Author: Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz)

Lodo Software Launches D3 Banking to Help Banks Deliver a Personalized Customer Experience

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Lodo Software
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Next, Lodo Software debuted its D3 Banking solution:

“D3 Banking is data driven digital banking. It provides a full range of integrated financial services using a powerful, predictive analytics engine to deliver a personalized customer experience anytime, anywhere, on any device. 

The D3 Banking components utilize next generation technology and can be deployed on a single server or distributed across servers to support cloud-computing environments. Those components include: D3 Analytics, D3 Insight, D3 UX, D3 Apps, D3 API, D3 Connect and D3 Control. These components provide the resources necessary for financial institutions to deliver a consistent, relevant and profitable experience to their customers.”

Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: Omaha, NE
Founded: 2007
Website: d3banking.com
Twitter: @D3Banking
Presenting Mark Vipond (CEO) and Jeelani Shaik (CTO)

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Kabbage Launches QuickBooks Financing Integration

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Kabbage
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Next, Kabbage took the stage to demo how it uses QuickBooks data to underwrite small business loans:

“Kabbage has partnered with Intuit to provide simple and easy access to funding for QuickBooks customers. Kabbage is the first company on Intuit’s QuickBooks Financing Platform to underwrite customers solely based on QuickBooks data. With Kabbage, customers receive instant approvals; funds can be available within minutes when they use PayPal to receive funding.”


Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: Atlanta, GA
Founded: February 2009
Metrics: $56M in equity funding; $93M in debt funding in two rounds; 95 employees; more than 100,000 accounts
Website: kabbage.com
Twitter: @kabbageinc
Presenting Marc Gorlin (Chairman) and Rich Preece (Director, QuickBooks – Intuit)

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Nice Showcases How Mobile Reach Personalizes the Customer Experience

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, NICE Systems
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Next up in the second session today, NICE demonstrated how financial institutions can use Mobile Reach to create a personalized customer experience:
“Mobile Reach converges mobile self-service and assisted-service to create the most personalized, effective, and efficient channel. It offers:
        • ENGAGE: Intelligently finding engagement opportunities in self-service and directing customers to the best next step just at the right time.
        • CONNECT: If needed, seamlessly connecting customers directly to the right agent, bypassing the IVR and transferring the context from the device to the agent desktop.
        • COLLABORATE: Expanding customer interactions using multimedia collaboration tools (sending text, images, etc.).
Customers get the ultimate customer experience – as personalized, relevant, and as effective as possible.
Companies get more business, lower service costs, and higher mobile use.”
Product Launch: April 2012
HQ: Paramus, NJ; Raanana, Israel
Founded: 1986
Metrics: 2012 annual non-GAAP total revenues: $892M. More than 3,400 employees in 35+ local offices across the globe.
Twitter: @NICE_Systems
Presenting Amit Ashman (Director, Solutions Marketing, Mobile Customer Service) and Bruce Plummer (Manager, Sales Engineering)

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Narrative Science Unveils Quill Portfolio Solutions

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Narrative Science
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Fourth up on stage today, Narrative Science showcased Quill Financial Services:
“Narrative Science presents Quill for Financial Services, a suite of solutions that enables financial institutions to automatically analyze, interpret and gain human insight from data at a speed and scale never before possible.
    • A leading credit analytics firm is leveraging Quill to transform its data and risk assessment models into an investment report that combines both text and visualizations.
    • Quill is automatically creating attribution summaries that provide internal stakeholders and their clients with insight into the reasons behind portfolio performance.
    • Quill is creating personalized portfolio reviews for financial advisors and their clients. Advisors get the talking points they need for client conversations while their clients get clearly written account performance summaries.”
Product Launch: Quill Investment Research: Fall 2012, Quill Portfolio Solutions: Summer 2013
HQ: Chicago, IL
Founded: January 2010
Twitter: @narrativesci
Presenting Kris Hammond (CTO) and Katy De Leon (Director, Marketing)

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting….

