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Alumni News– January 30, 2015
Wipro wins multi-year, IT outsourcing contract from Allied Irish Banks (AIB). Join Wipro in London for FinovateEurope 2015 next month.
- The Financial Services Blog features more than 20 Finovate alums in its look at the 50 most innovative FinTech firms.
- MasterCard PayPass partners with St. Petersburg Metro to bring contactless payments to Russian subway.
- Blackhawk Network unveils Blackhawk Engagement Solutions to build customized incentive and rewards programs.
- FinovateEurope 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 6 is now up.
- American Banker highlights Cloud Lending’s role with banks.
- PYMNTS interviews TSYS Merchant Solutions’ Tom Boyer about changes in the payments acquiring space.
- Bolstr Raises $1.7 Million in Seed Funding.
- The blog herald shares an infographic detailing online security methods: Nymiband, Myris, Eyeverify, BehavioSec, Entersekt.
- Lifehacker features Betterment, Mint, Personal Capital as tools to manage your investments.
- Bitcoinist features Bitbond. Check them out at FinovateEurope February 10 & 11.
- BetaBoston: After a successful 2014, student services company SimpleTuition rebrands as Valore.
- Mitek Q1 revenue up 21% YOY; reports 3,300 financial institutions now signed & 2,700 live.
FinovateEurope 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 6
- Sneak Peek Part 1: ebankIT, Jumio, SOFORT, TradeRiver Finance, Xignite, and Yoyo
- Sneak Peek Part 2: AlphaPoint, Avoka, Encap Security, investUP, Nostrum Group, and StreetShares
- Sneak Peek Part 3: CoinJar, EVRY, FOBISS, Strands, Trunomi, VATBox
- Sneak Peek Part 4: Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, CPB SOFTWARE, Ixaris, JSC Delta Bank, QCR, and Topicus.Finance
- Sneak Peek Part 5: Financial Media Solutions, Fiserv, Intelligent Environments, mBank & i3D, Pirean, and Telenor banka & Asseco SEE
- Build a loan portfolio automatically
- Define regions and risk categories to invest in
- Re-invest received loan repayments
- Provides an extra layer of security for your added peace of mind
- Easy-to-use interface to lock/unlock your cards with a simple swipe of the finger
- Customizable lock settings and built-in alerts
- Complements existing financial savings vehicles
- Creates new college savings accounts and relationships
- Provides a marketing tool for consumer and business banking
Spreedly Raises $150,000 in New Funding
North Carolina-based payments specialist Spreedly has secured a new investment of $150,000. Information on the investors was not immediately available. The new funding takes the company’s total to more than $2 million.
Spreedly’s “credit card vault in the cloud” technology gives merchants and aggregator platforms the ability to work simultaneously with multiple payment gateways. With its single API and secure credit card tokenization, Spreedly’s solution provides both greater flexibility and control over the payments process.

Cachet Financial Solutions Integrates with Apple Pay
With Apple’s recent record-breaking earnings report, there’s been no shortage of Apple-talk lately, and today is no different.
Earlier this week, Cachet Financial Solutions announced its Select Mobile Money platform now integrates with Apple Pay.
Cachet’s prepaid card clients can enable customers to make purchases using Apple Pay at the physical point-of-sale (POS).
How it works:
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users open their white-labeled Select Mobile Money app and click on the Apple Pay icon. Their prepaid card is automatically placed top-of-wallet in Passbook, ready to pay.
After payment, the Select Mobile Money app shows the user’s updated balance and transaction details (see image on right).
President and CEO of Cachet, Jeffrey Mack, likes the improved user experience and, states, “we expect this unique feature to attract new prepaid users to our clients, as well as bring new banks, credit unions and AFS providers to Cachet.”
The Apple Pay update is available now to its clients as an upgrade.
Cachet Financial demonstrated its Select Mobile Money app at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.
Alumni News– January 29, 2015
Tinkoff Bank to deploy fraud prevention solution from Iris Analytics.
- EagleBank implements EnAct client management and sales software from Fiserv.
- KDnuggets interviews Anthony Bak, principal data scientist for Ayasdi.
