Author: Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz)

Alt-Lender EZBOB Deepens Pockets by $46 Million

Alt-Lender EZBOB Deepens Pockets by $46 Million
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: EZBOB, Funding, Wonga

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U.K.-based alternative lending company EZBOB this week announced it pulled in $46 million in funding. The full amount of the Series C round was supplied by Oaktree Capital and brings the company’s total funding to $66.5 million.

According to The Telegraph, EZBOB will use the new funds to refinance existing debt and increase its loan offerings to small businesses.

This is the company’s second large announcement this year. In February, EZBOB purchased Everline, Wonga’s lesser-known small business finance arm. Both EZBOB and Everline are now rolled up underneath an umbrella group, Orange Money.

Combined, the two companies have furnished U.K.-based SMEs with more than 6,000 loans totaling $83+ million.

Orange Money, which offers an average interest rate of 16%, does not view its services as competitive toward traditional banks. Orange Money CEO Tomer Guriel says, “We’re complementary to the banks and are there to provide access to capital for business owners that have been rejected by their bank.”

EZBOB demonstrated its online application process at FinovateEurope 2014 in London. Wonga debuted its iPhone app at FinovateFall 2010 in New York.

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SigFig Brings on New Advisory Board Members and $1 Million in Funding

SigFig Brings on New Advisory Board Members and $1 Million in Funding
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Funding, SigFig

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Robo-adviser platform SigFig today announced it added five members to its advisory board. Four of the new board members are investors in Nyca Partners, which furnished the San Francisco-based company with $1 million in new funding.

SigFig founder and CEO Mike Sha says he is more excited about the connections that Nyca has to offer than the funding it supplied.

SigFig, launched in 2007 as Wikinvest, has since garnered a total of $30 million in funding.

According to SF Gate, SigFig tracks around $350 billion in assets for its users. The company declined to comment on its total amount of assets under management.

SigFig demonstrated its automated investment platform at FinovateFall 2011.

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Credit Karma Now Serves Americans with Thin Credit Files

Credit Karma Now Serves Americans with Thin Credit Files
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Credit Karma, Credit Reporting

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In the U.S., 15 million adults have no credit score because they are new to the country or have a short financial history. While such “thin-file” credit customers could create a Credit Karma account, they could do little else on the platform until recently.

This week, the free credit-report service is rolling out its Thin File customer experience to help these customers take action to create good credit.

The San Francisco-based company will enable thin-file consumers to:

  • Review the information in their credit profile
  • Learn how to build their credit history
  • View recommendations for credit cards and loans that might help build credit

Additionally, they have access to Credit Karma’s tools such as an interest rate calculator and personal spending tracker.

Credit Karma debuted at FinovateSpring 2008, the first Bay Area Finovate conference. It has since built out its platform with multiple tools, offers from partners, and a PFM offering.

Serving more than 21 million users, Credit Karma has raised $195 million in financing and was valued at $1 billion after its September 2014 funding round of $75 million.

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FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 5

FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 5
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: DarcMatter, Digital Insight, Emailage, FinovateSpring 2015, FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek, Hedgeable, Moven, RAGE, Shoeboxed

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FinovateSpring’s 72 fintech innovators have 3 weeks left to perfect their live demos before debuting their new technology on stage 12/13 May in San Jose, Calif. That means there’s still some time left for you to pick up a ticket and take a closer look at the types of technology you’ll see demonstrated live at San Jose’s City National Civic.

Today, we’re featuring seven companies:

Check out the previous installments of our Sneak Peek series below. And stayed tuned for Part 6 on Thursday:

DarcMatterLogoDarcMatter is an online platform solving inefficiencies in the alternative-investments market through enhanced capital connectivity, data-driven investing, and advanced syndication.

Features:

  • Institutional-level access to prescreened and compliant alternative investments
  • Issuers are empowered to raise capital on their own
  • Over $100 billion of investor capital

Why it’s great
DarcMatter provides an infrastructure for the alternatives market and enhances the capital process from start to finish.

