Last week's FinovateSpring 2013 received great coverage through blogs, tweets and articles. Here are the highlights:

Three contributors risked carpel tunnel to cover all 72 demos. Thanks to Erin McCune and William Mills III and Phillip Ryan for going the extra mile!

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by Phillip Ryan
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"Announcing Expensify Invoices! Now it's possible to transform expense reports into invoices and send directly to clients. Upload your company logo to create branded invoices. Combine multiple expense reports into a coherent branded invoice to email to your client with custom payment terms. Your clients can even pay their invoice directly through Expensify with ACH Direct Deposit or PayPal. 

Your favorite expense management software just got better! Take the paper, time, and headaches out of invoicing with Expensify Invoices."

• Braintree's Bryan Johnson provides columnist James Altucher with an example of "how to go from $0 to $1,000,000 in two years." See Braintree demo at FinovateSpring in San Francisco.

• TransactionAge takes a look at Klarna as an alternative to Google Wallet.

• Digital Mailer's My Virtual StrongBox deployed by Redstone Federal Credit Union.

• Investment News features Finect, a social network for financial advisors. Join them in San Francisco for FinovateSpring.

• miiCard partners with Bitcoin Exchange Platform, Tradehill.

• Innovation Agency updates Innovation Café to support formal judging process and integrated rewards payment process.

• TIO Networks announces partnership with mobile app developer iFactor Consulting.

• Bloomberg Businessweek reports: On Deck Capital Targets Businesses Banks Won't Touch.

• Programmable Web spotlights BancBox API.

• Lemon.ly compares Dwolla and PayPal.

• David Barrett, Expensify CEO, interviewed on SkyNews to talk about Bitcoin. Come check out what's new at Expensify at FinovateSpring next week.

• Best Vendor profiles Gremln. See them in action at FinovateSpring in San Francisco.

• Upstart Business Journal features SeedInvest. See them demo at FinovateSpring in San Francisco in May.

• Experian announces acquisition of Decisioning Solutions.

• Volunteer Federal Savings Bank and Peoples Bank of the South choose Jack Henry Banking for  enterprise-wide automation.

• GFT Blog interviews Matthias Kroner, chairman of the Fidor management board for Fidor Bank.

• Authentify placed in Visionaries quadrant of the Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for User Authentication." 

• Boku partners with Bigpoint SARL and Co to allow users to make virtual payments.

• Kony Solutions partners with Blue Shield of CA to develop and deploy apps on the KonyOne Platform.

• miiCard adds YubiKey Authentication to online identity proofing solution.

• SF Gate lists Mint and Expensify as 2 of 4 services to keep tax records organized.

• Expensify makes Reconciliation and Central Administration features available for American Express corporate cardholders.

• Micronotes providing series of marketing campaigns for USAlliance FCU to help cross-selling efforts.

• Palo Alto Software announces launch of EntrepreWorld, a virtual environment to test business plans in a virtual world of avatars. Come see Palo Alto demo its latest technology at FinovateSpring.

• Consumers CU chooses Andera's oFlows platform for online account opening and lending.

• Lighter Capital appoints Molly Gregg Otter as Vice President.

• Bloomberg looks at how Jemstep, SigFig, and FutureAdvisor help manage your portfolio online. See Jemstep's new tech at FinovateSpring.

• Forbes takes a close up look at London's FinTech Innovation Lab, including participants BehavioSec, Kiboo, and Open Bank Project.

• Huff Post blog considers Lighter Capital's Revenue Loans as alternative to VC funding.

• GCN looks at Dwolla's use in government.

• Huff Post blog considers automated report-writing software company, Narrative Science. See its new tech at FinovateSpring.

• MyBankTracker reviews Tuition.io.

• Y C Universe profiles Trust Egg. See them demo at FinovateSpring in May.

• MicroStrategy signs technology alliance agreement with MapR.

• Berry Review takes a look at Pageonce Money and Bills on Blackberry 10.

