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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on June 17, 2015
Categories: Banno, blooom, Business Centric Services Groups, CrowdFlower, D3 Banking, EZBOB, FutureAdvisor, Geezeo, Intuit, Meniga, Mint.com, MX, Nomis Solutions, Ping Identity, ProfitStars, Ripple, Strands, Temenos, TipRanks, ValidSoft, Yodlee

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TipRanks Takes Top Prize at IBM Watson Hackathon in Israel

Around the web

Crowdflower CEO Lukas Biewald explains how to hire data engineers in a column for Computerworld.

Greg Smith and Chris Costello of Blooom discuss simplifying 401(k) management with Fox Business News.

Nilesh Dusane, Ripple Labs VP for global sales and client relations, talks about distributed ledgers and the future of payments.

EZBOB announces Everline as the sole channel for intermediary businesses.

Nomis Solutions teams up with Oliver Wyman to help FIs boost profitability in their retail deposit portfolios.

Temenos opens new office in Helsinki, Finland.

The Financial Brand highlights the need for banks to compete with Mint, MX, D3, Yodlee, Meniga, Geezeo, and Strands.

Investopedia features FutureAdvisor’s use for college savings.

Ping Identity enhances partner program with new options, benefits and requirements for partners in three programs.

BCSG appoints Deutsche Telekom’s Simon Lunn as COO.

Strategic News Service FiRe tech conference names ValidSoft a 2015 FiReStarter Company.

ProfitStars Banno Mobile named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: North American Mobile Banking Software Solutions 2015 Vendor Assessment.

Huffington Post considers advice from Scott Cook, Intuit co-founder.

Remember, the application deadline for the Fall 2015 cohort for the SixThirty accelerator is Friday, 10 July 2015.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on May 26, 2015
Categories: Bitbond, Coinbase, DarcMatter, EZBOB, Identity Theft 911, Jemstep, Kabbage, Lending Club, Lendio, Mitek, Oink, On Deck Capital, P2BInvestor, Prosper, Quisk, SayPay, Silanis Technology, SocietyOne, Toshl, TradeHero, TransferWise, TrueAccord, Wealthfront

On Finovate.com

Finovate Debuts: SayPay Combines Voice Recognition and Biometric Authentication

Around the web

ColoradoBiz talks with Entrepreneur of the Year finalist: Krista Morgan, CEO and co-founder of P2Binvestor.

TechCrunch column on bitcoin and the remittance market references Coinbase and TransferWise.

PYMNTS.com highlights OnDeck, Lending Club, and Prosper in its look at the changing relationship between banks and alternative lenders.

Business Insider: SocietyOne thinks Australia is big enough for a bunch of small players.

TradeHero parent partners with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to launch the SGX StockWhiz 2015 contest.

Bitbond, Wealthfront, and TrueAccord listed among six rising fintech startups.

Lendio-powered Staples business loans surpasses $1 million in funding for 43 SMBs across the U.S.

Quisk short-listed for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award.

Fox Financial Planning Network picks Jemstep’s Advisor Pro as automated investment service platform for its AdvisorTouch Symphony program.

The Hanover Insurance Group teams up with Identity Theft 911 to provide businesses with better defense against data breaches.

FearlessMen.com reviews small business lender, EZBOB.

etcAndroid spotlights Toshl Finance Budget and Expense app 1.7.21.

FundSERV to integrate e-SignLive from Silanis into its eDOCS solution.

Mitek to acquire IDchecker, a global identity verification solutions provider.

Oink featured in USA Today’s list of five financial musts for college grads.

Accredited Investor Markets interviews DarcMatter CEO Sang Lee.

Kabbage partners with Sage payment solutions to launch Sage small business loan powered by Kabbage.

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Alt-Lender EZBOB Deepens Pockets by $46 Million

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 24, 2015
Categories: EZBOB, Funding, Wonga

U.K.-based alternative lending company EZBOB this week announced it pulled in $46 million in funding. The full amount of the Series C round was supplied by Oaktree Capital and brings the company’s total funding to $66.5 million.

