Finovate Alumni News– November 8, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgadesso to sell & implement Backbase’s Customer Experience Platform in Germany, Austria & Switzerland.
  • ValidSoft announces appointment of Paul Burmester as CEO. Pat Carroll to assume role of Executive Chairman.
  • Fidor Bank expanding into Russia through a joint venture Life.Sreda.
  • Numbrs, Kofax make American Banker’s “Top 10 FinTech Companies to Watch” roster.
  • Intuit announces partnership with American Express to support receipt data integration to QuickBooks.
  • La Caixa launches social network for its investors, StockTactics.
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.

Finovate Alumni News– November 7, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgAmerican Banker reports: Bill.com Updates Banking Platform.
  • FIS, Fiserv, BancVue, & IND Group included in 2013 FinTech 100 rankings.
  • U.S. News and World Report wonders if FlexScore will replace credit scores.
  • Leaf earns a spot on BostInno’s “50 on Fire Finalists for Tech”.
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.

Check Out FinovateAsia 2013’s Diverse Audience

If you’re coming to FinovateAsia next week, you’ll be rubbing shoulders with a wide-ranging crowd. For next week’s show, attendees will fly in from as far away as South America and the U.S. (check out the map here). 

These folks represent a range of organizations, from high-profile bank and venture capitalist executives, to small startups and independent bloggers. Here is a word cloud we created from the titles of FinovateAsia attendees:

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And a small sample of the organizations that will be attending:

  • American Express
  • ANZ
  • Bank BTPN
  • Bank of Singapore
  • Bank Respublika
  • BOC Group Life Assurance
  • Citi Ventures
  • Credit Suisse
  • IDC Financial Insights
    • i-exceed
    • IND Group
    • INSEAD
    • Intel Capital
    • Javelin Strategy & Research
    • Maybank
    • Microsoft
    • OCBC
    • RBS
  • S&P Capital
  • Security Bank
  • Singtel
  • Standard Chartered
  • Suncorp Bank
  • TMB Bank
  • UBS
  • United Overseas Bank
  • Visa

Don’t miss out on being a part of this diverse audience and seeing what your competition is up to. Get your ticket here

Finovate Alumni News– November 6, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgMarketWatch mentions BrightScope and FutureAdvisor as two ways to enhance your retirement portfolio.
  • Quippi to use PayNearMe to enable cash payments for its international gift cards.
  • MoneyDesktop launches Client Services product to offer employee training, marketing, tech support & other services to increase ROI PFM investment.
  • Atlanta-based Cardlytics opens first NYC office.
  • The Guardian mentions SumUp in its review of popular mobile apps for business.
  • Finovate alums FIS, Fiserv, ACI Worldwide, Jack Henry Banking, and Temenos earn spots on IDC Financial Insights tenth annual FinTech 100 list.
  • PandoDaily takes a look at Netswipe 2.0, Jumio’s payment card scanning solution.
  • Celent reviews Comarch Wealth Management Platform.
  • Ignite Sales launches mobile recommendation guides to accelerate bank customer on boarding.
  • Multicom announces partnership with pre-paid virtual card provider, Ixaris.
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.

App Annie’s Free Upgrade Brings Advertising and Analytics Onto a Single Platform

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App Annie is bringing users an all-in-one platform that displays advertising and analytics alongside one another.

The Beijing-based company launched a free upgrade to its analytics platform today, with the initiation of two major changes.

First, it launched 22 new, integrated reports that display key metrics intended to improve business decisions. Charts with revenue, spending, install data, and more can all be shared with colleagues and external parties.

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It also announced support for seven major ad networks:
    1. AdMob
    2. Chartboost
    3. iAd (including iAd Network and iAd Workbench)
    4. Jumptap
    5. MdotM
    6. Tapit!
    7. TapJoy
It plans to add support for even more in the coming months.

Come see App Annie demo its latest development live in Singapore at FinovateAsia on November 14. Get your ticket here.

Finovate Alumni News– November 5, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgLodo debuts D3 Consumer banking multichannel management platform.
  • App Annie’s Free Upgrade Brings Advertising and Analytics Onto a Single Platform.
  • CurrencyFair raises $2.5 million from Frontline Ventures.
  • TSYS introduces Merchant Insights to hep customers better monitor and analyze social media data.
  • ACI Worldwide announces completion of Official Payments acquisition.
  • Jim Marous’ Bank Marketing Strategy features Mitek in a discussion of “banking innovation for the fat-fingered.”
  • Local CBS affiliate in San Francisco highlights crowdfunding, real estate, and Realty Mogul.
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.

FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 4

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FinovateAsia 2013 is coming to Singapore in just over one week. And, just in time, here are the final seven companies who will bring their live demos to the stage.

If you missed the previous three installments of our Sneak Peek preview series, check out the links below.

Our final event of 2013 is only a few weeks away. Get your ticket here to be a part of the audience.


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BehavioSec focuses on innovation in behavioral biometrics.
Features
    • Transparent biometrics for mobile and web 
    • Large deployments 
    • Cost effective, low impact security
Why its great:
BehavioSec provides biometric security with no user experience cost  

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Neil Costigan
Dr Costigan is a cryptography and security expert with over 20 years experience developing security solutions deployed with retail banking in the U.S. and Europe.

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GMC Software Technology’s Inspire Research Portal (IRP) for investors provides a single platform for users to access and replaces all manual processes to automation.
Features
    • Streamlining the process
    • Reducing human errors while increasing productivity
    • Ability to view research reports from multiple platforms
Why it’s great:
IRP will provide a centralized platform for both researchers and approvers to access and perform their job in an interactive and engaging way.  

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Matthias Kraaz
Matthias has been in the customer communication space for many years and is currently looking after all the technical operations of GMC in Asia Pacific.  
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Kelvin Huang
Working as a Presales Manager in GMC for 2 years, Kelvin specializes in web and mobile communication and is equipped with years of experiences in financial industry.
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Intuition Intelligence’s end-to-end card linked offers solution delivers super relevant offers to users from a huge volume of offers.

Features:
    • Brings a huge volume of offers from Open-coupon Networks
    • Solve Pains: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Vicinity, Visibility & Value
    • Win-win ecosystem for the Bank, Merchants and Customers
Why it’s great: By learning user intent in click time, we deliver the right offers at right moment via digital channels without spam and friction in pre-and post-login.  

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Arif Ansari
Keynote Speaker for Big Data and predictive analytics, expert in multiple areas of advanced intelligent systems and multiple patent holder.





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Yusuf Ansari
Entrepreneur with track record of achieving #1 market share, visionary in building iconic products and hands-on execution and product management.
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KlickEx is the world’s most advanced multi-currency payments network – active in 8 countries, SWIFT and UNDP funded – and Asia’s top-ranked Mobile Money platform deployment.
Features:
    • Completed solution to distributed/”crypto”-currency value destruction
    • No need to dis-intermediate Central Banks or regulators
    • Implemented, asset-based store of value – full USD alternative

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Rob Bell
Rob and his award winning team turned the SWIFT and UNCDP funded, World Bank ranked, Pacific inter-bank payment network, into Asia’s top rated mobile money platform in 3 years. Ex HSBC, Stanford, NZX.
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Brett Waterson
Brett is the multi-award winning architect behind many global trading and banking systems, including the NZ Police Database, and all four NZ bank credit card loyalty programs – and of course, KlickEx.
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Mambu helps banks, microfinance institutions and financial innovators deliver banking services to individuals and emerging enterprises around the world.
Features:
    • Makes state-of-the-art banking technology accessible to all
    • Eliminates the costs and complexities of traditional core banking
    • Helps financial organisations get new products to market, fast
Why it’s great:
Mambu’s cloud-first Software-as-a-Service solution enables financial organizations of all sizes to rapidly deliver state-of-the-art banking services  

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David Hamilton, president of Mambu

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Eugene Danilkis, CEO and co-founder of Mambu
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Payoneer simplifies global commerce by providing companies and businesses of all sizes with an innovative, convenient and cost effective solution to send and receive funds worldwide.
Features:
    • Global corporates can transfer funds to over 200 countries and more than 50 currencies 
    • Funds can be received on prepaid cards, local bank accounts, or even local e-wallets 
Why it’s great:
In a borderless world, Payoneer helps SMBs and professionals get paid with minimal friction and the convenience of choosing their preferred financial instrument.

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Oded Zehavi
As CRO, Zehavi is responsible for Payoneer’s sales, marketing and product activities. Prior to joining Payoneer, he served as business development director for PayPal.

TSYSLogoHiRes.jpgTSYSAuthorization Controls allows the a user to set one’s own default account parameters and authorization rules.
Features:
    • Spatiotemporal locks allow user to geo-fence their location
    • Authorization Rules allow you to define spend limits for defined cycles
    • Authorization actions the user to Alert, Decline or Pre-authorize
Why it’s great:
TSYS Authorization Controls reduce risk to the card issuer, merchant and consumer by monitoring transactions in real-time and enforcing responsible spending at the POS.  

