Credit Sesame Launches Goals Feature and Visual Mortgage Comparison Tool

This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Then, Credit Sesame launched its goals feature and new mortgage comparison tool:
“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.”
Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Founded: January 2010
Metrics: Number of accounts: 2M+; Loans under system management: $60B+; Total annualized savings identified for users: $600M+; Number of employees: 32; Money raised: $19.35M 
Twitter: @creditsesame
Presenting George McMullen (Director, Mobile Products)

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The Reprogrammable GoNow Card Transforms into Any Credit, Debit, or Stored Value Card

This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Then, GoNow demonstrated how its reprogrammable card can free consumers from overstuffed wallets:

“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.”

Product Launch: November 2013
HQ: Bala Cynwyd, PA
Founded: 2009
Metrics: Two customers integrated GoNow eWallet Card with their eWallet and on track for commercial launch.
Website: gonowcard.com
Twitter: @gonowcard
Presenting Joe O’Neill (VP Business Development) and Ron Fridman (CTO)

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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.

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Second up, Balance Financial took the stage with its new digital workspace:

“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.”
Product Launch: March 2013
HQ: Bellevue, WA
Founded: May 2004
Metrics: Our team of 14 employees has raised $2.3M to date and our platform serves 1,200 registered financial firms across the US. 
Twitter: @mybalance
Presenting Devin Miller (CEO) and Andrew Buhrmann (Director, Customer Success)

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Yseop Financial’s Software Suite Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help Save Time and Money Spent Writing Reports

This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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First up in the second session, Yseop took the stage to showcase Yseop Financial:

“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.”

Product Launch: January 2013
HQ: Dallas, TX (U.S. Headquarters); Lyon, France (European headquarters)
Founded: 2008
Metrics: Privately self-funded; 20+ years of research to develop the technology; first commercialized in France as a middleware in 2008; opened U.S. headquarters in Dallas in 2012; 25 employees worldwide: 10 in Lyon, 6 in Paris & 9 in Dallas; 20+ large companies/clients; largest implementation: “prep-to-meeting” application deployed for 12,500 retail bankers.
Website: yseop.com
Twitter: @yseopAI
Presenting John Rauscher (CEO) and Elizabeth Farabee (VP Marketing)

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BBC Easy Saves Borrowers and Lenders Time by Automating the Verification Process

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This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.
Last up in the first morning session, BBC Easy showed how it can help make the borrowing process fast and simple:

“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.”

Product Launch: November 2012
HQ: Seattle, WA
Founded: August 2010
Metrics: 6 employees
Website: bbceasy.com  
Twitter: @BBC_Easy
Presenting James Walter (CEO) and Corey Ross (VP Sales)

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Kofax Debuts Customer On-Boarding Solution

This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Afterwards, Kofax debuted its 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.”
Product Launch: March 13, 2013
HQ: Irvine, CA
Founded: 1985
Metrics: Subsidiaries: 30 countries; Employees: >1,200; Channel Partners: 800+; Products: Available in 70+ countries; Customers: 20,000+; London Stock Exchange: KFX; Revenue: $262.5M; Adjusted EBITA: $48.5M; Adjusted diluted EPS: $0.38; Cash: $81.1M
Website: kofax.com 
Twitter: @kofax
Presenting Anthony Macciola (CTO) and Diane Morgan (Sr. Business Development Manager)

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Fiserv’s Snap to Tag Feature Brings More Detail to PFM

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This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.
Then, Fiserv showcased its new Snap to Tag feature:
“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.”
Product Launch: Available now for pilot
HQ: Brookfield, WI
Founded: July 1984
Metrics: 2012 Revenue: $4.4B, 2012 Net income: $611M, Employees: about 20,000 worldwide, 16,000 financial institutions and businesses worldwide, 6,000 account processing clients
Website: fiserv.com
Presenting Andrew Barnett (Sr. Mobile Solutions Consultant) and Caroline Jones (User Experience Designer)

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Signifyd Debuts Guaranteed Payments Solution to Help Online Merchants Minimize Card-Not-Present Fraud

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This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.
Second up today, Signifyd showed how its Guaranteed Payments solves costly 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. “

Product Launch: March 2013
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Founded: June 2011
Metrics: $2.2M seed, 6 employees
Website: signifyd.com
Twitter: @signifyd
Rajesh Ramanand (CEO & Co-Founder)

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Finovera’s Personal Bookkeeper System Helps Keep Your Finances Organized

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This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.
First up on the second day here at Finovate, Finovera showcased its solution that helps organize your financial life:

“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.”

Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: Milpitas, CA
Founded: May 2011
Metrics: 15 Employees
Website: finovera.com
Twitter: @finovera
Presenting Purna Pareek (CEO) and Preeti Ray (Sr. Product Manager)

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FamZoo Unveils its Prepaid Card Family Pack to Enable Kids to Save and Spend with their Own Prepaid Card

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This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.
Then, FamZoo launched its Prepaid Card Family Pack:

“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.”

Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Founded: 2006
Metrics: Private Funding $1.1M, FamZoo.com launched 2010, FamZoo Partner Edition launched 2011 (FinovateFall 2011 Best of Show winner), 5,000 registered families, 13.7% trial-to-paid conversion rate, $1.4M of spending/giving transactions by kids tracked to date
Website: famzoo.com
Twitter: @FamZoo
Presenting Bill Dwight (CEO & Founder)

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CardFlight Launches Offline Payment Processing Solution

This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Next, CardFlight took the stage to launch its 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.”

Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: New York, NY
Founded: February 2013
Twitter: @CardFlight
Presenting Derek Webster (CEO & Founder) and Tim Saunders (CTO)

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Jemstep’s Portfolio Manager Helps Users Plan and Save for Retirement

This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Then, Jemstep showcased its Portfolio Manager platform that individualizes a plan to help users take the right actions to best 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: 

    1. Projects the amount of money their current portfolio will give them to spend in retirement
    2. Recommends a target portfolio optimized to generate more money
    3. 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
    4. 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”
Product Launch: January 30, 2013
HQ: Los Altos, CA
Founded: January 2008
Metrics: $10.5M raised in private funding; 22 employees; 10,000+ users totaling more than $1.5B in assets; pre-revenue; impending launch of subscription service – flat monthly subscription fee 
Website: jemstep.com
Twitter: @jemstep
Presenting Kevin Cimring (Joint CEO) and Matthew Rennie (CTO)

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