According to The Telegraph, EZBOB will use the new funds to refinance existing debt and increase its loan offerings to small businesses.

This is the company’s second large announcement this year. In February, EZBOB purchased Everline, Wonga’s lesser-known small business finance arm. Both EZBOB and Everline are now rolled up underneath an umbrella group, Orange Money.

Combined, the two companies have furnished U.K.-based SMEs with more than 6,000 loans totaling $83+ million.

Orange Money, which offers an average interest rate of 16%, does not view its services as competitive toward traditional banks. Orange Money CEO Tomer Guriel says, “We’re complementary to the banks and are there to provide access to capital for business owners that have been rejected by their bank.”

EZBOB demonstrated its online application process at FinovateEurope 2014 in London. Wonga debuted its iPhone app at FinovateFall 2010 in New York.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on April 24, 2015
Categories: CSI globalVCard, EZBOB, FIS, GMC Software Technology, Infosys, Kapitall, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, ReadyForZero, Revolut, Sedicii, SigFig, SmartAsset, TransferWise

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SigFig Brings on New Advisory Board Members and $1 Million in Funding

Alt-Lender EZBOB Deepens Pockets by $46 Million

What We Are Talking About at FinovateSpring 2015

Around the web

InvestorCentral looks at market simulators and trading with Kapitall.

Alaska Air picks FIS as its partner for upcoming strategic payment initiatives including EMV.

Delicious Nutritious chooses globalVCard Spend Secure for its business payments.

Kiplinger highlights Motif Investing among “brokers that pay you to open an account.”

GMC Software Technology to provide GMC Inspire to Mail Handling Services.

Personal Capital launches app for the Apple Watch.

ReadyForZero interviews Michael Carvin, CEO of SmartAsset. Check out SmartAsset’s new technology at FinovateSpring.

Revolut and Sedicii win finalist spots in the Innotribe Startup Challenge.

American Banker features bitcoin exchange itBit. Watch itBit’s live demo at FinovateSpring.

TechCrunch: Infosys to acquire Kallidus for $120 million.

A look at “billion dollar” British startups at Forbes.com features TransferWise.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on April 21, 2015
Categories: Authentify, Backbase, Cachet Financial Solutions, Currency Cloud, Emida, EZBOB, Five Degrees, HedgeCoVest, Kony Solutions, Motif Investing, OneID, PayNearMe, Sekur.me, Trulioo, Xero

On Finovate.com

Check out FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 5

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.

Mobile Commerce News features Emida.

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EZBOB Raises £3 Million in Private Equity Investment

By David Penn Posted on April 3, 2015
Categories: EZBOB

U.K.-based SME lender EZBOB has raised £3 million in new capital courtesy of a private equity investment.

The investment takes the company’s total capital to more than £16 million (more than $23 million USD), including a £7 million debt-financing round in February 2014.

EZBOB made headlines this spring with its partnership with online Chinese marketplace Alibaba. A loan guarantee agreement with the European Investment Fund (EIF) in March enabled EZBOB to increase its loan volumes by up to £40 million over the next two years. EZBOB acquired Everline, Wonga’s small business financing unit, in February.

A two-time Finovate alum, EZBOB last appeared on the Finovate stage as part of FinovateEurope 2014 conference. The company was founded in November 2011 by Tomer Guriel, CEO, and Sharone Perlstein, business development, and is headquartered in London.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 3, 2015
Categories: Asseco, ayondo, BioCatch, blooom, CAN Capital, Dream Payments, EZBOB, PayPal, Rippleshot, Striata, Tradier, TransferWise

On Finovate

Dream Payments Raises $6 Million in Funding for mPOS Technology

Finovate Debuts: Asseco SEE Brings Real-Time Big Data to Processing to Multichannel Banking

EZBOB Raises 3 Million in Private Equity Investment

Finovate Debuts: Telenor Banka’s Synergy of Telco and Banking Brings Financial Innovation to Serbia

CAN Capital Locks in $650 Million Credit Facility

Finovate alums land almost 50% ($63 million) of the $133 million total headed to the fintech sector this week

Around the web

Striata acquires Mass Transmit for undisclosed amount.