DarcMatterPresenter1Presenters

Sang Lee, CEO & Founder
Formerly an investment banker in the energy field at WestLB and BNP Paribas, Lee has accrued a wealth of expertise in financial regulation, business, and financial structuring.
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DarcMatterPresenter2Stan Solodkyy, CTO
Solodkyy has experience from integration of financial institutions with the SWIFT network to providing software consultancy to world-leading brands.
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DigitalInsightLogoDigital Insight will illustrate the use of beacons within its mobile banking app, creating a more personal, relevant, and contextual experience based on a user’s location.

Features:

  • Personalizes a user’s experience in banking branches
  • Provides financial institutions relevant, timely information to engage with users more effectively

Why it’s great
Digital Insight is designing more personal, relevant, and contextual experiences based on knowing a user’s location.

DILabsPresenters

Marshall Yuan, Senior Product Manager, DI Labs
Yuan is senior product manager at DI Labs where he leads experimentation in new solutions to help financial institutions engage and delight their end users.
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DIPresenter2Ronald Leung, Engineering Lead, DI Labs
Leung is the engineering lead at DI Labs where he has been working with financial institutions to build innovative solutions and user experiences.
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EmailageLogoEmailage uses email as a key data-element for detecting fraud trends across industries and regions. Emailage’s machine-learning algorithms detect fraud in real time.

Features:

  • Analyze any email address on any web site
  • 90% confirmed fraud has not been previously detected
  • Real-time fraud score based on current trends

Why it’s great
No sensitive, transactional data is ever shared or stored by Emailage. It requires only an email address to provide an extremely precise risk assessment.

EmailagePresenterPresenter

Amador Testa, Chief Product Officer
Testa is Emailage’s CPO and has 15 years experience in financial fraud prevention. Prior to Emailage, Amador was a leader for AMEX and Citigroup.
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HedgeableLogoHedgeable is a robo-adviser on steroids.

Features:

  • Advanced portfolio customization and sophistication
  • Downside risk protection
  • Access to alternatives

Why it’s great
First generation robo-advisers are cookie-cutter, like Altavista; Hedgeable is innovating like Google.

HedgeablePresenter1Presenters

Matthew Kane, Co-founder & Chief Ninja
Kane is co-founder and CTO of Hedgeable where he leads all product, design, UI/UX, development, and strategy initiatives.
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HedgeablePresenter2Michael Kane, Co-founder & Head Sensei
Kane is co-founder and CEO of Hedgeable where he leads all investment-management and business-development duties. Previously at Bridgewater Associates.
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MovenLogo2015Moven is a disruptive digital experience and debit card designed to provide real-time feedback so users can build better money habits and save more.

Features:

  • Frictionless account onboarding with incremental prospecting
  • A real-time financial wellness experience driving customer engagement
  • A global, agile, and scalable platform for international banks

Why it’s great
Moven has created real-time, contextualized notifications to gamify savings and create a behaviorally driven experience that goes beyond traditional goal-based paradigms.

MovenPresenter1Presenters

Brett King, CEO, Founder
King is an Amazon best-selling author, well-known industry commentator, host of the BREAKING BANK$ radio show and founder of revolutionary mobile-based banking service Moven.
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MovenPresenter2Alex Sion, President, Co-founder
Sion is President of Moven and an adviser on digital strategy and disruption to global financial leaders such as HSBC, Citi, and Barclays.
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RAGE Frameworks’ LiveCredit is a flexible, scalable origination and servicing solution that enables the design and launch of any financing product, end-to-end, from origination to underwriting to booking and service.

Features:

  • Dynamic Product Configurator enables new products without custom coding
  • Scalable origination and servicing
  • Enables flexible financing, accounting and compliance

Why it’s great
Its framework-based approach empowers unprecedented flexibility and market-leading, time-to-market deployment.

