FinovateFall 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 2

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This is part two of our FinovateFall Sneak Peek series. If you missed the first installment, you can catch it here:

Here are eight more of the 70 companies that will demo their new technology on September 10 and 11 in New York: authenticID, Fiserv, Float Money, Ignite Sales, Jumio, SavedPlus, Yseop, and Zenmonics.

Want to join us in New York in September? Get your FinovateFall 2013 ticket here. To learn more about FinovateFall, check out the FAQ.

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Authentic ID’s pictureID solution is 100% accurate and can’t be fooled by fraudsters since it returns a visual representation of the true owner of an identity.

Features:
    • 100% Accurate
    • Can’t be fooled by fraudsters
    • Transactions cost less than existing solutions
Why it’s great: pictureID is the only 100% accurate identity proofing solution on the market today and it is more intuitive for users. 

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Blair Cohen, CEO 
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Fiserv’s Popmoney Instant Payments extends the functionality of the Popmoney P2P service from Fiserv, making it indispensable when an immediate exchange of money is required.
Features:
    • Instant Payments delivers payments for a real-time world
    • Delivered through Mobiliti, Popmoney offers an unmatched transformational mobile experience
Why it’s great: Instant Payments from Popmoney combined with the transformational experience offered by Mobiliti from Fiserv, delivers on the compelling, consumer need for real-time payments.
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Jeffery W. Yabuki 
President and Chief Executive Officer
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FloatMoney is smarter credit for consumers
Features:
    • Interest-free line of credit
    • Planned Spending Program for budgeting
    • Financial Health Partners for financial literacy, payments and savings
Why it’s great: Float will replace credit cards
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Shane Hadden, CEO 
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Ignite Salesthe leader in retail banking customer acquisition and retention technology, will showcase Innovative Branch Profitability Dashboards, offering a breakthrough in branch performance measurement.
Features:
    • Determine profitable branches/products per branch
    • Quickly spot branch trends, customer insights, fee-generating opportunities
    • Understand gap analysis
Why it’s great: Never before have the tools for detailed branch measurement been so accessible to bank executives.
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Mitchell Orlowsky, CEO
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Jumio’s Netverify supports real-time ID scanning and verification via a mobile application or website of passports and driver licenses to enable clients to meet know-your-customer requirements.
Features:
    • Increase conversion rates and revenue
    • Reduce risk & chargebacks
    • Create a ‘cool’ factor user experience
Why it’s great: Netverify allows businesses to authenticate customers’ identities using their computer’s web camera, IOS or Android smartphone cameras
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Michael Orlando heads up Jumio’s worldwide sales and business development efforts and brings over 20 years of high-growth company experience to this role. 

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SavedPlus is an automatic savings tool that helps customers effortlessly reach financial goals.
Features:
    • Easy to set up, bank agnostic financial tool. 
    • It sets aside money as a percentage of every purchase.
    • Change the destination account with one click.
Why it’s great: Automatic savings made easy

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Nikita Brodskiy, Founder & CEO
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Yseop is artificial intelligence software which writes, just like a human being, but at a speed of thousands of pages per second, and in multiple languages.
Features:
    • Generate highly qualified leads 
    • Boost sales performance
    • Write financial reports automatically
Why it’s great: Yseop boosts your business performance by automating tasks such as lead generation, cross-selling, meeting preparation and financial report writing.

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John Rauscher, CEO & co-founder
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Zenmonics has created the Mobile Banker tablet for lean branches, advice centers, and relationship management.
Features:
    • Ability to deploy in front of existing systems
    • Reduce branch transaction costs
    • Increase Sales with live collateral, account opening, servicing
Why it’s great: The convenience and attractiveness of an Apple Store as your Bank. 
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Stay tuned next week for a sneak peek of more companies. Want to join us in New York in September? Get your ticket to FinovateFall 2013 here. To learn more about FinovateFall, check out the FAQ.

