FinovateSpring 2012 Officially Breaks Attendance Record

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With less than two weeks to go, FinovateSpring has officially blown past last year’s record attendance of 850 and is rapidly closing in the 1,000-person mark. That said, there are still some tickets available if you want to attend and watch the future of fintech unfold onstage via our signature demo-only format. 

If you’re curious about the companies that will be debuting their latest innovations on stage, check out the full demo lineup as well as the three sneak peaks (#1, #2, #3) that we published on the Finovate blog recently.

And, in case you’re curious who’s in this record-setting audience, here is a small sample of the attending organizations:

  • ADP
  • Aite Group
  • Alliant Credit Union
  • Bain Capital Ventures
  • BancVue
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of the West
  • Bank Technology News
  • Battery Ventures
  • BBVA
  • BCU
  • BECU
  • Benchmark Capital
  • BNY Mellon
  • BT
  • Capital One
  • CashEdge/Fiserv
  • Celent
  • CFPB
  • Charles Schwab & Co.
  • CIBC
  • Citi Ventures
  • Citibank
  • City National Bank
  • CNNMoney
  • comScore
  • DailyWorth
  • Discover Network
  • E*Trade
  • Ericsson
  • EverBank
  • Experian
  • Fidelity
  • Fifth Third Bank
  • First Republic Bank
  • FIS
  • Fiserv
  • Flybridge Capital
  • Gartner
  • GE Capital
  • Google
  • H&R Block
  • Harland
  • Highland Capital
  • Hitachi America
  • HP
  • HSBC Canda
  • ING Direct
  • Intuit
  • Javelin Research
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • LightSpeed Partners
  • MasterCard
  • McKinsey & Company
  • Mint.com
  • Mohr Davidow 
  • NAB
  • NedBank
  • Norwest Venture Partners
  • PayPal
  • PC World
  • RushCard
  • SAP
  • Scottrade
  • Seeking Alpha
  • Shasta Ventures
  • Silicon Valley Bank
  • SunTrust
  • Target Corporation
  • TCV
  • TD Ameritrade
  • The Bancorp Bank
  • The Hartford
  • The Motley Fool
  • TransUnion
  • TSYS
  • TTV Capital
  • U.S. Bank
  • Umpqua Bank
  • USAA
  • Visa
  • Walt Disney
  • Wells Fargo
  • Wired Magazine
  • Xoom.com
  • Yodlee

If you would like to join executives from these organizations (and many others!) grab your ticket today before it is too late. And, if you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@finovate.com. We hope to see you in May!

FinovateSpring 2012 is sponsored by: Backbase, The Bancorp Inc., the law firm of Hudson Cook, & Intuit

FinovateSpring 2012 is partners with: BankInnovation, BankerStuff, BayPay Forum, Benzinga, California Bankers Association, Celent, Filene, Finance on Windows & PYMNTS.com

FinovateSpring 2012 Officially Breaks Attendance Record

FS2012_low.png

With less than two weeks to go, FinovateSpring has officially blown past last year’s record attendance of 850 and is rapidly closing in the 1,000-person mark. That said, there are still some tickets available if you want to attend and watch the future of fintech unfold onstage via our signature demo-only format. 

In case you’re curious who’s in this record-setting audience, here is a small sample of the attending organizations:

