“In the market for a new home? Get a complete analysis of your financial profile to understand what you can afford from discovery to decision. Easily find properties in your area that match both your requirements and your budget. Receive offers from multiple lending institutions and easily compare them to determine the right one for you. Make sure you’ll get the best mortgage rates by monitoring your credit for free on the go.It’s the one mobile app that provides the information, analysis, advice and offers you need for every important financing decision.”
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The Reprogrammable GoNow Card Transforms into Any Credit, Debit, or Stored Value Card
“The GoNow eWallet Platform includes the GoNow eWallet Card, a reprogrammable electronic device that looks like a standard payment card. The GoNow Card becomes any credit, debit or stored-value card in a consumer’s eWallet “on the fly.” It receives commands from an eWallet and can be tapped or swiped at all existing POS terminals and ATMs without any change to the existing payment infrastructure.
The GoNow Card, which communicates in close proximity with a smartphone, is the ideal eWallet companion card. GoNow also has a secure element in the card that may be used in lieu of, or in addition to, a secure element in the phone.”
Balance Financial’s New Digital Workspace Helps Advisors Collaborate with their Clients and Colleagues
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.
“Wealth management and private banking represent a great opportunity for financial institutions looking to increase revenue. Competition for affluent clients is heavy and most FIs lack sufficient client facing technology to deliver exceptional client experiences that help attract, engage and retain affluent clients while also helping to scale service delivery.Our new digital workspace application is a simple and effective way to create a custom workspace for collaborating with clients & colleagues. With Balance, service professionals can create a simple client facing workspace in minutes for sharing files, financial data and managing projects while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their service offerings.”
Yseop Financial’s Software Suite Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help Save Time and Money Spent Writing Reports
“Yseop Financial represents the latest round of financial applications developed on Yseop’s technology. This suite of products covers the full range of possibilities offered by Yseop’s text-generating software, including a prep-to-meeting report, an automatically generated two-page financial executive summary based on the latest market data, and a personalized retirement planning application.”
BBC Easy Saves Borrowers and Lenders Time by Automating the Verification Process
“BBC Easy reads lender-specified data directly from the borrower’s accounting systems for verifying loan compliance and financial viability. BBC Easy also fully calculates the borrowing base certificate for borrowers saving massive time for lenders and borrowers. It is mind-bogglingly simple to use for lenders and borrowers and provides brilliant growth potential for commercial lenders.”
Kofax Debuts Customer On-Boarding Solution
“Kofax will demonstrate how banks can onboard customers to specific products, services or accounts and capture customer content, data, and documents in support of the onboarding process directly from the mobile device.
Customers will be prompted to submit information that is automatically extracted, validated for accuracy, and then utilized in the decision process. In cases of exceptions or errors, users will interactively be guided through the resolution process of providing a trailing document (supplemental information) or providing additional clarification or information for the purpose of opening the account.”
Fiserv’s Snap to Tag Feature Brings More Detail to PFM
“Snap to Tag brings together real-world receipts with digital experiences. It enables consumers to take a photo of a merchant receipt within their mobile banking application, extracting key data elements and automatically attaching the image and its data to transaction details within mobile and online banking transaction listings. Consumers can then review the image if they have any queries at some point in the future. It addresses specific use cases like having receipts for expense management and / or product warranties.Snap to Tag will be a feature within our Mobiliti application – our market leading mobile banking and payment platform.”
Signifyd Debuts Guaranteed Payments Solution to Help Online Merchants Minimize Card-Not-Present Fraud
“Today, Card-Not-Present merchants are liable for fraud chargebacks. As brick-and-mortar businesses move online, their losses increase. The techniques used by fraudsters are evolving quickly, forcing merchants to become experts on device fingerprinting, IP Geo-Location, NAP Checks, BIN lookups and social spoofing.
Signifyd abstracts this away by connecting all the data needed to screen a transaction and looking at the identities involved holistically. With Signifyd, merchants get a one-stop solution, from automated scoring to manual review, even without any internal history on the customer. And with Guaranteed Payments, Signifyd takes the liability in the case of a mistake. “
Finovera’s Personal Bookkeeper System Helps Keep Your Finances Organized
“Finovera is like your personal bookkeeper. You setup your accounts once, and it automatically downloads up to 12 months of your statements, organizes them and presents them to you with detailed analysis. Now it is possible to organize your financial life in less than 10 minutes! No paper clutter, no late fees and no excuses! You receive automatic alerts when new bills are due or higher than usual. Not sure if you have to move money around to pay your bills? No problem – we’ll let you know.”
FamZoo Unveils its Prepaid Card Family Pack to Enable Kids to Save and Spend with their Own Prepaid Card
“The Prepaid Card Family Pack is a uniquely affordable, convenient, and educational MasterCard reloadable card offering designed specifically for families. Linked together and accessed online through FamZoo’s Virtual Family Bank software, the cards are used collaboratively to share funds between family members and develop financial responsibility.
Parent cards serve as the automated funding source for allowance, chores, odd jobs, ad-hoc transfers, reimbursements, compound interest, and matching contributions. Children sign in separately to monitor spending, while parents retain control through a shared dashboard. Additional tools include collaborative budgets, interactive savings planners, “child bill pay,” and automated IOU tracking.”
CardFlight Launches Offline Payment Processing Solution
“We bring the same developer‐friendly, transparent approach to payment processing as Stripe and Braintree. However, we focus on the ~90% of payment transactions that happen offline.
Unlike other mobile payment services, we offer a very simple and secure SDK/API and work with the developer’s existing merchant account. Developers retain full control of their integrated app experience. They simply use our encrypted mobile mag stripe reader and API so that they can safely and securely accept payments in their apps.”
Jemstep’s Portfolio Manager Helps Users Plan and Save for Retirement
“Jemstep Portfolio Manager is an easy-to-use online service that helps people lock in more money for retirement. It gets to know each person’s financial circumstances and preferences, and, in minutes:
- Projects the amount of money their current portfolio will give them to spend in retirement
- Recommends a target portfolio optimized to generate more money
- Spells out an Action Plan detailing what to buy and sell in each of their accounts (including their 401k), helping them minimize taxes, reduce fund fees, and select top-quality investments
- Keeps people on track with continuous monitoring that watches for changes in their profile, portfolio, and the market and alerts them when it’s time to make a change”