RagePresenter1Presenters

Nick Adams, Vice President, Risk Solutions
Adams runs business development for LiveCredit and is a 10+ year veteran of startups and multinational companies. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and an MBA in finance from Northeastern.
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RagePresenter2Aashish Mehta, SVP, Business Banking Solutions
Mehta is responsible for all LiveCredit business operations. He sits on the management team and has been with RAGE for nearly 10 years.
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ShoeboxedLogoShoeboxed is launching the next banking standard. The pioneers in email and mobile receipt-capture now open the door to receipt data for financial institutions.

Features:

  • Automated receipt-capture for consumers and small businesses
  • Item-level extraction of purchase details
  • Turnkey implementation for financial institutions

Why it’s great
Receipt-capture is becoming a standard banking feature, giving access to previously unattainable data.

ShoeboxedPresenter1Presenters

Tobi Walter, COO, Co-founder
An investment banker-turned-entrepreneur, COO Walter oversees the business and corporate development efforts of Shoeboxed.
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ShoeboxedPresenter2Alex Anderson, Business Development Manager
Anderson oversees the planning and implementation of strategic banking and accounting partnerships.
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Britain’s Second Largest Mobile Wallet, Yoyo, Pulls $10 Million in Funding

Britain’s Second Largest Mobile Wallet, Yoyo, Pulls $10 Million in Funding
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Funding, Yoyo

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YoyomobileapployaltyU.K.-based Yoyo announced a $10 million Series A round of funding today, bringing the startup’s total to $15 million. The round was led by Imperial Innovations, an affiliate of Imperial College, where Yoyo piloted its mobile payments app. Investors Taavet Hinrikus, Philip Riese, and Michael Tobin also contributed.

The startup will use the funding to bolster engineering and expand its team.

Yoyo also plans to expand internationally and hopes to launch at five U.S.-based colleges by the end of 2015. Yoyo piloted operations at Imperial College in London. The mobile wallet is now available at 15 other British universities, where Yoyo payments total up to 50% of all transactions on campus.

Yoyo’s platform, which is aimed at closed environments such as universities and airlines, sees 150k transactions per month. This earns it a spot as one of Britain’s largest mobile wallets, second only to Starbucks’ payment app.

The mobile payments app boasts convenience, and its built-in reward system keeps customers coming back. Yoyo has a stickiness rate of 80% and, on average, its users spend more than non-users.

We covered Yoyo in our Finovate Debuts series earlier this year. The company unveiled its mobile wallet technology at FinovateEurope 2015 in London.

 

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MoneyStream Launches to Public, Receives $3.2 Million in Funding

MoneyStream Launches to Public, Receives $3.2 Million in Funding
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Funding, MoneyStream

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iPhoneUpcomingMoneyStream not only launched its bill pay-focused PFM platform in the U.S. today, but also received its first round of funding.

The $3.2 million round was led by 60-year-old H&R Block, and marks only the second time the tax and accounting company has invested in a startup. H&R Block’s first investment was in 2011 when it furnished an undisclosed amount to Wipit, which demonstrated its Boost Mobile Wallet at FinovateSpring last year.

Bruno Bowden and Kim Polese also contributed to MoneyStream’s Series A round.

MoneyStream helps consumers avoid late payments and overdraft fees by providing cash- and bill-management tools enabling them to look ahead and make financial predictions. The startup analyzes historical account activity to predict their future balance and alert them if they could come up short. In addition to offering a single place to view all bills, the free service also enables users to pay bills directly from MoneyStream’s platform.

Founded in 2012, the company debuted at FinovateFall 2014 in New York. Mike Bertrand is CEO.

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CurrencyFair Springs $10.7 Million More in Funding

CurrencyFair Springs $10.7 Million More in Funding
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: CurrencyFair, Funding

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Q: Why is Ireland a great place to invest?
A: Because their capital is always Dublin’

Jokes aside, currency-exchange marketplace CurrencyFair received its recent $10.7 million (€10 million) in funding for a deeper reason than its Irish roots. Octopus Investments led the round and previous investor, Frontline Ventures, also contributed.

The Series A installment comes after five angel rounds, a venture round, and a seed round, and brings the company’s total funding to $15.4 million. The company plans to use the funding to expand with the growing market and broaden its focus beyond the European and Asia Pacific regions in which it already operates.