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013

…To come to FinovateSpring tomorrow?  We’re here at the Concourse Exhibition Center (635 8th Street at Brannan), watching presenters place the final touches on their live demos.

We’ve seen all types of fintech solutions from companies ranging from 1 employee to more than 35,000. These companies are coming to us from across the globe, with a heavy concentration in the bay area. 
Here’s the complete picture (click to enlarge):
finovate_reportmap_US13_PRESS.jpgDon’t miss your opportunity to meet executives from fintech startups and established companies and see their brand new technology demonstrated live. Get your ticket here.
Our new in-conference networking tool, FinovateConnect, is now available in beta and will be debuted to the audience tomorrow. This makes it even easier to introduce yourself to individual presenters and attendees in a crowd of 1,200+ people. Attendees will receive an email detailing the sign-up process and instructions.

If you have last-minute questions about FinovateSpring, please see our FAQ. We’re looking forward to seeing all of you tomorrow!

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Finovate Alumni News– May 10, 2013

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Bolstr, Palo Alto Software, Ping Identity, QuantConnect, Virtual Piggy
  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgPalo Alto Software and Ping Identity partner to provide single sign-on.
  • PC World features Virtual Piggy. Come see its live demo at FinovateSpring next week.
  • Bolstr launches in Chicago neighborhoods.
  • ForexThink takes a look at QuantConnect and the rise of algorithm-based trading.
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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Palo Alto Software and Ping Identity Partner to Provide Single Sign-On

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Palo Alto Software, Ping Identity

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Cloud-based security company, Ping Identity announced earlier this week that it has partnered with Palo Alto Software, creator of LivePlan small business software. 

As a part of the partnership, Palo Alto Software will use Ping Identity’s single sign-on (SSO) technology. This will benefit:

1) Palo Alto Software employees: Employees can access frequently-used internal applications by using SSO.

2) Palo Alto Software customers: Many of Palo Alto’s sites require customers to log in multiple times per day. Palo Alto has already begun to roll out SSO capability to 6,000 of its customers and will continue to scale usage.

To learn more about Ping Identity, watch its FinovateEurope 2012 demo. Palo Alto Software will demo its LivePlan software at FinovateSpring next week in San Francisco.

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Finovate Alumni News– May 7, 2013

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: CashStar, Expensify, Kabbage, Kalixa, Kashoo, PayNearMe

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  • Expensify adds corporate card reconciliation for more banks, including Wells BofA, and Citi. See Expensify’s demo at FinovateSpring.
  • Forbes interviews Marc Gorlin, co-founder of Kabbage. See Kabbage’s new tech next week at FinovateSpring.
  • PayNearMe hires Billy Robbins, former VP of PFM at Wells, as its VP of business development. Come see PayNearMe’s demo at Finovate.
  • Kashoo tops 100,000 registered users and more than 50,000 iPad downloads of its cloud accounting app.
  • PaymentsSource interviews CashStar chief marketing officer Gene Cornfield on mobile commerce.
  • Kalixa to become its own company, separating from Bwin.
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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FinovateSpring 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 5

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: authenticID, FinovateSpring 2013, Finovera, Kofax, NICE Systems, Quantopian, Trusted Knight

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For our final sneak peek of FinovateSpring demoing companies, seven companies have provided some insight into the products they will demo next week at FinovateSpring in San Francisco.

Don’t miss the previous sneak peek posts:

If you haven’t already, be sure to get your ticket for FinovateSpring. It’s happening May 14 & 15 in San Francisco.

