Last Call for FinovateSpring 2015 Tickets

Last Call for FinovateSpring 2015 Tickets

FSBannerLogowDate

FinovateSpring 2015 is right around the corner and we are as excited as ever to see live and up close what our roster of 72 fintech innovators has in store. Have you picked up your ticket yet?

We hope you’ll join us. In fact, with registrations zooming past the 1,000 mark more than a week ago, there may be no better time than now to save your spot at the show.

FS2013_crowd_networking

We think you’ll like what you see on stage this year with our lineup of live demos at FinvoateSpring 2015. But, as we hinted earlier this week with our Attendee Title Word Cloud, much of what makes Finovate events special results from the live “introductions” between fellow attendees that happens during the networking opportunities throughout the day.

To give you a feel of the caliber of the crowd you’ll be joining at FinovateSpring 2015 in San Jose, take a look at a sample of the more than 500 companies attending this year’s conference.

  • Accenture
  • Aite
  • Alliance Credit Union
  • Alliant Credit Union
  • Ally Bank
  • Alten Capital
  • Altpoint Ventures
  • America First Credit Union
  • American Express
  • ANZ
  • AXA Lab
  • Backbase
  • Baird Capital Partners
  • BancVue
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of Internet
  • Bank of the West
  • Barclays
  • BBCN Bank
  • BBVA
  • BDCV Venture
  • Blackrock
  • Bluerun Ventures
  • BNY Mellon
  • Bridge Bank
  • C1 Bank
  • Capital One
  • Capital Source
  • Celent
  • Celtic Bank
  • Charles Schwab
  • Chase Paymentech
  • Citi Ventures
  • City National Bank
  • Clipper Ventures
  • Commerz Ventures
  • Co-op Financial Services
  • Credit Karma
  • CU Central of Canada
  • Credit Suisse
  • Crosslink Capital
  • CUTech
  • CUNA Mutual Group
  • Darling Ventures
  • dataconomy
  • Deseret First Credit Union
  • Desert Schools FCU
  • Digital Insight
  • Discover Financial Services
  • Eastman Credit Union
  • Educators Credit Union
  • eFirstBank
  • E*Trade
  • Endeavour
  • Enova
  • Envestment
  • Equifax
  • Everbank
  • Experian
  • Ernst & Young
  • Federal Reserve of Chicago
  • Federal Reserve San Francisco
  • Fidelity
  • Filene Research Institute
  • Financial Products Research
  • Finovera
  • FIS
  • Fiserv
  • First Annapolis
  • First National Bank
  • First Republic Bank
  • First Tennessee Bank
  • Forbes
  • Forrester Research
  • Foundation Capital
  • Fujitsu Research Institute
  • Gartner Research
  • GE
  • General Atlantic
  • Gibraltar
  • Golden 1 CU
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Google
  • H&R Block
  • Harland Clarke
  • Hills Bank and Trust
  • Hudson City
  • Hyundai
  • IBM
  • Innovest
  • Intuit
  • Intellectual Ventures
  • J.P. Morgan Chase
  • Jack Henry & Associates
  • Javelin Strategy & Research
  • Jumio
  • Justice Federal CU
  • KeyBank
  • KPMG
  • Lending Club
  • LexisNexis
  • Libro Credit Union
  • Life.SREDA
  • MasterCard
  • Maybank
  • Mercator Advisory Group
  • Metropolitan Capital
  • Mindful Insights
  • Mountain America CU
  • NASDAQ
  • New York Life
  • North Hill Ventures
  • Obvious Ventures
  • Ohio Valley Bank
  • PayPal
  • PNC
  • PT Money
  • Privat Bank
  • PostFinance
  • Primerica
  • Public Service Credit Union
  • PSCU
  • Quantum Capital
  • Quicken Loans
  • RedStar Ventures
  • Rockville Bank
  • Route 66 Ventures
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Safe Credit Union
  • Santander
  • Seattle Metropolitan CU
  • ScotiaBank
  • Silicon Valley Bank
  • Silvergate Bank
  • Square1 Bank
  • Solarity Credit Union
  • Sony Bank
  • Sorenson Capital
  • Stanford Federal Credit Union
  • Star One Credit Union
  • State Farm
  • Stockpile
  • Sumitomo Mitsui
  • Susquehanna Growth Equity
  • Swisscom
  • Target
  • TD Ameritrade
  • TD Bank
  • Tech Credit Union
  • Technology Crossover Venture
  • TDECU
  • The Bancorp
  • TPG
  • Transunion
  • TSYS
  • TwinStar Credit Union
  • Umpqua Bank
  • UBS
  • USAA
  • UW Credit Union
  • Visa
  • Wallaby
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Wells Fargo
  • Western Independent Bankers
  • Western Union
  • Wharton
  • William Mills
  • WSECU
  • Yodlee
  • Zions Bank

If these folks sound like your kind of people, then why not join them and us for an exciting two days of live demos and high-caliber networking at FinovateSpring 2015? Visit our registration page today and we’ll see you in San Jose next week.