  • ADP
  • Aite Group
  • Alliant Credit Union
  • Bain Capital Ventures
  • BancVue
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of the West
  • Bank Technology News
  • Battery Ventures
  • BBVA
  • BCU
  • BECU
  • Benchmark Capital
  • BNY Mellon
  • BT
  • Capital One
  • CashEdge/Fiserv
  • Celent
  • CFPB
  • Charles Schwab & Co.
  • CIBC
  • Citi Ventures
  • Citibank
  • City National Bank
  • CNNMoney
  • comScore
  • DailyWorth
  • Discover Network
  • E*Trade
  • Ericsson
  • EverBank
  • Experian
  • Fidelity
  • Fifth Third Bank
  • First Republic Bank
  • FIS
  • Fiserv
  • Flybridge Capital
  • Gartner
  • GE Capital
  • Google
  • H&R Block
  • Harland
  • Highland Capital
  • Hitachi America
  • HP
  • HSBC Canda
  • ING Direct
  • Intuit
  • Javelin Research
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • LightSpeed Partners
  • MasterCard
  • McKinsey & Company
  • Mint.com
  • Mohr Davidow 
  • NAB
  • NedBank
  • Norwest Venture Partners
  • PayPal
  • PC World
  • RushCard
  • SAP
  • Scottrade
  • Seeking Alpha
  • Shasta Ventures
  • Silicon Valley Bank
  • SunTrust
  • Target Corporation
  • TCV
  • TD Ameritrade
  • The Bancorp Bank
  • The Hartford
  • The Motley Fool
  • TransUnion
  • TSYS
  • TTV Capital
  • U.S. Bank
  • Umpqua Bank
  • USAA
  • Visa
  • Walt Disney
  • Wells Fargo
  • Wired Magazine
  • Xoom.com
  • Yodlee

If you would like to join executives from these organizations (and many others!) grab your ticket today before it is too late. And, if you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@finovate.com. We hope to see you in May!

FinovateSpring 2012 is sponsored by: Backbase, The Bancorp Inc., the law firm of Hudson Cook, & Intuit

FinovateSpring 2012 is partners with: BankInnovation, BankerStuff, BayPay Forum, Benzinga, California Bankers Association, Celent, Filene, Finance on Windows & PYMNTS.com

FinovateSpring 2012 Sneak Peek: Part 3

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As promised, this is part 3 of the sneak peek of the companies that will demo at FinovateSpring May 8 and 9 in San Francisco. Each company provided a short summary of the innovation they will debut on stage. In case you missed them, check out Sneak Peek Part 1 and Sneak Peek Part 2.

Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the hottest innovations in financial technology. Get your FinovateSpring ticket here.

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It’s understood that the more customers interact with a rewards program, the more engaged and loyal they become. Redeeming points and receiving value makes them happy. Yet the hard costs and management of those rewards has become prohibitive for financial institutions. 
Access Development will debut PowerDeals, a micro-redemption engine that offers customers valuable rewards for a minimal number of points, resulting in more transactions. PowerDeals will help increase customer loyalty while significantly decreasing program costs and accrual liability for the financial institution.
Innovation type: Communications, marketing, rewards

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Applause Learning is changing the way children learn about money. Their unique new product, The Coindexter Club, presents financial literacy in an innovative, game-based format that keeps children entertained as they learn the core principles of financial management. The Coindexter Club immerses children in the exciting virtual world of Econopolis (found at Coindexter.com) where they are taught to earn, save, spend, and invest money.
Innovation type: Marketing

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BancBox is an infrastructure platform that helps companies build payment services into their web and mobile applications. Based on a simple API-driven approach that allows customers to maintain control of their user experience, BancBox delivers a secure, compliant and integrated way for clients to collect, store and send money from within their applications. 
BancBox also offers a unique service that assists clients in addressing the regulatory complexities of moving money in compliance with state money transmitter laws. As a trusted expert with years of payment operations experience, BancBox has opened over one hundred thousand consumer accounts and processed billions of dollars in payments.
Innovation type: Banking, cards, payments, security

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If you’ve invested in a better airplane; why haven’t you invested in the pilot? Introducing CreditLab— the flight simulator for the retail lending world. 
Focused on credit risk management skills, this dynamic training system requires players to manage their lending portfolios through stormy conditions, such as heavy price competition and an economic recession. Pitted against competitive teams, players must make tough choices, learning to anticipate portfolio management adjustments so that they can stay the course.
Innovation type: Back office, cards, lending

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Blaze Mobile develops innovative mobile commerce, healthcare, banking and advertising solutions that enable secure, convenient, cost-effective transactions and promotions from the mobile device. Utilizing its patented NFC and mobile technology, the Blaze Mobile product suite includes:
    • Mobile Wallet
    • NFC-enabling Payment Stickers
    • Blaze Mobile Advertising Platform that delivers personalized ads and coupons based on customer shopping history, location, interests, gender, and other data
Innovation type: Mobile and tablet, payments, rewards

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More than 15 million people in 100 countries trust Concur to manage their travel and expenses, and save them time. In 2011, Concur acquired TripIt, the leading mobile trip organizer that makes it easy for millions of people to organize and share their travel plans. Together, Concur and TripIt make it possible for companies to use trip data to simplify expense reports and save time. Come find out what that means for you.

