Dwolla Launches New Dashboard for White-Label Partners

Dwolla Launches New Dashboard for White-Label Partners

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Dwolla’s got a brand new Dash.

Designed to help companies to better manage customer and transaction data, Dwolla’s new dashboard and administrative interface will save its white-label partners time and money while providing actionable insights into business activity and trends. The company hinted at its plans for the new interface in July 2016 when Product Manager James Eliason said that with the “ever-increasing adoption of our white-label bank-transfer API, we understood the need to build a dashboard that accurately reflects the power of that product.” And he noted that partners “need a way to manage the customers they are onboarding, as well as a simple way to view the health of their business from a volume and transactional perspective.”

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The new dashboard makes it easier to view transactions, reconcile payments, deliver more specific customer support, and to monitor the overall payments integration. Charts and graphs of the data from their own integration with Dwolla’s white-label ACH API provide a clearer, more visually compelling view of each company’s KPIs and overall financial health. Dwolla partner GOAT says it reduced cashout-related support tickets by 80% after its integration with Dwolla’s technology.

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, Dwolla demonstrated its FiSync technology at FinovateSpring 2015. In May, the company announced  it was adding banks to its instant account-verification flow, and in February, CoinDesk took a look at how Dwolla was turning its attention to the blockchain. The company was featured in Inc. magazine earlier this year in an article looking at Dwolla’s potential to “disrupt the payments industry.”

 

 

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Daon

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Daon

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on 8/9 September 2016. Register today.

Daon’s IdentityX Platform provides convenient, fast, secure, multifactor authentication in any channel using biometrics, verifying users in less than three seconds and improving the customer experience.

Features:

  • Omnichannel authentication with a mobile-first approach
  • Device binding, geolocation, liveness detection
  • Platform future-proofs customers, allows for new technologies as they become available

Why it’s great
IdentityX allows FIs to move away from passwords by authenticating the person with biometrics for a fast and frictionless user experience that enables customers to securely bank and shop online.

Presenter

Daon_ConorWhiteConor White, President, Americas
White brings more than 18 years of experience innovating and leading identification-management technologies such as biometrics, smart cards, electronic payments, PKI, and information security.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: UrbanFT

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: UrbanFT

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look a the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on 8/9 September 2016. Register today.

Urban FT will be presenting the Service Integration Director (SID): the first real-time, multi-tier, mobile app-management platform for the financial services industry.

Features

  • Rapidly configure and launch apps without coding
  • Reconfigure apps and change features on the fly
  • Leverage Urban FT’s platform: the richest set of capabilities available

Why it’s great
By eliminating the coding/launching bottleneck, SID ushers in a new era in app development. Users can deploy and manage unlimited apps within the SID UI.

Presenters

UrbanFT_RichardSteggallRichard Steggall, CEO, Co-founder
A successful serial entrepreneur, Steggall co-founded Urban FT, which he leads as CEO. In 17 years in IT&T, he honed skills in global growth strategies and led IPOs on three continents.
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Glen Fossella, EVP of Enterprise Growth
UrbanFT_GlenFossellaFossella is responsible for all business-development initiatives, including client and channel partner sales. He has more than 25 years experience building early- and mid-stage technology companies.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Trusona

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Trusona

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on 8/9 September 2016. Register today.

Trusona provides the world’s first and only insured cloud-identity suite with an offering that is free to all consumers and is leading the #NoPassword revolution.

Features:

  • Leading the #NoPasswords Revolution
  • The only security solution backed by an A+ rated insurance carrier
  • The only solution with patented anti-replay technology

Why it’s great
Trusona Essential level is FREE for all consumers! This is our gift to the world as the leader of the #NoPasswords Revolution.