PayPal closes acquisition of Paydiant.

Blooom participates in InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum.

ayondo wins “Best Social Trading Program” honors at ADVFN International Financial Awards 2015.

Francepertise reviews TransferWise.

BioCatch and RippleShot earn 2015 METAwards from the Merchant Risk Council.

Tradier sees 35 million+ API calls in March. That’s 47k transactions per hour.

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Alumni News– January 23, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 23, 2015
Categories: Akimbo Financial, BankBazaar, Betterment, Bill.com, BlueVine, Encap, EZBOB, FutureAdvisor, Google Cloud Platform, Jemstep, Kreditech, LearnVest, MaxMyInterest, Mifos Initiative, Motif Investing, On Deck Capital, Personal Capital, SigFig, Toshl, TradeKing, Wealthfront

Internet Retailer looks at the relationship between product reviews and revenue courtesy of a new report from Baazarvoice.

Xero highlighted as “our best purchase of 2014” by Business Betties.

MakeMoneyYourWay profiles EZBOB and its new business loan promotion, the New Year’s Revolution.

Zee News’ Money Guru interviews Abhishek Dwivedi, vice president operations at BankBazaar.com.

Liverpool Echo features Toshl Finance in its list of must-have apps for busy moms.

Investopedia’s guide to choosing roboadvisors spotlights nine Finovate alums: Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Jemstep, LearnVest, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, SigFig, TradeKing, and Wealthfront.

Benzinga Fintech Awards publishes its video interview with Gary Zimmerman, CEO of MaxMyInterest.

American Banker covers OnDeck’s small business loan marketplace for institutional investors.

Pymnts interviews René Lacerte, CEO and Founder of Bill.com about how to simplify B2B payments.

Mifos welcomes new partners: SkooliLabs and iSystems

Google Cloud Platform releases beta of Google Container Registry for secure hosting, sharing, and management of private container repositories.

BlueVine Grabs $18.5 Million to Increase Small-Business Lending.

Encap Security CEO Thomas Bostrom Jorgensen asks if biometrics provide a “false sense of security” in a column for Bob’s Guide.

Akimbo Financial acquired by Payment Data Systems.

Kreditech Secures $200 Million Line of Credit.

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Alumni News– January 21, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 21, 2015
Categories: Akimbo Financial, AlphaPoint, Arroweye Solutions, Avoka, Azimo, BrightScope, Coinbase, CustomerXPs, Encap, EZBOB, iBillionaire, InComm, investUP, Kreditech, Malauzai Software, Mitek, Nostrum Group, On Deck Capital, PayPal, Roostify, StreetShares, TIO Networks, Tradeshift, TrueLink Financial, Wall Street Survivor, Yodlee

Your Personal Financial Mentor profiles EZBOB.

BrightScope releases AdviceMatch, a free online service to help consumer choose financial advisors.

OnDeck Marketplace emerges from pilot program. Platform helps institutional investors buy small business loans.

Venture Burn takes a look at Azimo and the West African remittance market.

Kreditech named Germany’s leading digital innovator of the year by Focus Magazine.

Arroweye Solutions CEO Render Dahiya urges issuers on EMV adoption.

Check out FinovateEurope 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 3.

Coinbase Raises $75 Million from BBVA, USAA, NYSE, & Others.

Millennial-focused BankMobile app is powered by Malauzai Software and uses Mitek to power mobile customer on-boarding.

Roostify describes its experience with Yodlee’s FinDat Disruptor program.

PayPal to use InComm to support PayPal’s digital gifts services in Canada.

Yale Undergraduate selects Wall Street Survivor to help students understand investing and personal finance.

Technical.ly/ Baltimore looks at how TIO Networks powers Baltimore’s online bill pay system.

Tradeshift wins Circular Economy Digital Disruptor Award held at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

CustomerXPs and EY, a tax advisory firm, partner to help companies deal with fraud.

iBillionaire updates mobile app & releases new High Dividend Index.