Innovation type: Back office, mobile and tablet, online, small business

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moneto is a prepaid mobile wallet powered by MasterCard PayPass technology and created by DeviceFidelity. Using DeviceFidelity’s globally renowned In2Pay microSD solution, moneto’s unique portability and consumer centric approach means greater adoption and rapid penetration.
moneto makes money management easy from start to finish. It’s the simple, secure and elegant way to give users the most from their cash using just their mobile phone. Compatible with both iPhone and Android and accepted at hundreds of thousands of retailers nationwide, moneto is the ultimate virtual wallet.
Innovation type: Banking, cards, mobile, payments, PFM, rewards

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According to a recent report from the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), cash flow was identified as the highest-priority finance issue affecting small-business owners. Experian’s Business Information Services will demonstrate a new solution that helps small businesses solve this issue by enabling owners and principals to quickly and easily make better decisions across the entire Customer Life Cycle. It is these important decisions that help businesses meet their obligations and often can mean the difference between success or failure.
Innovation type: Small business

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inStream Solutions grew out of a desire to help financial advisors provide better service to their clients. This is the first proactive financial planning software for financial advisors that integrates financial advice and coordinates financial services with a lead generation model. 
inStream Solutions also leverages the knowledge generated by advisors into a best practices resource, provides real-time insight into how advisors use financial products to solve the issues of their affluent clients, and helps advisors understand what is going on within their practice.
Innovation type: Investing, PFM

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Powering Innovation for Commerce — The IP Commerce Platform and Commerce Playlists enable developers to create innovative applications and workflows that incorporate all channels of commerce.
IP Commerce offers the fastest, easiest way to enable commerce services for complex multi-channel applications. With IP Commerce, you can create rich interactions between all parties of a commerce ecosystem (Retailers, ISVs, Acquirers, Processors, Social Networks, Value-Added-Service Providers, etc.).
The world of commerce technology is growing as never before and IP Commerce is at the vanguard.
Innovation type: Payments

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TIO Networks is a cloud based multi-channel bill payment processor serving the largest telecom, wireless, cable and utility bill issuers in North America. TIO enables these companies to provide bill payment services to the population of over 60 million underbanked consumers.  With more than 55,000 physical location endpoints to its bill payment processing network, TIO symbolizes fast, convenient and secure access to expedited payment services.
Innovation type: Back office, mobile, payments

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Increase consumer engagement and drive loyalty with our WattzOn Personal Energy Management Platform. WattzOn provides your consumers with easy-to-use tools that help people use less energy, save money and be green. Personalized recommendations can be enhanced with complementary financial products such as credit cards, savings accounts, home and car loans.
Features include:
    • Apples-to-apples comparisons of home energy use to similar homes
    • Personalized energy saving recommendations
    • Fuel-efficient car savings calculator
    • Automated monitoring with secure connections to 100+ energy utilities
    • Instant home solar savings calculator
Innovation type: Marketing, online, PFM