FinovateSpring 2015 is sponsored by The Bancorp, CapitalSource, City National Bank, Envestnet, Financial Technology Partners, Hudson Cook LLP, KPMG, Kyriba, Life.SREDA, and Zions DirectTV.

FinovateSpring 2015 is partners with Aite Group, American Banker’s Association (ABA), Bank Innovators Council, Bankers Hub, BayPay Forum, bob’s guide, Breaking Banks, California Bankers Association, Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, ebankingnews, Filene Research Institute, fin-tech.org, HotWire, Javelin Strategy & Research, Mercator Advisory Group, The Paypers, SME Finance Forum, and Western Independent Bankers.

Calling All Startups: Reinvent the Mortgage Process (Please)

Calling All Startups: Reinvent the Mortgage Process (Please)

mortgage_treeI’ve been a mortgage customer for almost 30 years. And unlike most financial products, the mortgage process has gotten more convoluted in those three decades. There are good reasons for many of the added hassles, but the overall experience leaves a lot to be desired, especially if you are not a standard W2 wage earner. The poster-child for bad UX was last year’s denial of a mortgage to previous Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke. I had similar trouble last Fall, despite almost 20 years in the same home and job. There is still much to be done.

So I’m always on the lookout for startups working on improving the mortgage process. Despite a mortgage innovator, M&I Bank spinoff MortgageBot, winning Best of Show at the very first Finovate, we’ve had only five companies demo mortgage-specific process-improvement during the ensuing seven years (and we’ve had a number of mortgage calculators and rate-search plays including Credit Sesame, Google Advisor, Lending Tree, MortgageHippo, ReadyForZero):

That’s not nearly the amount of change I expected in this vital area, but the re-regulation of the mortgage industry, thanks to the housing debacle of 2008 to 2012, has taken a toll on innovations. But things are beginning to change. First, we have a three companies at next week’s FinovateSpring taking on various aspects of the mortgage process:

And there is also some early stage startups forming with stated missions to improve various parts of the mortgage experience, including:

  • Ethos Lending: Raised $8.2 million in April 2014
  • Expedite Financial: San Francisco-based startup founded in 2013
  • Floify: Boulder, Colorado, company founded in 2012
  • HomeTrackr: Aiming to be the “Carfax of homes”
  • Lenda: Raised $1.5 million in Sep 2014
  • LendingHome: Raised $70 million Series C in March 2015
  • Sindeo: Raised $5 million Series A in Feb 2015

Finally, many of the big so-called P2P lending platforms such as Lending Club and SoFi have talked about moving into the mortgage arena.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • Last Call for FinovateSpring 2015 Tickets! Join us in San Jose next week!

Around the web

  • Venture Scanner Insights features Motif Investing and TransferWise.
  • Top Image Systems names Carsten Nelk as chief technology officer.
  • DeviceFidelity picks up patent for its implementation of NFC.
  • CSI globalV Card wins multiple honors at the 2015 Communicator Awards.
  • Alcatel launches smartphone with EyeVerify biometric technology.
  • Striata partners with e-signature provider, CIC, to enable document execution via email.
  • Actiance now supports Skype for Business and Yammer.
  • ebankIT launches Watch Bank, an app that allows you to perform banking transactions on the Apple Watch.

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.

 

BankSeeds: HomeSlice is an Expense & Chore Management App for Roommates

BankSeeds: HomeSlice is an Expense & Chore Management App for Roommates

seed_invest_logoEditor’s note: We are starting a new series showcasing very early-stage
startups of interest to banks and other financial institutions considering
Strategic Seed Investing. We have no financial relationship
with the companies mentioned, but we hope to see them at Finovate soon.

