Finovate Alumni News– August 30, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgCU Journal reports Minnesota’s Postal CU unveils mFoundry’s M-Banking.
  • Payments News reports Cardlytics’ System Uses ‘Big Data’ to Deliver Targeted Rewards.
  • TIO Networks launches TIO Connect to simplify onboarding for bill issuers and to open new markets.
  • DemystData locks in Series A funding. 
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.

Who Will You Sit Next to at FinovateFall 2012?

With FinovateFall just two weeks away, we’ve been seeing a buzz of excitement on Twitter about who’s coming to New York for the conference.
Since you might want to check out who will be in the audience, we compiled a word cloud of all the titles of registered attendees.

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Additionally, here’s a small sample of some of the organizations that will be attending:
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  • A+ FCU
  • AA Credit Union 
  • ACI Worldwide
  • Acxiom Corporation
  • Adams Street
  • ADP
  • Aite Group
  • Alliance Data
  • Alliant Credit Union
  • American Airlines Federal Credit Union
  • American Banker
  • American Express
  • Andera
  • Arion Banki
  • ASB Bank
  • Ascent Venture Partners
  • Bain Capital Ventures
  • Baird Venture Partners 
  • BancVue 
  • Bank Hapoalim 
  • Bank of Queensland 
  • Bank of the West 
  • Bank Systems & Technology 
  • Barclays 
  • Barlow Research Associates 
  • Battery Ventures 
  • Baxter Credit Union 
  • BB&T 
  • BBVA 
  • Benchmark Capital 
  • Bethpage FCU 
  • Birchmere Ventures 
  • Brown Brothers Harriman 
  • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 
  • CAP COM FCU 
  • Capital One 
  • CFSI 
  • CIBC
  • Cisco Systems
  • Citi
  • Columbia Business School 
  • CommunityAmerica 
  • Credit Union 
  • comScore, Inc. 
  • Consumer Reports 
  • Cornerstone Advisors 
  • CP FCU 
  • Credit.com 
  • CUNA Mutual Group 
  • D.A. Davidson & Co. 
  • DailyWorth.com 
  • Discover 
  • E*TRADE 
  • E&A Credit Union 
  • Ernst & Young 
  • Evangelical Christian Credit Union 
  • EverBank 
  • Evercore Partners 
  • Experian 
  • Farm Credit Financial Partners 
  • Fidelity Investments 
  • First National Bank of Omaha 
  • FIS Global 
  • Fiserv/CashEdge 
  • Flybridge Capital Partners 
  • Forrester Research 
  • Frost Bank 
  • Frumtak 
  • FTV Capital 
  • Gartner Industry Advisory Services 
  • GE Capital Retail Finance 
  • Glenbrook Partners 
  • Goldman Sachs 
  • Google 
  • GRP Partners 
  • H&R Block Canada 
  • Hartford Ventures 
  • Heartland Payment Systems 
  • Highland Capital Partners
  • Hudson Valley FCU 
  • IDC Financial Insights 
  • Intuit 
  • Iowa Credit Union League 
  • iPay Technologies 
  • Islandsbanki 
  • Jack Henry & Associates 
  • Javelin Strategy & Research 
  • JPMorgan Chase 
  • Key Bank 
  • LGFCU 
  • Liberty Mutual 
  • MassMutual 
  • MasterCard 
  • McKinsey & Company 
  • Menlo Ventures 
  • Mercator Advisory Group 
  • Mid-Atlantic Corp. FCU 
  • Mobile Payments Today 
  • MONEY Magazine 
  • Montecito Bank & Trust 
  • Morningstar 
  • Mountain America Credit Union
  • Nationwide Bank 
  • Navy Federal Credit Union 
  • Nedbank 
  • Neighbors FCU 
  • New York Life Investments 
  • New York Times 
  • Northwest FCU 
  • Norwest Venture Partner 
  • NTT DATA 
  • Ohio Valley Bank 
  • Ovum 
  • PayPal 
  • Primerica 
  • Principal Bank 
  • ProfitStars 
  • Provident Bank
  • PSCU
  • PSECU
  • QED Investors 
  • Quorum FCU 
  • Rabobank 
  • RBS Citizens, NA 
  • Redstar Ventures 
  • Rockland Trust 
  • RushCard 
  • Sberbank 
  • Scottrade 
  • Seasons FCU 
  • SEFCU 
  • Silicon Valley Bank 
  • Smart Financial Credit Union 
  • Square 1 Bank 
  • Standard Bank 
  • Sun Trust Bank 
  • Susquehanna Growth Equity 
  • TCV 
  • TD Ameritrade 
  • The Bancorp Bank 
  • The Boston Consulting Group
  • The Huffington Post 
  • Thomson Reuters 
  • Time Inc. 
  • Tribeca Venture Partners 
  • TTV Capital 
  • Tudor Growth Equity 
  • UBS Investment Bank 
  • University of Michigan CU 
  • USAA 
  • Vanguard 
  • Visa 
  • VRL Financial News 
  • Wall Street Journal 
  • Wells Fargo 
  • Western Union 
  • Yapital 
  •  Zions Bancorporation

