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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on April 30, 2015
Categories: Coinbase, Currency Cloud, Encap, Green Dot, InComm, IP Commerce, MX, Open Bank Project, PayPal, Ripple, Stratos, Temenos, Top Image Systems

On Finovate.com

Check out the final installment of our Sneak Peek preview, FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 8

MX Raises $30 Million in Series A Investment

Around the web

Encap Security to support Samsung fingerprint scanner as part of version 3.0 of its Smarter Authentication technology. See Encap at FinovateSpring 2015 next month in San Jose.

Dutch banking group ABN AMRO to deploy wealth-management solution, WealthSuite, from Temenos.

Top Image Systems wins recognition at 2015 IT Innovation Awards (IT Innovationspreis) for MobiPAY.

PayPal partners with Tillster, an online ordering platform.

Green Dot names MasterCard its exclusive transaction processor and network gateway.

American Banker: New Moves by Coinbase, Ripple Advance Digital Money Tech.

Currency Cloud appoints former Deutsche Bank CIO, Mitchel Lenson, as a non-executive director.

IP Commerce launches new version of Commerce Sync to automatically transfer sales info from a POS system or e-commerce solution into accounting software on a daily basis.

InComm partners with Russian internet giant Mail.Ru Group.

Stratos now shipping its all-in-one smart credit card. Come see Stratos at FinovateSpring in San Jose.

Open Source Project.com features Open Bank Project.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on April 29, 2015
Categories: Advanced Merchant Payments, Coinbase, Currency Cloud, Digital Insight, Expensify, Fiserv, MasterCard, Ripple, SocietyOne

On Finovate.com

FinovateSpring 2015: Meet the People in Your Fintech Neighborhood

Around the web

Digital Insight to provide Touch ID functionality in mobile banking apps.

Coinbase unveils its bitcoin exchange and wallet service in the U.K.

The Currency Cloud appoints former Deutsche Bank CIO, Mitchel Lenson, to non-executive director.

Green Dot Bank chooses MasterCard as its transaction processor and network gateway.

Columbia Bank picks Fiserv DNA for its account-processing platform.

The Finanser interviews CEO and co-founder of Ripple Labs, Chris Larsen.

AMP Credit Tech launches Amplifi Capital to directly finance unsecured loans to under-served small businesses in the U.K.

Expensify debuts new automatic statement-reporting feature.

ComputerWorld: SocietyOne makes case for peer-to-peer lending.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on April 16, 2015
Categories: Blackhawk Network, Blockchain, Check Point, Coinbase, Emida, Evo Snap*, Financial Media Solutions, Intellaegis, Kofax, mShift, PayPal, SecondMarket, Taulia, TransferWise, Uncategorized, Xero, ZenPayroll

On Finovate.com

Xero and ZenPayroll Win Honors at CPA Practice Advisor 2015 Reader’s Choice Awards

Finovate Debuts: Using Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS to Create Videographics

Around the Web

MasterQueue, powered by Intellaegis, partners with Whitepages Pro.

ITProPortal profiles TransferWise.

Bitpost lists Coinbase and Blockchain as 2 of the top 5 bitcoin wallets on Android.

EVO Payments partners with Boomtown to simplify tech support for POS developers and merchants.

Fintech Today reports: With Paydiant, PayPal Will Be a Huge Hit with Merchants.

Blackhawk to integrate Kofax Mobile Capture SDK into its digital services platform.

Developing Telcoms spotlights Emida.

Team One CU to pilot MShift’s AnyWhereMobile payment-network with a locally owned restaurant in Michigan.

SecondMarket’s Bitcoin Desk Relaunches as Genesis Trading.

Taulia named by AlwaysOn as a 2015 OnFinance Top 100 Company.

According to Gartner, Check Point Software Technologies lead the worldwide market share for firewall equipment in Q4 2014 and FY 2014.

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AlwaysOn’s OnFinance Top 100 Features 30 Finovate Alums

By David Penn Posted on April 13, 2015
Categories: Bill.com, Blockchain, CAN Capital, Cardlytics, CashStar, Coinbase, Credit Karma, Dealstruck, DemystData, Dwolla, Expensify, Flint Mobile, FutureAdvisor, Kabbage, LendUp, Motif Investing, PayNearMe, peerTransfer, Personal Capital, Prosper, Quantopian, Ripple, Swipely, Wealthfront, WePay, Xignite

More than a quarter of the companies recognized in AlwaysOn’s first OnFinance Top 100 roster are Finovate alums.