—————

homeslice_appHomeSlice is targeting the 15 million college students currently sharing their lives with one or more roommates. The San Luis Obispo, California, company has created a “micro social network” for a single household where roommates can track chores, supplies, bills due, and payments made. HomeSlice’s “whiteboard function” captures all activity in a social network-like news feed (see inset).

In March, the company reported 6,000 active users across 2,000 households. In total, they’ve tracked 26,000 bills and 80,000 household supply items. The app is currently has no transactional integration so you can’t actually buy items or pay bills, but presumably that is on the way. The startup was recently visiting PayPal’s Venmo unit, a logical partner.

Fundraising: According to its Angel List profile, the company is currently raising a small round. The first investor is MatchFire (23 April 2015 press release), a data supplier to the app.

homeslice_billsWhy it’s a good strategic bet for financial institutions: Students and young adults are an attractive, albeit difficult, segment to win over. Yet, they are the future, and could be customers for 70+ years. So helping them with early money-management problems could pay huge dividends over time, assuming you are able to upsell profitable financial products. Furthermore, if a “parent view” could be added to the functionality, the app could be appealing to the income-producing part of the family.

And why it might not work: Young adults, students especially, are generally not big spenders for financial management and/or productivity apps. Nor are they interested, so it won’t be an easy sell.

Finally, remember this is a seed stage opportunity. The HomeSlice app is an MVP (minimal viable product) relying on manual data entry with no financial integration. There is a ways to go before you are sharing with your customers (or board).

 

Finovate Alumni News

Around the web

  • Xero’s new feature helps businesses manage their data with a new dashboard that displays a variety of benchmarking metrics.
  • Pymnts talks with Eric Remer, founder and CEO of PaySimple, about its holistic payments solution.
  • Taulia launches mentorship program for women.
  • iSignthis inks agreement with SolidTrustPay to provide identity and authentication services.
  • MasterCard acquires Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) for $600 million.
  • Business Solutions profiles security specialist, Arxan Technologies.
  • The Economist features MaxMyInterest, a solution for “yield-hungry savers.”
  • Nasdaq’s Street Authority contrasts Vanguard with “robo-advisers” including Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, and Wealthfront. Join Vanguard in San Jose in May for FinovateSpring 2015.
  • Place2Give launches Nepal Relief Fund.

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.

Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $125 Million Week Ending May 1

money_treeWhile it wasn’t a unicorn week, 15 companies raised $125 million for a respectable annual run-rate of $6.5 billion. There were two jumbo rounds: $50 million to cryptocurrency startup Circle and $30 million to multiple Finovate Best of Show winner MX (formerly Money Desktop).

Here are the deals listed by size from 25 to 30 April 2015:

Circle
Digital currency provider
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
Latest round: $50 million Series C (at $200 million valuation)
Total raised: $76 million
Tags: Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, block chain, Goldman Sachs (investor)
Source: Crunchbase

MX (formerly MoneyDesktop)
Digital banking platform for financial institutions
HQ: Provo, Utah
Latest round: $30 million Series A
Total raised: $61.7 million
Tags: Online banking, mobile banking, money management, PFM, personal finance, USAA (investor), Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Loop Commerce
Electronic gift card platform
HQ: Palo Alto, California
Latest round: $16 million Series B
Total raised: $29.2 million
Tags: Mobile commerce, e-gifting, payments, ecommerce, SMB, retailers
Source: FT Partners

CoverFox
Online auto insurance-comparison site
HQ: Mumbai, India
Latest round: $12 million Series B
Total raised: $12+ million
Tags: Automobile insurance, marketplace, lead gen
Source: Crunchbase

2C2P
Online and mobile payment solutions in Southeast Asia
HQ: Singapore
Latest round: $7 million Series C
Total raised: $10 million
Tags: Online banking, mobile banking, money management, PFM, Finovate alum
Source: Crunchbase

Payzer
Digital payment platform aimed at construction industry
HQ: Charlotte, North Carolina
Latest round: $4.2 million Series A
Total raised: $4.2 million
Tags: Payments, mobile, SMB, Route 66 (investor)
Source: FT Partners

DoPay
Payroll and payment solutions for the underbanked
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Latest round: $2 million Seed
Total raised: $3.4 million
Tags: Payroll, unbanked, Egypt (initial market), Barclays (holds funds), debit cards, Visa, payments
Source: TechCrunch