If you’d like to be part of this audience, get your ticket now to join us at FinovateFall.

If you have any questions about the event, check out our FAQ or reach out to [email protected]. We’re looking forward to seeing you in New York!

Finovate Alumni News– August 29, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgSecureKey ranked #2 in PROFIT HOT 50, the ranking of Canada’s top new growth companies.
  • TechCrunch reports: Mint.com tops 10 mil registered users, 70% use mobile.
  • Fox Business names Prosper.com & BillFloat as cutting edge bank alternatives.
  • PYMNTS News reports Compass Plus Releases White Paper on Payment Fraud. Come see its live demo at FinovateFall.
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 28, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgAmerican Banker reports Spreedly partners with Dwolla to let merchant clients accept the alt payments system.
  • Ping Identity opens new Canadian offices.
  • Check Point IPS recognized for outstanding security by NSS Labs.
  • TIO Networks partners with BAF Global Group to bring its bill pay technology to the Bahamas.
  • Fast Company explains how ReadyForZero helps users out of debt.
  • Netbanker looks at Simple’s messaging center.
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.

FinovateFall 2012 Sneak Peek: Part 3

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Here is third and final look at the companies that will demo at FinovateFall September 12 &13 in NYC. Each company provided a short summary of the innovation they will debut on stage. In case you missed them, check out Sneak Peek Part 1 and Sneak Peek Part 2
Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the hottest innovations in financial technology. Get your FinovateFall ticket here.
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Web-based attacks have been on the rise, and financial services is one of the primary targets of criminal, political, and chaotic actors. These attacks can cost institutions millions in lost transactions and business productivity each year, and even higher losses in their brand value and reputation. 
Akamai’s Kona Site Defender is the first cloud-based Web security solution to help financial services institutions protect against both large scale denial of service and sophisticated application-layer threats seeking to compromise their brands, applications, and associated data.
Innovation type: banking, online, security

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Banno brings instant pre-transaction insights derived from location, historical spending outliers and upcoming bills to its mobile experience.
When looking at bank statements, people naturally perform regression analysis and predictive modeling to find outliers in spending. In other words, Where did my money go? We feel that everyone needs more absolute data points to help in this decision process. Grip’s dashboard provides easy access to your immediate historical financial perspective, allowing insight into spending over time while exposing anomalies with transaction level patterns ordered by what’s most important today.
Innovation type: Mobile, payments, PFM

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Gift cards represent an estimated $110+ billion business in 2012. Consumers have $40 billion in unspent funds and are clamoring for digital solutions as well as connections to their favorite brands. Increasingly, these branded currencies are becoming a larger portion of the commerce cycle and consumer wallets. Retailers, merchants, financial institutions, digital wallets and marketers are all looking to capitalize and participate in this space. 
At Finovate, Blackhawk is premiering its GoWallet Digital Services. These services help a host of digital players power deep engagement with consumers while creating new revenue streams through prepaid branded currencies.
Innovation type: Cards, mobile, rewards

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CK Mack announces the debut of its innovative investment platform featuring an investment product based on a tangible, insured asset; Rented Real Estate
Real Estate has been a haven for the wealthy investor since the dawn of time. Now anyone will be able to share in the cash flow of rental property without the high dollar buy-in previously needed to invest in this profitable market. Current low interest rates and market insecurity combine to make CK Mack an exciting option for portfolio diversification. 
Innovation type: Investing
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Euronovate is a “Zero paper company” aiming to transform every legal paper signed into an ab-origine electronic document with the same legal validity in all verticals worldwide. The new Pad Ensign10 and software platform ENsoft provide better legal and security management for electronic signature.
Euronovate is the first company to offer an end-to-end approach with legal support for electronic signature rules, process reenginering, system integration, hardware, software platform and digital archiving. Customers benefit from lower costs, a more efficient process, and an overall better experience.
 
