This week, compliance management platform Continuity Control and cbanc Network, a knowledge-collaboration community, announced a partnership.

This partnership will make Continuity Control's RegAdvisor, a quarterly briefing, available through cbanc's WebEd program.

RegAdvisor is a complimentary event to help financial institutions gain a practical view of new compliance regulations, and helps them understand what steps are necessary to ensure compliance. To register for the next RegAdvisor, click here.

The terms of this deal have not been disclosed.

cbanc Network demoed at FinovateFall 2011, Continuity Control demoed at FinovateSpring 2010.

• Prosper announces new API for lenders.

• American Banker reports: Union Bank signs up for Fiserv's Bill Pay.

• Bolstr featured on MSNBC's Your Business.

• Backbase gives a glimpse of the Digital Marketing Module it showed at FinovateEurope.

• Triple Pundit looks at how the SEC is holding SoMoLend and other debt/equity crowdfunding platforms hostage.

• USA Today considers Lending Club's success.

• CIO lists Expensify as 1 of 3 apps to help at tax time.

• BellaDati releases updates to its platform.

• Credit Karma launches app for Android.

• Med Gadget interviews Diversinet CEO, Dr. Hon Pak.

• Finextra reports Geezeo signs 1st United Services Credit Union.

• CashStar announces availability of tablet gifting.

• Android, iOS updates now provide card-to-card payments with Pageonce.

• Dough Roller blog names PocketSmith one of the best calendar-based personal finance apps.

• Continuity Control to partner with cbanc Network to provide regulatory briefing via RegAdvisor.

• Koolspan and DeviceFidelity team up to build TrustSleeve, bringing microSD-based voice encryption to the iPhone.

• Locaid and Life360 join forces to help parents stay in touch with their kids.

• The Financial Brand highlights 50 of the most spectacular website designs in banking: Simple (formerly BankSimple), Standard Chartered, Mint, & Moven. See Netbanker's take on the list here.

• MasterCard announces MasterPass, enabling one-touch transactions with payment cards and devices.

• BankNxt takes a look at Finovate Europe 2013.

• Service2Media launches new version of App Lifecycle Platform, M2Active 4.0.

• TSYS extends payment processing contract with Green Dot.

• lovemoney.com features Azimo's money transfer service.

• Continuity Control releases regulatory compliance management system for small- to mid-size credit unions.

• Kantox adds spot transactions to FX to offer a full range of FX services to corporate clients.

• Kony opens EMEA office, enhances mobile CRM product.

• Market Consensus reviews BillGuard.

• New Zealand-based bank, ASB, supports automagic bank feeds into Xero.

• Next Advisor compares TrustedID with competitor.

• Des Moines Register reports: Open atmosphere, passion for product help Cedar Falls' Banno grow.

• SafetyPay to power Computop's Paygate payment platform.

August was the biggest funding month of the third quarter. Six companies raised more than $49 million, led by FreeMonee, which alone raised $34 million.

In addition to the eight companies listed below, On Deck Capital raised $100 million in credit facility commitments in late August. 

Here's the Q3 summary for 2012:

July -- $6 million raised by 2 companies

• Continuity Control: $1 million -- press release
• SaveUp: $5 million -- blog post

August -- More than $49 million raised by 6 companies

• DemystData: (undisclosed) -- blog post
• FutureAdvisor: $5 million -- blog post
• FreeMonee: $34 million -- blog post
• The Currency Cloud: $3.1 million -- blog post 
• CashStar: $5 million -- blog post
• Continuity Control: $2.25 million - blog post

Note: Funding that companies received before they demonstrated at Finovate was not counted. Questions? Comments? E-mail us at Julie@Finovate.com or David@Finovate.com.

Community FI compliance expert, Continuity Control, announced a round of $2.25 million in funding yesterday, along with some news about growth.

The round of funding, which Continuity Control CEO and founder hopes will be the last it will need, came from Connecticut Innovations and several angel investors.

It comes after a $1.1 million round in July 2011, and a $2.1 million round in 2010.

The Connecticut-based company will use the round to expand the company's support and sale infrastructure for growth.

In preparation for growth, Continuity Control is expanding to an office space that is 4 times the size of its current location.

To learn more about Continuity Control, watch its FinovateSpring 2010 demo.

Compliance management company, Continuity Control, recently announced that it doubled revenue in the third quarter of 2011:

"As it did in the first two quarters of 2011, the company doubled its revenue again in the third quarter with growth in markets across the country."

Along with this pattern of growth, it also announced a partnership with BancVue, a company that provides marketing and consulting solutions to community financial institutions. 

To learn more about Continuity Control and BancVue, watch Continuity's FinovateSpring 2010 demo and BancVue's Finovate 2009 demo.