FinovateSpring 2012 Sneak Peek: Part 2

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Here’s part 2 of the sneak peek of the companies that will demoing at FinovateSpring May 8 and 9 in San Francisco. Each company provided a short summary of the innovation they will debut on stage. We published 23 last week and we will complete the preview next week.
Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the hottest innovations in financial technology. Get your FinovateSpring ticket here.
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InvestorBee puts data at consumers’ fingertips so they can make smart, confident investments.
  • It’s fact, not opinion. Users can tap into the database to learn from the experiences of nearly 1.5 million investors.
  • It’s an investment health check. Users can compare their portfolios and multi-asset products with fact-based, relevant benchmarks to understand whether they receive fair value.
  • It’s simple investing without guesswork. Users can choose an objective risk-based strategy to track that’s right for them in a few easy steps.
Users extract wisdom from the crowd to make better, simpler investment decisions – all for free at InvestorBee.
Innovation type: Investing, marketing, PFM

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iQuantifi takes you way beyond budgeting! It helps you reach all your financial goals and tells you exactly how you can do it. No estimates. No calculators. Just solid advice and the power to do it all online.
Innovation type: Banking products, investing, PFM
Historically, investing in securities has been 
a difficult proposition for retail investors, 

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mainly due to the lack of access to competitive products and the absence of user-friendly financial education tools.
This problem is exacerbated in emerging markets, where financial markets tend to be less developed.
Kuspit offers retail investors an online platform to learn about investing, apply what they’ve learned, and invest in the same platform. All of this is available in an easy and progressive manner, while sharing ideas with the community.
Innovation type: Investing, online, PFM

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The current infrastructure to deliver capital to Main Street businesses is broken. It’s simply too expensive for banks to manually analyze and underwrite a small loan – whether it is $10,000 or $100,000. As a result, banks make fewer loans, and creditworthy small businesses are denied the capital they need to grow. 
On Deck has created an efficient, effective and proven solution to this fundamental problem. By leveraging new digital sources of data, any institution can increase its small business lending through the On Deck platform, delivering funding decisions in minutes rather than weeks.
Innovation type: Lending, payments, small business

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PaySimple is launching an innovative platform for banks to set up their own private-labeled version of cloud-based receivables automation. With this platform, banks of all sizes can easily bring to market a sticky value-added offering to attract and retain small business members, while adding a new revenue stream. 
PaySimple will demonstrate how banks can set up custom-branded software in a few simple steps and how small businesses can immediately benefit from a system that combines payment acceptance across channels integrated with customer management.
Innovation type: Online, payments, small business

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Portfolio Football is a first-of-a-kind application that addresses the need for financial planning and literacy through gamification. Portfolio Football plays on the popularity of American Football and the adoption of fantasy sports into the lives millions. It makes financial management competitive, fun and easy to understand, while providing users with a powerful tool for personal finance and portfolio management. It’s a true “game changer.”
Innovation type: Investing, Online, PFM

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With 80% of Americans between the ages 20-40 now using social media and playing social games, how can financial institutions reach their customers in new ways?
Introducing SaveUp – an innovative program that uses game mechanics to reward good financial behavior. When users save money and reduce debt, they earn credits to play for prizes like cars, travel, and cash up to $2 million.
Financial institutions can use a customized SaveUp experience to help their customers make better financial decisions, increase engagement, and cross-sell products. Current FI partner campaigns have conversion rates of up to 44%.
Build a deeper relationship with your customers while helping them succeed.
Innovation type: Marketing, rewards

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SoMoLend makes investing in your online community simple, affordable, and social. SoMo is an online platform that uses patent-pending lending technology executed within a hyper-localized geographic scope to connect small business borrowers with individual and organizational investors.  
SoMo’s user-friendly technology allows business borrowers to raise capital from friends and family, customers and community supporters as well as from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn connections. Investors lend money directly to borrowers through the SoMo platform, which then packages the loans and sells them as notes, bypassing banks and credit-card issuers.
Innovation type: Investing, lending, small business

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Thomson Reuters is pleased to introduce their new App Store solution that enables access to the latest innovative capabilities and tools for use across the digital enterprise. Thomson Reuters’ solution makes it easy for financial institutions and third-party developers to create and integrate pioneering market monitoring and investing apps. 
By seamlessly enabling the combination of Thomson Reuters content, firm’s customer account data and firm’s internal and other data sources, Thompson Reuters is helping institutions leverage the providers of financial content. This delivers a differentiated experience for their customers while lowering both development costs and time to market.
Innovation type: Investing, marketing, mobile, online, PFM