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Ori Eisen, CEO, Founder
Eisen has spent the last two decades fighting online crime, and is respected for his business knowledge and leadership. Prior to founding Trusona, Eisen founded 41st Parameter.
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Trusona_JohnBatesJohn Bates, VP of Sales
Bates is striving to make the world a safer place for children and joined Trusona to fight to make the Internet a safer place.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Qumram

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Qumram

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on 8/9 September 2016. Register today

Qumram creates an indisputable audit trail of all digital activity (web, social, mobile) that satisfies financial services regulators including SEC, Department of Labor, EU MIFID-II, and more.

Features:

  • 100% capture of every digital interaction, with visual, video-like replay
  • Early, automated fraud detection, internal and external
  • Client-centric visibility, for responsive customer support

Why it’s great
Digital business is the new normal. Qumram’s groundbreaking approach is the only way to operate a fully transparent digital business while ensuring regulatory compliance and mitigating conduct risk.

Presenters

Qumram_SimonScheurer2Simon Scheurer, CTO and Co-founder
Scheurer is an experienced CTO, strategic adviser, and entrepreneur. As a “magician” with a masters degree in mathematics and physics, he loves to solve business challenges through technology innovation.
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Bob Trevelyan, VP, Americas
Qumram_BobTrevelyanA proven business builder, Trevelyan is recognized for his specialist expertise in financial services, data warehousing, business intelligence, web security, and customer-experience management.
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Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • PayNearMe Powering Cash Payments for Comcast
  • Lendio by the Numbers: $250 Million in Loans to 10,000+ Small Businesses
  • Azimo Launches Money Transfers on Facebook Messenger
  • Dwolla Launches New Dashboard for White-Label Partners

Around the web

  • Trustly announces new partnership with Nordnet Bank to speed new customer onboarding.
  • Sberbank adds brokerage services to its online system.
  • Wealthfront upgrades its Android app, adding PIN and fingerprint lock and support for IRA contributions.
  • TipRanks launches new feature to allow users to Import their Online Brokerage Portfolio to TipRanks.
  • The International Swaps and Derivatives Association and Markit launch ISDA Amend 2.0.

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.

Virtual Piggy Gets Real, Transitions from Payment Card to Mobile App

Virtual Piggy Gets Real, Transitions from Payment Card to Mobile App

logo-virtual-piggyVirtual Piggy, the under-17 payment system, is growing up.

The company announced today that it is transitioning away from its origins as a payment card system in order to embrace real-time, P2P mobile payments. In a note at the Virtual Piggy website titled “A Family Focused Mobile Banking Solution,” the company explains its goal of “restor(ing) value to the company” by partnering with “telecom companies, tech firms, and banking companies; strong companies with the financial wherewithal to progress our framework to fully realized product.”

Specifically, the company is abandoning its white-label, bank-oriented debit card strategy in favor of “instant P2P transfers utilizing mobile phones and online systems.” How will the new approach make money? Virtual Piggy is developing an “instant revenue-generating membership system” which they believe will provide greater flexibility, security, and keep customer acquisition costs—and regulatory hurdles—minimal. Virtual Piggy also announced a set of new software utilities that enhance their intellectual property portfolio including their Real Time Regulatory Oversight (ReTRO); Virtual Piggy Secure Financial Messaging (VPSM); and a data-mining app called Networks of Meaning ad-vantage (NOMad).

It has been just over a year since the company announced the neon release of its Oink 2.0 solution, adding TouchID, enhanced notifications, and P2P functionality to allow family and friends to deposit money in the Oink account. The company was featured in USA Today last spring in a list of five financial must-haves for college grads.

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Hermosa Beach, California, Virtual Piggy demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2013. Co-founded by Dr. Jo Webber and Pradeep Ittycheria, the company rebranded as Oink in late 2013 and has raised $37 million in funding. John Coyne joined the company as CEO and chairman in May 2016.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • Check out this week’s FinDEVr APIntelligence.
  • Fiserv Adds clearXchange P2P Payments to its Offerings
  • Virtual Piggy Gets Real, Transitions from Payment Card to Mobile App
  • 7 Alum Leaders Named UK’s Coolest People Fintech

Around the web

  • Pennsylvania State Employees CU implements account-origination module from Temenos.
  • Algomi unveils its sell-side engine, Synchronicity, as an SaaS solution.
  • Walletron announces strategic partnership with payment-services company Speedpay.
  • Handpoint Extends Global Processor Reach With EMV Certification To EVO Payments International
  • Xero launches first direct bank feeds in Asia with Singapore’s UOB.

