Tradeslide Launches the Tradeslide Challenge to Gamify the Learning Process for Traders

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Tradeslide
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Third up this afternoon, Tradeslide launched the Tradeslide Challenge:

“The Tradeslide Challenge is a gamified learning process where traders compete to develop the skills that make up a solid trader (risk management, discipline, etc.), in the right order, one badge at a time.”

Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: London, England
Founded: March 2012
Metrics: €900,000, 10 employees, 1,000 pre-registered users, 2,000 unique visitors/month pre-launch
Twitter: @tradeslide
Presenting Juan Colón (CEO) and Javier Colón (COO)

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Micronotes Showcases Real Results from its Cross-Sell Solution

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Micronotes
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Second up this afternoon, Micronotes showcased its Cross-Sell solution through one of its customers:
“Micronotes Cross-Sell is simply the most productive digital cross-sell tool on the market. One of our customers is demonstrating this by showing the product, sharing results and explaining what those results mean to his financial institution.”
Product Launch: July 2011
HQ: Cambridge, MA
Founded: June 2008
Metrics: $3.4M raised to date; 8 employees
Website: micronotes.com 
Twitter: @micronotes
Presenting Ariel Taylor (Product Manager) and Kris VanBeek (CEO, USAlliance Credit Union)

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Persint Debuts Consumer Analytics Application

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Persint
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Starting off the final session today, Persint debuted its consumer analytics application:
“Persint’s consumer analytics application integrates with account aggregation and is designed to complement existing PFM. Leveraging public data sources mapped to conform to aggregation categorization, Persint delivers performance context through comparison to U.S. household peers. 
Just five demographic inputs can segment a household into one of over 100 unique peer groups. Other solution features include:
        • performance navigation through color-coded decision trees
        • data representative of all U.S. households
        • local cost of living adjustments
        • alternative peer group formation
        • composite score based on net worth, cash flow and risk management
        • performance classification and scoring system
        • solution mapping of opportunities to actions”
Product Launch: September 2013
HQ: Atlanta, GA
Founded: March 2012
Metrics: Privately held, self-funded and seeking investment; 2 principals leveraging contractors; pre-launch and pre-revenue
Website: persint.com
Twitter: @persint
Presenting Steve Cotton (CEO & Founder) and Curry Pelot (CIO & Co-Founder)

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BrightFunds Brings an Investment Approach to Individual Philanthropy

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Bright Funds, FinovateSpring 2013

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Our final presenter ahead of the break is BrightFunds. The company’s innovation addresses a growing need in online charitable giving.
“Bright Funds offers a simple, elegant tool to the financial services sector for effective charitable giving management. With Bright Funds, individuals create personalized giving portfolios and contribute to thoroughly researched funds of highly effective nonprofits addressing the greatest challenges of our time. Bright Funds combines the power of research, the reliability of a trusted financial service, and the convenience of centralized contributions and tax reporting.”
Product Launched: Beta November 2012; official launch May 2013
HQ Location: San Francisco, California
Company Founded: February 2012
Metrics: Raised $350,000; 4 full-time employees; thousands of members; signed enterprise partners
Twitter: @BrightFunds
Presenting Ty Walrod (CEO & Co-Founder) and Rutul Dave (Chief Products & Marketing & Co-Founder)

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ValidSoft Uses “SMART” Technology to Protect Mobile Payment and MBanking Transactions

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, ValidSoft
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Then, ValidSoft took the stage to demo its Secure Mobile Architecture for Real-time Transactions, SMART:

“ValidSoft’s SMART platform caters for the disparity in mobile networks and devices, use cases and the corresponding transactional risk intrinsic in mobile payment applications. SMART achieves this by providing a layered architecture of voice and mobile network‐based security protocols and technologies, both visible and invisible, to protect mobile payment and M‐banking transactions alike.”

Product Launch: February 2011
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2003
Website: validsoft.com
Twitter: @ValidSoft
Presenting John Petersen (Global Head of Business Development) and Emmanuelle Filsjean (Global Head of Marketing)

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Cymonz Enables Financial Institutions to Integrate Currency Exchange and International Payment Services Into Their Platform

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Cymonz, FinovateSpring 2013
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Next, Cymonz demoed how its software can enable financial institutions to integrate currency exchange and international payments services into their platform:
“The Cymonz application includes a client transactional website and the back office management application with specific currency and international payment business processes, customization and integrations. The application addresses a wide spectrum of needs, including client management, currency transactions, risk management, settlements and compliance. 
Cymonz integrates with third party applications and can be configured to allow for liquidity, payments, customer service as well as anti money laundering, marketing and support tasks. 
iOS and Android applications are also available along with the ability for you to white label your currency application and provide it to your partners to increase currency and payment flows.”  
 