Finovate Alumni News– August 15, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgANZ Group goes live with Fiserv’s Mobiliti Reach.
  • The Currency Cloud CEO, Mike Laven, explains the issues behind the recent remittance crisis.
  • IND Group & PayPal team up to offer P2P Payment via email in Europe.
  • SunTrust introduces BCSG’s Business Hub and CreditHQ tools; an online package of small business solutions.
  • Bolstr on FOX News Chicago: Local Business Raises $12,000 in under 48hrs on Bolstr.
  • Mint, Manilla featured in Digital Trends list of 12 useful online services and apps for students.
  • Quantopian’s John Fawcett writes about the intersection of social media, algorithms, and the browser when it comes to investing.
  • American Banker takes a look at Credit Agricole’s CAStore.
  • Mobile Payments Today highlights PayConnect from PreCash in a column on mobile wallets and the payment industry.
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.

Kabbage’s New iPhone App is a Portal to Help Small Businesses Manage Working Capital

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Provider of working capital for online small businesses, Kabbage, is making it more convenient to access necessary working capital today with the launch of its free iPhone app.

The Atlanta-based startup’s online platform can deliver up to $50,000 in a matter of minutes to qualified borrowers. They can use the app to:

  • Access cash
  • View their balance
  • Make transfers to Kabbage
Here’s a look at some screenshots:
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To learn more about Kabbage, watch its FinovateSpring 2013 demo.

Finovate Alumni News– August 14, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgYseop selected as a finalist for the category of “Social, CRM and Loyalty” for the DMA Innovation Awards.
  • Finextra reports: Virtual Piggy integrates with social game giant Habbo Hotel.
  • TechCrunch reports: Braintree launches a new service called Marketplace, an API designed for mobile marketplace operators.
  • The Sleeter Group reviews Kashoo, Xero, and others.
  • The Guardian Money features social lending service Zopa.
  • Transaction processing driving revenue growth for Jack Henry & Associates.
  • Pymnts.com interviews Daniel DeMeo, CEO at Capital Access Network, on the rise of commercial lending.
  • Snarketing 2.0 highlights Credit Karma, FlexScore, and Moven in a column on why the financial services industry needs a “FinScore”.
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– August 13, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgYseop a finalist as a technology inventor in Tech Titan Awards.
  • Bank News Magazine features AuthenticID’s pictureID identity authentication solution.
  • VentureBeat takes a look at Locaid’s goal of expanding its geolocation technology to New Jersey and Delaware.
  • FinovateFall 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 1 is up. Get to know the fintech innovators who will be presenting in New York in September.
  • Ron Daly, president and CEO of DigitalMailer, provides insights on making mobile marketing compliance and consumer friendly.
  • ReadyForZero enables users to monitor their credit score as they tackle debt.
  • Free Webinar Wednesdays interviews VerifyValid CEO Paul Doyle. See them demo at FinovateFall 2013 in September.
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.

Trustly Extends Direktbetalning Product to Online Housing and Apartment Rentals

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Sweden-based Trustly recently unveiled its online payment solution for house and apartment rental classified ads listed on Blocket, Sweden’s version of eBay.

This capability is being added to Trustly’s original offering, Direktbetalning, which was limited to purchasing and selling goods on the Blocket platform. You may recall Trustly’s FinovateEurope 2013 demo, where COO Carl-Henrik Somp was selling his right shoe.

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The new offering helps solve the pain point faced by home renters who are pressured into paying rent for a new home or apartment one month in advance, only to discover that it was a scam.

Direktbetalning solves this problem in a similar way in which it does for goods sold online. Trustly holds the rent money until the day after the rental period begins, then pays it out to the landlord. If fraud occurs, rent money goes back to the tenant. It works like a small escrow, the only difference being that the payment is done in real time and payment is sent directly to the bank account of the recipient.

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Trustly currently supports all major banks in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Spain. To learn more about Trustly, watch its FinovateEurope 2013 demo where it debuted Direktbetalning.