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Approximately half of the world’s population are cash-preferred consumers (unbanked, underbanked, teens or privacy-concerned) and have no bank account or limited access to traditional financial services. eCommerce merchants have not had a way, until now, to monetize this segment of consumers simply missing out on the substantial revenues they represent.
ZipZap will unveil the latest innovations in global cash transaction solutions for eCommerce merchants. CashCade ensures no more lost revenue from card-based transactions being declined, while CashPayment enables consumers worldwide to make payments for online purchases at offline locations using cash.
Innovation type: Back office, payments

FinovateSpring 2012 Sneak Peek: Part 1

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More than 60 leading fintech innovators, both startups and established companies, are gearing up to present at the annual FinovateSpring conference in San Francisco May 8 and 9.

Each company provided a sneak peek of what they’ll demo on stage next month. Below is the first installment of these teasers. We’ll have more next week.

Don’t miss your chance to see the live demo from each company and meet the execs responsible. Get your FinovateSpring ticket here.

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Balance Street

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The premier direct marketplace between consumers and creditors for the purpose of debt settlement, Balance Street, provides consumers the opportunity to relieve their debt burden without fees. Consumers use its web-based automated system to negotiate with creditors directly, avoiding debt settlement companies who charge exorbitant fees (up to 20% of total debt owed).

Eliminating this 20% market inefficiency makes for a better financial outcome for consumers and creditors. With over $780 billion in credit card debt in the U.S., the Balance Street technology will revolutionize the way debt is settled.

Innovation type: Cards, marketing, PFM

Bazaarvoice

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See how leading brands are harnessing the power of online word-of-mouth to boost customer referrals, sales, retention, advocacy, and company innovation while building the world’s most powerful social data asset.

Innovation type: Communications, marketing, sales and customer service

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BehavioSec

No one wants a complicated process for logging in to online or mobile banking. European banks have been forced to go down this route with hardware tokens and smart cards.

So now when U.S. banks will be rolling out new multi-layered security on the front-end following FFIEC, will we see the same thing here?

With BehavioSec’s solution there is a better choice. They add multilayered security through the use of behavioral biometrics. So when the user connects via mobile or online, the technology helps verify that they are who they say they are. Learn more at FinovateSpring 2012.

Innovation type: Identity, mobile, security

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BillGuard

BillGuard identifies deceptive, erroneous and unauthorized charges on consumer payment cards using advanced crowdsourcing and big-data mining techniques that harness the collective knowledge of millions of consumers reporting billing complaints online and to their banks. 

BillGuard’s Advanced Card Protection Service for Banks is a seamlessly integrated, cloud-based solution that enables issuers to generate new value-add service revenue, and lower inquiry/dispute processing costs, by providing their customers daily bill monitoring and notification, enriched transition details and direct-to-merchant resolution.
Innovation type: Cards, communications, online UI

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CoverHound is changing the way people shop for insurance online. Launching at FinovateSpring, CoverHound’s new rate comparison shopping service allows consumers for the first time to compare multiple, instant, accurate rates from top carriers. CoverHound will also be demonstrating an exciting array of products specifically designed to help banks and credit unions generate significant non-interest income while providing a valuable service to their members.
Innovation type: Insurance

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Never before has it been so easy for companies to provide business and retail customers with a way to validate creditworthiness through the use of online deposits. eDeposit provides patented funds visibility and real time settlement to markets across the U.S. in an innovative, new form of payment.
At FinovateSpring, eDeposit announces a new innovation that makes conducting B2B and B2C e-business faster, cheaper and safer.
Innovation type: Payments, security, small business

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From “check-in to check-out”, intersecting the worlds of Payments and Advertising, edo takes the next step forward in its vision to transform shopping and saving.  
This next wave connects mobile and multi-channel retail . . . imagine a world where purchase and location meet and the new standard for mobile advertising moves from “check-in” to “check-out.”
Innovation type: Marketing, mobile, rewards

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Expensify <3’s Finovate — they view it as the premier stage on which to make their biggest announcement of
the year. Three years ago, it launched an open beta on the Finovate stage. Two years ago, it unveiled a major realtime analytics feature. One year ago it launched a revolutionary SmartScan service. But this year will trump all that.  A whole new approach to business travel. Prepare yourself!

