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FinDEVr Preview: Avalara

By David Penn Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: Avalara, FinDEVr 2015 Preview

FinDEVr Previews highlight the companies that will present their latest developer tools, platforms, and integrations at FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco on 6/7 October.

FinDEVr is the premier event for fintech developers. To save your spot, visit our registration page today and take advantage of early-bird savings!

Avalara helps businesses negotiate the “weird and wacky world of sales tax.”

Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. is handled unlike any other place on the planet? There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of tax-ability rule-combinations. This makes it hard for businesses to ensure compliance and thereby avoid the assessor’s wrath.

Why it’s a must-see
This presentation will highlight the complexity, showcase some of the bizarre taxing cases, and demonstrate how this difficult problem can be solved through a robust technology stack.

Developers will learn how they can resolve their customer’s pain-points with a simple-to-use REST API.

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FinDEVr Preview: Clarify

By David Penn Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: Clarify, FinDEVr 2015 Preview

FinDEVr Previews highlights companies that will present their latest developer tools, platforms, and integrations at FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco on 6/7 October.

FinDEVr is the premier event for fintech developers. To save your spot, visit our registration page today and take advantage of early-bird savings!

Clarify’s API turns media into actionable data. We auto-detect language, make audio and video searchable, allow you to extract keywords, determine the topics, and a variety of other things. Clarify allows you to create systems to make decisions based on information you gather.

Why it’s a must-see
Too often we collect data like presentations, support calls, etc. and rarely do anything with the results. Clarify.io gives you the ability to extract actionable information from your audio and video to make better decisions, confirm and validate compliance, and understand your media.

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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Ldger

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, Ldger

The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

Ldger offers a user-driven marketplace within a credit-structured finance platform to power data-rich modeling, automated transaction execution, inventory discovery and aggregation.

Features:

Dynamic, real-time structuring and modeling
Normalized deal structures
Inventory discovery and aggregation

Why it’s great

Ldger extends the innovation associated with marketplace-lending post-origination, facilitating efficient and transparent access for multilateral participants to sophisticated capital markets.

Presenters

Miles Cowan, CEO, Founder
Cowan leverages his prior experience as a tech-centric securities and M&A attorney to craft technology-driven solutions to structural and process deficiencies in today’s financial infrastructure.
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Hyung Kim, Co-founder, Financial Markets
Kim has more than 20 years’ experience in NYC’s finance industry-trading and risk-managing of structured derivatives at Credit Suisse, Barclays and JPMorgan Chase.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Tranwall

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, Tranwall

The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

Tranwall helps banks give secure transaction control to their customers.

Features:

Rules-based transaction authorization: peace of mind and fraud prevention
Change authorization parameters: real-time interaction with customers
Design your own card program: e.g., prepaid, business

Why it’s great
Tranwall will change the way card authorizations will be handled. Customers will now be able to control the authorization settings of their own cards.

Presenters

Gerard van de Par, Director
Van de Par has a sound background at technology and international banks. He heads up the commercial operations within Tranwall with a focus on Europe and the United States.
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Diederik Bruggink, Business Development Manager
Bruggink is an internationally renowned cards-and-payment expert. He is acting as business development manager for Tranwall and brings a broad network with him.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Bleu

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: Bleu, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek

The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

Bleu facilitates mobile transactions utilizing Bluetooth low-energy beacons. Bleu has developed a proprietary mobile point-of-sale and consumer application.

Features:

Supports any payment type
Can process a transaction up to 250 feet away from the terminal
Uses Bluetooth low-energy beacons

Why it’s great
This first-time-ever revolutionary solution moves payment over Bluetooth supported on any iOS or android device.

Presenters

Sesie Bonsi, President and CEO
Graduate of Pepperdine School of Law and founder of Bleu, Bonsi is dedicated to using his background and knowledge in the areas of mobile payment and infrastructure to transform financial technology.
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Brett Howell, Senior VP Business Development
A graduate of Auburn University, Howell has more than 10 years’ experience in multiple business environments from a small-family business to a multinational corporation.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Urban FT

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, Urban FT

The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

Urban FT (UFT) delivers an enterprise-grade platform to both financial and non-financial issuers to give their customers industry-leading digital banking products.

Features:

Comprehensive financial tools, local discovery, and social features
Increased revenue through featured ad space and targeted deals
Powerful management tools for custom branding and functionality

Why it’s great

The UFT platform drives customer loyalty through profound digital experiences that combine the social and financial life of the customer into a meaningful lifestyle product.

Presenters

Kasey Kaplan, Chief Operating Officer
Kaplan oversees all company operations at Urban FT. He has a strong passion for product, technology, and innovation.
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Mark Kilpatrick, Chief Product and Brand Officer
Kilpatrick oversees all design, UI, and UX initiatives. He applies his creative and design background to technology and product development.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: D3 Banking

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: D3 Banking, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek

The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

D3 Banking provides data-driven digital banking solutions designed to meet the needs of consumers and small businesses by delivering innovative services and a consistent UX to any digital device.

Features:

D3 Small Business Banking allows financial institutions to provide services tailored to small businesses, including auto-categorization, intelligent reporting and innovative money-movement services.

Why it’s great

D3 Small Business Banking’s innovative services and digital analytics allow financial institutions to deliver services to their small business, which means the difference between success and failure.