Finovate Alumni News– August 9, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgThe Economist mentions Holvi as a financial company facing regulation that prevents it from lending.
  • HelloWallet unveils research department.
  • Fast Company lists Braintree as 1 of 10 companies with “developer cred”.
  • Google Wallet to end NFC functionality for storing gift and loyalty cards by the end of the month.
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.

Tradeshift Adds Features to “Humanize” Project Workflow

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Online invoicing startup Tradeshift announced updates to its platform yesterday that extend its reach beyond just e-invoicing. 

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The new update, called Collaborative Workflow, will enable users to collaborate on tasks and automate workflow, making Tradeshift a more holistic platform for businesses. It attempts to “humanize” the workflow process by:

1) taking the platform mobile
2) automating repetitive tasks
3) allowing multiple users to collaborate on a single project, giving each user a profile picture to associate with their name.

Check out Tradeshift at FinovateEurope 2012 where it demoed its Instant Payments feature.

NICE to Acquire Causata to Enhance Customer Experience Management

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NICE, a company that focuses on enhancing interactions with end customers, is about to make it easier for organizations to understand and improve the customer experience.

That’s because the Israel-based company announced it will acquire Causata, a customer experience management company.

As a part of the partnership, NICE will integrate Causata’s Hadoop-based technologies into its Customer Engagement Analytics platform. This will:

    • create customer profiles by analyzing their activities over multiple channels
    • converge self-service digital channels (i.e. web and mobile) with assisted-service channels to better manage the customer experience
    • enable banks to provide agents with the complete context of a customer interaction
    • improve real-time decisioning with predictive analytics and machine learning

The acquisition is expected to close in a few days.

To learn more about NICE, check out their demo from FinovateSpring 2013.

Finovate Alumni News– August 6, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgERN raises another $1 million, acquires two UK companies.
  • Expensify announces additional approval modes.
  • TMC selects Interactions’ Virtual Assistant applications for a 2013 Speech Technology Excellence Award.
  • The Financial Brand looks at NeoBanks: Moven, Simple, GoBank.
  • Reuters article features Wealthfront as a platform of choice for how millenials manage money.
  • MasterCard partners with United Bank for Africa to provide Nigeria’s first personalized debit card.
  • BrightFunds announces that it is now an official contributor to Triple Pundit.
  • The Economist talks with TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus about technological innovation in Estonia.
  • Kabbage and On Deck Capital both featured in Fit Small Business column on raising money for an existing business.
  • Allied Payment Network partners with Access Softek to provide Picture Pay mobile bill pay technology.
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.

ERN Raises Another $1 Million, Acquires Two UK Companies

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Recently, the big data trend has been pulsing through fintech and beyond. To further prove this, data insights company and creator of looop, ERN, recently announced $1 million in funding and the acquisition of two companies.

This seed funding, combined with the $1.6 million it announced in July and the $2 million it received late last year, brings the London-based company’s total funding to $4.6 million. All investors are unnamed, high-net worth individuals.

ERN acquired two U.K.-based consulting companies that were both purchased with a combination of undisclosed fees and stock:

    1. Inspired Analytics
    2. Elucidata

ERN also mentioned in its news release that it is preparing to announce its first commercial customer.

To learn more about ERN, check out its FinovateEurope 2013 demo video.

Higher One Acquires PayDivvy’s Social Bill Management Solution

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PayDivvy’s social bill management services will soon be available to college and university students on the Higher One platform.

That’s because Higher One, a tech services company for college campuses, has purchased PayDivvy’s software. Now that the year-long acquisition process is complete, Higher One will enable its client base of college students to split and track bills and share expenses using PayDivvy’s social bill management services. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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While the technology is well-suited for expense tracking and splitting among college roommates, Higher One has future plans to open the service to non-college students, in order to retain users after they graduate.

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PayDivvy’s founders, Mike Melby and Ray Tamblyn, have left to pursue other ventures, but the team of engineers at PayDivvy will still work with Higher One.

To learn more about PayDivvy, watch its FinovateSpring 2011 demo.