Innovation type: Back office, mobile, small business

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Most investors have assets spread across financial institutions and accounts, including limited-option accounts such as their employer’s 401(k) plan.
Managing this is a chore – including figuring out which funds, in which amounts, and rebalancing.
Well, it was a chore, before FutureAdvisor.
Innovation type: Investing and asset management, online, PFM

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Giftly is inventing the future of the gift card. Using its new iPhone app, users can send anyone a Giftly for any place they choose. The recipient redeems it on their smartphone when they go. It’s fast, fun, and secure.
Giftly’s app and web products have been designed to be social, simple, and powerful. Thanks to Facebook, Foursquare, and smart iOS integration, you’ll always know which friends are celebrating birthdays, are checking in to cool new places, or are otherwise in need of a quick gift.

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Is it possible to separate the fun of buying from the nuisance of paying? Klarna thinks so. The idea behind Klarna’s e-commerce services is the concept of after-delivery payment, letting buyers receive ordered goods before any payment is due. Instead of giving financial information, buyers shop with Klarna just by giving their name and select information (Klarna calculates the risk).
Innovation type: Payments

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Linkable Networks will be debuting a first-to-market capability that significantly broadens the value proposition of card-linked offers to issuing banks, merchants, manufacturers, and cardholding consumers. In addition, Linkable Networks will demonstrate new features recently added to its product platform and user interface.
Innovation type: Cards, mobile, rewards


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MShift believes that financial institutions need to enhance existing mobile banking solutions into mobile wallet and payment solutions.
At Finovate, MShift will demonstrate how mobile banking can influence how a consumer spends money in various retail scenarios.
Innovation type: Banking, payments, small business

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Your customers go mobile with smartphones and tablets. When they cannot fulfill their needs in mobile self-service, do you jump in at the right time to help them complete their business? Do you want to maximize the opportunity for smart customer experience and increased business via smart mobile devices (while reducing costs)? NICE Mobile Reach can do that for you. Don’t miss its demo at FinovateSpring.
Innovation type: Mobile, sales

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Personal Capital is wealth management for the Internet Age. The company’s online platform combines digital technology with highly personalized service to provide a holistic view of your unique financial picture. The free online dashboard presents all of your financial data in one place, including an assessment of your allocation, investment risk and fees.
These days, the financial lives of Americans are becoming more and more complex. At FinovateSpring, Personal Capital will unveil core new features that enable you to access your financial data in real time, on-the-go. You’ll be able to view and do, anywhere, anytime.
Innovation type: Investing, mobile, PFM

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Pindrop Security provides enterprise solutions that help prevent phone-based fraud. Pindrop’s acoustical fingerprinting technology detects fraudulent calls and authenticates legitimate callers, helping customers eliminate financial losses and reduce operational costs. Pindrop’s breakthrough technology is the first of its kind to fingerprint individual phone calls, providing verification of caller provenance. 
Recently named one of the 10 Most Innovative Companies at the 2012 RSA conference, Pindrop’s solutions help companies feel more confident in the security of phone-based financial transactions.
Innovation type: Identity,
security

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Easily administer and coordinate your annual budget with Budget Manager from ProfitStars. ProfitStars takes the headaches, and the spreadsheets, out of the budgeting process and optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of budgeting and planning.  
The company will show you how this newly redesigned browser-based version enables users to construct and manage a more efficient budgeting process, including how to tackle more difficult items like salaries and fixed assets.
Innovation type: Banking

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Discover a new Facebook app for banks that will not only make you relevant and engage Facebook users, but will also get your customers recommending and endorsing your card products.  It drives great loyalty from existing customers and also helps to devise new customer acquisition –all through Facebook. 

