Last year, Forbes selected four Finovate alums for its “America’s Most Promising Companies” roster.
This year, Forbes picked five.
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Last year, Forbes selected four Finovate alums for its “America’s Most Promising Companies” roster.
This year, Forbes picked five.
In an arrangement with Ready Wireless, InComm will be launching its Airfair Lifeline Reload card at more than 7,000 participating 7-Eleven stores.
Lifeline is a public program for low income Americans that helps them gain telephone access, secure employment, and make and stay in contact with health services. The program provides a set number of cell phone minutes but, until now, buying additional minutes has been a complicated process. Lifeline-eligible telecommunications companies (ETCs) typically have no brick and mortar presence, making it difficult for cash-oriented program participants.
Just over a year after joining Wealthfront as Chief Operating Officer, Adam Nash has been tapped to succeed founder Andy Rachleff as President and CEO. Rachleff will take on the position of Chairman.
Adam Nash has a diverse background in engineering, product management and strategy, and venture capital. Educated at Stanford and Harvard Business, he has held executive positions at LinkedIn, eBay and Atlas Venture, the latter an early stage venture capital firm. Adam blogs about technology and finance at his personal website, Psychohistory, at blog.adamnash.com.
As we return to the United Kingdom for our fourth Finovate event in London, is there any surprise that “mobile” is the most dominant theme going into this year’s show?
Startups and established veterans alike are putting more emphasis into building features, functionality, and user interfaces with a “mobile first” perspective. This is enabling a generation of consumers to make payments, manage their finances and investments, and even get a loan wherever they are, without needing to rely on transportation or the tether of a power cord.
Meanwhile banks and financial institutions are exploring the mobile channel as a way to improve customer on-boarding, both in and outside of the branch.
FinovateEurope 2014 is officially less than one month away. We will be returning to Old Billingsgate Market Hall in London for our fourth event in Europe and are excited to see and share the variety of fintech innovation our presenters will have on display. Get your ticket here today and see all 66 demos live.
Our Sneak Peek series is designed to help you get to know a little bit about each of our presenters ahead of time. If you’ve missed any of our earlier installments, take a look at FinovateEurope 2014 Sneak Peeks 1-3 below.
And now, meet another six companies who will be demoing next month at FinovateEurope 2014.
IT Sector presents a new approach to sales. Enable your commercial team to plan and close deals while on the road, with less effort, more results, and satisfaction from customers.
Nous operates a free, day-trading simulator app which collects real-time predictions blended to generate a financial sentiment feed to help you predict the markets.
Pixeliris’ CopSonic enables contactless sonic and ultrasonic communication between smart devices and mobile payment and passwordless authentication available on phones and smartphones.
Temenos Treasury Management Dashboard App enables the transformation of treasury operations with a dynamic dashboard user interface accessible on a tablet device.
Topicus Financial focuses on business lending value chain integration with innovative web-based technology.
Yseop is natural language generation software based on artificial intelligence that boosts sales productivity and turns each financial advisor into an expert without additional training.
And you thought the stock market had a great 2013.
Online investment manageme service Wealthfront announced this week that it now manages more than $538 million in assets. Given that the company began 2013 with assets under management of approximately $100 million, it is no exaggeration to say that Wealthfront is doing a strong job of attracting investors looking for alternatives to traditional financial advisory.
Wealthfront credits its rapid growth on two factors: the rise of passive investing and the entry of the millennial generation into their investing years.
We are counting down the days and weeks to FinovateEurope 2014, our fourth Finovate event in London. On February 11 and 12, Old Billingsgate Market Hall will once again host two days of demo-only fintech presentations and high-quality networking with professionals from across the industry.
To help you get to know the companies presenting next month, here’s an introduction to another six innovators that are building tomorrow’s fintech today. See Part 1 for the first six.