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.

Envestnet | Yodlee Forges Strategic Partnership with United Capital

Envestnet | Yodlee Forges Strategic Partnership with United Capital

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Envestnet | Yodlee’s data-aggregation technology will power United Capital’s FlexScore solution. And yes, that’s the same Finovate alum—FlexScore—that was acquired by United Capital earlier this year.

“By delivering innovative financial planning solutions and new data-driven insights, our partnership will empower FlexScore users to take control of their financial destiny,” Envestnet | Yodlee VP Julie Solomon said. As United Capital’s primary account data-aggregation partner, Envestnet | Yodlee will securely link users’ financial accounts and seamlessly onboard customers while aggregating the necessary data to generate each user’s individual financial health rating or FlexScore.

The FlexScores eventually will be offered as part of FinLifePartners, United Capital’s white-label advisory platform for independent advisers.

“Our business has helped transform the traditional wealth-management industry,” United Capital Head of Platform Mike Capelle said. “For us to continue innovating and benefiting customers, we needed a proven data-aggregation partner that could provide the tools our customers need to take control of their financial lives.”

United Capital is one of the fasted growing RIAs in the country. The firm has $16 billion in assets under management and more than 80 offices in the U.S. When the acquisition was announced in February, United Capital’s CEO called FlexScore “the missing piece” and anticipated that the technology would be used “to help promote customer engagement with retirement plans.”

In acquiring Yodlee just over a year ago for $680 million, Bill Crager, Envestnet president, said he hoped the addition would make it easier for Envestnet to ink deals with independent and smaller financial advisers unaffiliated with the larger firms such as Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. The company’s new strategic partnership with United Capital is a big step in this direction.

Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices in London and Bangalore, India, Envestnet | Yodlee provides data aggregation and analytics to more than 1,000 companies, including 11 of the top 20 U.S. banks. The company trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “ENV” and has a market capitalization of $1.6 billion. Yodlee, which went public a year before being acquired by Envestnet, demonstrated its latest technology at FinovateSpring 2016.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • Envestnet | Yodlee Forges Strategic Partnership with United Capital
  • Finovate Debuts: Cyberfend’s BotFender Detects Attacks in Real-Time

Around the web

  • TransferWise partners with Raphaels Bank as part of Faster Payments Service integration.
  • Token opens new London office.
  • Trulioo earns top honors for ID verification in 2016 Global RegTech report.
  • Check Point Introduces First Real-Time Zero-Day Protection for Web Browsers
  • P2Binvestor Delivers Biggest Line of Credit Yet at $10 Million
  • CR2 teams up with Diamond Bank to bring next-generation ATM technology to Nigeria.

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.

PTIN Gives Members Access to BizFi’s Aggregation Marketplace

PTIN Gives Members Access to BizFi’s Aggregation Marketplace

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BizFi will provide tax professionals with access to its aggregation marketplace courtesy of a new partnership with the National Directory of Registered Tax Return Preparers and Professionals (PTIN).

PTIN President Michael Rosedale emphasized his organization’s commitment to supporting its members through innovative technology and resources. “Bizfi’s technology and expertise, and its more than 10 years of experience providing financing options to small businesses, will equip PTIN members and their clients with the tool to quickly find the right funding to meet their needs,” Rosedale said.

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Left to right: Walt Levengood, chief strategy officer, and Stephen Sheinbaum, founder, demonstrated the Bizfi platform at FinovateFall 2015.