The OnFinance Top 100 is designed to recognize the Top 100 private companies in fintech. The list was chosen by the AlwaysOn editorial team, along with several venture capital firms and industry experts. The criteria included degree of innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and “media buzz.”

The list is divided into six categories, and Finovate alums are well represented in each. Category winners will be announced at Always On’s event at the NASDAQ OMX in New York City at the end of April 2015.

Banking and corporate finance

Big data and analytics

Capital markets and investing

Digital currencies

Payment platforms

Personal finance management

Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, AlwaysOn was founded in 2003 by Tony Perkins, founder and editor of Red Herring magazine. The company serves as a networking and social media platform for technology professionals in variety of fields, and has a membership of more than 5,000.

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Alumni News– March 12, 2015

By David Penn Posted on March 12, 2015
Categories: AlphaPoint, Coinbase, Kabbage, MasterCard, Q2, Temenos, Zooz

Finovate Debuts: AlphaPoint Powers Digital Currency Exchanges Around the World

Temenos partners with Microsoft to launch T24 country model bank for Mexico.

Coinbase adds support for FIX protocol for trade-order management.

Q2 Holdings Completes $116 Million Follow-On Stock Offering

CardNotPresent.com reports: Zooz to Expand Globally, Opens London Office

MasterCard and Kabbage partner to make Kabbage’s data and platform available through its network of acquirers.

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Alumni News—February 18, 2015

By David Penn Posted on February 18, 2015
Categories: ayondo, BehavioSec, Bluefin Payment Systems, BlueVine, Braintree, Check Point, Coinbase, D3 Banking, Expensify, Hidden Levers, Insuritas, Kantox, Lending Club, Malauzai Software, Mitek, NICE Systems, Payfone, Ripple, Taulia, Temenos, TIO Networks, Tradier, TransferWise, Tuition.io

FinovateEurope 2015: Tweets by the Thames.

Mitek launches Commercial Mobile Deposit Capture, bringing MDC technology to the enterprise.

Malauzai reports doubling revenues, growth of customer base to more than 300 community banks and credit unions.

D3Banking adds to leadership team with four new appointments.

Check out FinovateEurope 2015 in the press.

Bluefin Payment Systems to provide Decryptx point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution to Heartland Payment Systems’ clients.

Temenos purchases Akcelerant to accelerate growth in North America.

Lending Club partners with BancAlliance, a national consortium of 200 community banks.

Fast Company lists BehavioSec, Ripple, Braintree, Expensify, NICE and BlueVine as top innovative companies in the money category

PYMNTS discusses retail’s adoption of mPOS with Bluefin Payment systems.

PYMNTS highlights Taulia’s massive growth.

ayondo clients now receive free access to real time analysis tools from StockPulse.

Kantox uses Apply Financial’s API to enhance customer service and enable more integrated international payments.

TechFlash interviews Payfone CEO and co-founder Rodger Desai.

Stockhouse: TIO Networks poises to capture major portion of mobile payment market.

USA Today highlights Tuition.io for student debt management.

TransferWise launches in United States.

Code CU to use Insuritas for insurance agency solution.

Coinbase Android and iOS apps now available in 11 new languages.

Global Financial Private Capital selects HiddenLevers to help advisors grow their practice.

Check Point acquires Hyperwise.

Tradier’s API takes 15 million production calls in Jan., a 33% increase in a single month.

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Alumni News—February 6, 2015

By David Penn Posted on February 6, 2015
Categories: Betterment, blooom, CardFlight, Coinbase, FutureAdvisor, LifePay, Mint.com, Misys, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Ripple, Venmo, Wealthfront

CardFlight releases its mobile POS app, SwipeSimple 2.0.

Sky News reports Temasek is investigating a possible purchase of Misys.

The Observer features Ripple Labs in its look at the “race to replace bitcoin.”

Column on digital money accounting highlights, Mint, Venmo, and Coinbase.

Investopedia compares Motif Investing to investing with traditional exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Forbes highlights Betterment, Wealthfront, FutureAdvisor, blooom, Motif Investing, and Personal Capital in a column on roboadvisors.

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Alumni News—February 5, 2015

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 5, 2015
Categories: Coinbase, CoinJar, Feedzai, Insuritas, Lendio, Quisk

Quisk electronic payment system to launch in Jamaica. Come see Quisk at FinovateEurope next week.