• Times of India highlights Klarna's growth in Europe.

• Incentive Mag previews the launch of CashStar's table gifting solution.

• Eye Verify announces results from biometric standard, performance and assurance lab survey. Join them in San Francisco for FinovateSpring.

• IntelliResponse selected by KMWorld as one of "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management" for 2013. Come see them in action at FinovateSpring in May.

• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially 'opened the doors' to On Deck Capital's new NYC HQ.

• Global Payments and edo Interactive launch pilot for card-linked offers network.

• Boston Business Journal interviews Leaf CEO Aron Schwarzkopf. See Leaf's demo at FinovateSpring in San Francisco.

Expense report management platform, Expensify, announced today that it has added Bitcoin as a reimbursement option for expense reports.

According to the announcement in its blog post, the San Francisco-based company hopes that this will benefit companies that regularly reimburse international employees and contractors. In addition to cutting back on hefty international currency transfer fees of up to 4%, Bitcoin transactions avoid ACH rails, so they are instant. 

In a press release, Expensify founder and CEO, David Barrett, stated that Bitcoin is the perfect solution for the increasing number of companies that need cross-currency reimbursement solutions.

To learn more about Expensify, watch its FinovateSpring 2012 demo or come see it demo its new technology at FinovateSpring 2013.

• TransferWise featured in HuffPost Students United Kingdom.

• EZBOB investor John Garfield profiled in The Telegraph.

• Money.co.uk compares money transfers through Azimo.

• Fiserv partners with Romania-based Eutron Invest to provide Cash and Logistics solution portfolio to the Romanian market.

• Forbes looks at the "best of the best" debt crowdfunders including Lending Club, Prosper, Zopa, SoMoLend, Rebirth Financial.

• SecureKey announced availability of its cloud-based briidge.net identity and authentication platform.

• ID Analytics introduces fraud detection solutions for online retailers.

• The Globe and Mail lists Expensify as 1 of 5 apps that take the bumps out of business travel.

• Petter Made, co-founder and COO of SumUp, talks about the advantages of Dublin as a base for business.

• Credit Union Times reports: Fiserv launches SpotPay.

• Finextra reports G&D and PayPal team on pre-paid mobile top-ups in Brazil.

• Practical eCommerce takes a look at Klarna Invoice for OSC programs.

• CSI's globalVCard wins top entrepreneurial prize at 2013 Innovation Project.

• Newfination interviews CurrencyFair's Brett Meyers.

• Fenergo releases enhanced compliance and customer onboarding support solution for FIs.

• Hedge Fund Alert highlights QuantConnect.

• FIS announces seven-year agreement with FirstBank Puerto Rico for outsourcing services.

• Fortnoff Financial reviews TradeKing.

• The Valley Girl Show interviews Locaid CEO, Rip Gerber.

• Creative Huddle takes a look at TransferWise as a disruptive force in banking.

• BillGuard launches early, limited MVP testing version of iPhone app.

• Expensify bolsters SalesForce integration by supporting FinancialForce.

• American Banker reports Backbase launches Portal 5.4,  enhancing digital marketing to include better targeting & more.

• Cortera launches Cortera Lookalikes to seek out new customers  that look and act like a company's existing customer base.

• rPlan launches "rplan University", an online course to provide crucial education on investing.

• ID Analytics launches ID Network Attributes, targeted consumer behavior insights that provide visibility into identity or transaction risk.

• Lend Academy reports LendingClub loans being snatched up quickly (within hours).

• PaySimple partners with CheckAlt to provide suite of payments and receivables tools to SMBs.

• Taulia to guarantee $1 million saved within first year.

• Validata to provide test case content for Temenos T24 German Banking Suite.

• 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.

• TechCrunch reports: PayPal separates developer platform from X.commerce, launches Simpler mobile APIs.

• Springwise considers the open source nature of TESOBE's OpenBankProject.