Serverside does this by letting people design their own credit or debit card using a picture from their Facebook gallery, then post it to their Facebook wall. Their friends then click on the card image to design their own card and help your bank to go viral!

Innovation type: cards


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Social Money can provide any bank in the world its own branded version of our revolutionary and award-winning SmartyPig technology. A new bank can be up and running on our system within 90 days in any language and currency, for a fraction of the cost of internal development efforts.
Innovation type: Banking products, PFM

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The dawn of compliance solutions that work.
Meet Molly. 115 different people use Molly’s SSN.
Financial institutions have no idea who these people really are.
This is possible because FIs and so-called identity protection companies can only verify identity. Verification is not enough. Full identification is needed to fight fraud and provide FIs the means to meet compliance requirements. Only Financial ICONN from TASCET can identify financial customers.
Once Molly activates her ICONN, TASCET proactively secures her identity and FIs know exactly who she is.
Innovation type: Identity, security

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Taulia takes the waste out of the supply chains of Fortune 500 Enterprises while simultaneously solving the cash-flow needs of their suppliers. The large enterprise buyers get discounts by paying their invoices early. In return, their suppliers get paid when they want. In Taulia’s young life, it has already enabled small suppliers from 40+ countries around the world to receive hundreds of millions of dollars of early payments.
Innovation type: Lending, payments, small business

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The Under-18 audience has an estimated $50 billion in spending power. Learn how to successfully monetize the kids/teen market in this powerful demo by Virtual Piggy, an exciting new company that provides innovative technological solutions to help bridge the gap between children, parents and online retailers.
Innovation type: Payments

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Wall Street Survivor is the only place for the beginner to learn about investing. Guided missions, beginner-focused learning content, combined with the web’s best stock simulator help users effectively manage their financial future.
Innovation type: Investing & asset management, marketing, PFM

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Mobi
le commerce is estimated to be a $31 billion industry by 2015, but how will the underbanked participate? Wipit has unlocked mobile payments for this massive and largely untapped consumer demographic representing 25% of all U.S. households and over 70 million U.S. prepaid wireless subscribers. Underbanked consumers can now make in-app and online payments with a single click. No need for bank accounts or credit cards; Wipit lets underbanked consumers use their payment method of choice– cash.
Innovation type: Cards, payments
Stay tuned next week for another sneak peek of FinovateSpring 2012 presenting companies.

FinovateSpring 2012 Headed For Record Attendance — Get Your Early-Bird Ticket by March 31st to Save!

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FinovateSpring is less than 6 weeks away and ticket sales are on pace to make the conference our largest West Coast event ever — significantly bigger than last spring’s record audience of 850!

And as you can see from the small sample of the organizations already registered listed below, not only does the size of Finovate audiences continue to grow but so does the quality:

  • ADP
  • Aite Group
  • Alliant Credit Union
  • BancVue
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of the West
  • Bank Technology News
  • Battery Ventures
  • BBVA
  • BCU
  • BECU
  • Benchmark Capital
  • BNY Mellon
  • BT
  • Capital One
  • CashEdge/Fiserv
  • Celent
  • Charles Schwab & Co.
  • CIBC
  • Citi Ventures
  • Citibank
  • City National Bank
  • CNNMoney
  • comScore
  • DailyWorth
  • Discover Network
  • E*Trade
  • Ericsson
  • EverBank
  • Experian
  • Fidelity
  • Fifth Third Bank
  • First Republic Bank
  • FIS
  • Flybridge Capital Partners
  • Google
  • H&R Block
  • Harland
  • Hitachi America
  • Intuit
  • Javelin Research
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • LightSpeed Partners
  • MasterCard
  • Mint.com
  • Norwest Venture Partners
  • PayPal
  • PC World
  • RushCard
  • Scottrade
  • Seeking Alpha
  • Shasta Ventures
  • SunTrust
  • Target Corporation
  • TD Ameritrade
  • The Hartford
  • The Motley Fool
  • TransUnion
  • TTV Capital
  • U.S. Bank
  • Umpqua Bank
  • USAA
  • Visa
  • Wells Fargo
  • Wired Magazine
  • Xoom.com
  • Yodlee

If you would like to join executives from these organizations (and many others!) and watch dozens of cutting-edge fintech companies demo their latest innovations on May 8th & 9th in San Francisco, early-bird tickets are still available through March 31st. If you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@finovate.com. We hope to see you in May!