AM560 interviews Lendio CEO Brock Blake on alternative lending.

On Finovate.com: “Funding for E.U.-based Finovate Alums Totals $377 Million in 2014″

European Commission’s Promoting Enterprise blog spotlights Nuno Da Cruz Sebastiao of Feedzai.

Argent Credit Union hires Insuritas to open and manage turnkey insurance agency.

Coinbase to support Google Now notifications.

CoinJar launches iOS bitcoin payments app, CoinJar Touch, ahead of its FinovateEurope 2015 debut next week.

SixThirty Accelerator deadline extended to February 6.

FinovateEurope 2015: Come for the Demos, Stay for the Networking.

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Alumni News– February 4, 2015

By David Penn Posted on February 4, 2015
Categories: ayondo, Coinbase, Currency Cloud, CurrencyFair, Expensify, Kashoo, Kony Solutions, ProfitStars, Temenos, TransferWise

IntelligentHQ features TransferWise and CurrencyFair in its look at the “currency transfer revolution.”

ayondo hires Peg Reed as Senior Vice President of Business Development.

School of Bookkeeping reviews Kashoo Simple Cloud Accounting.

Fintech Monthly focuses on recent fintech fundraising including recent investment in TransferWise.

ProfitStars adds billpay, invoice management, and mobile banking functionality to its ICBA Preferred Service Provider program.

Temenos teams up with Polytech Ventures to launch the first Swiss fintech incubator.

Expensify adds 4,000 new customers in 2014, including the BBB, ZenDesk, and Yahoo!

Coinbase introduces Google Now cards.

Forbes features Currency Cloud’s cross border payment API.

Kony’s partners now offering apps on its business mobile app marketplace.

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Alumni News– January 29, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 29, 2015
Categories: AdviceGames, Ayasdi, BillGuard, Cachet Financial Solutions, Coinbase, Fiserv, Flint Mobile, Google Cloud Platform, Red Zebra, Ripple, Simple, Tinkoff Credit Systems, Tradeshift, Venmo

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.

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Alumni News– January 26, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 26, 2015
Categories: Actiance, Bill Guard, Coinbase, Credit Sesame, Experian, Feedzai, Fiserv, Google, Kabbage, Lending Club, Misys, TransferWise, Zumigo

MIT Technology Review features Feedzai and Zumigo in a discussion on mobile authentication technologies.

Loan origination platform LoanLaunch (formerly Common Origination Platform) now available from Fiserv.

Experian partners with BillGuard to boost effectiveness of its anti-fraud solution, ProtectMyID.

Misys unveils FusionBanking Lending.

American Banker takes a look at the relationship between Google and Lending Club.

Kabbage named one of America’s top 100 Most Promising Companies

Coinbase to open the first regulated Bitcoin exchange in the U.S.

Actiance announces support for IBM Verse and IBM Connections Social Cloud.

Credit Sesame launches iOS app with Siri integration in its credit monitoring feature.

Themes and Presenters at FinovateEurope 2015.

Google Wallet partners with WePay to put its Instant Buy API in 200,000 e-commerce shops.

TransferWise Raises $58 Million in Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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Alumni News– January 22, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 22, 2015
Categories: Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Braintree, Coinbase, CPB Software AG, Digital Retail Apps, GMC Software Technology, Ixaris, JSC Delta Bank, Kreditech, planwise, QCR, Realty Mogul, Silanis Technology, Temenos, Topicus, TradeKing, Trustev

Kreditech secures $200 million credit line from Victory Park Capital.

GMC Software and Silanis Technology partner to integrate eSignLive with Inspire.

Internet Retailer features Trustev CEO Pat Phelan in discussion on consumer fraud.

TradeKing unveils Risk Assist to protect clients against steep market declines.

Braintree completes initial integration with Coinbase; opens up private beta access.

Financial Post business section features Digital Retail Apps in its look at digital payments in 2015.

Realty Mogul adds new Senior VP of Mortgage Operations, Kendra King.

Temenos forges strategic alliance with EFT processor, Elan Financial Services.

Check out our latest FinovateEurope 2015 Sneak Peek, Part 4 featuring Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, CPB Software AG, Ixaris, JSC Delta Bank, QCR, and Topicus Financial.

Planwise launches Connect, leveraging affordability tools to help real estate agents engage potential buyers.

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