This is a guest post from John Fishback of 154 Consulting, the firm that helps us coach the innovative fintech companies selected for Finovate on their demos.

Titling this post was difficult.  "Actually demonstrate your product," "Remember why your company exists," and, most simply, "Don't read a script" were all in contention.

The titling difficulties were because this post focuses on how to avoid some of the problems that plague less successful Finovate demos -- those that lose the audience early or leave them wondering why the presenting company came to the conference. 

The classic examples are those demos that feature a presenter using their seven minutes to give a short speech about the industry or about the history of their company, only occasionally rambling near to what's being shown on the screen, and stopping only when they reach their time limit and their microphone is mercifully cut off.

At the other extreme, and almost as difficult for the audience, are the presenters that are so worried about their time and message that they read closely from an over-worked script, leaving the Finovate auditorium feeling stuffy and dull.

These two problems feel very different. But they come from the same root cause, and can be addressed by the same three tactics.

The root cause of both problems is that the presenter failed to let the product tell its story. If your product is compelling enough to have been selected for Finovate, there is something about it that will move the audience. Putting that powerful thing, rather than your view of the industry or even the details of your company, center stage is the first step towards a solid demo.

Continuity Control got this right at Finovate this spring in San Francisco. CEO Andy Greenawalt did a great job of putting his product in context, and then got right to the demo. Compliance is a complex and inflammatory issue; he could have spent three or four minutes framing out the challenge.  But he didn't. He started showing off the product, and wove detail about his customers' challenges throughout the demo. 

The worst demos show amazing technology that's hunting for a problem to solve. The best demos help the audience understand a customer problem and demonstrate how the product solves that problem.

Expensify's FinovateSpring 2010 demo centers around the manager that approves expenses. CEO David Barrett explains the frustrations of the approving manager, and then shows how Expensify's whiz-bang technology makes those frustrations disappear.

A better example of this kind of scripting is the Billeo demo from FinovateFall 2009. CEO Murali Subbarao consistently directs our attention to the screen, describes what's happening, and then tells us why the functionality Billeo provides makes customers' lives easier.

Scripting in this way ensures that the product remains the audience's main focus and prevents you from wandering off topic, while avoiding over-scripted stuffiness.

(There are exceptions to the rule. iPay technologies did a great job of showing how their product works through a tightly scripted demo, but they put in a great deal of rehearsal time to make that work, and the script remained focused on the customer problem.)

For Finovate demos, it is the product that matters most. Failing to put the product first creates a variety of problems, and is the shared characteristic of the least effective demos. Successful demos follow many different approaches, but all focus clearly on the presenter's product.

This is a guest post from John Fishback. John is the principal of 154 Consulting and directs 154's Financial Services Product Group, which combines message development and presentation advice services with financial services industry experience to help financial services companies, startups, and vendors develop and market products that speak clearly to customers' needs. He can be reached at john@154consulting.com.

Here are the news headlines we posted this week on Twitter (follow it here).

Bling Nation provides mobile payments to Community State Bank - Community State Bank in Lamar, CO, is offering the Bling Nation mobile payments service. The bank's program includes more than 40 merchants accepting Bling Tag payments. http://bit.ly/bzAIDn

Dow Jones and IAC shut down FiLife - Dow Jones and IAC closed their financial information site FiLife.com. The site allowed visitors to discuss financial issues and concerns. The FiLife iPhone app is no longer available in the iTunes app store. http://bit.ly/cSjsPk

Geezeo partners with Unitus Community Credit Union - Geezeo has entered a partnership with Unitus Community Credit Union. Geezeo will provide financial tools to the credit union's members, including its PFM, community, and integrated marketing platforms. http://bit.ly/9FeyaJ

Mint switches to Intuit for data aggregation - Mint is now using aggregation software from its parent company Intuit. The PFM can now pull data from 16,000 financial institutions. Previously, Mint partnered with Yodlee for back-end account aggregation. http://bit.ly/9BTJwV

Mortgagebot reports increase in loan applications - Mortgagebot's online mortgage shopping service, Mortgage Marvel, reported an increase of consumer visits of 140% from 2008 to 2009, resulting in a 66% increase in overall loan applications taken by participating lenders. http://bit.ly/b4DP7S

Online Resources names interim CEO - Online Resources has named John Dorman as interim chief executive officer, replacing former interim CEO Raymond T. Crosier who resigned from the company. Dorman will also continue to serve as co-chairman of the company's board. Online Resources continues to search for a permanent CEO. http://bit.ly/cpiLJZ

