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Finovate Alumni News-- September 27, 2012

By Julie Schicktanz on September 27, 2012 12:03 PM

ZipZap to power global cash payments for omba.

Forbes mentions Credit Sesame, Tuition.io, PayTap, Digital Mailer as 4 tools to help you manage your money.

Capital Access Network closes $295 mil credit that to serve the small business community.

PYMNTS chats with Kabbage's co-founder & chief operating officer, Kathryn Petralia.

GambleID taps Locaid for geolocation services.

PC World features Yodlee, ShopKeep POS, Bolstr, PaySimple, CommunityLend, & Billhighway.

CU Times reports Mortgagebot Launches First Credit Union on Integrated Platform.

SafetyPay, in conjunction with the Bank of Montreal, the RBC, TD Bank & Scotia Bank, offers online payment service via Canadian Interac network.

Fiserv selected as Affinity Provider in FPA Practitioner Resource Guide.

CNet features Giftly's iPhone app.

Currensee delivers PAMM Replacement Solution for CTAs and Money Managers.

Netbanker: BillGuard is first financial service to Integrate with the New iPhone Passbook Wallet.

Compass Plus partners with WorldWide Financial Services.

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-- September 6, 2012

By Julie Schicktanz on September 6, 2012 9:49 AM

WilliamPaid.com partners with ZipZap to give tenants the option to pay rent with cash.

Crealogix ships two-factor mobile authentication device.

Nedbank partners with Yodlee for PFM.

Business Insider lists Kashoo as a cloud accounting application that provides a new way to streamline financial operations.

StockTwits partners with Investis.

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 8, 2012

By Julie Schicktanz on June 8, 2012 9:52 AM

BillGuard adds premium fee-based options.

National Journal examines how Simple (formerly BankSimple) is disrupting traditional banking.

USA Today considers whether the Zecco/TradeKing deal could bring changes to online investing.

Spectrum explains how ZipZap enables customers to pay online transactions using cash.

Holvi reveals beta account activity.

Planwise lands $200K in seed funding.

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-- May 16, 2012

By Julie Schicktanz on May 16, 2012 10:08 AM

Bill.com integrates with NetSuite to deliver seamless, cloud-based financial management.

Inc.well interviews Candace Klein, CEO of SoMoLend, about crowdfunding.

Virtual Piggy partners with World Industries.

Wonga launches in South Africa.

American Banker considers if Dwolla is a threat or opportunity for banks.

Soshable covers Klarna, CoverHound, Giftly, ZipZap, BillGuard, Dwolla and Virtual Piggy.

The Next Web takes a closer look at the tech that powers LearnVest.

BCSG partners with Sage to offer MyBusinessWorks customers the bookkeeping application Sage One Accounts.

ValidSoft announces partnership with Spindle to provide advanced payments security solutions to US-based customers.

Fast Company names Laura Mather, Founder and Chief Visionary of Silver Tail Systems, as one of the Most Creative People in Business.

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.

FinovateSpring 2012 in the Press

By Julie Schicktanz on May 15, 2012 10:01 AM

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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BillGuard Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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Cardlytics Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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Concur Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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Flint Mobile Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 2)

by Bobby Lee

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Mitek Systems Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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TIO Networks Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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WattzOn Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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Bank Innovation

5 Finovate Demo-ers' News Catching Our Eye

by Mary Wisniewski

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4 More Finovate Products We Like

by Mary Wisniewski

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Bank Technology News

Best of Finovate Spring Day 1

by Penny Crosman

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Best of Finovate Spring Day 2

by Penny Crosman

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Dwolla Pitches Fast Fund Transfers, but Bank Participation is Vital

by Sean Sposito

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Edo to Harness Payment Data to Spur Consumer Spending

by Victoria Finkle

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WattzOn Helps Banks Help Customers Save on Energy Bills

by Sean Sposito

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BankersLab Blog

CreditLab Launch: Reactions and Responses

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BankNXT

Finovate, Simple, and Re-Imagining Banking Applications

by Bradley Leimer

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Live at FinovateSpring 2012- day 1

by Jelmer de Jong

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Live at FinovateSpring 2012- day 2

by Jelmer de Jong

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BetaKit

CoverHound Debuts Comparison Tool for Auto Insurance

by Cheronne Thurab

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Business Insider

Finally, a Mobile App That Helps You Save Money: Meet Urge

by Willy Staley

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Business2Community

What Does $4.6 Billion in Coupon Savings Have to Do with Savvy Consumers?

by Andre Bourque

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C'est pas mon idée!

