Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “From API to UX/UI: A Preview of FinDEVr 2015

Around the web

  • Stratos wins Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award, the company’s third product award.
  • Business Insider ranks Algomi, Currency Cloud, eToro, Nutmeg, Zopa, and TransferWise among top fintech companies in Britain.
  • Concur integrates with GigSky to enable travelers to access the internet while traveling.
  • Dwolla expands its credit services to include instant money transfers among friends and family.
  • Let’s Talk Payments lists 25 top alternative lending startups including OnDeck, Street Shares, Zopa, and Lending Club.
  • Xero previews two new features—billable expenses and invoice reminders—for small-business users of its platform.
  • peerTransfer announces U.S., Europe expansion; rebrands as Flywire.
  • TSYS to expand its Enterprise Tokenization technology to support Android Pay.
  • Red Giant launches its Red Giant Family Plan to offer families a way to manage daily spending.
  • iSignThis‘ KYC services now satisfy U.S. anti-money laundering requirements.
  • PayPal explains its recently launched API Transactions Dashboard.
  • BehavioSec joins PwC’s Accelerator Programme.
  • Lending Club’s Carrie Dolan named one of American Banker’s 2015 Most Powerful Women in Finance.
  • Personal Capital appoints Mark Goines as CMO.
  • Matt Compton becomes COO of Simple, which has tripled its staff to 300 employees from February 2014.
  • TechCrunch features Lending Club’s coming-of-age story.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “Finicity Acquires Aurora Financial Systems”

Around the web

  • Temenos and Accenture team up to help Nordea replace its core banking system.
  • Vantiv named as merchant services solution provider for Rabobank.
  • Let’s Talk Payments interviews Currency Cloud CEO Mike Laven. Join Currency Cloud in October for FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco.
  • Cachet Financial Solutions unveils its Select Mobile Money turnkey payroll program for corporate clients.
  • Checkout.com adds SafetyPay to its list of payment options for merchants in the Latin American market.
  • BankNXT encourages banks to follow the lead of Fidor Bank when it comes to “community and openness.” Join Fidor Bank in San Francisco for FinDEVr 2015.
  • Human Resource Executive Online highlights DoubleNet Pay in a look at financial wellness programs in the workplace.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

FinDEVr Preview: Currency Cloud

FinDEVr Preview: Currency Cloud

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateFinDEVr Previews highlight companies presenting new developer tools, platforms and integrations at FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, 6/7 Oct. Early bird savings end Friday, so pick up your tickets today.

Currency Cloud will give builders at FinDEVr an inside look at its technology. The company will showcase its tools to make it easy to integrate with its API and access its platform that fully automates international payments.

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Why it’s a must-see

Currency Cloud knows that developers want to see how things work. So the company will not only show you the tools it has built, but also the code behind them—and how they fit together. Currency Cloud will show how it built its interactive developer center from RAML specs, shortcuts for integrating with the API, and a tour of its open-source SDKs.


Check out more of our FinDEVr previews:

Finovate Alumni News

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.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “Prosper’s Growth History: $4 Billion in Loan Originations Since Launch”

Around the web

  • American Banker covers Realty Mogul and Patch of Land (paywall).
  • PYMNTS looks at how Currency Cloud plans to use its recent round of funding. Come see their presentation at FinDEVr 2015.
  • Tradeshift partners with supply-chain management solutions company Quyntess, which has built three apps on Tradeshift’s open platform.
  • TechCrunch rumors Kreditech is three months out from closing a $110 million round with contribution from Peter Thiel.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “PayPal’s Early Valuation Tops $44 Billion”
  • “Monitise to Emphasize API, On-Site Solutions in Strategy Shift”

Around the web

  • Xero to offer foreign invoice payments via new partnership with Midpoint Holdings.
  • Loop featured in profile of Samsung Pay.
  • PYMNTS.com takes a look at PayPal CEO Dan Schulman’s conversation with the Financial Times.
  • Gulf News Banking highlights Zopa in its review of the rise of P2P business lending.
  • Ferratum Group selects Mambu to Power SME Lending.
  • Top Image Systems to deploy an automated multichannel and mobile data-capture project for online financing company that provides funds to India-based SMBs.
  • Lighter Capital closes 100 deals.
  • CDApress recommends FamZoo to help kids understand personal finance skills.
  • Credit.com blog lists Global Debt Registry as a tool to help get rid of an old debt.
  • Better ATM Services CEO Todd Nuttall quoted in Australian Times column on how technology delivers a growing share of bank services.
  • The Bitcoin News interviews the new online marketing manager for Bitbond, Chris Grundy.
  • Wall Street Journal features PsychSignal in a review of stock market sentiment and social media.
  • Inc. feature on Silicon Prairie highlights Blooom, Hip Pocket, and Dwolla.
  • Rise in tech investment in the United Kingdom credited to companies like Azimo and Currency Cloud in London’s fintech sector.
  • Forbes column on investing for millennials features Hedgeable.
  • Realty Mogul adds two new vice presidents of commercial real estate.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News

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.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Currency Cloud Launches Payment Engine to Simplify International Payments

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This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2015.