Bizfi founder Stephen Sheinbaum explained that since accountants and CPAs are often “the first people small business owners turn to when they need financial guidance,” they are often a great place for first contact with the small business owner. “Traditional lenders can’t always provide small business owners with the capital they need due to strict credit requirements,” Sheinbaum said. “Bizfi can now help PTIN members and their clients meet those needs.” Services include everything from access to offers and facilitating document transfer to underwriting and closing the deal.

Formerly known as Merchant Cash and Capital and rebranding as Bizfi in the fall of 2015, the company specializes in providing financing options to small- and medium-sized businesses. Its fully automated online marketplace provides businesses with a range of financing options including short- and medium-term loans; invoice, equipment, and franchise financing; business lines of credit, and SBA loans. Bizfi has provided more than $1.7 billion in financing to more than 30,000 SMEs across the U.S., and in addition to being a lender on its own platform, has more than 45 funding partners including fellow Finovate alums OnDeck and Kabbage.

Headquartered in New York City, Bizfi demonstrated its aggregation silo for business financing at FinovateFall 2015. The company raised $20 million in funding from Metropolitan Equity last month, an investment that brought Bizfi’s total capital to $85 million.

Q2 Leverages MX Technology to Launch Contextual PFM

Q2 Leverages MX Technology to Launch Contextual PFM

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Q2 + MX = CPFM.

With the “always-on aggregation” and UX/UI of MX, the newly launched Contextual PFM from Q2 is designed to make actionable financial insights a part of every customer’s mobile banking routine. “As account holders continue to make heavier use of the mobile channel and seek to optimize their financial lives,” Q2 CTO Adam Anderson said. “Q2 Contextual PFM can give them the most accurate picture of where they stand and what actionable decisions they can make from any device.”

Q2 Contextual PFM uses APIs from MX to provide account aggregation, transaction cleansing, and transaction organization, delivering a data-driven money-management solution to help customers spot, understand, and respond to trends in saving and spending. MX’s data aggregation and innovative visualization technology provide accurate information in an engaging way that “makes it easy for people to manage their finances,” according to MX founder and CEO Ryan Caldwell, who underscored the technology’s “intuitive, innovative UI.”

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Q2 Contextual PFM can help FIs improve customer engagement and loyalty, as well. Directed at regional and community banks and credit unions, the solution gives them the kind of the technology customers are increasingly expecting, and getting, from larger FIs. This is in addition to the role the solution provides in helping customers become better banking consumers. Tye Jones, SVP of Digital Services at AimBank, where the technology is live with the employees, says the deployment “demonstrates how much we care about our customers’ financial health and providing them with the best possible banking experience, helping us compete with other larger financial institutions.”

A multiple Best of Show winner, Utah-based MX demonstrated its cross-platform fintech framework, Helios, at FinovateFall 2014, showing its technology at work on nine different devices from an iPhone to a Windows tablet. Last month, the company added a new feature, Cash Flow, to its MoneyDesktop platform, and in June, MX announced that it would power the Homeownership Preservation Foundation’s digital money-management app. MX signed a multiyear aggregation agreement with USAA in March and, in January, MX announced that former Intel and Fiserv executive Don MacDonald would become MX’s first CMO.

The company is also a FinDEVr alum. MX CTO Brandon Dewitt presented “How You Build Something Is More Important Than What You’re Building,” at FinDEVr San Francisco 2015. MX has raised $50 million in funding and its investors include USAA, TTV Capital, and North Peak Ventures, among others.

Q2 demonstrated its Risk and Fraud Analytics platform at FinovateSpring 2011. The company launched its cloud-based, open API developer platform, CorePro, in May. In December, Q2 acquired Social Money in a $10 million deal, the same month the company opened offices in Lincoln, Nebraska, to better accommodate their acquisition of Centrix Solutions. Based in Austin, Texas, Q2 trades on the NYSE under the ticker QTWO and has a market capitalization of more than $1 billion.