We’re incredibly pleased to announce our Finovate events for 2010 today. Over the last few years, our Finovate conferences have grown tremendously and become must-attend showcases of the best new innovations in financial and banking technology.

In 2010, we will again be organizing two great Finovate conferences. The first, FinovateSpring, will take place in San Francisco on Tuesday May 11 and the second, FinovateFall, will take place in New York City on Tuesday October 5.

Both events will showcase dozens of fintech innovations from established leading companies and hot young startups via our special demo-only (no slides allowed) format. Every company selected to demo at the events gets 7 minutes on stage to show their latest and greatest to the entire audience plus a plug-and-play demo booth during the intimate networking sessions to connect one-on-one with the attendees. The powerful blend of a ton of high-quality demos and top-notch networking in a single day that has won rave reviews year after year from both participating companies and attendees is back!

In 2009, the high-quality audiences of financial execs, press, bloggers, analysts, VCs and entrepreneurs at both conferences grew 20% and in 2010 we expect the events to be even bigger and better.

If you’re interested in doing a demo at one of the 2010 events, please email me today at eric@netbanker.com for more details. The application window for the spring event is now open and will close at the end of February (there are advantages to applying early).

P.S. Tickets for both events are on sale now at www.finovate.com. Register today to lock in your spot and the super early bird price!

Eric Mattson is CEO of Online Financial Innovations, the parent company of NetBanker, Online Banking Report and the Finovate Conference Series. He can be reached at eric@netbanker.com.

I’m excited to announce that the videos of all the demos from our Finovate 2009 conference this fall are now available free online.

It was an amazing conference with a ton of great innovations showcased on stage. We hope you enjoy watching the demos in video format as much as the 450 attendees enjoyed watching them live on the day of the event.

As usual, we’ve provided all the videos in both Windows Media and QuickTime formats. We’ve also added a higher-res download version so you can watch them in bigger-screen glory. To download the bigger-screen version simply right-click on the link that says QuickTime HD (hint: it’s located under the video player) and choose “save as”.

A huge thanks for all the demoing companies (listed below alphabetically) for participating at Finovate 2009. 

P.S. If you’re interested in demoing at a future Finovate event, please reach out to me for more details.

Eric Mattson is CEO of Online Financial Innovations, the parent company of NetBanker, Online Banking Report and the Finovate Conference Series. He can be reached at eric@netbanker.com.

This Tuesday, more than 425 people will gather in the heart of Manhattan to watch the future of financial and banking technology unfold at Finovate 2009. They’re coming to see the best new innovations in the space from 32 handpicked startups and established companies via Finovate’s fast-paced, demo-only (no slides allowed!) format. It’s going to be a great show! 

Each year at Finovate, a few companies request that their participation be kept secret until right before the show. Today, we’re excited to announce those companies. They are:

• Mint
• TILE Financial
• XChange

These three join the 29 awesome companies we’d already announced (list below):

These companies will showcase their talents before an audience of senior financial/banking/credit union executives, influential press, industry analysts, venture capitalists, bloggers, tech companies and entrepreneurs.

A few of the organizations attending include: Bank of America, Citibank, WSJ, Microsoft, ING Direct, HSBC, Wells Fargo, American
Express, Dow Jones, the Financial Times, E*Trade Financial, SunTrust, ANZ,
Capitol One, NY Times, Financial Insights, Discover, Sybase, Cardinal Venture Capital,
Intuit, Consumer Reports, DataMonitor, Canaan Partners, The Economist,
BusinessWeek, CBS Moneywatch, Bankrate.com, Korn/Ferry, U.S. Bank and Aite Group.

We’d love to have you join us on Tuesday and watch the future of finance/banking unfold onstage. There are some tickets left but since the event starts at 8:30 sharp on Tuesday morning, I’d hurry up and register now if you want to attend! 

P.S. Online Banking Report subscribers save even more on tickets to all our events PLUS they obviously get 12 months of great research.

Eric Mattson is CEO of Online Financial Innovations, the parent company of NetBanker, Online Banking Report and the Finovate Conference Series. He can be reached at eric@netbanker.com.