Currency Cloud debuted its Payment Engine Two with enhanced API:

Currency Cloud Payment Engine is built by developers, with developers in mind. By building a sophisticated payment engine, we have taken the complexity out of international payments both for our clients, who are developing game-changing services on top of the Payment Engine, and for our clients’ customers.

Payment Engine Two presenters: Todd Latham, VP marketing; Rachel Nienaber, VP engineering

Product Launch: May 2015

Metrics: Money raised: $18M series A & B; processed over $10B in payments; 80 employees; 150,000 end users; 120 direct platform clients; website traffic: more than 10,000 visitors a month
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
Founded: January 2012
Product Demoed: Payment Engine Two with our newly enhanced API
Website: currencycloud.com
Twitter: @currency_cloud

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • 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.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

 

 

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

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.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

 

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • HedgeCoVest Wins Top Honors at 2015 Benzinga Fintech Awards

Around the web

  • oneID launches its simple, free solution to secure personal information online across all devices.
  • Born2Invest talks about “thematic investing” in its review of Motif Investing.
  • Currency Cloud opens offices in New York, kicking off its U.S. expansion.
  • Select Mobile Money from Cachet Financial Solutions now supports Apple Watch.
  • Sberbank launches new digital platform based on technology from Backbase.
  • Five Degrees named winner of Dutch FinTech Awards in Banking & IT category.
  • PYMNTS looks at Ezbob’s role in SMB lending in the United Kingdom.
  • PayNearMe enables customers of LA Covered to pay their monthly premiums in cash.
  • Critical Mass radio show interviews Sekur.me CEO Jack Bicer.
  • Trulioo wins Europe’s 2015 Digital Identity Innovation Award. Watch Trulioo demo live at FinovateSpring.
  • NAB links core API technology to Xero’s accounting cloud ecosystems, connecting client’s online bank to their Xero account.
  • Authentify enables E-Transfer Technologies to protect currency trading accounts with mobile multifactor authentication.
  • Forbes: Kony and Soasta partner to close the mobile development and monitoring loop.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 4

FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 4

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FinovateSpring is less than one month away. Our annual spring conference returns to the City National Civic building near the campus of San Jose State University for a first look at the financial technologies of 2015. If you’ve been thinking about joining us the 12/13 of March for two days of live demos and professional networking, now is a great time to pick up your ticket and save your spot.

Today’s Sneak Peek preview brings you another handful of companies that will be presenting their technologies live on stage at FinovateSpring 2015 next month. In this edition, we introduce you to:

Check out the previous three installments of our Sneak Peek series below. And stayed tuned for Sneak Peek #5 next week.


CurrencyCloud_logo_FS15Transform the way your business makes international payments with Currency Cloud’s Payment Engine featuring an enhanced API for maximum efficiency.

Features:

  • Reach new customers
  • Benefit from real-time wholesale rates
  • Leverage a fast, secure payment network

Why it’s great
Powering global payments—Currency Cloud has built a technology-based payment engine that simplifies international payments and offers an easy integration for businesses of all sizes.

Presenters

CurrencyCloud_TLatham_crop2Todd Latham, Vice President of Marketing

Latham has extensive experience in the technology and financial service sectors, and he is fascinated at how technology is transforming people’s lives for the better.
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CurrencyCloud_RNienaber_cropRachel Nienaber, Vice President of Engineering

Nienaber is fluent in Ruby and Java, carrying 10+ years of experience in bespoke development projects. She is also responsible for ongoing technology development.
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DreamPayments_logo_FS15Accepting payments just got easier. Introducing Dream Payments, a next-generation mobile payment platform accepting all forms of payment.

Features:

  • Sell anywhere; accept all payments
  • Save time; grow your business
  • Create customer experiences
  • Safe and secure transactions

Why it’s great
Sell anywhere, anytime, in any format. Dream Payments enables merchants to accept payments anywhere, anytime, using mobile commerce solutions. Dream Payments are the future of mobile commerce.

