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By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, ayondo, BehavioSec, blooom, Figo, Holvi, Klarna, Meniga, Motif Investing, P2BInvestor, Payoneer, Tradeshift, Trustly, Xero, YapStone

On Finovate.com

  • “Finovate, FinDEVr Alum News at Money20/20″
  • “Figo Announces New “Seven-Figure” Financing Round”

Around the web

  • Payoneer Selected by Amazon to Expand Cross-Border Payment Options in Select Countries.
  • Business Insider names Holvi, BehavioSec, Trustly, Meniga, and Klarna among the 12 hottest Nordic fintech startups.
  • Xero reaches 600,000 subscribers in 180 countries.
  • Tradeshift launches Tradeshift Risk, a solution to monitor and mitigate supplier risk.
  • ayondo launches first product in Singapore.
  • Crowdfund Insider interviews Krista Morgan, CEO and co-founder of P2Binvestor.
  • ACI Worldwide acquires payment gateway, PAY.ON.
  • Let’s Talk Payments interviews Tom Villante, CEO and co-founder of YapStone.
  • MainStreet features “simplified 401(k) robo-adviser” Blooom.
  • SavingAdvice.com reviews Motif Investing.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Azimo, Jumio, mBank, PaySwag, Tradier

Around the web

  • Let’s Talk Payments interviews Max Haynes, CEO of PaySwag, on banking for the underbanked.
  • Tradier teams up with Equities Lab to bring real-world trading experience to college students.
  • ACI Worldwide adds Janet Estep, NACHA president and CEO, to its board of directors.
  • Jumio partners with Tutorfair to help parents find and identify the right tutor for their school-age children.
  • Bank Innovation looks at mBank and its embrace of biometrics.
  • Think Big Data mentions Praesidio as a startup using machine learning in its cyber-security solution.
  • Google appoints Entersekt CTO Christiaan Brand as product manager for security and identity teams.
  • Pymnts looks at how SimplyTapp is addressing host card emulation.
  • Money-transfer service innovator Azimo goes live in Romania.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Azimo, blooom, CashStar, Currency Cloud, CurrencyFair, Dragon Wealth, FinanceIt, Lending Club, LendUp, peerTransfer, Ripple, TransferWise, Twilio, Xero, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

  • “Xero Launches its New Android Touch App”
  • “Lending Club Reports Growth in Revenues, Originations for Q2 2015″
  • “CashStar Raises Captal: New Investment Boosts Total to $50 Million”

Around the web

  • Star Tribune column on robo-advisors features blooom.
  • ACI Worldwide and Computop partner to provide payments and anti-fraud solution.
  • Yodlee adds four companies to its International Acceleration Program. Join Yodlee at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco in October.
  • BankNXT’s look at fintech in Singapore features Dragon Wealth.
  • Let’s Talk Payments highlights Azimo, Currency Cloud, peerTransfer, TransferWise, and Ripple in its list of “remittance startups to watch for.”
  • CurrencyFair signs on with global payment network, Earthport.
  • LendUp deploys TaskRouter from Twilio to improve its call-center customer service. See Twilio at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco.
  • The Globe and Mail highlights Financeit in a look at financing options for small businesses.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, EverSafe, GMC Software Technology, Intelligent Environments, Klarna, Lending Club, LendingRobot, Misys, Slice, StockViews, Trulioo, wipro, Zopa

On Finovate.com

  • Intelligent Environments to Enable Online Banking with Emojis Instead of Passwords

Around the web

  • KeyPoint Credit Union ($1 billion in assets) to deploy Architect Banking Solution from ACI Worldwide.
  • Misys welcomes Simon Paris, president and chief sales officer.
  • Wipro introduces its e-KYC solution based on its AI platform, Wipro HOLMES.
  • The 42 looks at Lending Club and Zopa in its feature on why people “should embrace P2P lending.”
  • EverSafe celebrates “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day” with its top tips to prevent elder financial exploitation.
  • Business Insider previews the looming competition between Stripe and Klarna as the former enters the Nordic market.
  • Pacific Life chooses GMC Inspire from GMC Software Technology to improve customer communication workflow.
  • IR Magazine highlights StockViews in a column on how innovations in fintech impact investor relations.
  • NerdWallet turns to Trulioo CEO Stepehn Afford on the topic of protecting small businesses from cyberthreats.
  • Renaud Laplanche of Lending Club wins spot among Glassdoor’s Highest Rated Small Business CEOs for 2015.
  • The Seattle Times profiles LendingRobot.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Avoka, Bill.com, BillGuard, Cloud Lending, Coinbase, Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, D3 Banking, INETCO Systems, Intuit, Jumio, Kabbage, Kony Solutions, Kreditech, MasterCard, On Deck Capital, PayItSimple, PayPal, planwise, Prosper, Ripple, TransferWise, Trulioo, ValidSoft, Venmo, WePay, Zopa