• Pindrop Security named the Best Rookie Security Company at the 2013 SC Awards.

• Servant of Chaos reports: SocietyOne eyes off disruption in personal lending.

• Intuit Small Business blog lists Mint and Expensify as 2 of 4 apps to help manage your small business.

• UK Wired Magazine reports BehavioSec invents alternative to passwords using biometric fingerprints.

• Edison Investment Research publishes report covering Virtual Piggy.

• Founder and CEO of Fuze Network, Dave Wilkes, to speak at the 2013 BAI Payments Connect Conference & Expo.

• TSYS reaches long-term deal with MLS Direct Network.

• Ad Age takes a look at Bazaarvoice's Media Labs project.

• ProfitStars launches Gladiator Managed IT Services.

• Expensify now available for BlackBerry 10 and the BlackBerry PlayBook.

• Bank Innovation reports: New Banno President Charles E. Potts says Grip Will Triple User Base in 2013.

• MyBankTracker lists Expensify as 1 of 3 finance apps that is way better than Mint.

• ThreatMetrix introduces Behavioral Analysis in the ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Defender Platform.

• The Verge interviews Josh Reich, Simple CEO.

• Monitise triples value of payments and transfers over its technology platform from $10bn to $31bn.

• Segodnya.ua features Liqpay in its review of the advantages and disadvantages of electronic money.

• Coast Capital Savings Credit Union in Canada to deploy Temenos T24 core banking app.

• Pockets United among the startups presenting at TechCrunch Mobile Barcelona this week.

• Xconomy's "Innovations in Financial Technology" features TradeKing.

• Temenos wins praise as "top advisor solution" from Aite Group.  Come see their demo at FinovateEurope in February!

• Spredfast announces Bazaarvoice integration.

• Pageonce reaches $1 million mark in daily mobile bill payments processed.

• A look at TradeKing after the merger.

• ACI Worldwide's Money Transfer System helps FIs with Dodd-Frank compliance.

• EZBOB forms partnership with ChannelGrabber.  Watch EZBOB in action at FinovateEurope!

• Monitise and CGI Logica form mobile FS alliance to target European retail banks.

• Tradeshift partners with Intuit to bring its social invoicing platform to more than 5m QuickBooks users.

• American Banker reports: Fiserv extends relationship with BofA. Come to FinovateEurope in London to see its live demo.

• CNBC talks with Alexa Von Tobel, LearnVest CEO.

• Bill.com and Expensify announce product integration.

• GrowthBusiness profiles Holvi. Comes see Holvi's new tech at FinovateEurope next month.

• Fast Company reports you can now pay taxes in Iowa using Dwolla.

• SimpleTuition reports 2012 success metrics for SmarterBucks program.

• DemystData a finalist in AWS Global Startup Challenge. 

Among the members of the Paperless Coalition are three Finovate Alumni: Xero, Manilla and Expensify. The Coalition is led by HelloFax, and has set-up a website, paperless2013.org where businesses can "take the pledge" to work toward using less paper - and sign up for the coalition's monthly newsletter.

According to Reduce.org, the average office worker consumes more than 10,000 sheets of paper every day. More than three million tons of office paper are used in the United States alone every year.

Also participating in the Coalition is Google via Google Drive.

To see Xero's most recent Finovate demonstration, click here. Manilla's last Finovate demo is here.  Expensify can be seen in action here.

• Xero's new release includes new features: email templates, payments terms & outstanding statements.

• Purchasing Insight blog features Taulia.

• Financial Advisor Magazine considers EFL's approach to determining risk in entrepreneurs.

• Business Insider recommends using Enloop to help draft business plans.

• Expensify gets a shout-out on NBC.

• Intern Match blog suggests using planwise.

• PC Mag recommends keeping Dashlane in your security toolkit.

• Wipro announces launch of SmartOffers solution demoed at FinovateAsia.

• Virtual Piggy enters into Partnership with WorldPay to further expand Virtual Piggy eCommerce service in the international marketplace.