Founded in 2009, CurrencyFair functions on a P2P exchange model, whereby consumers negotiate their own exchange rate with others who seek the opposite exchange. CurrencyFair’s exchange platform occasionally beats the interbank exchange rate, since the P2P model insulates consumers from currency-exchange fees.

CurrencyFair competitor, TransferWise, has raised just over $58 million and recently announced a partnership with cloud-based accounting company Xero.

Brett Meyers is CEO and co-founder of CurrencyFair. The company debuted its iPhone app at FinovateEurope 2013 in London.

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Finovate Debuts: Using Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS to Create Videographics

Finovate Debuts: Using Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS to Create Videographics
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Financial Media Solutions

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Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS videographic production tool enables advisers to create short videos that present financial information to their clients. Videographics are a logical shift from PDF documents, since many clients are shifting to the mobile channel and find it difficult to gain information by reading a PDF on their smartphone.

Using video to convey financial information is a good alternative, but is generally expensive. With MAPPS, advisers have an inexpensive way to create compelling videographics for their clients.

Facts:

  • Based in Switzerland
  • Founded in 2011
  • Self-financed, less than $100,000
  • 6 employees
  • 2 clients

When synced with the adviser’s audio commentary, the videographics capture and maintain the client’s attention. This ultimately helps clients understand and retain information about their portfolios.

Unlike traditional video production, MAPPS is affordable and does not require specialized skills. It enables advisers to create a videographic in five steps:

1) Create a sequence
Upload data from Excel to create a chart. If the adviser frequently follows the same sequence in many of their videos, they can create and store templates for future use.

2) Add analysis to the sequence
Add text, images, and animations to explain a concept or analyze the information in the chart.

3) Write, record, and edit commentary
The adviser records in his or her own voice, and uploads the recording.

4) Set and synchronize timing
Place charts, words, and graphics to pace with the commentary flow

5) Preview and publish
Once the video is finalized, advisers can add it into their mobile app and/or send it directly to their clients.

The result is a video similar to the following:

The ideal video length is 90 seconds or less. According to MAPPS, 80% of consumers watch videos until 90 seconds, after which 40% of people quit watching.

Benefits to Mapps

1) Brings communication to the mobile channel, where many customers prefer to receive information
2) Does not require significant funds, time, or skill to create videos
3) Tailors content to each client and personalizes the connection with the adviser’s voice

The first firm to take MAPPS live experienced a 50%+ response rate from clients, which was 40x greater than received previously.

Financial Media Solutions demonstrated MAPPS at FinovateEurope 2015 in London.

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FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 3

FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 3
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: 3E Software, Corezoid.com, Malauzai, PayActiv, PsychSignal, Someone With Group, Trizic

PacketIMG1We’re two weeks into featuring all 70+ presenting companies that will demo their new technology at FinovateSpring next month in San Jose, and there’s still a lot of information to take in.

Today, we’re taking a closer look at:

On 12/13 May, we’ll host a crowd of fintech experts, banking execs, investors, and press at San Jose’s City National Civic. Pick up your ticket here to claim a ticket of your own.

If you missed them, be sure to check out the fourteen companies we featured last week:

3E Software: Ever dream of a solution where lending staff can access and interact with all the data they need from any source? That’s Teslar.

Features:

  • Data from all systems: core, credit card, factoring, etc.
  • Empowers your lending staff
  • So easy even a lender can use it

Why it’s great
One word: Empowerment. With Teslar, your lending staff can be empowered to get things done now, not when another resource can get to it.

3EPresenterPresenter

Joe Ehrhardt, President, CEO
For 16 years, Ehrhardt has worked in or for financial institutions. With his common-sense approach and technology know-how, he is driven to change how banks of all sizes work and operate.
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CorezoidlogoCorezoid.com is the first cloud operating system that can implement and support any kind of algorithm and business process.

Features:

  • Rapid integration into any type of business process
  • Low-cost, flexible system
  • Faster with fewer developers

Why it’s great
While you read this text, 32,000 small corezoids have easily handled the work of huge online banks and implemented about a million logical operations.