Prosper Raises $14.7 Million - Prosper has raised $14.7 million in a Series D round. The funding came from Prosper's previous investors as well as two new ones, TomorrowVentures and CompuCredit Holdings. Prosper has raised a total of $57.7 million to date. TomorrowVentures is the investment vehicle for Google CEO Eric Schmidt. http://tcrn.ch/bXjOGp

SmartyPig raises its interest rates -SmartyPig announced plans to raise the interest on certain accounts. Beginning May 19, APY will be increased to 2.15% for accounts with balances of less $50,000. http://bit.ly/dpCq5g

ThreatMetrix provides fraud detection to BigCrumbs.com - ThreatMetrix is providing fraud-detection services to BigCrumbs.com, a company that provides consumers loyalty rewards for shopping online. ThreatMetrix will help identify purchases made with stolen or suspect credit cards. http://bit.ly/aaZZBn

Vidoop's assets used to launch Confident Technologies - Security software company Vidoop, whose assets were acquired in January, is being relaunched as Confident Technologies. The company uses image-recognition technology to allow graphics to be used for password authentication. http://bit.ly/9xWOz3

WorkLight's new development platform - Worklight launched the Worklight Solution for E-Commerce, a development system for cross-platform applications. The solution allows companies to design applications for mobile devices, desktops, social networks and personalized homepages as part of a single development project. http://bit.ly/9Qesn3

Fiserv, Jack Henry, FIS and ClairMail Provide 86% of Mobile Banking to Community Banks - Banc Investment Group conducted a survey of 687 community bankers. Of the institutions already offering mobile services, 36% use a technology platform from Fiserv, 24% from Jack Henry, 16% from FIS/Metavante and 10% from Clairmail. http://bit.ly/aZTAut

And news from our newest soon-to-be alumni presenting at FinovateSpring 2010:

Continuity Control launches ComplianceTax.com - Continuity Control launched ComplianceTax.com, a website that helps educate banks and credit unions about the expenses involved in complying with government regulation. http://bit.ly/9CNOFk

TSYS processes payment cards for Japanese bank - TSYS was selected by SBI Sumishin Net Bank to process its payment card portfolio. TSYS will handle the issuance of retail membership cards, private-label credit cards, and association-branded cards. SBU Sumishin is a Japanese Internet-based bank with more than 750,000 accounts. http://bit.ly/8YrjcT

Visa to acquire CyberSource - Visa has agreed to acquire CyberSource for $26 per share, or about $2 billion. CyberSource provides electronic payment and security services. The deal is expected to close in Visa's fourth fiscal quarter. http://bit.ly/ams1Y9

Just a quick reminder that the early-bird ticket prices for FinovateSpring 2010 (May 11, San Francisco) will expire at the end of March (less than 2 days from now). If you register by March 31, you'll save $100 on your ticket and lock in your spot to see debuts and demos of dozens of new financial and banking technological innovations. 

We've handpicked an amazing list of companies to demo their latest including:

Tickets are selling well with hundreds of registered attendees from great organizations like: 

FinovateSpring is one of our twice-yearly showcases of the best new ideas in banking and financial technology. The show is built around a unique blend of fast-paced demos of actual technology (no slides!) and high-quality networking with an audience of senior FI executives, fintech entrepreneurs, VCs, press, industry analysts and bloggers. It's an awesome environment to find your next competitive edge.

Don't miss out on the early-bird price on your ticket to this great show. Register now!

P.S. Online Banking Report subscribers are entitled to an extra discount to our Finovate conferences. Email me to get it.

We're very pleased to announce the lineup for the upcoming FinovateSpring 2010 conference. Taking place on Tuesday May 11 in San Francisco, the conference will showcase dozens of handpicked companies debuting and demoing their latest and greatest fintech innovations. The quality of the new ideas that will be demoed on stage is very high this year and we're incredibly excited to showcase them to you.

The demoing companies selected (that we can reveal so far) are:

These companies will be showcased to an audience of senior financial/banking/credit union executives, influential press, industry analysts, venture capitalists, bloggers, tech companies and entrepreneurs.

A sampling of the great organizations already registered to attend includes: AARP, Aite, Alliant Credit Union, BNP Paribas, Capital One, Celent, Discover, Experian, Fidelity, Filene, Forrester Research, Google, Highland Capital, Intuit, Javelin Strategy, Jack Henry, Mechanics Bank, Motley Fool, NY Times, PayPal, Tower Group, USAA, US Bank, Venrock, Wells Fargo, and Wired Magazine.

We'd love to have you join us at the spring event and watch the future of finance/banking unfold onstage. If you register today you'll save $100 via the early-bird ticket discount. Please note that the early-bird prices expire at the end of this month and space is limited so lock in your spot now!