• Inc42 Magazine features TransferWise.

• INTJ Capital compares and contrasts Quantopian and QuantConnect. Join Quantopian in San Francisco for FinovateSpring.

• MicroStrategy launches mobile app Usher, e-wallet for digital I.Ds, keys. See them demo at FinovateSpring in May.

• Paybefore takes a look at the TSYS's acquisition of NetSpend and ponders "prepaid's end game."

• Jingit introduces cashback offers.

• Monitise Group Strategy Director Richard Johnson talks about trends in mobile money.

• BancVue chooses MicroStrategy platform for business analytics.

• CPA Practice Advisor takes a look at the new, updated iPad app from Kashoo.

• This is Money blog looks at Zopa's growth.

• Yodlee awarded 50th patent for financial gadgets.

• SoMoLend travels nationwide to teach small businesses & investors about crowdfunding.

• Austin Business Journal considers BancVue's inverted sales pitch.

• Newfination hosts SoMoLend CEO, Candace Klein, who explains how the platform's  crowdfunding capability.

• Intelligent HQ interviews The Currency Cloud's CEO, Michael Laven.

• Pando Daily profiles crowdfunding pioneers like SeedInvest and SoMoLend. Join SeedInvest in May for FinovateSpring.

• The Next Web interviews TipRanks's CEO and co-founder Uri Gruenbaun.

• Chevron teams up with WattzOn to launch The Capacity Project for sustainable growth.

• Refundo launches free iPhone app. Check out Refundo's live demo at FinovateSpring.

• 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.

• VoiceTrust and Finantix partner to provide voice-driven, secure mobile solutions.

• Upstart Business Journal reports ShopKeep and LevelUp partner to keep up with the competition.

• FamZoo introduces Family Pack of prepaid cards through partnership with TransCard.

• Monitise collaborates with Blackberry & Permatabank to launch mobile payments service on Blackberry Messenger in Indonesia.

• Lend Academy features Interview with New Prosper CEO Stephan Vermut.

• SafetyPay partners with Computop to offer SafetyPay as part of its Paygate payment platform.

• EnStream to enable the support of SecureKey's authentication, identity & online payment solutions on mobile phones in Canada.

• Virtual Piggy & WorldPay integrate to deliver youth payment solution internationally.

• Luminous partners with Nihilent Technologies to sell Luminous' solutions in India.

• Tuition.io featured in this week's Venture Capital program.

• Mortgagebot expands space in Mequon with lease for new building.

• PayPal to stop personal payments in Singapore on February 20 due to regulatory instructions.

• iMore.com interviews Kashoo CEO Jim Secord at MacWorld|iWorld 2013.

• TSYS announces acquisition of NetSpend in deal worth more than $1 billion.

• ProfitStars announces year-over-year growth in P2P users, payments for its iPay Solutions service.

• Metaforic's product line now available for mobile apps written in Objective-C, the most commonly used language on iOS platform.

• Delaware Online hails eDeposit as a boon for small businesses.

• ACI Worldwide launches ACI Proactive Risk Manager to help FIs detect payment fraud.

• Bazaarvoice builds new research and development unit, Bazaarvoice Media Labs.

• Jack Henry & Associates add remote deposit capture to Android and iPhone versions of goDough app.

• Opencart announces full integration of Klarna invoice and partial payment system.

• 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. 

Mobile banking solutions company, Monitise, announced the appointment of a new CFO and Executive Director today.

The company has selected Brad Petzer (pictured) to replace John Brougham after his retirement in October of last year. Petzer will take up the position of CFO in April of 2013.

Prior to accepting the role as CFO, Petzer served as Group Financial Controller at Europe-based Telecity Group.

Monitise demoed at Finovate 2007.

• Bremer Bank to implement Fiserv's mobile banking and payment technology.

• Boeing Helicopters Credit Union moves to Andera's oFlows for online account opening.

• SaveUp launches a no spend challenge: a financial detox.

• Pageonce featured in Gentle9.com's Top 10 Apps of the week.

• Jwaala helps Michigan First Credit Union improve remote deposit capture services.

• PCMag reviews Kashoo.

• The Swedish Wire lists Klarna as one of Sweden's more popular employers among young professionals. 

• Nomis Solutions announces Global Pricing Forum in April.

• Monitise appoints Brad Petzer as new CFO, Executive Director.

• Alior Bank to deploy Comarch Smart Finance.

• AllAfrica.com interviews CR2 CEO, Martin Dolan about Nigeria's Cashless Lagos Project.

• From online to the desktop, Bill.com is now fully integrated with Quickbooks.

• FIS announces deal with VW Credit for North American loan and lease processing.

• New team at Capital Acess Network to build online lending engine, CapTap.

• AppAdvice.com highlights Flint Mobile Pay.

• MasterCard launches 'cash electronification' service rePower in Europe.

