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Categories: Acculynk, IBM, Qumram, Tradeshift, Virtual Piggy

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  • Youth savings specialist Virtual Piggy rebrands as REGO Payment Architectures.
  • IBM provides blockchain support for Singapore fintech, Invictus.
  • Qumram wins Growth Stage Startup of the Year at Swiss FinTech Awards 2017.
  • Tradeshift brings on David Ahrens as its new chief marketing officer.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, Arxan Technologies, Dashlane, Diebold, Moven

On Finovate.com 

  • Dashlane Achieves New Year’s Resolution: More Organized, Now Speaks 7 Languages.

Around the web

  • eWeek quotes Arxan CMO Patrick Kehoe on the problem of app security on health and finance apps.
  • Diebold introduces mobile, contactless, self-checkout technology.
  • Acculynk CEO Ashish Bahl talks about the growth of direct-to-debit card payments.
  • Pymnts interviews Moven President Alex Sion on what to expect in digital banking in 2016.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, Arxan Technologies, Betterment, Buzz Points, Capriza, Coinbase, CurrencyTransfer, FIS, Hedgeable, Kasasa, Klarna, LoanNow, Nostrum Group, Nymi, On Deck Capital, Payoneer, Pindrop Security, Quisk, Silanis Technology, Slice, Sliced Investing, Soundpays, Trustly, Wealthfront, ZenPayroll, Zopa

On Finovate.com

  • “Finovate Debuts: Slice Introduces Intelligent Shopping API”
  • “Arxan Technologies Drafts Joe Sander as CEO”

Around the web

  • Kasasa reaches milestone: 300+ community FIs now offer Kasasa to members, a total of 823,000 accounts.
  • NY Times lists Betterment, Coinbase, Wealthfront, ZenPayroll as companies that may be the next startup unicorns.
  • Crowdfund Insider: Zopa tops £1 million in loans, a U.K. first for peer-to-peer lending.
  • Global News interviews Karl Martin, Nymi CEO and founder.
  • Trustly bolsters team with appointments from H&M and Klarna.
  • FIS launches financial inclusion lab in India.
  • SME Insider interviews CurrencyTransfer.com‘s CEO Daniel Abrahams.
  • Silanis to deploy eSignLive technology with TransGuard and Occidental Fire & Casualty.
  • Puerto Rico-based Evertec to enable mobile e-commerce courtesy of Acculynk’s PaySecure.
  • Payoneer wins contract with Dailymotion.
  • NPR interviews Pindrop Security‘s CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan.
  • Selling Power ranks OnDeck 17 out of 50 on its list of 2015 Best Companies to Sell For.
  • Nostrum Group receives FCA authorization for debt administration to cover its involvement in customer loan accounts and debt collection.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: AcceptEmail, Acculynk, Algomi, Ayasdi, BehavioSec, Bill Guard, Expensify, FIS, Lending Club, Mint, On Deck Capital, PayStand, Pindrop Security, Smarty Pig, SocietyOne, Toshl, Tradeshift, Tradier, TSYS, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

  • “Expensify Tallies Up $17.5 Million in Funding to Support its New Fintech Investment Fund”

Around the web

  • AcceptEmail partners with PayWithMyBank to make bill pay convenient and less costly.
  • SocietyOne hires former Lending Club executive as its new chief marketing officer.
  • Spend Matters highlights Tradeshift as a company to watch in 2015.
  • Pindrop Security releases new version of fraud detection system to more effectively identify and predict fraudulent activity.
  • Yodlee hosts webinar on how to build financial apps to meet rapidly evolving customer expectations.
  • BehavioSec mentioned as one “wild invention of the future” that the Pentagon is behind.
  • Tradier announces 75+ investor platforms and advisors integrating with its API.
  • Algomi adds 100th buy-side firm to its Honeycomb Network.
  • American Banker: FIS in talks to acquire SunGard.
  • PYMNTS.com interviews Sarah Hartman, senior director of consumer payment solutions at TSYS.
  • India West profiles Ayasdi founder and CEO, Gurjeet Singh.
  • Benzinga’s list of 10 PFM apps for teens and young adults features Toshl Finance, Manilla, BillGuard, Mint, and Smarty Pig.
  • Acculynk teams up with TouchPay, combining online billpay with self-service payment kiosks.
  • OnDeck rolls out mobile app for account management on the go. Come see OnDeck at FinDEVr in San Francisco, 6/7 October 2015.
  • Let’s Talk Payments interviews PayStand CEO Jeremy Almond.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, blooom, Currency Cloud, FutureAdvisor, InComm, Insuritas, Lending Club, Misys, Moven, Personal Capital, Prairie Cloudware, Qapital, Xignite

