobile banking app.
  • ayondo announces new features including open positions in profile view.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– October 23, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgOnline trading community tradimo and ayondo form partnership to offer tradimo users an alternative to active trading.
  • Tradeshift announces Dynamic Discounting as latest early payment offering to suppliers and buyers.
  • Dwolla partners with Alliance Data Systems to launch Dwolla Credit.
  • Wall Street & Technology takes a look at Fenergo’s report on client on boarding.
  • Zopa profiled in Yahoo Finance UK column on peer-to-peer lending.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– August 19, 2013

  • FinovateLOGO.jpgPersint among four new startups entering incubation phase of Yodlee Interactive Partner Lifecycle Program, NEXT.
  • Virtual Piggy to provide payment system to video game publisher Marvelous USA.
  • TSYS announces integration with FICO fraud management technology.
  • Monitise SVP of Strategy Richard Johnson talks about “making money mobile” at the Wired Money conference.
  • StockSmart joins Yodlee Interactive’s NEXT program for nurturing fintech startups. See StockSmart demo at FinovateFall in New York.
  • Fidor Bank customers to get access to social trading platform ayondo.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

FinovateAlumni News– July 2, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgLending Club’s platform has originated $2 billion in total personal loans, $158 million of loans in June alone.
  • HSBC Bank Oman launches SecureKey for internet banking and upgrades mobile banking app.
  • Adidas to accept SafetyPay for online payments across Latin America.
  • Iowa government will soon accept Dwolla as payment for property and vehicle taxes.
  • The American Bankers Association endorses the card-linked offer technology powered by Linkable Networks.
  • The Next Web reports: Virtual stock market game startup TradeHero aims for $5m funding and 1m users by year-end.
  • Monitise and Telefonica enter mobile money partnership.
  • The Globe and Mail looks at On Deck Capital, Lending Club, and CommunityLend’s FinanceIt as alternative financing.
  • Money Insider column in The Independent features Azimo.
  • Pymnts.com interviews TSYS Director of Acquiring Solutions Product Management, Tedd Huff on payment processing.
  • OpenCoin launches Bitcoin Bridge, an e-commerce enabler for Ripple.
  • CEOCFO Magazine interviews Blaze Mobile CEO Michelle Fisher.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– June 13, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgZopa Safeguard now has 15,000 users and has had £16m lent on platform. Zopa reaches £300m in money lent to borrowers in the UK.
  • Bank Innovation reports: Cardlytics Has 33 Million Active Users at 400 Banks.
  • Inc. Magazine creates infographic of how to select the right crowdfunding platform. Bolstr and SeedInvest among choices.
  • CommunityLend’s FinanceIt partners with Pivotal Payments, a credit card payment processing company, to enable merchants to process loans directly at the POS.
  • Capital Access Network opens new facility in Lindora, Costa Rica to support growth.
  • Finect president Jennifer Openshaw talks networking for financial professionals on MarketWatch Radio.
  • Street Fight Mag includes Placecast among its “5 Tools for Point of Interest Geo-Targeting”.
  • TransferWise launches GetPaid to make it easier to get compensated when working with international clients and partners.
  • Developer Tech features Keynote Systems’ CEO Umang Gupta.
  • Point of Sale highlights Finovate alumni Flint Mobile and PayPal.
  • Social Trading Guru reviews ayondo 3.0.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

ayondo Launches in the United Kingdom

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ayondo’s European expansion just reached another border, as the company announces that it has launched its social trading service in the UK.

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, ayondo is an innovator in the world of social trading. The company’s platform allows average investors to share trades and investments and, more importantly, to trade and invest alongside the best performing traders and investors on the platform.

Those using ayondo can trade a variety of assets, including currencies, stock market indices, individual stocks, and commodities. Traders can begin following up to 5 top traders for a little as €100.

ayondohomepage.jpgThat ayondo would expand to the UK should probably come as little surprise. The company had already expressed its interest in the UK and Irish markets by adding spread betting to the platform earlier this year. Spread betting is available only to ayondo’s clients living in Ireland or the UK.

Said ayondo managing director Thomas Winkler in a press release, “ayondo is the first social trading platform to offer spread betting with proportional following for a wide range of asset classes.”
ayondo was founded in 2008, and launched its social trading platform in January 2012. The company demoed its technology as part of the FinovateEurope show a year later in London. See  the company’s presentation here.