- Red Zebra Analytics brings its card-linked offers service to Germany.
- Ripple Labs raises $30 million in Series A round.
- CNBC Tech Check interviews Tradeshift CEO Christian Lanng.
- Computer Business Review features Venmo and Flint Mobile in its list of “5 mobile apps to turn your wallet digital.
- Datamonitor analyst describes why he’s looking forward to watching Advice Games’ demo at FinovateEurope 2015.
- Simple now works on BillGuard.
- Google Cloud Platform now available to VMware customers.
- TechCrunch explores Coinbase’s recently launched U.S. exchange.
- Cachet Financial Solutions integrates with Apple Pay.
Ripple Labs Raises $30 Million in Series A Round
The Wall Street Journal, Crunchbase, and other sources are reporting that open payments protocol specialist, Ripple Labs, has raised $30 million in new funding. Although the company has not confirmed some of the details of the deal, participating investors are believed to be IDG Capital Partners, Google Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz.

Alumni News– January 28, 2015
Easier Finance features Azimo in its list of the top money saving apps for 2015.
- The Credit.com Blog writes about how Global Debt Registry can help consumers track down old debts.
- Sonavation hires Karl Weintz as president and CEO.
- Jim Siegienski of iQuantifi wins “CTO of the Year” award from 2014 Nashville Technology Council.
- Fenergo earns top 100 ranking among risk technology providers according to Chartis.
- CheBanca! to deploy digital banking platform from Backbase.
- Insuritas to provide Tulsa FCU with insurance agency solution inside Tulsa’s existing insurance agency platform.
- My Bank Tracker lists Expensify as 1 of 6 best apps for preparing your tax return.
- Intuit and Uber partner to enable Uber drivers to import their earnings into the QuickBooks software.
- ThreatMetrix enhances multi-factor authentication solutions for financial services institutions.
- Credit Sesame and Identity Theft Council bring identity theft awareness to 100 cities.
Red Zebra Analytics Brings its Card-Linked Offers Service to Germany
Courtesy of a five-year extension of its partnership with Red Zebra Analytics, cash-back offers are coming to customers of Germany’s Wüstenrot Bank.
“We bring together consumers, banks, and retailers, with highly targeted rewards based on spending patterns,” explained Red Zebra Analytics CEO Attul Sehgal.


FinovateEurope 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 5
The 70+ presenters that will showcase their new tech on stage at FinovateEurope in two weeks are now unveiled. To take a closer look at the presenting companies, we’re continuing our Sneak Peek series. Today, we’re featuring Financial Media Solutions, Fiserv, Intelligent Environments, mBank & i3D, Pirean, and Telenor banka & Asseco SEE.
Don’t miss our other Sneak Peeks, available here:
- Sneak Peek Part 1: ebankIT, Jumio, SOFORT, TradeRiver Finance, Xignite, and Yoyo
- Sneak Peek Part 2: AlphaPoint, Avoka, Encap Security, investUP, Nostrum Group, and StreetShares
- Sneak Peek Part 3: CoinJar, EVRY, FOBISS, Strands, Trunomi, VATBox
- Sneak Peek Part 4: Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, CPB Software AG, Ixaris, JSC Delta Bank, QCR, and Topicus Finance
Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS simplifies Videographics, making it possible to create financial content in digestible bite size video formats for broadcast to any device, including smartphones.
Features
- Makes Videographics easy
- Empowers institutional users to convey financial concepts in concise video formats
- Rapidly broadcasts dynamic content to any client device, including smartphones
Why it’s great
Communicating client content by video is the future. MAPPS resolves the challenge of how institutions better engage clients in financial concepts, even via their smartphone.
Presenters
Ian Park, Owner Director & CEO
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Christopher Thomas, Marketing Director
LinkedIn
Fiserv is one of FORTUNE magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies and will demonstrate next generation digital banking interactions.
Features
- Focuses on a truly integrated payments user experience
- Allows customers to manage their spending habits and banking products
- Visually stimulates consumers using augmented reality technology
Why it’s great
This innovation is geared towards the consumer and will allow greater control and transparency over their spending and banking habits.