FinovateSpring 2012: quoi de neuf?

by Patrice Bernard

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Currency Marketing Blog

Four Conference in Four Days

by Tim McAlpine

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Credit Union Times

MoneyDesktop Named Best of Show at FinovateSpring Conference

by Natasha Chilingerian

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Daily Disruption

Flint Mobile Announces Beta Launch at Finovate and Closes $3 Million Round of Financing

by Tim Rygh

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The Daily Guardian (BillGuard's blog)

Financial Community Awards BillGuard Best Of Show at Finovate

by Maryanne

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DCisions Blog

DCisions at Finovate Spring 2012

by Kritika Ashok

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Des Moines Register

Dwolla offers software for free

by Adam Belz

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Des Moines Register Blog

Dwolla, Social Money earn praise at national banking conference

by Marco Santana

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Excelsior

Kuspit, el primer Finovate mexicano

by Alicia Salgado

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Experian Blog

Business IQ Express... what is the media saying?

by Roslyn Whitehurst

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FamZoo Blog

Finovate Winners

by Bill Dwight

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Finextra

Flint taps phone cameras for card payments

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SoMoLend closes $1.17 million seed round

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Forrester Blog

Finovate Spring 2012: Digital Financial Services Innovation

by Tiffani Montez

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FP Pad

[Video Spotlight] inStream Solutions CEO Alex Murguia at FinovateSpring 2012

by Bill Winterberg

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[Video Spotlight] iQuantifi CEO Tom White at FinovateSpring 2012

by Bill Winterberg

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[Video Spotlight] Sarah Carter of Actiance at FinovateSpring 2012

by Bill Winterberg

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Iconowatch

Accelerating Innovation at Finovate 2012

by Hans Eisenbeis

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Investment News

Personal Capital launches iPhone app

by Davis Janowski

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Lazy Man and Money

What's Hot and What's Not from Finovate 2012

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Mercury News

Money Goes Mobile

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Montreal Gazette

Montreal's Wall Street Survivor teaches about investing

by Jason Magder

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MyBankTracker

Can FinTech Stop You from 'Showrooming?'

by Willy Staley

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MoneyDesktop: How Personalized Deals Shine in PFM Tools

by Simon Zhen

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Save Your Wallet, and Maybe the Planet, with WattzOn

by by Willy Staley

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On Deck Capital Blog

Photo Journal: Our Finovate Demo

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PaymentsNews

Highlights from Finovate Spring 2012 San Francisco

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PaymentsViews

Live Blogging Finovate Spring 2012 San Francisco

by Erin McCune

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The Paypers

ZipZap rolls out CashCade payment service

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PaySimple Blog

PaySimple at Finovate

by Sarah Jordan

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PC World

New Web Apps and Services for Business

by Yardena Arar

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QuidLabs

Finovate Best in Show

by Aliisa Rosenthal

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SecurityPark.net

BehavioSec voted 'Best of Show' for biometric solution by audience at Finovate Spring, San Francisco

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Silicon Prairie News

With upgraded FiSync, Dwolla cuts 3-5 day wait to real-time

by Michael Stacy

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Silver Tail Systems Blog

Finovate Spring Demonstrates a Growing Richness in Online Interactions

by Laura Mather

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Social Lending Network

Roundup of Social Lending News - May 12, 2012

by Peter Renton

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TechCrunch

Capital One Snags Mobile Savings Startup BankOns, Team Moving To Capital One Labs

by Sarah Perez

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Flint: A New Mobile Payment App For Small Businesses Picks Up $3M From Storm, True Ventures

by Ingrid Lunden

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How Personal Capital Wants To Bring Money Management Into The Internet Age [TCTV]

by Colleen Taylor

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Nearing The 1M User Mark, Expensify Adds 'Trips' Feature To Mobile Apps

by Colleen Taylor

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The Anti-Groupon? Edo Launches Real-Time Local Offers Platform, Tied To Your Bank Card For Instant Credits

by Sarah Perez

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Tradestreaming

List Of Winners Of Top Fintech Conference, Finovate

by Zack Miller

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World News (wn.com)

