Fresh off its announcement of having raised $14 million in capital, alternative lender LendUp has launched its iPhone app.
Author: David Penn
Finovate Alumni News– November 21, 2013
- HPC Wire takes a look at the partnership between Toopher and Texas Advanced Computing Center.
- Regulators green light IDology plans for New Jersey expansion.
- Jackson Free Press uses data from Manilla to source column on student loan debt.
- Michigan-based ECCU introduces a responsive designed website powered by Banno.
- MyBankTracker reports: SimpleTuition’s SmarterBank to Shut Down Due to Low Participation.
- International Business times considers how Holvi and TransferWise are revolutionizing banking.
- Tagit powering Maybank P2P m-payment Service in Singapore.
- BancVue’s Kasasa wins Five 2013 MarCom Awards.
- Betterment CEO Joe Stein talks about the online RIA industry with RIA Biz.
Financial Guard Launches Online Investment Advisory Service
Financial Guard opened its doors to the public today.Financial Guard provides professional, unbiased, transparent advice to investors priced out of traditional financial services. The service gives actionable buy, sell and hold recommendations that are customized to meet the goals of individual investors.
Azimo Makes Good in Expansion to Germany, Ireland
As Azimo said they would, the innovator in “social sending” is bringing its money transfer service to the rest of Europe.
Azimo announced today that it is launching in both Germany and Ireland. The move makes Azimo a new player in what the company calls the “world’s fourth largest remittance market” in Germany, while also growing Azimo’s presence in the U.K.
TradeNet Brings Multiple Market Equity Trading Systems to Emerging Market Traders and Investors
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.
Bringing our second event in Singapore to a close, here’s TradeNet presenting the TradeNet Store.
“TradeNet Store expands the equity broker product offering and customer stickiness without incurring costs. Rather, equity brokers share revenue with functionality and content providers.”
Serverside Group Presents its AllAboutMe Facebook App for Bank Card Customization
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.
Our next presenter is Serverside Group, demoing their AllAboutMe Facebook app.
“Serverside’s Facebook app is a great way for banks to form meaningful conversations with their cardholders. This dynamic app allows customers to design their own personalized card by uploading a picture from one of their Facebook galleries. When they are satisfied with their design, they submit it and, once approved, it will be posted on their wall showing off their new card design to all their friends.
Everything to do with Card Customization brings Banks to a new level. From banks posting on their own wall to card holders sharing their own design with friends, card customization on Facebook is proving to be one of the most effective ways for banks to use social media, engage customers and to help drive positive viral marketing.”
Product Launch: September 2013
Welcomer from White Label Personal Clouds Helps You Move Personal Data from Website to Website Securely
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.
Making their way to the stage next is the team from White Label Personal Clouds.
“WLPC’s first product is Welcomer. Welcomer will initially be focused toward ecommerce sites and the technology is intended across a range of different segments. Welcomer removes the need for websites to have user codes/passwords to identify returning customers. Websites that deploy Welcomer can – with the person’s permission – allow the person to move personal data securely between websites. This includes personal details such as name and address, preferences such as clothing size or preferred seat and also a person’s cards and accounts.”
Product Launch: Finovate 2013
With ARTHOS, ArthaYantra Puts a CFO in its Web-Based PFM Solution
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Making their way to the stage now is ArthaYantra with their online personal finance solution, ARTHOS.
“Arthos is a user-friendly web based personal finance platform, which provides actionable advice instantly. It replaces the need of a traditional human advisor who has to spend days to create customized and quality advice for a family. Arthos uses patented algorithms, processes, and the proprietary system of PFLM to cover all aspects of personal finance. One can create a financial plan, implement recommendations, and monitor performance on a single online platform. Arthos can provide advice to individuals who can save as little as $100 a month.”
TSYS Authorization Controls Enable User-Defined Spend Limits, Alerts
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.
All the way from Columbus, Georgia, here is TSYS with their Authorization Controls solution.
“TSYS Authorization Controls allows a user to set their own default account parameters and authorization rules (for example, user-determined spend limits, daily, weekly, and monthly – category permissions or exclusions). TSYS Authorization Controls also allows for user definable authorization actions, including Alert, Decline, and Pre-Authorize, that enable a user to determine what happens throughout a transaction attempt.”
Mobexo Presents its Mobile Payment System Providing Instantaneous and Secure Fund Transfer
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.
The team from Mobexo is making their way to the stage right now.
“Mobexo seamlessly connects businesses and their customers. The Mobexo mobile payment application allows business owners to create customized and targeted promotional campaigns via the Merchant Portal to reach their customers when they want to and how they want to.Personal Mobexo users then have the ability to apply these offers when they pay using the application. Every time a user checks out using Mobexo, it will notify them when they have offers to apply to their payments. In this way, Mobexo is a tool that enlivens the connection between consumers and businesses.”
Mambu Takes a Cloud-First Approach to Running End-to-End Operations for Banks
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.
Our next presenter is Mambu:
“Mambu is a native cloud SaaS banking application. Built entirely for the web with a ‘cloud-first’ approach, our product runs the end-to-end operations that a bank needs, from loan and deposit product creation and servicing, to client relationship management and reporting. It does this entirely online and with a business and delivery model that allows any financial institution of any size to rapidly access state-of-the-art banking technology in the cloud, at a fraction of the cost and time of a traditional core banking solution.”
GMC Software Technology Debuts Inspire Research Portal for Investors to Streamline the Wealth Management Process
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.
Coming to the stage for the first of two separate presentations here at FinovateAsia is GMC Software Technology.
“GMC Software Technology is proposing Inspire Research Portal for Investors. Wealth management groups, investment companies and banks have their own team of market researchers who would study the markets and provide their findings to investors on what they could do to secure or enhance their investments. But the current process is too manual and prone to errors. GMC Software Technology has researched and identified that there is a need to streamline this process, as there is no centralized platform or a total solution which could fulfill all these requirements.”