• Monitise and Intuit partner to bring Mint to financial institutions.

• Metaforic unveils Latest Software Protection Technology.

• Monitise in talks to raise up to 100 million pounds ($160 million USD).

• miiCard launches online identity trust challenge for Scotland's university students.

• American Banker looks at My Community FCU's experience with MoneyDesktop.

• Zopa exceeds a quarter of a billion pounds ($400 million USD) in P2P loans.

• Forbes reports that Corduro is seeking to raise $10 million in series B funding.

Last week, I attended BAI Retail Delivery in Washington D.C. where over 200 exhibitors lined the trade show floor of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

There were 31 Finovate alums on the expo floor, and even more in attendance. My schedule was packed, but I was able to catch up with a handful of Finovate alums.

Here's what I learned.

The card-linked offers company is in the middle of a successful mobile deployment effort with BofA, PNC, Regions, and a few other unnamed FIs. After launching their respective rewards programs on mobile, the FIs have seen an increase in user engagement and an increase in the number of online banking visits per user.

It is also working on International expansion. So far the top 3 European card issuers have signed.

BofA's BankAmeriDeals on tablet interface

BofA's BankAmeriDeals on iPhone mobile app

Equifax

The consumer credit reporting agency recently launched its Insight Score for Retail Banking, a solution that will help FIs generate a risk score for underbanked individuals with no credit data or history. It does this by using non-FI-related payment data from companies like Telco and other TV and cable providers.

Fiserv

The fintech provider showed me its SpotPay payment dongle and back-end solution. It appears to be Fiserv's response to Square that it will co-brand with FIs. Fiserv is able to on-board FIs with SpotPay in a couple of days, so it is a quick way for FIs to get into the payments game. 

While there is an $8.95 per month fee, it is competitively priced, charging only a 1.99% fee on a swipe, and a 3.19% fee on card-not-present transactions.

Fiserv's SpotPay dongle being used on an iPhone

Guardian Analytics

Because volume and sophistication of fraud has grown, Guardian Analytics started bank-sourcing (think crowdsourcing) fraud by bringing multiple institutions together to collaborate on the types of fraud they're seeing so the whole industry will be better at fighting it. Tiffany Riley, Guardian Analytics' VP of marketing tells me they've received positive feedback so far.

mFoundry

Mobile banking solutions company, mFoundry launched its Fin.X platform. This platform can be thought of as a type of app store for FIs to select which products/services they want to include in their mobile app. 

At BAI, mFoundry announced partnerships with Blackhawk Network, Dwolla, and Micronotes 

to white-label their solutions within the Fin.X platform.

An example of what the Fin.X app platform could look like on a tablet

MoneyDesktop

The PFM won CUNA Tech Council's Best of Show Award at BAI. This counts as its 5th Best of Show award.

MoneyDesktop team with BAI President & CEO, Deborah Bianucci

Monitise

After the mobile money solutions company acquired Clairmail 3 months ago, Monitise now has 17 million active users. It is in trials of an NFC solution with a few banks. The solution uses a sticker as opposed to a chip inside of the actual device.

Q2ebanking

The electronic banking solutions provider launched Q2clarity, a tablet-optimized dashboard that provides customizable analytics and visibility to how customers are using an FI's mobile and online platform. Providing these metrics to a branch manager, gives them the ability to make more informed decisions about which products and services to offer.

These eight companies are just a fraction of what I saw at BAI this year. For more information on who attended the trade show, visit here.

Yesterday, mobile money specialist Monitise announced it has partnered with U.K.-based Associated Newspapers.

As part of the partnership, Monitise's technology will power mobile transactions on an app used to make purchases from Associated Newspapers' publicationsThe Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.

Monitise also disclosed its mobile payments figures:

• Over one billion transactions processed per year
• More than £9.5 billion in payments and transfers processed weekly

Monitise presented at Finovate 2007. Check out the demo here.

United States-based mobile banking and payment solutions provider, Clairmail announced this morning that it will be acquired by Monitise, its European-based competitor.

Monitise will acquire Clairmail for $173 million to expand its international presence by leveraging Clairmail's grasp on the North American market.

Together, Monitise and Clairmail will:

The deal is expected to close on June 30, the end of Monitise's fiscal year.

To learn more about Monitise and Clairmail, watch Monitise's Finovate 2007 demo and Clairmail's FinovateFall 2010 demo.

Mobile banking platform company, Monitise and banking and payments technologies provider, FIS have entered into a five year strategic partnership agreement: 

"Under the terms of the five-year deal, which involves multi-million dollar per annum revenues, FIS and Monitise have created an agile mobile development and deployment team that will help banks and other financial institutions defend and extend their role in the payments industry by creating secure and innovative new products and services.'"

To learn more about Monitise and FIS, watch Monitise's Finovate 2007 demo and FIS FinovateFall 2010 demo.