On Finovate.com

  • Currency Cloud Cooks Up $18 Million in New Funding Round
  • FutureAdvisor Grows 10x to $600+ Million Under Management
  • Xignite Inside: Market Data Provider Powers Apple Watch Apps for Finovate Alums
  • Prairie Cloudware Announces New Round of Investment

Around the web:

  • Insuritas to power insurance-agency solution to First Federal Savings Bank of Wyoming.
  • American Banker mentions how Qapital and Moven recently updated their software to make saving easier.
  • Digital Transactions recognizes Payzur from Acculynk as a P2P payments leader.
  • Misys wins Best Trade Finance Tech Solutions Company at the Trade Finance Awards for Excellence.
  • Fortune profiles Blooom President Greg Smith, former Goldman Sachs banker.
  • Personal Capital CEO Bill Harris, former PayPal CEO, discusses how PayPal fits into mobile payments.
  • InComm partners with U.K.-based Sainsbury’s to help consumers save on the cost of fuel at Sainsbury’s petrol stations after buying gift cards.
  • Jo Ann Barefoot podcast interviews Lending Club founder and CEO, Renaud Laplanche.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, BBVA, BehavioSec, Betterment, BrightScope, CashSentinel, Heckyl Technologies, Hedgeable, Ixaris, Lending Club, LendUp, Moven, On Deck Capital, Pindrop Security, Ripple, Top Image Systems, TSYS, Vanguard, VISA, Wealthfront, Zenmonics

On Finovate.com

  • “Finovate Debuts: TrueAccord Provides Kinder, Gentler Automated Debt Collection”
  • “HedgeCoVest Adds Two New Models to its Platform”
  • “CashSentinel Closes Seed Round of Undisclosed Amount”

Around the web

  • Dunkin’ Donuts, Fandango, Sundance Catalog and Williams-Sonoma now accept Visa Checkout.
  • Moven updates Android mobile app.
  • The Fintech blog features Q&A with LendUp CEO Sasha Orloff.
  • Bank Innovation profiles Hedgeable and its “one simple trick.”
  • Westpac Banking Corporation and New Zealand Banking Group are testing Ripple for payment transfers between subsidiaries.
  • Ixaris announces €4m Open Payments Ecosystem (OPE) project to support developers building payment apps.
  • TSYS to support Apple Pay when it launches in the U.K. in July.
  • Omnichannel account-opening solution from Zenmonics goes live at BBVA.
  • Austin Energy to adopt PaySecure platform from Acculynk.
  • Investopedia column on the “Top 5 Myths of Robo-Advisors” features Betterment, Wealthfront, and Vanguard.
  • BrightScope launches Fund Pages to provide detailed information about open-ended mutual funds.
  • Sam’s Club using Lending Club to offer financing to SMB customers.
  • FitSmallBusiness.com names OnDeck best provider of small business loans.
  • SunGard terminal selects Heckyl news and sentiment analysis.
  • Pindrop Security granted patent for phone antifraud and authentication technology.
  • Top Image Systems taps Bob Fresnel as new TIS Americas President.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, Ayasdi, Betterment, Cortera, FIS, Forte Payment Systems, IDTheft 911, LearnVest, Market Prophit, Motif Investing, PayPal, Place2Give, ProfitStars, QuantConnect, SimplyTapp, Yodlee

Around the web

  • Market Prophit unveils its social market sentiment smart beta index.
  • Silicon India takes a look at Ayasdi’s plans to use the capital raised in its latest $55 million funding.
  • Financial Advisor IQ highlights Betterment and Motif Investing in its discussion of millennials and machines.
  • QuantConnect is now integrated with Interactive Brokers.
  • ProfitStars celebrates surpassing 600 FIs using its Remote Deposit Anywhere technology.
  • FIS wins Best Core Banking, Best Outsourcing Project honors at Asian Banker Technology Implementation Awards.
  • TechCrunch: Yodlee’s Joe Polverari writes about LearnVest and its acquisition by Northwestern Mutual.
  • ABC’s 7 On Your Side quotes IDTheft 911 founder Adam Levin on protecting your driver’s license from identity theft.
  • Connect Financial Software Solutions to provide real-time, P2P payments courtesy of new partnership with Acculynk.
  • Cortera announces new releases of eCredit Software.
  • Zoho partners with Forte Payment Systems to offer electronic payments directly with Zoho Finance apps.
  • Dexterity Ventures’ Place2Give releases GIVE_api v. 2.0.
  • Pymnts interviews SimplyTapp president and co-founder Ted Fifelski.
  • PayPal to be publicly traded on NASDAQ in Q2 2015 with its original stock ticker symbol PYPL.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, authenticID, BioCatch, Blackhawk Network, Kofax, Lending Club, Lendio, MiiCard, Motif Investing, On Deck Capital, PaySimple, Prosper, Q2, SecondMarket, Tradier, Uncategorized