Hedgy
Blockchain derivatives
HQ: San Mateo, California
Latest round: $1.2 million Seed
Total raised: $1.2 million
Tags: Cryptocurrency, bitcoin, virtual currency, payments
Source: VentureBeat

BrickVest
Online real estate investment platform
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Latest round: $1 million Seed
Total raised: $1 million
Tags: Lending, mortgage, peer-to-peer, P2P, investing
Source: Crunchbase

Benefit
Prepaid mobile wallet for fundraising
HQ: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Latest round: $900,000 Seed
Total raised: $1.5 million
Tags: Prepaid, gift card, nonprofits, mobile
Source: Xconomy

Uanbai
Payments via social media
HQ: Santiago, Chile
Latest round:$100,000 Accelerator
Total raised: $140,000
Tags: Payments, mobile, social, Facebook, Startup Chile (investor)
Source: TechCrunch

DriveWealth
Investing platform enabling international investors to trade U.S. equities
HQ: Chatham, New Jersey
Latest round: Undisclosed Series A
Total raised: $4 million (prior to latest round)
Tags: Investing, trading, Route 66 Ventures (investor), FinovateSpring presenter (12/13 May 2015)
Source: Crunchbase

HomeSlice
Household bill-management solution
HQ: San Luis Obispo, California
Latest round: Undisclosed
Total raised: Unknown
Tags: Home management, bills, billpay, expense sharing, payments, mobile
Source: Crunchbase

Kxter
Crowdfunding
HQ: Las Vegas, Nevada
Latest round: Undisclosed (Seed round at $3.6 million pre-money valuation)
Total raised: Unknown
Tags: Peer-to-peer, P2P, lending, investing
Source: FT Partners

OrbitRemit
Discount mobile remittance service
HQ: Wellington, New Zealand
Latest round: Undisclosed
Total raised: Unknown
Tags: Payments, international transfers, remittances
Source: FT Partners

MX Raises $30 Million in Series A Investment

MX Raises $30 Million in Series A Investment

MX_homepage

Five-time Best of Show award winner, MX, has boosted its total capital to more than $50 million with this week’s raise of $30 million. The Series A round was led by USAA (via a subsidiary), and featured participation from existing investor Commerce Ventures and new investor Digital Garage, based out of Tokyo.

TechCrunch’s coverage of the fundraising cites Pitchbook’s valuation of the company formerly known as “MoneyDesktop” at more than $270 million after this week’s investment.

The strategic implications of the investment in MX include the opportunity to bring its personal/digital finance management technology to the more than 10 million customers of USAA. Vic Pascucci, head of corporate development at USAA, said, “We see an opportunity for MX’s technologies to benefit our members, and our investment is one way we plan to explore that opportunity.”

FF2014_MX_stageshot_multipledevices

With Digital Garage onboard, MX will leverage the firm’s experience in helping companies like Twitter expand overseas to do some international expansion of its own. President and Group CEO Kaoru Hayashi called MX “a dominant force in the U.S.” and referred to financial institutions in Japan as being “hungry for (the) full-stack solutions” that MX can provide.

Headquartered in Provo, Utah (“the heart of Utah’s Silicon Slopes”), MX specializes in helping banks and financial institutions provide omnichannel, “customer-centric” banking experiences. MX was founded in 2010 by Ryan Caldwell (CEO), and partners with more than 500 FIs and 30 online banking, core, and payment network providers. Providing a “truly cross-platform” experience—the company’s last demo at FinovateFall 2014 featured the platform running on more than eight different devices—MX is better able to ensure that their technology will integrate seamlessly with an FI’s current system and processes.

FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 8

FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 8

FS2014_stageshot_profile_Loop

Today marks our final Sneak Peek preview. We hope you’ve enjoyed the opportunity to get to know a little about the companies that will be taking the stage at FinovateSpring 2015.

Register today to see and meet these innovators in person on 12/13 May at our upcoming conference in San Jose, California.

If you’ve missed an edition, our complete Sneak Peek series for FinovateSpring 2015 is below:

And now let us introduce you to the final fourteen companies of FinovateSpring 2015. See you in San Jose!


FS2015_Finaeos_logoFinaeos automates the back office and capital-raising compliance.

Why it’s great
Serves the demand for new ways to invest, save, and generate income by investors across the globe.

  • Founded: 2015
  • HQ: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

FS2015_Finicity_logoFinicity helps developers build powerful apps to drive financial software innovation.