Innovation type: Back office, sales, security

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Finovera is your free personal bookkeeper. It is the easiest and most convenient way to receive, organize and manage household bills, financial statements and important family documents – all in one secure digital file cabinet. Users link their accounts once, and Finovera automatically brings in new bills and statements, making bil
l workflow management hassle-free.
Finovera disrupts the old way of dealing with paper documents and brings the simplicity, efficiency and convenience to household information management. Finovera helps banks and credit unions to reduce customer service costs, increase customer satisfaction and deepens relationships to maximize customer wallet share.
Innovation type: Mobile, payments, PFM

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The CHOICE direct-to-consumer model allows retail customers to create individualized savings and/or investment solutions from the convenience of any channel and device by selecting the term, guaranteed minimum rate, liquidity and source of additional potential return, all with the security of FDIC insurance, in a completely transparent, clear and honest manner.
Innovation type: Back office, banking, investing, mobile, online

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See the next generation in knowledge-based authentication – a SaaS solution that allows businesses to present custom, out-of-wallet questions to consumers using their own data. 
IDology’s ExpectID Enterprise gives banks the ability to generate out-of-wallet questions using their internal proprietary customer transactional data located behind their firewall and without ever having to share that data with us. It is time to replace your shared secret questions (What is your mother’s maiden name?) with a higher security model that isn’t compromised by social media or vulnerable to account take overs. Be able to meet FFIEC compliance guidelines while creating a safer authentication method on high-risk transactions.
Innovation type: Identity, security

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See how the vexing problem of cross-channel integration has finally been solved! Financial institutions can now seamlessly connect the online and branch experience for consumers as they shop for financial products. 
A consistent consumer experience, easy ‘take your work with you’ cross channeling, best practice branch consultations, helpful product guidance, higher conversion rates, increased brand loyalty – just some of the many compelling benefits of Leadfusion’s new Cross Channel Selling solution. Unveiled publicly for the first time at FinovateFall 2012, from the leader in financial experience management.
Innovation type: Banking, marketing, sales

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Manilla.com is a free, award-winning service that helps consumers manage everything in their lives in one place. Using just one password, consumers can track their financial accounts, household accounts and utilities, subscriptions, daily deals, and travel rewards, all through Manilla.com or Manilla mobile apps. 
Manilla stores account documents, sends reminders to help avoid late fees, and gives consumers a complete overview of their accounts, all through a clean, simple interface. For businesses, Manilla decreases costs by moving customers to paperless billing, accelerates revenue by driving on-time payments, and offers a powerful marketing platform for businesses to engage their customers.
Innovation type: Communications, mobile, PFM

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MShift presents AnyWhereMobile: a new payment network that enables Community Banks and Credit Unions to become the issuers of mobile wallets. 
Simultaneously, the AnyWhereMobile payment network will multiply the net Interchange income of both debit and credit for Community Banks and Credit Unions, slash the merchant discount fees borne by merchants by more than half and eliminate the majority of fraud. The huge savings generated by AnyWhereMobile empowers merchants to generate more merchant-centric rewards and discounts for consumers.
Innovation type: Banking, cards, payments

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PlayMoolah is on a mission to change the way kids and teens use their money! We design fun technologies for kids to experience money management to earn, spend, save, invest, and give. Through real dollars, real action, and real impact, we hope for kids to take control of their money, and become empowered by using it to live their dreams and create value for the world.
Innovation type: Marketing, online, PFM

Finovate Alumni News– August 27, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgVirtual Piggy and Unity Technologies unite to bring seamless game development monetization. Check out Virtual Piggy at FinovateFall.
  • Optus launches direct billing service with Boku, RIM.
  • Des Moines blog looks at Social Money’s success.
  • WSJ considers how HelloWallet can help you manage your finances.
  • Dashlane launches app for Android. Check out Dashlane at FinovateFall in New York.
  • FXCM deploys Check Point’s 12000 and 4000 series appliances.
  • Times of Malta reports Ixaris to move office, eyes new markets.
  • Dwolla introduces reddit Donate, a new platform to give.
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.

Singapore-Based Tagit Adds Maybank as Customer

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Singapore-based Tagit announced today that Maybank is the latest customer using its mobile app.

The Malaysian bank’s app will have the following capabilities:

    • Enable customer account enquiries 
    • Bill payments
    • Online funds transfers  
    • Cross-market transactions
    • Locate branches and ATMs
    • User-personalized loading page with customized pictures 
    • Instant games and rewards
    • News and updates on product deals

The app is now available in the Apple App Store.