On Finovate.com

  • AuthenticID Teams Up with MyECheck to Provide Document Authentication

Around the Web

  • OEM agreement between Kofax and BlackHawk Network enables mobile capture on GoWallet digital wallet.
  • Early Warning and BioCatch to collaborate in new data-sharing consortium.
  • Q2 teams up with Acculynk to provide real-time P2P payment service.
  • The Netbanker Blog is Moving to Finovate.com.
  • Lending Club and Citi partner with Varadero Capital to facilitate up to $150 million in loans to provide affordable credit to underserved borrowers and communities.
  • Options trading tool, Orca, partners with Tradier for its Brokerage API.
  • Prosper and OnDeck partner to offer customers more lending options.
  • GDS Link integrates MiiCard’s DirectID into its Credit Risk Management platform to reduce risk and increase conversion rates.
  • Lendio acquires Business Bounce to accelerate business lending on its marketplace platform.
  • PaySimple awarded Marketing Team of the Year by Marketo.
  • TechCrunch reports: SecondMarket launching product to put more control over secondary sales in the hands of startups.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, Advanced Merchant Payments, Ayasdi, CardFlight, Google Cloud Platform, HelloWallet, Innosect, Innovation Agency, Kabbage, Malauzai Software, PayStand, Roostify, TSYS, Uncategorized, Yodlee

On Finovate.com:

  • Kabbage Expands to Australia in New, White-Label Collaboration with Kikka Capital.
  • Advanced Merchant Payments Pulls in Undisclosed Amount of Funding.
  • Ayasdi Raises $55 Million in Series C Funding.

Around the Web:

  • Yodlee joins FinTech Sandbox as data partner.
  • Acculynk unveils new mobile wallet authentication service for issuers and providers.
  • Innosect (formerly Innovation Café) acquires Clientific.
  • 5+ Community FIs to launch Apple Watch offering powered by Malauzai. Come see its live demo at FinovateSpring in San Jose May 12-13.
  • CardFlight Announces Availability of EMV-Ready Chip Card Readers for SwipeSimple Mobile Point-of-Sale Solution.
  • Rajesh Bhat, Co-founder at Roostify, shares what he learned from Yodlee Interactive Incubator Boot Camp 1.
  • Google Cloud Platform introduces Google Cloud Launcher, where you can launch open source packages configured by Bitnami or Google Click to Deploy.
  • HelloWallet launches Emergency Savings Calculator.
  • Orchard Platform and Kabbage Announce Partnership to Provide Investors’ Access to Karrot Consumer Loans.
  • PayStand mobile iOS app now available to allow credit card, check and Bitcoin payments.

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Alumni News– November 24, 2014

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Categories: Acculynk, Azimo, BlueVine, Comarch, Kensho, Leaf, Motif Investing, PayNearMe, PayPal
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgGoldman Sachs announces investment in Kensho, becomes platform’s largest strategic investor.
  • Acculynk launches strategic partnership with PayPlum, announces acquisition of company’s intellectual property.
  • The Economist cites Comarch in its review of Polish companies succeeding internationally.
  • Leaf CEO Sarah McCrary talks mobile payments in panel discussion on Foodable WebTV.
  • Invests.com features Azimo in column on online money transfer companies.
  • Finovate Debuts: BlueVine.
  • Nasdaq.com examines PayPal’s place in the mobile payments wave.
  • Forbes looks at how PayNearMe helps the underbanked.
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Alumni News– June 27, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, Coinbase, Matchi, MiiCard, RevolutionCredit, SeedInvest, Trustly
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgMatchi announces signing sponsorship agreement with Standard Bank Group.
  • Intuit’s PayByCoin integrates Quickbooks Online with Coinbase to allow merchants to accept bitcoin.
  • RevolutionCredit is among six startups presenting at the 2014 FinTech Innovation Lab in New York.
  • Trustly partners with PayPal to facilitate direct payments for online bank customers in Sweden and Denmark.
  • Acculynk joins with Navicure to offer payment platform for healthcare providers.
  • 500 Startups teams up with SeedInvest to raise money for $100 million Fund III.
  • A review of digital ID technology by the Economist includes a nod toward miiCard.
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Finovate Alumni News– January 31, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, BillGuard, Bolstr, Check, Dynamics, FIS, Mint.com, Open Bank Project
  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgHuff Post lists Mint and BillGuard as 2 tools to help monitor your account 
  • American Banker looks at how Open Bank Project seeks to help banks open their own app stores.
  • CBS Pittsburgh features Dynamics. Come see it demo its latest technology at FinovateEurope.
  • Acculynk’s P2P platform Payzur now allows businesses to make instant direct deposit payments to debit cards.
  • Data scientists return to Check for clues on consumer behavior.
  • Guaranty Bank announces its deployment of FIS core banking platform.
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