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American Express Retires the Kabbage Brand with the Launch of Business Blueprint

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 1, 2023
Categories: Alumni News, American Express, Daily news, Kabbage

American Express is launching American Express Business Blueprint, a set of digital cash flow management tools for small businesses.Small businesses can access the MyInsights cash flow solution within Business Blueprint at no charge.Business Blueprint evolved out of Kabbage, an alternative lending startup that the company acquired in 2020. With the launch of Business Blueprint, the Kabbage brand is now retired. Cash flow management tools are not new to fintech, but the industry gets excited when card giant American Express launches new tools. That's the case today-- the company unveiled American Express Business Blueprint, a set of digital cash flow management tools for small businesses. Business Blueprint offers small business users digital financial products, payment card management tools, and cash flow insights via its MyInsights tool. The platform offers to lighten the load of small business owners by helping them manage cash flow, take out a loan, pay bills and vendors,…

Finovate Webinar: Successful Client Onboarding – Take Out the Guesswork with the Right Metric

By Lili Nguyen Posted on February 1, 2023
Categories: Finovate Webinar, Sponsored

Getting that signature on the contract is a great feeling reflecting weeks, months, or, sometimes, years of effort. However, this moment is only the beginning of the process of earning the confidence and realizing the mutual benefits for both parties. During the client onboarding process, you lay the foundation of trust with your customer, a crucial factor in client retention. With a 77% customer retention rate*, optimizing the customer onboarding process is crucial. Improving your onboarding process without comprehensive data and insights is like navigating with no map. Establishing and keeping track of the right onboarding metrics is the key to accomplishing this. In this webinar, our group of talented onboarding expert panelists will discuss the best metrics to put in place to help deliver the optimal customer onboarding experience for your organization. We’ll start with a review of the most popular metrics. Panelists will share the best practices for introducing these metrics…

B2B Payments Innovator TreviPay Teams Up with Cashflow Specialist Cloudfloat

By David Penn Posted on January 31, 2023
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, TreviPay

B2B payments and invoice networking operator TreviPay announced a partnership with B2B cashflow specialist Cloudfloat.The goal of the partnership is to help stimulate business opportunities for both companies. TreviPay serves the enterprise market. Cloudfloat specializes in serving small and medium-sized businesses.TreviPay made its Finovate debut last September at FinovateFall in New York. B2B payments and invoice networking innovator TreviPay has partnered with B2B cashflow specialist Cloudfloat. The collaboration is designed to bring new business opportunities to both parties: TreviPay - with $7 billion in transaction volume across 34 countries - serves mostly the enterprise market while Cloudfloat specializes in serving small and medium-sized businesses. Via the partnership, the companies expect to serve as valuable references for each other's respective customer type. "TreviPay is delighted to be a referral partner with Cloudfloat," TreviPay Managing Director, APAC, Piers Gorman said. "As the B2B payments landscape matures, there is a significant runway to…

Moov Lands $45 Million in Series B Funding to Modernize Money Movement

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 31, 2023
Categories: Daily news, Funding

Moov landed $45 million to refine its API that creates a modern payment stack.Commerce Ventures led the round. Additional contributors include Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Visa, and Sorenson Ventures.Moov's total funding now sits at $77.5 million. Modern money movement innovator Moov is going places. The Iowa-based company landed $45 million in a Series B financing round, bringing its total raised to $77.5 million. As far as the company's plans for the new funds, Moov Founder and CEO Wade Arnold said, "This new round of capital will help us refine our platform, address new payments use cases, and scale everything we’ve built so far. We’re a small and mighty team, so we’re looking forward to onboarding even more talented people..." Moov will also use today's funding to fuel its conference that fosters collaboration in the developer community. The company's fintech_devcon event takes place once a year to share fintech building deep dives, best…

Trulioo Unveils New Global Identity Verification Platform for Individuals and Businesses

By David Penn Posted on January 31, 2023
Categories: Alumni News, Alumni profile, Daily news, Trulioo

Trulioo unveiled a new global identity verification platform this week.The new offering combines both individual and business verification with no-code workflow building, low-code integrations, and more into a single platform.A Finovate alums since 2014, Trulioo won Best of Show in its most recent Finovate appearance at FinovateEurope last March. Identity verification specialist Trulioo launched a new global identity verification platform this week. The new offering combines individual and business verification solutions with no-code workflow building, low-code integrations, and more in a single platform. The platform will give companies the ability to provide a streamlined onboarding experience, as well as the kind of intuitive user experiences that help build both trust and inclusivity. "Trulioo is the identity platform businesses turn to in order to solve the inherent complexity in onboarding customers globally," Trulioo CEO Steve Munford said. "We enable businesses to offer their goods and services in nearly every country in…

3 Aspects that Make the Startup Booster Program a Must for Early Stage Fintechs

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 30, 2023
Categories: Finovate Marketing, FinovateEurope 2023

European fintechs in search of venture capital funding are in luck this spring. The Startup Booster Program at FinovateEurope, taking place March 14 through 15, has been crafted to help early stage companies pitch their new ideas in front of investors from across the U.K. and Europe. Fintechs that are less than five years old and haven't closed a Series A round can apply now for the opportunity to have two hours to network and pitch their innovation to an audience of VCs, angels, corporate venture studios, and accelerators. Some of the investors participating in this year's program include: Lucile Beaume, Senior Analyst at BreegaAlokik Advani, Managing Partner at Fidelity International Strategic VenturesErik Mostenicky, VP at Fidelity International Strategic VenturesOlly Betts, Fintech Sector Director at Founders FactoryMaren Bannon, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at January VenturesOlga Shikhantsova, Partner at SpeedinvestAlistair Owen, Principal at VentureFriends Here are three reasons why early stage, European companies in search of venture funding should…