Instream Solutions Ceo Alex Murguia At Finovatespring 2012

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ZipZap Demonstrates its Cash Transaction Solutions

By Julie Schicktanz on May 9, 2012 1:00 PM

After lunch, ZipZap demonstrated its CashCade and CashPayment solutions:

"ZipZap has developed a revolutionary new suite of cash transaction solutions. CashCade provides eCommerce merchants with an automated cascading payment option ensuring every transaction is approved. No more lost revenue from card-based transactions being declined, as CashCade gives consumers the option to pay cash.

CashPayment enables consumers worldwide to make payments for online purchases at offline locations using cash. Easily adapted to fit the needs of any eCommerce merchant, a consumer using the CashPayment option simply confirms the transaction online, prints the payment slip, takes it to the nearest Payment Center listed, and completes the transaction by paying the clerk with cash."

Product Launched: January 2012 and May 2012

HQ Location: San Francisco, CA

Company Founded: December 2010

Metrics: $1.2 million angel investment funding, 8 employees

Website: zipzapinc.com

Introducing Alan Safahi (Founder & CEO) and Myles Gutenkunst (VP of Business Development)

Finovate Alumni News-- May 2, 2012

By Julie Schicktanz on May 2, 2012 9:42 AM

Bank Innovation names Kabbage CEO, Rob Frohwein, as 1 of 10 top innovators.

SimpleTuition's SmarterBank announces $25,000 #CrushStudentDebt Sweepstakes.

Pindrop Security raises $1 million in seed funding.

Yodlee Interactive announces new accelerator/incubator programs.

Bermuda's Royal Gazette features Expensify.

ZipZap to power cash payment service for Towah Group.

Silver Tail Systems announces partnership with Barclaycard Global Payment Acceptance. See Silver Tail Systems at FinovateSpring.

Kony Solutions is one of the first mobile platform vendors to support BlackBerry 10.

Bank Technology News reports Bancorp using PayPal for payments and account-opening tech.

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-- April 19, 2012

By Julie Schicktanz on April 19, 2012 10:23 AM

Carahsoft Technology partners with Silver Tail Systems.

ARM Insight & IP Commerce close the loop on real-time offer redemption.

eToro updates its Android app with Social Cherry feature.

MoneyGram joins ZipZap's U.S. payment center network.

Loyalty 360 interviews Tom Burgess, CEO of Linkable Networks.

Internet Initiative Japan launches Ping Identity's Cloud Federated Authentication Solution.

Dwolla releases buy button.

Q2ebanking powers Penn Liberty Bank's Android mobile banking.

On Deck announces the launch of Split Funding, a loan repayment method. See its live demo at FinovateSpring.

UPS recommends Kabbage for small business financing.

Forward Thinking explains how Mint's mobile model has completely changed Intuit.

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.

FinovateSpring 2012 Sneak Peek: Part 2

By Julie Schicktanz on April 17, 2012 4:36 PM

Here's part 2 of the sneak peek of the companies that will demoing at FinovateSpring May 8 and 9 in San Francisco. Each company provided a short summary of the innovation they will debut on stage. We published 23 last week and we will complete the preview next week.

Don't miss the opportunity to experience the hottest innovations in financial technology. Get your FinovateSpring ticket here.

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DCisions

InvestorBee puts data at consumers' fingertips so they can make smart, confident investments.

It's fact, not opinion. Users can tap into the database to learn from the experiences of nearly 1.5 million investors.

It's an investment health check. Users can compare their portfolios and multi-asset products with fact-based, relevant benchmarks to understand whether they receive fair value.
It's simple investing without guesswork. Users can choose an objective risk-based strategy to track that's right for them in a few easy steps.

Users extract wisdom from the crowd to make better, simpler investment decisions - all for free at InvestorBee.

