Realty Mogul Reaches $200 Million in Funded Real Estate Transactions

Realty Mogul Reaches $200 Million in Funded Real Estate Transactions

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Commercial real estate crowdfunding platform Realty Mogul today announced it has exceeded $200 million in funded equity and debt transactions on its platform.

Launched in 2013, the California-based company has thus far returned $40 million in interest and principal to its 80,000 members who have invested in 350 properties. The return is 2X the $20 million figure the company reported in December 2015.

Realty Mogul’s CEO Jilliene Helman says the goal has always been “to democratize commercial real estate by enabling a new generation of investors to participate in real estate opportunities that were historically difficult to access. She added that reaching the $200 million mark “shows we’re continually following through on this goal and growing as a company.”

CTO Justin Hughes, co-founder, presented at FinovateSpring 2014, where he demoed the company’s online marketplace that matches commercial real estate borrowers with a group of accredited investors. The investor dashboards enable investors to standardize, streamline, and monitor their investments.

In today’s release, Realty Mogul compiled the following infographic that offers further details about its investor base:

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FinovateSpring Demo Videos Now Online

FinovateSpring Demo Videos Now Online

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FinovateSpring 2016 wrapped up last week and we’ve been busy covering the Best of Show winners, Twitter highlights, and press coverage, as well as following up with the amazing new contacts we met.

If you weren’t there in person, see what you missed by watching any of the 71 demo videos and check out photos from the event on Flickr (plus you can still save big time on a super-early-bird ticket to FinovateFall on September 8 & 9). All of last week’s demos have something different to offer but the best way to start digesting the new content is to watch the six best of show demos, embedded below for your viewing pleasure:

BanQu showed a blockchain-based identity platform that enables financial inclusion and empowers the underbanked to join the global economy.


LendingRobot
 demoed its dashboard that helps investors track investments across peer lending platforms like Lending Club and Prosper.


PayActiv
 showcased a real-world alternative to payday loans that gives workers access to earned but unpaid wages.


Quid
 demoed its web-based intelligence platform that leverages big data analytics, natural language processing, and network science to turn data searches into visual explorations.


SaleMove
 showed off its engagement platform that creates high-touch customer interactions using video, voice, and chat.


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launched its financial video platform that enables businesses to use video personalization to provide custom communications.

Thanks again to all the presenting companies who braved the Finovate stage and to all who attended. We’ll see you next year!

Social Trading Company ayondo Appoints New CFO Prior to Reverse Takeover IPO

Social Trading Company ayondo Appoints New CFO Prior to Reverse Takeover IPO

AyondoHomepageGermany-based ayondo brought on Rick Fulton as new CFO last week. Fulton is former managing director and regional CFO for Asia and Oceania of Daiwa Securities, where he worked in the company’s Hong Kong office for six years. Previously, Fulton served at RBS, Deutsche Bank, and AMN AMBRO.

This news comes after last month’s discussions of the company’s pending reverse takeover IPO on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Finance Magnates uncovered ayondo’s regulatory filings with the SGX detailing a memorandum of understanding regarding the proposed acquisition of property developer and real estate investment firm Starland Holdings Limited (STHL). The filing took place April 13th, the same day ayondo announced its plans for a reverse takeover.

Robert Lempka, CEO of ayondo commented on Fulton’s strategic appointment: “With his extensive experience as a financial services industry CFO, especially in the Asian region, Rick will play a crucial role in the planned listing of ayondo in Singapore.”

Founded in 2008 and valued at $155 million, ayondo has offices in Germany, Singapore, and London. At FinovateEurope 2013, the company debuted ayondo 3.0, the third generation of its social trading platform that enhanced usability, social interaction, and guidance offered to top traders.

Ignite Sales Taps Ex-Fiserv SVP as New CEO

Ignite Sales Taps Ex-Fiserv SVP as New CEO

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Noga2Data analytics company Ignite Sales has brought on George Noga (pictured) as its new CEO this week. Noga is stepping in for Mitchell Orlowsky, the company’s former CEO.

Noga previously served for eight years as Fiserv’s SVP, managing director of revenue enhancement. He has prior experience as CEO of Syngence, where he led a team that created AI search technology for the legal industry.

Ignite Sales uses big data analytics to improve how financial institutions sell products and services to their customers. At FinovateFall 2013 the company launched the Branch Profitability Dashboard that offers a visual overview of profitability and sales across branches. The dashboard also presents a gap analysis for each sale to uncover where the branch falls short.