Presenters

DreamPayments_CAli_cropChristian Ali, Vice President, Business Development

Ali has been a trusted advisor to the North American payments industry for nearly 20 years and currently serves as vice president of business development at Dream Payments.
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DreamPayments_ATailor_cropAnant Tailor, COO

Tailor is the chief operating officer at Dream Payments where he is responsible for the daily operations of the company including product management; go to market strategy; and all customer engagements.
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HipPocket_logo_FS15Hip Pocket engages your mobile and website visitors by using social influence and personalized consultation to generate new, qualified mortgage leads.

Features:

  • Unique peer-group comparisons
  • Real-time integration and personalization savings estimates
  • Results and call-to-action are customized to each user’s situation

Why it’s great
Hip Pocket allows your institution to provide an engaging, intuitive user experience that marries the emotional and logical decision-making processes.

Presenters

HipPocket_MZmarzly_cropMark Zmarzly, Founder, CEO

Zmarzly is a passionate innovator and thought-leader in the financial industry. He has delivered multiple TEDx talks and has presented for the ABA; BAI; and for JD Power & Associates.
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HipPocket_TCramer_cropTodd Cramer, Head of Digital Experience and Design

Cramer holds an MBA and has more than five years of experience in branding, user experience and eCommerce for a $5B bank enterprise.
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Inetco_logoThe INETCO analytics software application provides financial institutions with the game-changing knowledge of where, when, and how customers interact with their channels.

Features:

  • View transaction data on-demand, across all banking channels
  • Reduce failed customer interactions and resolve issues faster
  • Adopt data-driven strategies that improve customer engagement

Why it’s great
INETCO Analytics will accelerate your omnichannel strategy with powerful, on-demand insights into customer behavior.

Presenters

INETCO_MBorbas_cropMarc Borbas, VP Product Marketing

With 12+ years of experience working with financial technology startups, Borbas drives the product strategy for INETCO’s real-time transaction-monitoring and customer-analytics solutions.
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LoanNow_logoAs a responsible lender, LoanNow’s motivational lending platform helps deep subprime borrowers secure affordable credit, then actively reduce APR within the loan term.

Features:

  • Repayment-motivation algorithm incentivizes good financial behavior
  • Active reduction in APR during loan for positive behaviors
  • LoanNow to debut new features to lower the cost of credit

Why it’s great
LoanNow allows people to be more than a credit score and to actively reduce their cost of credit through positive financial behavior and loan management.

Presenters

LoanNow_HLangenberg_cropHarry Langenberg, CEO, Co-founder

Since graduating from the Wharton Business School, Langenberg has been a pioneer in bringing innovation to consumer finance. He’s founded Optima Tax Relief, SuperMoney, and Debtmerica.
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LoanNow_MLulic_cropMiron Lulic, President, COO, Co-Founder

Lulic has spent his entire career at high-growth technology-driven companies. At LoanNow, Lulic leads product management, design, and marketing while also overseeing all other operations.
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LoanNow_ZPeracha_cropZahur Peracha, CTO

After more than a decade of building and launching new products for Silicon Valley startups and Amazon.com, Zahur now leads all technology at LoanNow.
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WealthForge_logo_FS15_200pxWealthForge has launched the Invest Button, transforming the way private capital is raised by making the entire process faster, cheaper, and more compliant than ever before.

Features:

  • Simple, turnkey technology
  • Straight-through processing
  • Reduced transaction risk

Why it’s great
The WealthForge solution makes private placement transactions more efficient. The entire process has been reduced from months to weeks, costing nickels on the dollar, from risky to fully compliant.

Presenters

Wealthforge_AWeissman_cropArthur Weissman, Head of Sales and Marketing

Weissman is an industry expert in helping to lead the move of private investing from offline to online. Weissman heads sales and marketing helping to make raising private capital faster and more efficient.
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WealthForge_MDellorso_cropMat Dellorso, Co-Founder, President

Dellorso is a leading innovator in venture finance and has worked directly with FINRA and the SEC to establish regulations for online private investing.
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Yodlee_logo_FS15A global financial technology leader, Yodlee’s cloud-based platform powers dynamic innovation and solutions for digital financial services.

Features:

  • Provides actionable financial advice
  • Makes personalized recommendations
  • Leverages Yodlee’s advanced data network

Why it’s great
Yodlee capitalizes on its unique data network and key data-driven insights to fundamentally change the digital banking experience.

Presenters

Yodlee_JBird_cropJohn Bird, VP, Product Marketing and Alliances

Bird, as VP of product marketing and alliances at Yodlee, is responsible for the marketing of the Yodlee platform to financial institutions and startup financial technology companies.
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Yodlee_KGibson_cropKaty Gibson, VP Product Applications

Gibson, as VP of product applications at Yodlee, is responsible for the creation and execution of product strategy for Yodlee’s suite of financial management applications.
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