Why it’s great
TXPUSH Interface to the Finicity API Platform.

  • Founded: 1999
  • HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah

FS2015_MoneyAmigo_logoMoney Amigo is a social money interaction platform that solves the lack of simple and clustered services for the unbanked and underbanked.

Why it’s great
Money Amigo makes managing money fast, fair, and friendly.

  • Founded: 2015
  • HQ: Las Vegas, Nevada

FS2015_Ondot_logoOndot Systems builds white-label solutions that enable financial institutions to provide security and convenience for their customers.

Why it’s great
Our platform brings innovation to mobile card services.

  • Founded: 2011
  • HQ: San Jose, California

FS2015_Onovative_logoOnovative’s powerfully simple marketing automation software helps financial institutions meet the challenge of cross-selling current customers.

Why it’s great
Onovative provides banks and credit unions with modern APIs and a simple UI to help them grow.

  • Founded: 2013
  • HQ: Jeffersonville, Indiana

FS2015_Outski_logoOutski’s platform improves employee health and wellness, increases productivity, and reduces job-related stress.

Why it’s great
Outski helps companies improve margins and reduce costs by focusing on the health and well-being of their employees.

  • Founded: 2013
  • HQ: Tucson, Arizona

FS2015_PrairieCloudware_logoPrairie Cloudware provides a comprehensive set of omnichannel, digital payment services to solve the need for more security, convenience, and control when purchasing goods and services online and in-store.

Why it’s great
We are a cloud-based, open platform that allows consumers to access and use their preferred payment mechanisms and accounts via the financial institution’s digital channels.

  • Founded: 2012
  • HQ: Omaha, Nebraska

FS2015_Slice_logoSlice’s technology provides item-level purchase-data across the largest base of online consumers (two million and counting).

Why it’s great
Slice’s one-of-a-kind Purchase Graph technology.

  • Founded: 2010
  • HQ: Palo Alto, California

FS2015_SmartAsset_logoSmartAsset provides a tools-and-content platform to give consumers personalized and actionable advice.

Why it’s great
Leverage our Automated Financial Modeling technology to make significant personal finance decisions.

  • Founded: 2011
  • HQ: New York City, New York

FS2015_Token_logo_snagToken is a new payment rail that solves the “faster payments” problem for banks, businesses, and consumers.

Why it’s great
A new open bank API, an unbreakable identity system, developer tools, and a wallet app for business and consumers.

  • Founded: 2015
  • HQ: Los Altos Hills, California

FS2015_TopImageSystems_logoTop Image Systems introduces the eFLOW mortgage, which eliminates the manual, time-consuming and expensive mortgage-origination process.

Why it’s great
Top Image Systems’ IQA (Image Quality Analysis) provides unparalleled accuracy, security, and ease of use.

  • Founded: 1991
  • HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

FS2015_Vanguard_logoVanguard introduces the Funds Visualizer to rid investors of suboptimal portfolio construction.

Why it’s great
Our interactive, 3-D, data visualizations of diversification provide unique insights when it comes to building portfolios.

  • Founded: 1975
  • HQ: Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

FS2015_Vouch_logo_414updateVouch is the first social network for credit, enabling consumers to connect and share creditworthiness so they get the financial products they deserve.

Why it’s great
Vouch is for anyone who believes they are more than their credit score.

  • Founded: 2013
  • HQ: San Francisco, California

FS2015_Whodini_logo_snagWhodini helps merchants engage customers using social media marketing, reaching loyal customers with targeted offers.

Why it’s great
At Whodini, we help local businesses know their customers better.

  • Founded: 2004
  • HQ: Westport, Connecticut

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • MX Raises $30 Million in Series A Investment

Around the web

  • Encap Security to support Samsung fingerprint scanner as part of version 3.0 of its Smarter Authentication technology. See Encap at FinovateSpring 2015 next month in San Jose.
  • Dutch banking group ABN AMRO to deploy wealth-management solution, WealthSuite, from Temenos.
  • Top Image Systems wins recognition at 2015 IT Innovation Awards (IT Innovationspreis) for MobiPAY.
  • PayPal partners with Tillster, an online ordering platform.
  • Green Dot names MasterCard its exclusive transaction processor and network gateway.
  • American Banker: New Moves by Coinbase, Ripple Advance Digital Money Tech.
  • Currency Cloud appoints former Deutsche Bank CIO, Mitchel Lenson, as a non-executive director.
  • IP Commerce launches new version of Commerce Sync to automatically transfer sales info from a POS system or e-commerce solution into accounting software on a daily basis.
  • InComm partners with Russian internet giant Mail.Ru Group.
  • Stratos now shipping its all-in-one smart credit card. Come see Stratos at FinovateSpring in San Jose.
  • Open Source Project.com features Open Bank Project.