Earlier this month, Ignite Sales was awarded its second consecutive Gold Stevie Award for Sales and Marketing Intelligence. In February, the Texas-based company launched Smart Promotions, an offering that delivers personalized product promotions in real-time through Recommendation Guides. The new solution will integrate into Instant Scheduling and Live Chat.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “Social Trading Company ayondo Appoints New CFO Prior to Reverse Takeover IPO”
  • “Ignite Sales Taps Ex-Fiserv SVP as New CEO”
  • “VoicePIN Launches New SaaS Model for SMEs”
  • “Realty Mogul Reaches $200 Million in Funded Real Estate Transactions”

Around the web

  • Markit adds Federal Republic of Germany to derivatives trade-management service.
  • FIS introduces Banking by Appointment with TimeTrade.
  • Zopa partners with UNSHACKLED.com to offer cell phone financing.
  • RegTech event sponsored by BBVA features presentation by Ayasdi.
  • Infosys wins five-year contract with Commerzbank.
  • Temenos welcomes new core banking client, BMO Asia Pacific.
  • Fiserv adds ten years to its loan processing, private-label credit partnership with John Deere Financial.
  • Buzz Points and Xtend partner to provide new loyalty rewards program to credit unions.
  • Bloomberg features TradeSafe, a distributed ledger from Standard Chartered and DBS Group that uses Ripple.
  • eSignLive unveils new UX featuring responsive design.
  • TechCrunch column on APIs features Signifyd, Plaid, and Twilio.
  • The Law of Startups interviews B.J. Lackland, Lighter Capital CEO.
  • WorkFusion earns recognition from Gartner in its “Cool Vendors in Smart Machines” 2016 report.
  •  Guardian Analytics introduces a certification program to help fraud examiners become familiar with the Guardian Analytics platform.
  • Crowdfund Insider interviews Emmanuel Marot, LendingRobot CEO.
  • Comarch launches prototype of wealth management app for virtual reality.

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.

Revolut Receives FCA License, Announces $1 Billion Annual Run Rate

Revolut Receives FCA License, Announces $1 Billion Annual Run Rate

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London-based startup Revolut today announced it now has an e-money license from the FCA after submitting its application in January. The company will use the certification to bolster its application that allows users to exchange currencies at interbank rates and spend in different countries using a multicurrency card and mobile app.

Revolut also announced some meaty figures of recent growth in a Business Insider piece. In the past 10 months, the company surpassed $500 million processed on the Revolut card (this includes money spent over the Revolut card, the mobile app, and withdrawn from ATMs). That’s up $300 million from February, when the company announced it had processed $200 million.

Additionally, Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky states the company is seeing volume increases of 30% per month. The company boasts 180,000 cardholders and signs up 1,500 new customers per day.

In February, Revolut closed on $4.8 million. The company, which hopes to close a $14.5 million round, now has $7.6 million in total funding. In January, Revolut unveiled version 2.0 of its Personal Money Cloud, which it launched at FinovateEurope 2015 in London.

CardFlight Adds Global Payments as EMV Processor

CardFlight Adds Global Payments as EMV Processor

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Mobile payments and point-of-sale solutions provider CardFlight announced this week it has added Global Payments as an EMV-enabled processor after receiving certification from the payment technology services provider.

This move enables merchants who process payments using Global Payments to accept EMV payments on CardFlight’s software and card readers. Along with the new certification, the company announced that more than 50% of merchants using CardFlight are EMV-enabled, a metric that surpasses industry averages and represents a 13% increase from the 37% of merchants enabled four months ago. This high percentage is due in part to today’s global payments certification, as well as past certifications with First Data, Stripe, and TSYS.

CardFlight’s payment infrastructure boasts a number of certifications, including:

  • Visa Acquirer Device Validation Toolkit (ADVT)
  • MasterCard Terminal Integration Process (M-TIP)
  • American Express Integrated Circuit Card Payment Specification (AEIPS)
  • Discover Payment Application Specification (D-PAS)

Founded in 2013, CardFlight closed on $4 million in Series A funding just after the October 1 liability shift for EMV in the United States. That installment brought the company’s total funding to $6 million.

CardFlight launched at FinovateSpring 2013 to offer a transparent approach to payment processing. What makes the company unique is that it focuses on offline, in-store transactions. However, CardFlight also offers online payment processing capabilities. At FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Cardflight’s CEO Derek Webster and Elie Toubiana, VP engineering, presented CardFlight’s SDK for mobile payments.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “CardFlight Adds Global Payments as EMV Processor”
  • “Revolut Receives FCA License, Announces $1 Billion Annual Run Rate”

Around the web

  • Drawbridge to use Cardlytics’ purchase intelligence to measure the purchase impact of campaigns.
  • Bank of Montreal Asia Pacific selects Temenos as core banking provider.
  • Larky adds Sunshine Coast Credit Union, its first foray into Canada.

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.

Zopa to Offer Auto Loan Refinancing

Zopa to Offer Auto Loan Refinancing

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U.K.-based P2P lender Zopa has expanded its loan offerings to tap into the used-car financing market worth an estimated £12 billion in annual loan originations in the United Kingdom. The company’s new auto loan refinancing product, Zopa CarReFi, enables U.K. consumers to pay off expensive car-financing deals with a loan that’s a better value and has a more flexible agreement.

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The direct-to-consumer offering maintains transparency by offering a free, instant, personalized savings quote. The platform, which was built in-house, uses Zopa’s API to tap into the company’s credit-risk algorithms and combines the data with vehicle information to help users decide if it’s worth refinancing. Similar to traditional auto lending, the ownership of the vehicle remains with Zopa’s lenders until the consumer makes the final payment.

