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FinovateEurope 2012 Demo Videos Now Available

By finovate Posted on March 14, 2012
Categories: FinovateEurope 2012

We’re very excited to announce that we’ve just released the demo videos of the 35 new financial technology innovations that debuted last month in London at FinovateEurope 2012. If you were unable to attend the event, these fast-paced, 7-minute demo videos are your chance to check out the cutting edge of European fintech quickly and easily.

As usual, this new wave of videos is available free in the Finovate archives along with videos from all the other Finovate conferences over the past 5 years. FYI, we’ve recently upgraded the video player for all the videos in the archives for a better viewing experience.

If you’re looking to catch our next showcase of new fintech innovations live, tickets for FinovateSpring 2012 (May 8/9 in San Francisco) are selling fast but still available. And we just announced FinovateFall 2012 (September 12/13 in New York) with a special “Launch” ticket discount of $500 off but only through this Friday (get your ticket now to lock in the savings).

We hope you enjoy the videos!

P.S. As we put FinovateEurope to rest for 2012, we’d also like to thank our sponsors (Bluerock Consulting & The Bancorp Bank) and partners (BankerStuff, BankInnovation, Celent, Deutsch Startups, Finance on Windows, The Financial Services Club, The Financial Services Innovation Centre, Juniper Research, & PYMNTS.com on the event one last time.

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FinovateEurope 2012 Demo Videos Now Available

By finovate Posted on March 14, 2012
Categories: FinovateEurope 2012

We hope you enjoy the videos!

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Geezeo Launches Effort to Build Awareness of PFMs within Online Banking Platforms

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 14, 2012
Categories: Geezeo

A recent survey by Celent found that only 3.8% of U.S. online banking users were actively using personal financial management services.

Geezeo is hoping to raise that figure with Geezeo Interactive, a marketing initiative to help banks market PFM capabilities. Jim Craig, the former VP of marketing at 1st Advantage FCU, has been hired to lead the push.

To learn more about Geezeo, watch its Finovate 2007 demo.

Reference: Bank Technology News coverage.

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BancVue Launches Kasasa360 to Help Compete with Megabanks

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 14, 2012
Categories: BancVue, Kasasa

Yesterday, Austin-based BancVue announced the launch of Kasasa 360, a PFM and rewards management platform.

“Kasasa 360 provides account holders around-the-clock access to personal finance management (PFM) tools through an online and mobile-based platform. Designed to deliver a user experience that leapfrogs even the best megabank systems, the latest Kasasa innovation allows consumers to securely aggregate and manage all of their financial products, including those they hold at other financial institutions.”

The product aims to help community financial institutions compete with megabanks.

Almost 150 community financial institutions have already signed up for Kasasa 360. Gabriel Krajicek, CEO of BancVue, is projecting that number to double by the end of 2012 and reach 1,000 members in 3-5 years. Krajicek also claims that if the growth pattern continues, the Kasasa network will be larger than BofA, Chase, or Wells Fargo and will have a marketing budget equal to such megabanks.

To learn more about Kasasa, watch its Finovate 2009 demo.

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Finovate Alumni News– March 14, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 14, 2012
Categories: BancVue, Geezeo, Kashoo, MoBank, PayPal, Personal Capital, ProfitStars, TradeKing, Tyfone

The Paypers reports Google selects MoBank as vendor for its GetMo initiative in the UK.

VentureBeat receives an insider demo on PayPal’s new digital wallet interface.

TradeKing earns 4-star rating for 6 years in a row in Barron’s 2012 Online Broker Survey.

RTN Federal CU selects Tyfone for m-banking.

Personal Capital launches new version of iPad app.

Nine Lives Media Inc. names ProfitStars to the MSPmentor 100 Global List.

BancVue launches Kasasa360 to help compete with megabanks.

Geezeo launches effort to build awareness of PFMs within online banking platforms.

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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CashStar Upgrades Web Gifting Interface

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 13, 2012
Categories: CashStar

Yesterday, digital gifting company CashStar announced Web Gifting 2, a new user interface that will make the user experience more engaging, interactive, and convenient.

With this new interface, CashStar’s 250+ retail customers will see upgrades such as:

Capability to upload personalized videos and photos

Animated gift cards

Option to print gift cards

Tool to remind users of holidays and occasions

More card design options

In another release, CashStar also announced that The Home Depot, Staples, CVS/pharmacy, and Landry’s have renewed their digital gifting offerings.

To learn more about CashStar, watch its FinovateFall 2011 demo.