AKUVO Partners with Eltropy to Help Credit Unions Leverage Text to Improve Collections

By David Penn Posted on January 30, 2023
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, Eltropy

Digital communications platform Eltropy and collections platform provider AKUVO announced a new partnership, integrating Eltropy's texting functionality into AKUVO's Aperture solution.The integration will enhance the collections process for community financial institutions (CFIs).Eltropy made its Finovate debut in 2017 and returned to the Finovate stage last year for FinovateFall in New York. A newly-announced partnership between digital communications platform Eltropy and cloud-based collections platform provider AKUVO will enable credit unions to leverage the texting capabilities of Eltropy's platform to enhance collections operations. Now, credit unions, community banks, and other community financial institutions (CFIs) will be able to access Eltropy's texting communications platform from AKUVO's Aperture solution. "Integration between Eltropy and AKUVO's Aperture will provide collectors with a powerful texting platform to guide their account holders through a proactive, effective collections experience," AKUVO Chief Revenue and Operating Officer Steve Castagna said. Headquartered in California and founded in 2014, Eltropy made its Finovate…

Marqeta Acquires Fintech Infrastructure Company Power Finance for $275 Million

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 30, 2023
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, Marqeta, Mergers & Acquisitions

Marqeta is acquiring credit card program management platform Power Finance.The company will add Power Finance's credit card program management capabilities to its own card issuing platform.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Global card issuer Marqeta agreed to acquire credit card program management platform Power Finance. Terms of the deal, which is scheduled to close in the first quarter of this year, were not disclosed. Power Finance was founded in 2021 by CEO Randy Fernando and CFO Andrew Dust to offer credit card program management services to companies seeking to create new credit card programs. The company's platform takes care of credit card management, customer experience, application decisioning, transaction processing, and more. And because Power Finance is pre-integrated with third-party data vendors, it saves companies time when setting up KYC and underwriting processes. "Companies like ours were made possible because of the path Marqeta blazed in modern card issuing,…

Finovate Global Africa: Revolutionizing Payments and Promoting Inclusion with Paga’s Tayo Oviosu

By David Penn Posted on January 27, 2023
Categories: Finastra, Finovate Global, Hawk:AI

This week on Finovate Global, we feature an extended conversation with Paga founder and CEO Tayo Oviosu. Serving more than 21 million unique users in Africa, Paga is a payments and financial services ecosystem that makes it easy for people to request, send, and receive money; pay bills; get remittances and more. Founded in 2009, Paga is Nigeria's leading mobile money company. We caught up with Tayo Oviosu to discuss the current state of fintech in Nigeria and in sub-Saharan Africa, in general. We also talked about how Paga is helping boost financial inclusion and empowerment in the region, and what we can expect from the company in 2023. Paga was recently recognized with placement on the CB Insights 250 list – one of seven African start-ups featured. What is going right with fintech in sub-Saharan Africa these days? Tayo Oviosu: It was an honor to be ranked by CB…

OneSpan to Acquire Document Storage Company ProvenDB

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 27, 2023
Categories: Daily news, Mergers & Acquisitions, OneSpan

OneSpan is acquiring blockchain-based document storage company ProvenDB.The purchase will help OneSpan add document storage to its existing product offerings.Terms of the agreement, which is expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. Digital agreements security company OneSpan agreed to acquire blockchain-based document storage company ProvenDB. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Headquartered in Australia, ProvenDB was founded in 2018. The company provides a blockchain-based database that enables users to store data, cryptographic signatures, documents, and more. The company also offers a product that adds proof, trust, and integrity to clients' existing databases. Under the agreement, ProvenDB will enhance OneSpan’s Transaction Cloud Platform to public and private blockchains. Integrating ProvenDB's technology into OneSpan's existing offerings will also add a new product offering that provides customers with secure vaulting capabilities and helps OneSpan secure digital agreements. "Digital artifacts are simply too easy to fabricate, tamper, or delete in the…

CX at the Core of Digital Transformation in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance Services Market

By Lili Nguyen Posted on January 27, 2023
Categories: Sponsored

Frost & Sullivan is a growth-focused research and consulting company that offers a wealth of expertise across more than 10 industries. Frost & Sullivan’s Information & Communications Technologies Research Team conducts an annual voice-of-customer survey that contains inputs from key decision makers across industries. What follows is an excerpt from 2022’s survey findings and research study, Customer Experience at the Core of Digital Transformation in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance Services Market: Transformational Growth through Digitally Enhanced Banking Customer Experience. The excerpt spotlights what respondents consider the highest customer experience (CX) priorities right now, and where their investment in CX is trending. Definitions and Research Overview The banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) industry includes commercial banks, insurance companies, non-banking financial companies, and other entities.This study uses an integrated 360-degree research methodology to provide insights from end-user organizations, IT decision-makers, and influencers within the BFSI sector.An analyst perspective on…

Better Launches One Day Mortgage

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 26, 2023
Categories: Daily news

Digital mortgage lending company Better launched a new product, One Day Mortgage, that offers borrowers a mortgage commitment letter within 24 hours of applying for a loan.During a period of beta testing, Better reported that it processed over $50 million in commitments, offering commitment letters in an average of 12 hours.To qualify for the One Day Mortgage, borrowers must be salaried, make a down payment of at least 3%, and upload required documents within four hours. Digital mortgage lending company Better launched One Day Mortgage, a new tool that does what it says-- it enables borrowers to get a mortgage in a single day. Using One Day Mortgage, home loan borrowers can get pre-approved, lock-in their rate, and receive a mortgage commitment letter, all within 24 hours. This timeframe is weeks faster than the industry average of more than 30 days. Today's announcement comes a couple of weeks after Better…