Zopa CEO Jaidev Janardana talked about the motive behind the launch: “Buying a car is by far the most common reason for a customer to take a personal loan from Zopa, so we are proud to now also offer a product that can help customers that already have a car on a finance agreement. With an outstanding team and a deep understanding of technology, it is possible to combine longstanding history and credit excellence with lean, design-led innovation.”

The move comes at a time when P2P lenders in the U.S. are facing a lot of heat. Check out Jim Bruene’s take on the recent news in his piece, Lending Club’s Stock Price is Not a Leading Indicator for Fintech.

Since its launch in 2005, Zopa has matched borrowers with £1.5 billion in P2P-funded loans. The company, which demoed at FinovateSpring 2008, was recently voted MoneySuperMarket’s Best Personal Loans Provider of 2016.

TSYS to Leverage Featurespace’s Machine Learning Fraud Capabilities

TSYS to Leverage Featurespace’s Machine Learning Fraud Capabilities

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FeaturespaceHomepagePayments service provider TSYS and behavioral analytics company Featurespace have today formed a partnership in which TSYS will leverage Featurespace’s ARIC Engine, software that uses machine learning to monitor online customer behavior in real time to deliver instant fraud decisions.

TSYS, which prides itself on providing faster payments capabilities, can now offer actionable fraud insights to clients in real time. Andrew Mathieson, a group executive for the company, elaborated on plans for the enhanced fraud protection: “We will incorporate these capabilities across the credit risk lifecycle, enabling our issuers to catch more fraudulent transactions while dramatically reducing false-positive alerts for genuine transactions—a sharp contrast to the industry paradigm of blocking more valid transactions in order to detect actual fraudulent activity.”

TSYS has often taken a partner-centric approach, especially when it comes to security. In February. the Georgia-based company partnered with Finovate alum Ethoca (FinovateEurope 2016 demo) to launch the TSYS Transaction Recovery Network, an offering that reduces CNP fraud and minimize chargebacks.

Earlier this month TSYS, which debuted its Authorization Controls at FinovateAsia 2013 in Singapore, appointed Pamela Joseph as new president and COO.

After its debut at FinovateEurope 2016, Featurespace was named a Top 100 company by Red Herring Europe. We covered the U.K.-based company’s launch of its ARIC Sandbox earlier this year.

Tink Pulls in $10 Million to Launch Virtual Bank

Tink Pulls in $10 Million to Launch Virtual Bank

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The creators of Swedish PFM app Tink, Daniel Kjellén and Fredrik Hedberg (pictured below), have just closed on $10 million to launch a virtual bank. The Series B roundDaniel och Fredrik_Tink was led by Creades and SEB; ABN AMRO and Sunstone Capital also contributed. Combined with its Series A round in 2014, the company’s total funding is $14 million.

Tink will use the funds to expand internationally and launch a virtual bank, Tink 2.0. The virtual bank will allow users to transfer money, make payments, scan and approve bills, and manage their money across any account directly from within the Tink app. These new capabilities are made possible by Europe’s new Payment Service Directive (PSD2), approved in January, that opens Europe’s banking infrastructure by making their APIs available to third parties.

Fredrik Hedberg, founder and CTO of Tink, comments on the coming launch: “Ultimately, it’s about building a virtual bank, helping people with banking without being a bank. The consumer will not only get a better understanding, tips and advice on her finances, but also the ability to take action on it.” Founder and CEO Daniel Kjellén chimes says, “We think it should be easy to make smart financial decisions, and we want to contribute to a greater transparency in the industry, which will benefit both the consumer and the best banks. To get investors with such solid experience and the ability to develop partnerships with traditional banks is of course a huge asset for a company like Tink.”

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Tink differentiates itself in the PFM space by collecting two years of historical account data across all of a user’s bank accounts and payment cards. The company uses hands-off spending categorization and simplifies the user’s view of their income and expenses. The app suggests budget options, sends alerts, and offers a feed of the user’s own personal finance highlights.

Since launching the app in Sweden at FinovateEurope 2014, Tink now boasts more than 300,000 users and is currently running beta tests in 10 different European markets to prepare for the international launch later this year.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “Tink Pulls in $10 Million to Launch Virtual Bank”
  • “TSYS to Leverage Featurespace’s Machine Learning Fraud Capabilities”
  • “Narrative Science Teams Up with Vermilion, Bringing Advanced NLG to Portfolio Commentary”
  • “New Investment for Personal Capital Takes Valuation to $500 Million”
  • “Zopa to Offer Auto Loan Refinancing”

Around the web

  • TIBCO introduces integration-software solution, Project Flogo and translytical database for big data, TIBCO Graph Database.
  • InFakt accounting system integrates with Valuto open API.
  • Micronotes launches downloadable trial version of Micronotes Cross-Sell Basic.
  • eToro appoints Robert Brown as new non-executive director in the U.K.
  • Socure expands coverage for global watchlist filtering and sanctions compliance.
  • Philippine-based credit union groups to build payments and banking platform based on technology from Temenos.
  • Robotic automation technology from NICE Systems helps prevent credit card fraud at Italian bank, Banca Popolare di Sondrio.
  • Finovate newcomer Student Loan Genius adds Honest Dollar co-founder Henry Yoshida as vice president of partnerships and product strategy.

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.