• Tyfone and IQT sign strategic investment and tech development deal.

• Fenergo wins Best Customer Onboarding Solution award.

• DeviceFidelity extends Good Vault identity and access management system to iPhones. 

• Experian to help media giant Sky optimize customer prospect-marketing data.

• Compass Plus earns high marks in annual PayX report.

• American Banker looks at how UMB is implementing Dynamics' ePlate card technology.

• peerTransfer rolls out international payment solution to the K-12 (kindergarten through twelfth grade) education market.

• InComm Canada launches No-Fee Vanilla Prepaid Product Line.

• The CUNA Technology Council presents MoneyDesktop with Best of Show Award at the 17th Annual CUNA Technology Council Conference.

• Cachet Financial Solutions powers Simple's Remote Deposit Capture.

• STL Beacon reports SoMoLend blazes new funding path in St. Louis through loans.

• Expensify launches new feature: Commercial Card Reconciliation.

• Desert News reports Virtual Piggy helps parents control children's online spending.

• Prosper launches new data enhancements.

• VentureBeat reports Equifax buying CSC's credit-services biz for $1B in cash.

• Banno partners with ProfitStars to offer remote deposit, integrated bill pay.

• Bundle acquired by Capital One.

• Expensify now lets users submit employee expense reports to bill.com.

• Simple (Formerly BankSimple) Rolls Out Mobile Check Deposit.

• Virtual Piggy appoints Joseph Dwyer, former software executive as CFO.

• VentureBeat reports Kabbage wins CloudBeat's Innovation Showdown.

• Acculynk announces full integration of recent acquisition, PayLeap.

• American Banker reports MoneyDesktop aims to make PFM more appealing.

• Bass Pro Shops and Zappos.com added to Virtual Piggy's digital distribution channel.

• The Globe and Mail features SecureKey.

• The Austin Statesman reports: Workers Praise Q2ebanking's "Family-Type Environment".

• TransCard to use DeviceFidelity's NFC tech to offer a new white-label mobile wallet. 

• Kashoo Accounting version 2.0 for iPad now available on iTunes. 

• Tech in Asia calls TradeHero "probably one of the best startup ideas in Singapore."  

• Ian McKenna takes a detailed look at innovations demoed at FinovateAsia.

• Shamir Karkal, Simple CFO, explains where Simple's ideas came from and how the project got off the ground.

• The Banker interviews Bailey Klinger, Co-founder and CEO of EFL.

• BancBox to set up a development center in Chandigarh, India.

• Expensify integrates with Dropbox.

• Greedful.com features WeSeed: "The Stock Market Game that Pays Off". 

• Expensify introduces multi-level tagging.

• Argos sees a record 79 mil of its online visitors engage in conversations about the brand since implementing Bazaarvoice's Conversations.

• IP Commerce Payment API Sample Code Now Available on Github.

• Silver Tail Systems Acquired by Data Storage Giant, EMC.

• Lendio.com ends Q3 adding record number of lenders to platform.

Here's a look at press coverage from FinovateSpring 2012 in San Francisco last week. For comprehensive coverage, be sure to check out Erin McCune's live blog on PaymentsViews, which covers all 63 presenting companies:

2 Minute Finance
2MF @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference
by Bobby Lee
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"Expensify Trips! Forward your travel itineraries to receipts@expensify.com and let SmartScan pull out the details for fast access inside the Expensify mobile app (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone). Includes everything you'd expect - streamlined presentation, offline access, flight reminders, etc. But since travel itineraries are also travel receipts, this means you're halfway done with your expense report before you even get started: create your whole report in one click after you land, receipts and all. After all, travel itineraries are just expense reports waiting to be submitted, so why not kill two birds with one stone? 

Expensify Trips is one more way Expensify gets a little better (or in this case - a lot better), every day. Free to sign up, free to use, and lots of premium goodies on top."