Finovate Alumni News– June 11, 2013

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  • miiCard partners with authentication company, Toopher, to help users and businesses more effectively fight fraud and secure new services online.
  • BBVA Compass deploys Mitek’s Mobile Photo Bill Pay.
  • TIBCO Software acquires StreamBase Systems.
  • Kofax issued patent that covers sending receipt confirmation for a fax.
  • AU Arts Hub profiles Narrative Science’s approach to journalism.
  • Cashstar announces patent for virtual gift card technology.
  • Keynote brings MITE Enterprise, DeviceAnywhere Enterprise to UFT users.
  • Green Dot to acquire Walmart’s reloadable prepaid card business, MoneyCard.
  • Affinity Solutions raises more than $21 million.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– March 31, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgIDology launches photo ID scan & validation solution.
  • Aseanstartup reports: Big data becomes agile and beautiful with BellaDati.
  • BBC News features Nick Hungerford, Nutmeg CEO.
  • BusinessDating.com adds miiCard ID proofing for members.
  • ShopKeep POS iPad point of sale wins Red Herring Top 100 North America Award.
  • The WSJ features Personal Capital features Personal Capital and Jemstep.
  • The Economist looks at P2P lending through the eyes of Lending Club and Prosper.
  • peerTransfer adds 22 new payment methods from China and India.
  • Consumer Reports’ Money Minute takes a look at EyeVerify in a report on smart phone banking security.
  • ayondo offers spread betting for UK and Irish customers.
  • Four Finovate alumni featured in OBR crowdfunding report.
  • Founder and managing director of Mozo, Rohan Gamble interviewed by The CEO Magazine.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– March 4, 2013

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  • Online Broker Review takes a look at the TradeKing iPhone app.
  • Ayondo’s investing and trading app TradeHub available on the iPhone.
  • Entrepreneur interviews Candance Klein, CEO of SoMoLend.
  • Brr Media interviews Kiboo founder and CEO Lisa Halpern.
  • TechCrunch chats with Simple CEO and co-founder Josh Reich to find out why Simple is better than your bank.
  • Lend Academy reports: Lending Club Issues $120 Million in New Loans in February.
  • American Banker reports: Bank of Zachary Selects Andera’s Account Opening System.
  • Check Point positioned as leader for 16th consecutive year in 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewall.
  • The WSJ reports: SecondMarket to Launch Student-Loan Securities Platform.
  • Blippy for iPad available at the iTunes App store.
  • Comarch announced as a sponsor of Loyalty Expo 2013 in Orlando, Florida.
  • Prepaid Resources announces partnership with IDology.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Third Generation ayondo Underscores the Benefits of Social Trading

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.
Starting off our final session here on Day Two of FinovateEurope is ayondo. Ayondo is bringing social trading to a new level of usability, social interaction and guidance from top traders.

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“The best traders. Now on your account. The idea is temptingly simple: Why should we make trades ourselves if we can get the best day traders on our accounts automatically?
Doing away with fees such as issue surcharges, transaction costs, and management and deposit commission? Build your own portfolio of top traders and change them as often as you like – for free.”
Product Launched: January 2012
HQ Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Company Founded: 2008
Metrics: 12 employees; 3.2 million raised to date
Website: ayondo.com
Twitter: @ayondo_uk
Presenting Manuel Heyden (CEO & Founder) and Alexander Surminski (CMO)
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Ayondo Demos What’s New in Social Trading

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Concluding the third session, ayondo demoed its new social trading platform:

“The third generation of ayondo brings social trading to a complete new level in terms of usability, social interaction, and guidance of top traders.”

Product Launch: November 2012
HQ: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Founded: 2008
Product Demoed: ayondo 3.0
Metrics: 12 employees; $3.2M raised to date
Website: ayondo.com
Finovate demo video: Demo videos will be posted next week
Introducing Manuel Heyden (CEO & Founder) and Alexander Surminski (CMO)

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FinovateAsia 2012 Sneak Peek: Part 2

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Here is the second and final look at the companies that will demo at FinovateAsia on November 6 in Singapore. Each company provided a short summary of the innovation they will debut on stage. In case you missed it, check out Sneak Peek Part 1.

Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the hottest innovations in financial technology at the very first FinovateAsia. Get your FinovateAsia ticket here.

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ayondo shows the newest and third generation of their web application which will be the next 

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generation of social trading. Simply follow the best traders automatically with your brokerage account.
Innovation type: Banking, investing, PFM

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Backbase delivers Bank 2.0 Portal software that provides a new user experience layer on top of underlying infrastructure and IT systems. It gives financials the opportunity to create interactions that link customers to relevant information and applications to fit their needs and preferences. With its modern, widget-based architecture, Backbase Bank 2.0 Portal provides the flexibility and speed to create modern portals that truly empower the customer.