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.

 

 

Tuesday Tactic: Communicating via Mobile Updates

Tuesday Tactic: Communicating via Mobile Updates

Here’s an unintended consequence of mobile banking.

I learn more about my bank by reading the description of the changes in its latest mobile (iOS) update than all other channels combined. And since I’ve downloaded about 100 banking and financial apps (and manually update them all), I read a LOT of mobile updates.

Very few financial service apps use that space to communicate creatively. Often, it will just be something terse like, “fixing bugs.” Now, I like succinct copy, but at the time of a mobile update, you have the undivided attention of your customer, if only for a few seconds. Use it! (though don’t abuse it).

billguard_update1While a number of web companies do a good job (Yelp, Redfin come to mind), the best financial services communicator on my phone is BillGuard (see inset). BillGuard not only spells out changes being made now, but also recaps prior major improvements, and reinforces their brand with a friendly sentence or two of often unrelated information. They also sign off each update with a real person and Twitter handle. Credit Karma and USAA have also recently posted interesting update information (see below); Citibank, not so much (last screenshot)

Bottom line: I know it takes extra time to get approvals for the “marketing copy” on an app update, but this is a great chance to improve user perceptions. And you can recycle that approved copy into other media as well (blog posts, email newsletters, employee training, etc).

——-

Mobile update examples:

billguard_update2 usaa_update2

credit_karma_citi_update

FinovateSpring 2015: Meet the People in Your Fintech Neighborhood

FinovateSpring 2015: Meet the People in Your Fintech Neighborhood

FSBannerLogowDate

Who will you meet at FinovateSpring 2015?

From the moment you arrive at a Finovate conference, one thing is clear: Fintech is a people business.

In fact, while some of the best connections you’ll make at Finovate will be with our presenters at their booths, many of your best conversations are likely to be with the man or woman sitting next to you in the audience or across the table from you at lunch.

Why so? Take a look at the titles of the more than 1,000 fintech professionals who have already signed on to join us at FinovateSpring this May.

FS2015_AttendeeTitle_WordCloud_Final

Senior vice presidents and software engineers, managing partners and marketing directors, chief executives and chief evangelists. This year’s attendee-title word-cloud suggests the question is not “Who is going to FinovateSpring 2015 this year?” It’s “Who isn’t?”

The show starts 12 March, Tuesday, and concludes with our Best of Show awards presentation after a second day of live demos on Wednesday. So be sure to visit our registration page today and reserve your seat as Finovate returns to San Jose next month for our annual spring event.

Find out more about FinovateSpring 2015 at our FAQ page.


FinovateSpring 2015 is sponsored by The Bancorp, CapitalSource, City National Bank, Envestnet, Financial Technology Partners, Hudson Cook LLP, KPMG, Kyriba, Life.SREDA, and Zions DirectTV.

FinovateSpring 2015 is partners with Aite Group, American Banker’s Association (ABA), Bank Innovators Council, Bankers Hub, BayPay Forum, bob’s guide, Breaking Banks, California Bankers Association, Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, ebankingnews, Filene Research Institute, fin-tech.org, HotWire, Javelin Strategy & Research, Mercator Advisory Group, The Paypers, SME Finance Forum, and Western Independent Bankers.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

Around the web

  • Digital Insight to provide Touch ID functionality in mobile banking apps.
  • Coinbase unveils its bitcoin exchange and wallet service in the U.K.
  • The Currency Cloud appoints former Deutsche Bank CIO, Mitchel Lenson, to non-executive director.
  • Green Dot Bank chooses MasterCard as its transaction processor and network gateway.
  • Columbia Bank picks Fiserv DNA for its account-processing platform.
  • The Finanser interviews CEO and co-founder of Ripple Labs, Chris Larsen.
  • AMP Credit Tech launches Amplifi Capital to directly finance unsecured loans to under-served small businesses in the U.K.
  • Expensify debuts new automatic statement-reporting feature.
  • ComputerWorld: SocietyOne makes case for peer-to-peer lending.

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.