Presenters

  1. Maria Gurina, deputy head of ecommerce
  2. Egor Avetisov, creative director
  3. Kristina Chaykovskaya, head of ecommerce

MalauzaiLogoMalauzai Software is a mobile-only, virtual banking experience that makes banking fun, effortless and completely branchless. See it on Apple Watch too!

Why it’s great
A cool, mobile-only virtual banking experience that delivers effortless, branchless banking, powered by advanced technology.

MalauzaiPresenter1Presenters

Robb Gaynor, Founder, Chief Product Officer
Gaynor heads up the product development and marketing of the organization, focused on ensuring the company has solutions at the cutting-edge of mobile innovation. He has more than 25 years of experience.
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MalauzaiPresenter2Danny Piangerelli, Founder, Chief Product Officer
Piangerelli leads the technology team and is responsible for all aspects of Malauzai’s technology infrastructure. He has more than 15 years of engineering and enterprise-class technology experience.
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PayActivLogoPayActiv changes the status quo and gives employees a noncredit alternative to predatory short-term lending products with security, dignity and savings.

Features:

  • Bridges the timing gap between earning and spending
  • Eliminates the stress of overdraft and predatory fees
  • Provides intelligent and preemptive cash-flow management

Why it’s great
PayPresenter1PayActiv puts more money in the hands of every employee right now. They do it by making business’s payroll in real-time.

Presenters

Safwan Shah, CEO, Founder
Technologist, payments expert, and entrepreneur, Shah is an innovator with a purpose.
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PayActivPresenter2Kacky Fuller, Vice President Business Development
Fuller is PayActiv’s sales leader with 10 years’ experience in payroll and prepaid products.
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PsychSignalLogoPsychSignal’s big-data processing-engines generate sentiment-analysis plus artificial intelligence to calculate stock-cycle shifts for Quant Funds, Hedge Funds and Traders.

Features:

  • Big-data processing detects mood shifts ahead of trade-direction shifts
  • Unusual sentiment activity triggers direct, actionable alerts
  • Fully automated system

Why it’s great
The next generation Squawk-Box is here.

PsychSignalPresenter1Presenters

James Crane-Baker, CEO
Crane-Baker is the former head trader of Broadway Trading, the pioneer of direct-access electronic trading; he is the founder and chief executive officer of PsychSignal.
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PsychSignalPresenter2Bjorn Simundson, CMO
Simundson is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, angel investor, and he serves as chief marketing officer for PsychSignal.
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SomeoneWithGroupLogoSomeone With Group offers a compassionate way for hospitals to reduce bad debt by providing patients a secure platform to reach out to friends and family for financial support.

Features:

  • Fraud resistant
  • Restricted spending
  • Branded for the hospital

Why it’s great
Someone With Group is taking the crowdfunding concept to the next level with a fraud-resistant platform that helps both hospitals and patients.

Presenters

SWGPresenter1Paula Jagemann-Bane, CEO
Jagemann-Bane is a successful entrepreneur who thinks big, then delivers. Dynamic and engaging, she is poised to solve the hospital bad-debt problem—with compassion.
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Matt Pomrink, President, COO
Pomrink is detail-oriented without losing sight of the big picture; he has shepherded the SWGPresenter2Someone With Group concept to a robust solution.
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TrizicLogoTrizic offers a cloud-based software platform, Accelerator, comprised of a consumer-facing web experience and an adviser-facing console, enabling financial firms to offer investment advice digitally.

Features:

  • Automates complex portfolio management, rebalancing and reporting functions
  • Accommodates ETFs, mutual funds, equities
  • Enables firms to compete with robo-advisers and grow their business

Why it’s great
Trizic Accelerator is the most comprehensive, end-to-end institutional-class digital advice-platform for financial firms, helping them to delight clients and to grow and scale their businesses.

Presenters

TrizicPresenterBrad Matthews, CEO, Founder
Matthews, the CEO and founder of Trizic, has deep investment-management expertise, honed at J.P. Morgan, Citi, Barclays and Bear Stearns.
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Stay tuned for part four of our series this Thursday.