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authenticID’s True Identity Made Simple identity proofing solutions work worldwide and our pictureID tool is 100% accurate – a claim no other identity company can make.
Features:
    • pictureID can eliminate ID fraud
    • Fraudsters can’t beat pictureID – without a costume
    • Better customer service & compliance
Why it’s great: pictureID is the only 100% accurate identity proofing solution and it provides added security by producing a picture of the true ID owner.
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Finovera is reinventing how people manage their bills, accounts and financial documents at home. It is a perfect complement to Online Banking and Bill Pay service.
Features:
    • Automatic delivery of all Bills in one file cabinet
    • Alerts when a bill is unusually high
    • Organize your life in under 10 minutes
Why it’s great: Now households can go paperless and manage all their bills and financial documents in one secure place from anywhere.
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Kofax enables customer acquisition directly from the mobile device and recognizing the importance of consumer engagement, Kofax will demonstrate on-boarding for an impactful customer experience.
Features:
    • Meet and service customers via mobile channel 
    • Reduce operating costs and minimize drop-off rates
    • Increase growth and profits
Why it’s great: Kofax Customer Onboarding improves the agility and profitability of your bank’s customer on boarding processes by engaging customers via mobile devices.

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LendUp is the creator of the LendUp Ladder, an innovative program that uses small dollar loans to provide a path out of the payday lending debt trap and help borrowers build credit.
Features:
    • LendUp Ladder: Rehabilitate Declined Credit Applications
    • LendUp Education Program
    • Gamification Credit Building
Why it’s great: The LendUp Ladder helps create better credit customers
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NICE Mobile Reach complements mobile banking to redefine mobile customer service. Capitalize on mobile opportunities: engage, connect, Collaborate!
Features:
    • Intelligently engage customers
    • Seamlessly transition to the right channel with context
    • Effectively collaborate for resolution
Why it’s great: The ultimate mobile customer experience: ensuring every customer need is resolved, even when mobile self-service is not enough!

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Trusted Knight’s Protector software defeats key-logging and web-inject (MITB) attacks against employee and customer devices so that online transactions are safe from malware.
Features:
    • Quick and easy customer install — no impacts/issues.
    • Effective against even zero-day exploits.
    • 70% customer opt-in rate in
Why it’s great: Allows business to safely interact with malware-infected devices.
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Zooz is the people-first payment platform that will boost your conversion.
Features:
    • Optimized native checkout for m-commerce apps 
    • One tap payment across different apps
    • Multiple payment methods in one SDK
Why it’s great: Payments are for people and we’re here to give the human touch. When your users feel happy and secure they’re more likely to make it to the “Thank You” page.
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For more information on attending, see our FAQ. To register, visit our FinovateSpring page here.

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What’s New in the FinovateSpring 2013 Mobile App?

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013

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We’ve updated our mobile app just in time for FinovateSpring. If you haven’t downloaded it already, use the links below or search Finovate in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. It’s available for free on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.

Before the show, attendees and followers of FinovateSpring 2013 have access to:

    • Agenda
    • Presenting companies previews
    • Ability to manage your Finovate schedule with calendar integration

On the first day of the event, the app will update to unveil the complete details of all 72 new products. Use the app to:

    • Contact presenters by email or phone using the integrated contact feature
    • Take notes on each company
    • Save your personal rating for each company
    • Bookmark presenters for quick reference
    • Search within the app

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Lending Club Lands $125 Million Investment from Google and Foundation Capital, Is Now Valued at $1.6 Billion

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Lending Club

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Google and Foundation Capital made a $125 million investment in online P2P lending platform, Lending Club at a valuation of $1.6 billion. Google executive David Lawee now sits as an observer on the Lending Club board.

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The $125 million was used entirely to buy out existing investors, who sold 15% to 20% of their shares. No net new funds were added.

Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche confirmed that Lending Club is readying for an IPO in 2014.

Lending Club demoed at Finovate three times, most recently at Finovate Startup 2009. Check out Finovate’s 2012 CEO interview with Laplanche here.

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miiCard Partners with Bitcoin Exchange Platform, Tradehill

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: MiiCard

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Yesterday, online identity verification service miiCard announced a partnership with Tradehill, the first U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange platform.

Through the partnership, Tradehill is using miiCard’s identity-as-a-service platform to verify users’ identities online, which helps it comply with AML and KYC compliance standards.

Tradehill has already integrated, tested and deployed miiCard for its first product Prime.The whole process took fewer than 3 days.

To learn more about miiCard, watch its FinovateEurope 2012 demo.

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