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eToro Closes $15 Million Funding Round Led by Spark Capital

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 13, 2012
Categories: eToro

Social investing network eToro announced today it has secured $15 million (U.S.) in funding. Spark Capital led the round, which is intended to expand the trading platform and fuel growth in international markets.

Within the past year, eToro has experienced growth across the board:

Active user base doubled
Workforce doubled to 200 employees
Trading volumes doubled in size
Number of traded positions increased 5x

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

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Finovate Alumni News– March 13, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 13, 2012
Categories: Backbase, BrightScope, CashStar, Enloop, eToro, HelloWallet, Kashoo, PayPal, Tradeshift, Xero

BrightScope adds Josh Brown, financial advisor & author to advisory board.

AppStorm shares how Enloop can help you move your business into the VC world.

GigaOM rumors that PayPal will launch a mobile payment dongle to compete with Square and Intuit.

The Urban Twist lists HelloWallet as one of seven scorching hot tech startups in D.C.

INTTRA, independent transactional network for ocean freight, and Tradeshift partner to help manage ocean freight invoices.

Entrepreneur lists Kashoo & Xero as 2 of 4 online apps that can be handy for tax time.

Backbase announces most successful year to date, doubling software revenue & adding multiple tier-1 customers.

eToro closes $15 mil funding round led by spark capital.

CashStar upgrades web gifting interface.

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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Facebook Status Update: Financial Institutions Using New Timeline Format

By Jim Bruene Posted on March 12, 2012
Categories: Facebook

In our February report, Banking on Facebook, we identified 47 financial institutions worldwide with 100,000 or more Facebook Likes/Fans. With the clock ticking towards the month-end deadline for brands to move to the new Timeline format (previous post, note 1), we checked in with these 47 to see how many had made the switch.

So far nine of the 47 (20%) have implemented timeline including three of the top 5 (Progressive, Farmers, and American Express). But considering the companies have only known about it for two weeks, that’s good progress. The ranking shown below is based on their standing in late February 2012. The number of Likes below has updated as of today:

1. Progressive Insurance Flo, 3.4 million likes

4. Farmers Insurance, 2.3 million likes

5. American Express, 2.4 million likes

13. Garanti Bank (Turkey), 950,000 likes

18. Bank of Georgia, 320,000 likes

31. TurboTax, 210,000 likes

32. PayPal UK 200,000 likes

37. BBVA Continental 170,000 likes

40. TBC Bank (Georgia) 160,000 likes

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Absa is using its timeline cover photo to promote electronic statements (12 March 2012)
Note: This may be a bit more "promotional" than Facebook was hoping for with its cover photo guidelines, but highlighting a product feature seems reasonable.

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Notes:
1. The Financial Brand published a helpful Timeline tutorial today (here)
2. No top-15 U.S. bank has implemented timeline yet.

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Plastyc Partners with IDology to Make Authentication More Consumer Friendly

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 12, 2012
Categories: Plastyc

Underbanked money-management company

Plastyc announced today a partnership with IDology, an identity verification company:

“IDology’s ExpectID solutions are being used to verify consumers enrolling for Plastyc’s services at upsidecard.com and ibankup.com. In addition, if a discrepancy exists in the initial CIP verification, IDology automatically escalates transactions to a higher level of verification.”

IDology will help Plastyc provide a consumer-friendly approach to authentication.

To learn more about Plastyc, watch its FinovateFall 2011 demo.

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cbanc Network Launches Backstage Pass to Open its Platform to Vendors

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 12, 2012
Categories: cbanc Network

This week cbanc Network, an online collaboration platform with over 8,000 individual users and almost 4,000 financial institutions, is launching Backstage Pass.

Credit Union Times reports:

“Backstage Pass comprises two components: Connect and Analyze. Connect gives service providers the tools to interact with cbanc’s FI membership when they are looking for help, the company said. Analyze organizes traded data so service providers can see which topics and issues are important to cbanc Network members, the company said.”

Backstage Pass gives vendors access to the information-sharing platform that exposes trends, product ratings, and content purchases.

To learn more about cbanc Network, watch its FinovateFall 2011 demo.

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Kabbage and Outright Announce Partnership

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 12, 2012
Categories: Kabbage, Outright.com

Yesterday Kabbage, a startup that provides capital to small businesses, and Outright, an online bookkeeping and tax software provider, announced a partnership:

“Kabbage uses Outright’s transactional data on an anonymous basis to help qualify and approve small businesses for cash to grow. Upon pre-qualification, the businesses go through an automated and painless application process to receive working capital, typically accessing their cash in less than 10 minutes.”

To learn more, watch Kabbage’s FinovateEurope 2012 demo and Outright’s FinovateFall 2010 demo.

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