To learn more about Tagit, watch its FinovateEurope 2011 demo.

Finovate Alumni News– August 24, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgMaybank Singapore launches mobile banking services on Tagit’s mobile platform.
  • Simple (formerly BankSimple) launches goals feature.
  • Global Enterprise selects Tradeshift to roll out e-invoicing to 36k suppliers.
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.

Seven Finovate Alumni Listed in the 2012 Inc. 5000

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Inc. Magazine recently released its list of the top* 5000 fastest-growing, private U.S. companies. Seven Finovate alums made the cut.

Here’s a quick breakdown:

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Rank: 40
Description: Free consumer credit score reporting, tracking and advice service
3-year revenue growth: 54x
2011 revenue: $5.7 million
2008 revenue: $110,000
Employees: 27
Employee growth: 21
Founded: 2007
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Rank: 302
Description: Small business loan underwriting platform
3-year revenue growth: 13x
2011 revenue: $19 million
2008 revenue: $1.5 million
Employees: 96
Employee growth: 64
Founded: 2006

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Rank: 415
2011 ranking: 47
Description: Online payment processing platform
3-year revenue growth: 10x
2011 revenue: $9.9 million
2008 revenue: $990,000
Employees: 60
Employee growth: 45
Founded: 2007

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Rank: 564
Description: Prepaid services for the underbanked
3-year revenue growth: 7.6x
2011 revenue: $3.3 million
2008 revenue: $430,000
Employees: 7
Employee growth: 4
Founded: 2005

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Rank: 667
Description: Provides software that captures and analyzes consumer-generated reviews 
3-year revenue growth: 6.4x
2011 revenue: $65 million
2008 revenue: $10 million
Employees: 780
Employee growth: 680
Founded: 2005

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Rank: 790
2011 ranking: 377
Description: Supports mobile banking applications for FIs
3-year revenue growth: 5.3x
2011 revenue: $27 million
2008 revenue: $5.1 million
Employees: 197
Employee growth: 138
Founded: 2004

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Rank: 1761
Description: Provides authentication services
3-year revenue growth: 2.6x
2011 revenue: $9.8 million
2008 revenue: $3.7 million
Employees: 29
Employee growth: 10
Founded: 1999

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*Methodology

The 2012 Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2008 to 2011. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2008. The minimum revenue required for 2008 is $100,000; the minimum for 2011 is $2 million.

Finovate Alumni News– August 23, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgFor the second consecutive year, CashStar named 1 of the 2012 Best Places to Work in Maine.
  • The WSJ compares The Currency Cloud, Currency Fair, Wonga & Nutmeg with Britain’s traditional banks. Come check out The Currency Cloud at FinovateFall in NYC September 12 & 13.
  • My Bank Tracker reports on a Dwolla integration at a Pittsburgh-based supermarket chain.
  • Virtual Piggy service will be integrated into Girly Stuff’s e-commerce launch. Check out Virtual Piggy at FinovateFall.
  • FutureAdvisor raises $5 mil, launches 401(k) fee analyzer tool.
  • Currensee and Direct FX form partnership.
  • Jwaala and Truaxis team up to provide credit unions with StatementRewards platform. Come to FinovateFall to check out Truaxis’ live demo.
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.

FutureAdvisor Raises $5 Million, Launches 401(k) Fee Analyzer Tool

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Online investment advisor, FutureAdvisor, announced today that it has raised $5 million to add to its Series A funding.

The round, which comes after raising an undisclosed amount in March, is from existing investors:

    • Sequoia Capital
    • Square COO, Keith Rabois
    • Yelp founder, Jeremy Stoppelman

The Seattle-based startup also announced it added a new 401(k) fee analyzer tool to its platform, which launched in May, to help users save on fees associated with their 401(k). TechCrunch reports:

“It visualizes the amount of money paid out to mutual fund providers who manage various funds, and makes suggestions for other, similar investments that don’t carry the same fees. The new tool is available at www.futureadvisor.com/401k.”

To learn more about FutureAdvisor, watch its FinovateSpring 2012 demo.

Kony Solutions Acquires Australia-Based Sky Technologies

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Yesterday mobile app development platform provider, Kony Solutionsannounced it will make its first acquisition: Sky Technologies, an Australia-based mobility solutions provider.

This acquisition is Kony’s first, and will help it tap into the Australian market, as well as give it access to Sky Technologies’ SAP expertise. It will also expand Kony’s current customer base of around 70 to approximately 170.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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