Presenters

Michael Carter, CMO
Carter has worked in fintech for more than 30 years. He has worked with startups, early stage and public companies in the U.S. and abroad.
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Andy Holdt, Director, Sales Support
Holdt has more than 15 years’ experience in financial services, including retail bank and payment card marketing as well as product, portfolio and client-relationship management.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: IDmission

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, IDmission

The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

IDmission utilizes a cloud-based platform that enables identity-initiated customer onboarding and engagement for financial services companies.

Features:

Fully configurable application-builder for creating unique customer-engagement experiences
Built using HTML5 for device-agnostic support
Know your customer (KYC) services, including biometrics

Why it’s great

IDmission solutions allow you to grow and change with the world around you. We haven’t built a product; it’s a platform that will help you solve problems now and into the future.

Presenters

Ashim Banerjee, CEO
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Sandeep Gandhi, CTO
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: AcceptEmail

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: AcceptEmail, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek

The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

AcceptEmail lets you make a payment or settle an outstanding bill, anytime from anywhere. Pay on-the-go, right from your mobile phone’s inbox.

Features:

Everything’s filled in; just confirm payment and hit “send”
Real-time confirmations; subject line changes from blue (due) to green (received)
Simple and secure, no paperwork

Why it’s great
Pay bills in a few clicks. No manual data (re)entry. Consumers love the convenience. Companies get paid 50% faster and can reduce costs by 70%.

Presenters

Peter Kwakernaak, CEO
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Geerten Oelering, CTO
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Alfa-Bank

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: Alfa-Bank, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek

The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

Alfa-Bank will introduce the concept and demonstrate the performance of future universal banks. They call it Sense.

Features:

Behavioral analytics helps predict what the customer needs next
Material design and totally reinvented UX for bank apps
Smart customer support and financial messaging

Why it’s great
Banks can use behavioral analytics and material design to offer a personal and empathic customer approach, with a single mobile bank app.

Presenters

Nikita Filippov, CEO of Octoberry.net
Filippov (pictured) worked as an IT process and product consultant for seven years. Two years ago he landed Octoberry, a product and service design company. Octoberry helps large enterprises innovate using lean startup principles.
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Vladimir Urbanskiy, CEO of Alfa-Lab
Urbanskiy leads Alfa-Lab, a subdivision of Alfa-Bank, responsible for all digital business, as well as innovations management and digital transformation of financial services.
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Artem Molchanov, Project Manager at Alfa-Lab (Sense Project)
Molchanov leads Alfa-Lab’s mobile department. He is responsible for the technical side of innovative mobile products and team organization.

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US Bank Adds “Thank a Banker” to Homepage

By Jim Bruene Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: Holiday promotions, Loans & Credit, Service, US Bank, Website Usability & Design

US Bank has been on a roll lately, appearing in our blog more times this summer than in the previous three years. Its latest novelty? A unique “thank a banker” function, complete with smiley face emoji, prominently located at the bottom-middle of homepage (below the fold on my 13-inch laptop). It’s shown to both customers and non-customers.

I wasn’t sure what to make of it. While I don’t see the harm, it would seem to be a fairly low-usage feature to warrant homepage real estate. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. It’s great brand positioning, essentially saying, ‘Hey, look. we aren’t one of those impersonal banks. Our customers love us so much we have to put a box on our homepage to collect all the compliments.’

And then if anyone actually does use it, the bank gets a stream of attaboy/girls to send out to staff. Clever. Hopefully, the bank sends the customer a nice thank-you email (I hadn’t received one 30 minutes after submitting form).

The website function is outsourced to an employee-recognition specialist, OC Tanner. An ewardcenter.com URL is displayed to US Bank customers as they fill out the 13-field form, a hefty 9 of which are required fields (see second screenshot below).

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More importantly, I like the Labor Day loan sale at the top of the US Bank homepage (see below). It’s traditionally a big car-buying weekend, so it’s a great time to promote vehicle lending, especially with the still ridiculously low APRs available here.

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US Bank homepage (3 Sep 2015, 10:00 a.m. Pacific):

US Bank “thank-a-banker” form (link):

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 3, 2015
Categories: AcceptEmail, Akamai, Alfa-Bank, Bleu, D3 Banking, Dwolla, IDmission, Ldger, Lending Club, Market Prophit, PsychSignal, Revolut, Sedicii, Segmint, SizeUp, Token, Top Image Systems, Tradeshift, Tranwall, Trustly, Urban FT, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

Check out this week’s FinovateFall Sneak Peek posts:
- Ldger
- Tranwall
- Bleu
- Urban FT
- D3 Banking
- IDmission
- AcceptEmail
- Alfa-Bank

Around the web

Yodlee’s startup incubator contributes to “Startup Fever.”

Revolut, Sedicii, SizeUp, & Token named Innotribe Startup finalists.

TIS signs deal to process school exams in Chile.

Trustly appoints Jonas Palmquist as chief financial officer.

FT.com features PsychSignal and Market Prophit in a discussion on market signals and social media.

CNBC interviews Akamai CEO Tom Leighton.

Dwolla launches its white-label service to make it easier for FIs to use its FiSync transfer platform.

Segmint launches new marketing solution, Segmint Reach.

RetailWeek features TradeShift as startup of the week.

Lending Club celebrates surpassing $11 billion in loans.

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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