Today, we’re revealing another handful of the leading fintech companies that will demo their latest and greatest innovations at Finovate 2009 on September 29 in the heart of NYC. The quality and diversity of the ideas that will be demoed on stage is very high this year and we’re incredibly excited to showcase all the chosen companies to you.

The additional companies are:

• BlingNation
• Credit.com
• Simplifi
• SmartyPig

These four companies join 26 we’ve already announced (list below) as well as two great startups still in “stealth” mode that will debut at the event.

These companies will be showcased to an audience of senior financial/banking/credit union executives, influential press, industry analysts, venture capitalists, bloggers, tech companies and entrepreneurs.

A few of the organizations already committed to attend include: Bank of America, Citibank, WSJ, Microsoft, HSBC, Wells Fargo, American
Express, Dow Jones, the Financial Times, E*Trade Financial, SunTrust, ANZ,
Capitol One, Financial Insights, Discover, Sybase, Cardinal Venture Capital,
Intuit, Consumer Reports, DataMonitor, Canaan Partners, The Economist,
BusinessWeek, and Aite Group.

We’d love to have you join us at the fall event and watch the future of finance/banking unfold onstage. If you register before the end of August you’ll save $100 via the early-bird ticket discount.

P.S. Online Banking Report subscribers save even more on tickets to all our events PLUS they obviously get 12 months of great research.

Eric Mattson is CEO of Online Financial Innovations, the parent company of NetBanker, Online Banking Report and the Finovate Conference Series. He can be reached at eric@netbanker.com.

September 29th, 2009 is going to be a memorable day in the history of financial technology. Why? Because on that Tuesday, dozens of leading fintech companies will take the stage in NYC at Finovate 2009 to debut and demo their latest and greatest product innovations. The quality of the ideas that will be demoed on stage is very high this year and we’re incredibly excited to showcase them to you.

The demoing companies selected (that we can reveal so far) are:

These companies will be showcased to an audience of senior financial/banking/credit union executives, influential press, industry analysts, venture capitalists, bloggers, tech companies and entrepreneurs.

A few of the organizations already committed to attend include: Bank of America, Citibank, WSJ, Microsoft, HSBC, Wells Fargo, American
Express, Dow Jones, the Financial Times, E*Trade Financial, SunTrust, ANZ,
Capitol One, Financial Insights, Discover, Sybase, Cardinal Venture Capital,
Intuit, Consumer Reports, DataMonitor, Canaan Partners, The Economist,
BusinessWeek, and Aite Group.

We’d love to have you join us at the fall event and watch the future of finance/banking unfold onstage. If you register today you’ll save $200 via the very-early bird ticket discount. Please note that those prices expire on Friday August 7th at midnight.

Eric Mattson is CEO of Online Financial Innovations, the parent company of NetBanker, Online Banking Report and the Finovate Conference Series. He can be reached at eric@netbanker.com.

As soon as we wrapped up our second successful FinovateStartup09 in April (Have you checked out the videos from it yet? They’re awesome and free to watch.), we ramped up the search for demoing fintech companies for our flagship Finovate 2009 conference (9/29 in Manhattan).

As part of that process, over the last two months, we’ve looked at hundreds of diverse financial technology companies (some brand new, some very well-established) to find the most innovative, biggest and best new ideas. Those companies were invited to apply for a

demo spot. And those invites generated a slow trickle of applications that became a flood as this Monday (the early-bird application deadline of 6/15) approached. The quality of the applications is very high this year, and it’s going to be hard to pick.

From here, we’ll spend weeks reviewing the applications we’ve already received, accepting last-minute ones (until 7/15), and agonizing over which great companies to showcase on stage. But, regardless of the final roster of demoing companies, it’s clear that fintech innovation just keeps accelerating. It’s very exciting to watch and to get to share with you at Finovate 2009 this fall (and via NetBanker and via OBR).

We’d love to have you join us at the fall event and watch the future of finance/banking unfold onstage. If you register today you’ll save $300 via the super early bird tickets. Please note that those prices expire at the end of June.

Eric Mattson is CEO of Online Financial Innovations, the parent company of NetBanker, Online Banking Report and the Finovate Conference Series. He can be reached at eric@netbanker.com or 206-331-1178.