On Finovate.com

  • PayItSimple Pulls in $10 Million Line of Credit
  • Ripple Labs Reels in $28 Million, Eyes Asia Expansion
  • P2P Lending Meets High Street Banking as Metro Bank Partners to Lend via Zopa
  • Credit Sesame Raises $16 Million in New Funding
  • Planwise Raises $750,000, Nearly Doubling Total Capital

Around the web

  • Fox Small Business News names 11 Finovate alums in list of Hot Fintech Startups to watch.
  • Edenred México S.A. incorporates INETCO’s Insight software platform.
  • D3 Banking taps Jeffrey Walker as chief information security officer.
  • MasterCard launches P2P payments service, MasterCard Send, to help businesses reimburse rebate consumers without checks.
  • nTrust to deploy ID verification technology from Trulioo.
  • North American Savings Bank (NASB) partners with ACI Worldwide for online, mobile banking and billpay.
  • Avoka, Bill.com, BillGuard, CoinBase, Credit Karma, Jumio, Kabbage, Kreditech, OnDeck, Prosper, TransferWise, Trulioo, Venmo and WePay earn spots on Inc.com’s “20 Financial Technology Startups You Need to Know.”
  • ImageWare selects ValidSoft’s voice biometrics solution.
  • Kony teams with Citrix, to offer customers a mobile app solution from mobile design and development to enterprise mobility operations.
  • Altifi.com features Cloud Lending Solutions’ Cloud Lending Exchange.
  • ZD net: Intuit tightens PayPal integration with data synchronization app.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, AlphaClone, Bright Funds, Fastacash, itBit, Kreditech, Lending Club, Motif Investing, Prosper, Silanis Technology, Toshl, Zopa

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Around the web

  • Forbes column on a “$30 trillion customer service experience” features insights from Motif Investing CEO Hardeep Walia.
  • Wells Fargo funding authorizes ApproveIt Web Server from Silanis Technology as part of their approved e-signature solutions program.
  • Sun Sentinel article highlights Toshl Finance in a discussion on the eight things you should know before going to college.
  • Column on RIAs and the active ETF market quotes AlphaClone CEO Mazin Jadallah.
  • Bright Funds establishes six disaster-response funds to support Nepal disaster relief.
  • The Economist features Lending Club, Prosper, Zopa, and Kreditech in its look at P2P lending and “financial democracy.”
  • Axis Bank launches Ping Pay, a multisocial payment app, in partnership with Fastcash.
  • PYMNTS.com considers what itBit’s New York banking license and $25M funding means for the broader bitcoin community. See itBit at FinovateSpring 2015 in San Jose this week.
  • ACI Worldwide signs Letter of Commitment to support U.K. Faster Payments Scheme’s New Access Model.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Advanced Merchant Payments, Aire, Azimo, Bluefin Payment Systems, Cloud Lending, Currency Cloud, CurrencyFair, Expensify, Fastacash, FutureAdvisor, ID.me, InComm, On Deck Capital, ThreatMetrix, TransferWise, Uncategorized

On Finovate.com:

  • ID.me Raises $3 Million in New Venture Debt Funding
  • Alt-Credit Score Startup, Aire, Raises $1.1 Million.

Around the Web:

  • Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union chooses online banking platform from ACI Worldwide.
  • Finextra’s Future Money Focus interviews Thomas DeLuca, CEO of Advanced Merchant Payments.
  • BBC column on Technology of Business features Azimo, Currency Cloud, CurrencyFair, and TransferWise in a discussion on the currency transfer business.
  • Forbes.com profiles Singapore-based Fastacash.
  • PYMNTS features ThreatMetrix’s latest whitepaper.
  • Shentel integrates InComm’s CashTie API to facilitate bill pay at retail locations.
  • Financial Planning features FutureAdvisor’s freemium model.
  • Expensify launches new policy editor design.
  • Forbes features OnDeck Capital as one of three lesser-known strategies to secure business financing.
  • Bluefin Payment Systems to power payment processing for Clubworx software platform.
  • Cloud Lending Solutions announces agreement with BDO Solutions to bring its non-bank online lending platform to East Africa.

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Alumni News– March 17, 2015

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Bluefin Payment Systems, Expensify, Kabbage, LendUp, PaySimple, SocietyOne, Yoyo
  • NerdWallet looks at Kabbage and LendUp as innovators in combining social media and lending.
  • Westlake Financial Services to deploy billpay solution from ACI Worldwide.
  • Bluefin Payment Systems partners with PCI University to provide PCI compliance education suite to Bluefin’s merchant base.
  • P2P Banking highlights Society One’s role in Australian P2P lending.
  • PaySimple now powers the payments, scheduling and reporting services for RainMaker, a membership management solution for martial arts schools.
  • Finovate Debuts: Yoyo is More than Just a Mobile Wallet.