Payment Data Systems to acquire Akimbo for $3 million.

Be sure to check out FinovateEurope Sneak Peek #2 featuring AlphaPoint, Avoka, Encap Security, investUP, Nostrum Group, and StreetShares.

True Link Raises $3 Million in Round Led by Cambia Health Solutions.

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Alumni News– January 16, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 16, 2015
Categories: Arxan Technologies, Birdback, EZBOB, Infosys, Jingit, Lending Club, Mifos Initiative, Monitise, SecondMarket, Silanis Technology, Taulia

Linedata Capitalstream to offer e-SignLive by Silanis.

13 Finovate alums win 2015 Paybefore Awards.

Payment Services Provider Anderson Zaks teams up with card-linked offers specialist, Birdback.

EZBOB launches scratch card promotion.

MarketWatch’s Your Digital Self column looks at Jingit.

Baseline magazine features a recent study by Arxan Technologies on the state of mobile app security.

The Mifos Initiative joins Microcredit Summit Campaign to integrate social performance management and poverty measurement tools into its free and open source cloud-based core banking system.

The Super early bird deadline for FinovateSpring 2015 ends tonight! Pick up your tickets now to save big time.

Monetise partners with MoneyPass to offer mobile money services to MoneyPass customers.

Lending Club Pilots Program to Provide Low Interest Financing to Google Partners.

In 2014, secondary transactions surged to a record $1.4 billion on SecondMarket.

Spend Matters debunks myths about Taulia. Check out Taulia at FinovateEurope next month.

Infosys announces $250 Million USD ‘Innovate in India Fund’ to support Indian start-ups.

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Alumni News– January 8, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 8, 2015
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Ayasdi, Behalf, CSI globalVCard, defi Solutions, Dynamics, EZBOB, Insuritas, Loop, Nymi, PrivatBank, Radius, Sonavation

Forbes series on thought leaders in business and technology features Ayasdi CEO and co-founder, Gurjeet Singh.

defi SOLUTIONS announces its Loan Origination System is now integrated with Dealertrack’s eDocs.

PrivatBank upgrades its Privat24 business account management mobile app.

Service Credit Union hires Insuritas to open and manage turnkey insurance solution.

Sonavation unveils IDKey M-Series fingerprint scanner for storing passwords, data.

WSJ blog post on banks and mobile payments features quote from Paul Thomalla, SVP and managing director EMA at ACI Worldwide.

Loop announces two new OEM partners, XPAL Power and Trident Case.

All Day features Dynamics interactive payment cards in its review of the “coolest gadgets from CES 2015.”

Radius reflects on its collaboration with big data analytics company, BIME.

Dealbook looks at the cooperative side of fintech innovation with Behalf, Nymi, and Dynamics.

CSI globalVCard announces availability of the Android version of its mobile payment.

EZBOB boosts its maximum loan size from £50,000 to £120,000, and extends its maximum term length from 12 to 15 months.

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Alumni News– November 26, 2014

By David Penn Posted on November 26, 2014
Categories: Azimo, BehavioSec, BioCatch, EyeVerify, EZBOB, Fastacash, Heckyl Technologies, IntelliResponse, Kabbage, Klarna, Linkable Networks, Nomis Solutions, P2BInvestor, Patch of Land, Realty Mogul

Spend Matters features P2Binvestor and its crowdfunding approach to providing credit to small businesses.

POTs and PANs looks at biometric authentication innovators, EyeVerify, BehavioSec, and BioCatch.

Best Advice explores EZBOB’s strategy to attract SMEs to online lending.

Bank of Internet USA to deploy IntelliResponse virtual agent technology.

First Annapolis’ The Navigator Newsletter interviews Sebastian Siemiakowski, CEO of Klarna.

Fastacash, Heckyl Technologies, Kabbage, Linkable Networks, and Nomis Solutions named to Red Herring Top 100 Global.

Investor Intel mentions Patch of Land and Realty Mogul in column on helping baby boomers participate in real estate crowd funding.

Azimo to join London mayor Boris Johnson’s trade mission to Malaysia and Singapore.

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