Innovation type: Investing, marketing, PFM

iQuantifi

iQuantifi takes you way beyond budgeting! It helps you reach all your financial goals and tells you exactly how you can do it. No estimates. No calculators. Just solid advice and the power to do it all online.

Innovation type: Banking products, investing, PFM

Kuspit

Historically, investing in securities has been

a difficult proposition for retail investors,

mainly due to the lack of access to competitive products and the absence of user-friendly financial education tools.

This problem is exacerbated in emerging markets, where financial markets tend to be less developed.

Kuspit offers retail investors an online platform to learn about investing, apply what they've learned, and invest in the same platform. All of this is available in an easy and progressive manner, while sharing ideas with the community.

Innovation type: Investing, online, PFM

On Deck Capital

The current infrastructure to deliver capital to Main Street businesses is broken. It's simply too expensive for banks to manually analyze and underwrite a small loan - whether it is $10,000 or $100,000. As a result, banks make fewer loans, and creditworthy small businesses are denied the capital they need to grow.

On Deck has created an efficient, effective and proven solution to this fundamental problem. By leveraging new digital sources of data, any institution can increase its small business lending through the On Deck platform, delivering funding decisions in minutes rather than weeks.

Innovation type: Lending, payments, small business

PaySimple

PaySimple is launching an innovative platform for banks to set up their own private-labeled version of cloud-based receivables automation. With this platform, banks of all sizes can easily bring to market a sticky value-added offering to attract and retain small business members, while adding a new revenue stream.

PaySimple will demonstrate how banks can set up custom-branded software in a few simple steps and how small businesses can immediately benefit from a system that combines payment acceptance across channels integrated with customer management.

Innovation type: Online, payments, small business

Portfolio Football

Portfolio Football is a first-of-a-kind application that addresses the need for financial planning and literacy through gamification. Portfolio Football plays on the popularity of American Football and the adoption of fantasy sports into the lives millions. It makes financial management competitive, fun and easy to understand, while providing users with a powerful tool for personal finance and portfolio management. It's a true "game changer."

Innovation type: Investing, Online, PFM

SaveUp

With 80% of Americans between the ages 20-40 now using social media and playing social games, how can financial institutions reach their customers in new ways?

Introducing SaveUp - an innovative program that uses game mechanics to reward good financial behavior. When users save money and reduce debt, they earn credits to play for prizes like cars, travel, and cash up to $2 million.

Financial institutions can use a customized SaveUp experience to help their customers make better financial decisions, increase engagement, and cross-sell products. Current FI partner campaigns have conversion rates of up to 44%.

Build a deeper relationship with your customers while helping them succeed.

Innovation type: Marketing, rewards

SoMoLend

SoMoLend makes investing in your online community simple, affordable, and social. SoMo is an online platform that uses patent-pending lending technology executed within a hyper-localized geographic scope to connect small business borrowers with individual and organizational investors.

SoMo's user-friendly technology allows business borrowers to raise capital from friends and family, customers and community supporters as well as from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn connections. Investors lend money directly to borrowers through the SoMo platform, which then packages the loans and sells them as notes, bypassing banks and credit-card issuers.

Innovation type: Investing, lending, small business

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is pleased to introduce their new App Store solution that enables access to the latest innovative capabilities and tools for use across the digital enterprise. Thomson Reuters' solution makes it easy for financial institutions and third-party developers to create and integrate pioneering market monitoring and investing apps.

By seamlessly enabling the combination of Thomson Reuters content, firm's customer account data and firm's internal and other data sources, Thompson Reuters is helping institutions leverage the providers of financial content. This delivers a differentiated experience for their customers while lowering both development costs and time to market.

Innovation type: Investing, marketing, mobile, online, PFM

ZipZap

Approximately half of the world's population are cash-preferred consumers (unbanked, underbanked, teens or privacy-concerned) and have no bank account or limited access to traditional financial services. eCommerce merchants have not had a way, until now, to monetize this segment of consumers simply missing out on the substantial revenues they represent.

ZipZap will unveil the latest innovations in global cash transaction solutions for eCommerce merchants. CashCade ensures no more lost revenue from card-based transactions being declined, while CashPayment enables consumers worldwide to make payments for online purchases at offline locations using cash.

Innovation type: Back office, payments

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