Innovation type: Marketing, mobile, online
BankBazaar.com will demo its 7-minute Credit eApproval 

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process highlighting the platform’s real-time integration with underwriting engines, loan origination systems, net-banking systems, and online payroll management tools. Combined with a full service CRM system powering credit and sales work flow management, the platform delivers 7-minute eApproval via online, mobile, and tablet interfaces.
Innovation type: Lending, mobile, online

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Clari5 iRM brings extreme real-time intelligence to Relationship Managers (RMs) on the move. Typical RM mobile apps are screen extensions of CRM and are not connected in real-time to the underlying core systems. Consequently RMs are the last ones to know when a significant moment of truth event happens. 
Clari5 iRM is a next generation product that interprets customers’ structured/unstructured events in real-time and provides an inference instantly empowering RMs to provide more personalized services. Clari5 iRM also leverages the full power of the device by using its real-time push, GPS, voice recognition, video, and screen sharing capabilities.
Innovation type: Marketing, mobile, sales

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Can publicly available information gleaned from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other online sources 
help financial institutions predict financial risk?
DemystData helps financial institutions tap into the explosive growth of online, social, and internal data to make better customer decisions. Our latest innovation navigates some of the world’s newest data sources to provide our clients with a deep, holistic view of the modern day consumer, and then uses this information to assess consumer risk and behaviour.
Innovation type: Identity, lending, marketing

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Need an onboarding tool that increases customer engagement? Figlo offers a complete solution to gain insight in financial matters on a consumer level. Financial planning is now accessible to everyone on any device anywhere.
Innovation type: Marketing, online, PFM

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See how financial institutions can save millions by implementing BankFiling, a new innovation from Luminous that delivers short ROI yet requires limited investment. A whole new approach to commercial and business banking. A must see for all financial institutions!
Innovation type: Banking, lending, small business
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Pandai.cn delivers next generation peer-to-peer 2.0 lending services in China by answering what the future of peer-to-peer lending should be. It should be safe, transparent, inclusive and easy-to-understand. 
You’ll see how easy it is to invest in creditworthy borrowers that have passed our robust credit risk management system.
Innovation type: Investing, lending, PFM

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Can you tag your financial position, identify the cross vertical exposure by currency, industry, issuer, region real-time; on-demand? The last 30 years have seen amazing advances in technology that have transformed the world. In the world of financial technology, all of this power has been applied to develop more complex instruments – derivatives, swaps, CDO’s CDS’s – faster and faster trading platforms – “flash trading” and co-location, and risk analytics and trading models.
But, the ability to track and account for this explosion of trading vehicles and volumes is right where it was 30 years ago. Not anymore, come see the future of transparency.&n
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Innovation type: Back office, insurance, investing

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PocketSmith is the comprehensive personal finance app with cashflow forecasting. 
We think that the best way to organize and control your money is to relate it to events in your life by using a calendar. This way, financial planning becomes a part of your daily routine rather than a chore.
As you plan, PocketSmith’s calendar shows you the progress of your money over time, so you will better understand how your financial decisions affect your future.
Innovation type: Mobile, online, PFM

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Want to know the secret to getting 60% of your customers to say yes to eBilling? All it takes is 7 minutes to see why email delivery of bills and statements is what gets customers to turn off paper forever.
Join Striata as we demonstrate our powerful interactive bill which is encrypted, has integrated eConsent, shared password security, instant dispute capability, and mobile one click pay.
With registration-free push email billing, you can drive traffic to your portal, cut your costs and deliver bills and statements right into your customers’ hands. Convenient, secure, mobile ready.
Innovation type: Communications, payments

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In the last 4 years, Tagit Mobility Platform Mobeix has been adopted by several leading enterprises. But, we believe mobility should be for all– large, medium and small enterprises. 
With this vision, we started our journey to build the Mobeix Open Platform through which enterprises can build, launch and manage apps on their own. Using the Tagit Open Platform, merchants and enterprises will be able to develop and deploy apps for their customers and employees in no time. We will demonstrate how easy it is for anyone to register and start building apps.
Innovation type: Banking, mobile, security

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TradeHero empowers ordinary people to make money from the financial markets. Traders are able to place real-time virtual trades against stock exchanges and TradeHero generates performance rankings of the trader community. 
Members of the TradeHero community can follow the top-ranked traders for a fee. Traders can build a following around themselves and monetize off their trade-feeds while those following get relevant, pertinent and timely financial trading tips and feeds.
Innovation type: Investing, mobile, payments

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The world is increasingly adopting smartphones and social media. Leading FIs are beginning to leverage these seismic shifts in communications for competitive advantage, reducing costs and generating new revenue streams. Smartphones change user expectations about online banking services, functionality, and interactivity. They also present new risk vectors that cannot be ignored. 
Zighra’s patent pending mobile technology provides unique interactivity, building closer customer relationships by increasing security, trust, and satisfaction while significantly reducing fraud and associated costs.
Innovation type: Communications, mobile, security