Product Launch: July 2012
HQ: Christchurch, New Zealand
Founded: January 2012
Website: cymonz.com
Presenting Simon Lynch (CEO)

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Mortgage Harmony Presents HarmonyLoan Central with Loan Retention Software

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Mortgage Harmony

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Targeting mortgage, auto, student, and commercial loans, Mortgage Harmony is coming to the stage with their HarmonyLoan technology.
“HarmonyLoan Central is the client-branded, consumer web-interface for borrowers to access their HarmonyLoan. The Loan Retention Software (LRS) eliminates a traditional refinance. With one click and an e-signature, a borrower resets their rate, incurring zero closing costs, with no credit check, or underwriting, all in minutes. The FI has no back office processing costs, increases retention, at a premium yield. The servicer reduces portfolio churn, and the originator creates a recurring revenue stream. In other words, everyone wins.”
Product Launched: September 2012
HQ Location: McLean, Virginia
Company Founded: December 2008
Metrics: More than $1.5 million raised; 8 employees; 12 customers
Twitter: @harmonyloan
Presenting Keith Kelly (CEO) and Ray Crosier (President)

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Allied Payment Network Introduces the First Mobile Point, Shoot and Pay App for Smartphones

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Allied Payment Network, FinovateSpring 2013

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Applying emerging bill pay technologies to the financial industry, here’s Allied Payment Network with Picture Pay.
“Allied’s Picture Pay is the nation’s first mobile bill payment application that enables financial institutions’ customers to pay bills using the camera on their mobile device. With Picture Pay, users simply take a picture of the bill, enter the amount and date, and the bill is paid.
Picture Pay’s technology does the rest by reading the data from the bill, then syncing with the customer’s bank or credit union to process the payment. Additionally, Picture Pay can automatically add a new biller to the user’s online banking system, eliminating the hassle of entering the payee and account information online.”
Product Launched: January 2013
HQ Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Company Founded: August 2010
Metrics: 12 employees
Twitter: @AlliedPayment
Presenting Ralph Marcuccilli (President) and Steve Paradine (SVP Sales)

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SeedInvest Helps Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors Find Small Business Futures to Fund

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, SeedInvest

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Want a piece of the action as high-quality start-ups and small businesses seek funding? SeedInvest is up next with a demonstration of their new crowdfunding platform.

“SeedInvest is demonstrating its state-of-the-art, equity-based, crowdfunding platform and a number of groundbreaking features including:
Due Diligence Dashboard
  • Virtual Diligence Session
  • Permission-based Dataroom
  • Diligence Board
Simple Invest
  • Instant Identity Check
  • Legal Docs Execution
  • Streamlined Funds Transfer
Virtual Boardroom
  • Virtual Board Meetings
  • Easy Reporting
  • Quick Signatures”
Product Launched: February 2013
HQ Location: New York, New York
Company Founded: January 2012
Twitter: @seedinvest_co
Presenting Ryan Feit (CEO & Co-Founder) and James Han (Co-Founder)

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Arxan Helps Defend Financial Institutions’ Mobile Apps Against Fraud, Malware, and Unauthorized Access

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Arxan Technologies, FinovateSpring 2013

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This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.
Then, Arxan Technology demonstrated how its Mobile App Integrity Protection products defend financial institutions’ mobile apps:

“Arxan’s Mobile Application Integrity Protection products deliver critical defense and shielding at the application layer with static and active self-defend and tamper-proof attributes. By deploying Arxan protected apps, financial institutions can launch advanced and feature-rich mobile financial services with confidence. 

Our state-of-the-art ‘Guards’ are small units of object code that “lockdown” applications with multiple and performance sensitive protection against attacks such as: malware, fraud, data breach repackaging, unauthorized access, IP theft, removal of security or critical business logic; all of which would have significant consequences for financial institutions.” 

Product Launch: January 2012
HQ: Bethesda, MD
Founded: January 2001
Metrics: Arxan has raised $30M to date; HQ is in the U. S. with global offices in EMEA and APAC 
Website: arxan.com
Twitter: @arxan
Presenting Kevin Morgan (CTO & VP Engineering)

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PayNearMe Launches White-Label Offering

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, PayNearMe
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Second up this afternoon, PayNearMe launched a white-label offering of its cash-payment service for the underbanked:

“Powered by PayNearMe is a white-label treasure services product that any financial institution can offer to their merchants to enable them to accept cash payments from consumers at thousands of 7-Eleven and ACE Cash Express stores nationwide.”

Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
Founded: May 2009
Website: paynearme.com
Twitter: @paynearme
Presenting Danny Shader (CEO & Founder) and John Minor (VP Product Management)

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Curaxian Analytics Helps Merchants and Processors Manage the Economics of Risk

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Curaxian, FinovateSpring 2013

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Leading off our first session after the noon break is Curaxian, presenting their fraud risk management solution.
“Curaxian Analytics is a software service that helps merchants or processors quickly identify fraud attacks and build better rules that find the optimal balance between stopping fraud, protecting good orders, and minimizing manual review volume. It also helps merchants and processors reduce authorization declines and control interchange costs.”
Product Launched: March 2012
HQ Location: San Francisco, California
Company Founded: January 2012
Metrics: 70 merchants; $110 billion in risk managed; 34 countries
Website: curaxian.com
Presenting Mitch Muroff (CEO) and Jane Cloninger (Associate)

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