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Paul Bridgewater
As Group Executive of Global Product, Paul is responsible for product strategy, product delivery, product marketing and TSYS Innovation across the company. 
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Chris Colson
As the director of innovation for TSYS, Chris is an 18-year veteran of the payments and financial services industry, having previously served as vice president, product management, of Equifax.  

For more information about how to join us in Singapore, visit our FinovateAsia 2013 page here.

Finovate Alumni News– October 31, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgIntuit to acquire FullSlate, an online scheduling company.
  • Boku partners with PassportParking, enabling consumers to pay for parking using their mobile number, and billed to carrier billing statement.
  • American Banker comments on the savings strategies of SaveUp, Betterment’s ImpulseSave, and Social Money.
  • FIS study reports: Customer engagement in real-time payments requires mobility and convenience.
  • CurrencyFair featured in prime time on Irish television news.
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.

FinovateAsia 2013 Demo Companies Bring Global Innovation to Singapore

FinovateAsia is typically our most globally diverse show, and this year is no different. Two weeks from now, we will showcase 37 demos from companies spanning the globe that are innovating in everything from remittance to small business tools to back office solutions and much more. 

Given that diversity, we thought it would be fun put together a map showing the geographic spread of the demoing companies that will take the stage (click the map to enlarge).

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Here’s the breakdown of the number of companies from each region:

  • Asia: 12
  • Europe: 11
  • North America: 9
  • Africa: 1
  • Oceania: 2
  • Middle East: 2

To refresh your memory, the list of the companies that we’ve hand-picked to show off their new technology at the Max Atria @ Singapore Expo on November 14, include:

  • Advanced Merchant Payments
  • App Annie
  • Arkalogic
  • ArthaYantra
  • Backbase
  • BehavioSec
  • BlueKite
  • BRIDGEi2i
  • CustomerXPs Software
  • DragonWealth
  • GMC Software Technologies
  • i-exceed
  • IND Group
  • Intuition Intelligence
  • KlickEx
  • Kofax
  • LifePAD
  • Luminous
  • Mambu
  • Matchi
  • Mistral Mobile
  • Mobexo
  • Mobino
  • Pangea
  • Payoneer
  • Pixeliris
  • Red Zebra
  • SaaS Markets
  • Serverside
  • Smart Engine
  • TIBCO
  • Tootpay
  • TradeNet
  • TSYS
  • White Label Personal Clouds
  • Yodlee

To see live demos of the new technology, meet the entrepreneurs responsible, and network with others in the industry, get your ticket to FinovateAsia here. If you have questions about the show, check out who is attending or email asia@finovate.com.

Finovate Alumni News– October 30, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgPayments News reports: PayPal Launches Startup Blueprint Program.
  • miiCard’s new directory API powers member lookup services to easily confirm ID and expand confidence online.
  • EyeVerify featured in local broadcast on Kansas City’s tech community.
  • GoBank, Moven, and Simple highlighted in Bank Marketing Strategy column on simplicity and bank product proliferation.
  • TradeKing CEO Don Montanaro weighs in on the SEC’s crowdfunding approval announcement.
  • Check releases version 6.26 of their money management app for Android.
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.

Finovate Alumni News– October 29, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgPayfone Brings in $10 Million from Early Warning Systems.
  • Promsvyazbank in Russia Launches PFM-Service, Powered by Meniga.
  • Payments Source: Fiserv Makes a Payments Play for Small Businesses.
  • FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 3 is up.
  • Trejdify publishes an introduction to Quantopian.
  • GMC Software Technology opens office in Australia. Join them in Singapore next month for FinovateAsia 2013.
  • For the third consecutive year Deloitte nominates Trustly as 1 of Sweden’s Tech Fast 50 companies.
  • Pennsylvania’s Customers Bank embraces mobile bill pay via Mitek-powered PicturePay.
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.

Payfone Brings in $10 Million from Early Warning Systems

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Mobile security and authentication technology is always a topic of importance in fintech because fraud threats are continuously evolving.

Mobile commerce and authentication company Payfone announced this month that it raised $10 million, further proving that the need for mobile security technology will be around for awhile. The funding comes from Arizona-based Early Warning, and brings Payfone’s total funding up to almost $40 million.

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As a part of the deal, Payfone’s technology will be available to Early Warning’s clients.

To learn more about Payfone, watch its FinovateFall 2012 demo where it launched 1 Touch Checkout.