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Xero & TransferWise Team Up to Save SMBs on Foreign Currency Exchange Fees

Xero & TransferWise Team Up to Save SMBs on Foreign Currency Exchange Fees
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Accounting, Small Business, TransferWise, Xero

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Two Finovate alums partnered today to make it easier for small and medium businesses to conduct business abroad.

Xero’s small business users based in the U.S. and U.K. can use the TransferWise add-on to pay invoices in 25 currencies to 46 countries.

When small businesses use the new add-on to send funds from Xero, they avoid bank-commission fees and instead pay TransferWise’s rate (up to 0.5%). Here’s how it works for existing Xero customers:

XeroTransferWiseLogos1) Log into TransferWise to view their outstanding foreign-currency invoices

2) Select the invoice to be paid

3) The rate is locked in for 24 hours, during which time the user must pay the invoice on the TransferWise platform using a debit card or bank transfer

After the payment arrives, the invoice is reconciled on Xero.

New Zealand-based Xero most recently presented at FinDEVr 2014 in San Francisco. The company launched its Business Identification product at FinovateSpring 2011.

London-based TransferWise demonstrated at FinovateEurope 2013 in London.

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Prosper Pulls in $165 Million in Funding, Boosting Valuation to $1.9 Billion

Prosper Pulls in $165 Million in Funding, Boosting Valuation to $1.9 Billion
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Funding, Prosper

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P2P lending company Prosper brought in $165 million in Series D financing yesterday. This doubles the company’s valuation to $1.9 billion, and classifies it as a fintech unicorn—a private company worth more than $1 billion.

The investment was led by Credit Suisse NEXT. Investors also include financial institutions and venture capital firms:

  • USAA
  • SunTrust Bank
  • J.P. Morgan Asset Management
  • BBVA
  • Neuberger Berman Private Equity Funds
  • Passport Capital
  • Breyer Capital

Founded in 2006, Prosper raised its first round of funding in 2005 to the tune of $7.5 million. Prior to this week’s installment, the company’s funding totaled $190 million; the San Francisco-based company’s funding now totals $355 million.

Three of the financial institutions that furnished the financing, USAA, BBVA, and SunTrust, are in talks with Prosper to co-brand loans for their customers. The company’s competitor, Lending Club, has been co-branding loans with Union Bank since May 2014 and with Bank Alliance community bank members since February 2015.

Prosper facilitated $1.6 billion in loan origination in 2014. This is four times what it did the year prior and more than half of its total $3 billion since launching in 2006.

Prosper plans to use the funding to expand beyond debt consolidation loans into healthcare lending.

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Competitor Lending Club went public last December with an IPO that initially valued it around $8 billion. Its current market cap is $6.9 billion. Lending Club has issued $7.6 billion in consumer loans since launching in 2006.

While both companies are similar, Prosper is working hard to differentiate itself. The company, which offers unsecured consumer loans ranging from $2,000 to $35,000, states it has no intent to enter small-business lending. Meanwhile, competitor Lending Club launched its small-business segment, which enables companies to borrow up to $300,000, in March of 2014. According to American Banker, instead of extending financing to small businesses, Prosper plans to focus on finding a partner to help it expand into South America or Asia.

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Prosper last demonstrated at FinovateSpring 2009 in San Francisco.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Avoka, Digital Insight, Linqto, MX, Onovative, Prosper

On Finovate.com

  • Prosper Pulls in $165 Million in Funding, Boosting Valuation to $1.9 Billion

Around the web

  • Digital Insight releases Android smartwatch functionality with Wright-Patt Credit Union.
  • Australian Banking Finance features Avoka CEO Derek Corcoran.
  • Louisville business blog features Onovative. Catch them at FinovateSpring 12/13 May 2015.
  • MX releases first look at its AppleWatch.
  • Linqto’s Personal Banker receives Overall Most Innovative Award in Barlow Research Associates’ 2015 Monarch Awards for in business banking.

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.

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