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Paying bills with Pageonce just got easier, courtesy of a March update that allows customers to pay their credit card bills with their debit card.
Compare Broker takes a look at TradeKing.
Temenos to partner with Caisse Financial Group, providing T24, Insight, Temenos Connect.
This week, compliance management platform Continuity Control and cbanc Network, a knowledge-collaboration community, announced a partnership.
This partnership will make Continuity Control’s RegAdvisor, a quarterly briefing, available through cbanc’s WebEd program.
RegAdvisor is a complimentary event to help financial institutions gain a practical view of new compliance regulations, and helps them understand what steps are necessary to ensure compliance. To register for the next RegAdvisor, click here.
The terms of this deal have not been disclosed.
cbanc Network demoed at FinovateFall 2011, Continuity Control demoed at FinovateSpring 2010.
Card-linked rewards company Cardlytics recently divulged some notable metrics.
The Atlanta-based company is working with more than 300 banks to give them insight into the spending of nearly 70% of households across the United States.
Since launching in 2008, Cardlytics reports:
Across the Cardlytics network, consumers activate an average of 15-20% of deals, have increased their spending amount by 4%, and have increased their online logins by 12%.
To learn more about Cardlytics, watch its FinovateEurope 2013 demo, coming soon to finovate.com/archives.html.
Since launching their Custom Accounts feature in December 2012, bill-management service Manilla has seen users add more than 54,000 local small business accounts to their network.
The expanded network means that Manilla customers are accessing a growing number of small and local businesses, thereby extending the service beyond the company’s current biller library of more than 3,500 national and regional businesses.
Manilla’s Custom Accounts feature allows users to add and manage future payments, from babysitter and lawn-care services to paying the rent. The feature also allows users to set up reminders for other upcoming obligations, such as tax filing or contributing to charity.
Android app users can use the Custom Account features immediately. Forthcoming updates from Manilla will enable iOS app customers to take advantage of the Custom Account functionality as well.
Manilla’s announcement comes in the wake of a recent survey of the company’s users. More than 65% said that they find it easier to access their financial service provider’s website through Manilla. More on Manilla’s survey is available here.
Manilla was last on the Finovate stage in September 2012 for FinovateFall. Watch their product demo here.
rplan has launched an online course providing education on the fundamentals of investing.Capital Access Network has provided SMBs access to more than $3 billion in working capital and facilitated 100k transactions since its inception.
The Financial Brand today published a list of 50 “spectacular websites” from banks and credit unions. While their methodology wasn’t disclosed (see note 1), the winners appear to share one major trait, stunning homepage visuals. The first 20 are especially notable. (BTW, I would have put Citibank and Square in the top 20.)
We’ve already written about ten of the top 20: Salem Five (#1), Simple (#5), PNC Virtual Wallet (#7), USAA (#10), Mango (#12), Perkstreet (#14), Virgin Money (#15), Mint (#16), Movenbank (#18) and Comerica (#19).
But I wasn’t familiar with most of the other top-20, and as a huge admirer of Mr. Pilcher’s tastes in all things financial, I can’t wait to visit the others and report back.
Let’s start with the one that first caught my eye in the screenshot rundown:
Logix Federal Credit Union (Burbank, CA; $3.5 bil; 110,000 members), which for 75 years (until last July) was known as Lockheed Aircraft FCU (screenshot #1).
Observations:
Bottom line: The delightful robot image (high-tech, yet playful), orange color scheme, and ample use of white space are great attention-grabbers. Great work and very refreshing.
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Logix Federal Credit Union homepage #1 (11 March 2013)
Logix Federal Credit Union homepage #2
Note: The “Bright Futures” promotion for youth checking.
Logix Federal Credit Union homepage #3
Logix Federal Credit Union homepage #4
Logix Federal Credit Union Facebook page (link)
Note:
1. Update (3 PM, 11 March): Jeffry Pilcher, Editor (and owner) of The Financial Brand, told me that it is a collection of websites that he was fond of design-wise. And that the numbering is not a precise measure of their standing, but more a loose indicator, i.e., #2 is ahead of #40, but there is not necessarily a material difference between #2 and #12.
Prosper announces new API for lenders.
Mobile wallet developer DeviceFidelity has raised more than 470,000 as part of its current round of funding.
The amount raised represents nearly a quarter of the funds it hopes to raise in its current round, according to this report from the Dallas Business Journal.
This most recent funding news comes on the heels of word in January that the company had raised $1 million in debt financing.
DeviceFidelity made headlines recently with its partnership with Incipio. The two companies will work together to bring to market NFC-enabled cases for the iPhone.
DeviceFidelity was last on the Finovate stage at our Spring 2012 event. See the company’s presentation here.
TechCrunch reports: PayPal separates developer platform from X.commerce, launches Simpler mobile APIs.