Presenters
Jonathan Atkinson, Market Development, Digital Channels and Payments
Atkinson is a Sales Executive in Digital Channels and Payments team at Fiserv, Inc., focused on new clients across EMEA, with previous experience in core banking and CRM.
LinkedIn
David Abbott, Payments Lead, EMEA
Abbot has 25 years’ sales, business development experience in payments & eCommerce joined Fiserv’s payments business to support development activities in the EMEA region.
LinkedIn
Intelligent Environments is an innovative provider of mobile and online solutions for financial service organisations.
Features
Hopes to fight against cybercrime
Why it’s greatNo firm is an island – we all have a shared interest in responding to the growing threat against cybercrime.
Presenter
Clayton Locke, CTO
Clayton Locke is a keen sailor. He is hoping for calm waters come Finovate!
LinkedIn
mBank, financial sector innovator & i3D, world-class provider of high-tech virtual reality solutions, developed an ultra-modern interactive digital bank branch.
Features
- Digital wall with unlimited touch points and innovative UI/UX
- Proximity-motion-sensing and face recognition technologies for dynamic content adjustment
- Integration with sales support systems
Why it’s greatmBank & i3D dare to challenge the traditional notion of physical bank branches with ultra-modern multi-touch screens, motion-sensing and face recognition technologies.
Presenters
Jacek Iljin, Managing Director Sales & Processes, mBank
LinkedIn
Marcin Wiśniewski, Sales & Marketing Director, i3D
LinkedIn
Pirean enables organisations to provide secure, people-focused access for employees, customers, and partners across on-premise and cloud-based applications.
Features
- Reduces lead-time to value for application access
- Provides secure self-service capabilities for users
- Introduces a single point of control and audit for all access management
Why it’s great
Pirean’s Access: One is an Identity and Access Management solution designed to provide a first class user experience anytime, anywhere.
Presenters
Rob Macgregor, Pirean’s Principal Consultant and Access: One’s Product Manager
Rob Blowers, Pirean’s Development Team Lead
With Telenor banka & Asseco South Eastern Europe, banking goes mobile – changing customer experience and reshaping banking products & services to fit mobile, brought by Telenor banka in synergy with Telco, powered by Asseco SEE multichannel solutions.
Features
- Big data processing enabling relevant offer at relevant moment and place
- Superb customer journey supported by straight-through processing and full automation
- Utilization of synergy
Why it’s great
IT is a fully automated and personalized online handset loan enabled by Telenor banka and Telenor, powered by Asseco SEE.
Presenters
Martin Navratil, Chairman of the Executive Committee at Telenor banka
Managing Director of Telenor banka responsible for the design and implementation of the bank’s strategy, having great experience in Telco and Finance sector.
LinkedIn
Piotr Jeleński, Group President of the Management Board of Asseco SEE
Executive manager with experience in running and establishing new business in Poland, SEE region and Turkey. Managing international structure with over 1,400 people in 12 countries.
Marko Carevic, Marketing Director at Telenor Banka
Started his career in Telenor, initiated Telenor M&A initiative in financial services, currently responsible for entire customer value chain and go-to-market process.
LinkedIn
We’ll feature six more companies later this week. To see them all demo live, get your ticket to FinovateEurope 2015.
Alumni News– January 27, 2015
Harland Clarke to use CUneXus’ cplXpress to enable automated, pre-approved lending to its customers.
- With grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Social Money to pilot CorePro in India to help underbanked.
- Spreedly crossed the $50 million credit card transactions per month milestone in December.
- TechCrunch: Prosper purchases American Healthcare Lending for $21 million.
- Cachet Financial’s Mobile Money Platform integrates with ApplePay.
- Check out FinovateEurope 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 5. We’ll see you there in two weeks.
- Hara Partners lists PayStand as one of five ecommerce solutions for SMBs.
- Tradeshift partners with Recruit Holdings, Japan’s largest staffing company, to solidify presence in Japan.
- Navy FCU’s Visa Buxx App, powered by Cachet Financial Solutions, named winner in Paybefore Awards.
- Authentify’s xFA available on Samsung’s Solutions Exchange, enabling two/multi-factor authentication on Samsung devices.