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Finovate Alumni News: March 2, 2015

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Authentify, CurrencyFair, FinanceIt, Fiserv, Google Cloud Platform, Motif Investing, Payoneer, PayPal, SigFig, TransferWise
  • 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.jpgKnox News features SigFig and Motif Investing in its look at investment-tracking apps.
  • Bank Innovation takes a look at how Xignite “democratizes” financial trading.
  • ACI Worldwide teams up with STS PayOne to build fraud prevention technology for e-commerce merchants in the Middle East and Africa.
  • Payoneer appoints Neil Platt to Chief Revenue Officer.
  • Medium.com column on the money-transfer industry features CurrencyFair and TransferWise.
  • Financeit receives $75 million renewal from Pacific & Western Bank of Canada to help expand consumer financing program.
  • PYMNTS interviews Fiserv on how banks can capitalize on emerging trends.
  • Google launches a status dashboard for several of its cloud infrastructure services in the Google Cloud Platform.
  • PayPal acquires Paydiant for an estimated $280 million.
  • PayPal debuts chip & PIN and NFC payments-acceptance device.
  • Authentify Ranked 46 out of 500 Hottest Security Firms; its xFA Solution is a finalist for Authentication Solution of the Year.
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Alumni News– February 23, 2015

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, blooom, Fiserv, Green Dot, Loop, Misys, Nutmeg, SeedInvest
  • 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 Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgNutmeg launches its first personal pension plan.
  • Misys wins award for “Best OMS Provider” at MENA Fund Manager Services Awards with its FusionInvest technology.
  • USA Today Technology interviews Loop CEO Will Graylin about his company’s acquisition by Samsung.
  • ACI Worldwide to deploy Self Service Business Banking, Mobile, and Billpay solutions at Apple Bank.
  • Mad Money’s Jim Cramer interviews SeedInvest CEO Ryan Feit.
  • LA Times features Green Dot and its efforts to engage the “unhappily banked” with its prepaid cards.
  • Bank of Ozarks implements Premier banking solution from Fiserv.
  • Taulia expands management team with 4 new members.
  • Recent partnership enables Synergy Resources clients to integrate Expensify with their Infor VISUAL back-end.
  • City of North Las Vegas partners with PayNearMe to enable residents to pay bills in cash at 17,000 retail stores.
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Alumni News– February 3, 2015

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Azimo, Banno, Betterment, Blockchain, blooom, eMoney Advisor, EyeVerify, Financial Guard, FIS, Jumio, Kabbage, Lending Club, Malauzai Software, Micronotes, Nymi, Personal Capital, ProfitStars, Ripple, TransferWise, VISA, Wealthfront
  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgProfitStars adds Banno Mobile solutions to the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) Preferred Service Provider program.
  • Lending Club to serve as exclusive POS financing for Alibaba.com’s U.S. business buyers.
  • Visa CEO selects NBCUniversal’s Vasant M. Prabhu as CFO.
  • On Finovate.com: “Fidelity Investments Acquires eMoney Advisor for Reported $250 Million”
  • The Philippine National Bank deploys core banking solution and EFT switching solution from FIS.
  • ABC2 News in Baltimore talks with Robb Gaynor of Malauzai Software about mobile banking apps.
  • Thinking Bigger profiles Blooom and its new way to 401(k).
  • The Costa Rica Star features Azimo, a money-transfer service.
  • Financial Advisor’s look at assets managed by roboadvisors highlights Wealthfront, Financial Guard, Personal Capital, and Betterment.
  • Jumio enhances capturing technology for its ID card-scanning service, Netverify.
  • Discussion of the “positive powers” of fintech in The Guardian features ACI Worldwide, Azimo, TransferWise, Ripple, and Blockchain.
  • Check out our final Sneak Peek before we launch into a record-breaking FinovateEurope.
  • CSO Online features Nymi, Myris, and EyeVerify.
  • Kabbage funding More Than $3 Million per Day.
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Alumni News– January 20, 2015

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Azimo, BillGuard, blooom, CardFlight, Continuity Control, Credit Karma, Geezeo, Global Debt Registry, HelloWallet, Malauzai Software, MaxMyInterest, Mint.com, Nutmeg, Top Image Systems, True Link, Trulioo, Yodlee
  • 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.jpgACI Worldwide partners with ATM provider LD Systems.
  • Nutmeg hires former Google financial search ad specialist, Scott Eblen, as Chief Product Officer.
  • Azimo customers can now send money to another eight West African countries.
  • The American Bankers Association endorses PFM and BFM platforms from Geezeo.
  • New app from no-fee, no-branch BankMobile is powered by Malauzai Software.
  • Wall Street Journal’s top tools for retirement planning features BillGuard, blooom, HelloWallet, MaxMyInterest, Mint, True Link Financial, and Yodlee.
  • Check out our latest CEO interview: Global Debt Registry CEO Mark Parsells Brings Transparency to Debt Ownership. 
  • Top Image Systems and SQN Banking Systems deploy signature verification project at Singapore bank.
  • TechVibes highlights Trulioo founder, Stephen Ufford.
  • Integrity now offers CardFlight mPOS to its merchant customers.
  • Credit Karma now has more than 35 million members, accounting for 16% of US population with an open credit profile at a major bureau.
  • Continuity named one of Connecticut’s 2015 Best Places to Work.
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