FinovateSpring 2012 is sponsored by: Backbase, The Bancorp Inc., the law firm of Chambliss Bahner & Stophel, Intuit, & TxVia

FinovateSpring 2012 is partners with: BankInnovation, BankerStuff, BayPay Forum, California Bankers Association, Celent, Filene, Finance on Windows & PYMNTS.com

FinovateSpring 2012 Headed For Record Attendance — Get Your Early-Bird Ticket by March 31st to Save!

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FinovateSpring is less than six weeks away and ticket sales are on pace to make the conference our largest West Coast event ever — significantly bigger than last spring’s record audience of 850!

And as you can see from the small sample of the organizations already registered listed below, not only does the size of Finovate audiences continue to grow but so does the quality:

  • ADP
  • Aite Group
  • Alliant Credit Union
  • BancVue
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of the West
  • Bank Technology News
  • Battery Ventures
  • BBVA
  • BCU
  • BECU
  • Benchmark Capital
  • BNY Mellon
  • BT
  • Capital One
  • CashEdge/Fiserv
  • Celent
  • Charles Schwab & Co.
  • CIBC
  • Citi Ventures
  • Citibank
  • City National Bank
  • CNNMoney
  • comScore
  • DailyWorth
  • Discover Network
  • E*Trade
  • Ericsson
  • EverBank
  • Experian
  • Fidelity
  • Fifth Third Bank
  • First Republic Bank
  • FIS
  • Flybridge Capital Partners
  • Google
  • H&R Block
  • Harland
  • Hitachi America
  • Intuit
  • Javelin Research
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • LightSpeed Partners
  • MasterCard
  • Mint.com
  • Norwest Venture Partners
  • PayPal
  • PC World
  • RushCard
  • Scottrade
  • Seeking Alpha
  • Shasta Ventures
  • SunTrust
  • Target Corporation
  • TD Ameritrade
  • The Hartford
  • The Motley Fool
  • TransUnion
  • TTV Capital
  • U.S. Bank
  • Umpqua Bank
  • USAA
  • Visa
  • Wells Fargo
  • Wired Magazine
  • Xoom.com
  • Yodlee

If you would like to join executives from these organizations (and many others!) and watch dozens of cutting-edge fintech companies demo their latest innovations on May 8th & 9th in San Francisco, early-bird tickets are still available through March 31st. If you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@finovate.com. We hope to see you in May!

FinovateSpring 2012 is sponsored by: Backbase, The Bancorp Inc., the law firm of Chambliss Bahner & Stophel, Intuit, & TxVia

FinovateSpring 2012 is partners with: BankInnovation, BankerStuff, BayPay Forum, California Bankers Association, Celent, Filene, Finance on Windows & PYMNTS.com

FinovateSpring 2012 Demo Companies Announced!

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FinovateSpring is just around the corner. And with a mere seven weeks until dozens of new fintech innovations take the stage in San Francisco, it is time to announce the handpicked companies that we’ve selected to demo their latest and greatest. It was a tremendously competitive application process and we’re very excited to showcase these new ideas.

Without further ado, here are the companies that will demo their newest innovations at FinovateSpring this year:

  • Access Development
  • Affinity Solutions
  • Alltuition
  • Applause Learning
  • BancBox
  • Bazaarvoice
  • BehavioSec
  • Bill.com
  • BillGuard
  • Blaze Mobile
  • Cachet FS
  • Cardlytics
  • Clover Network
  • CoverHound
  • CSI globalVCard
  • Dwolla
  • eDeposit
  • Expensify
  • FutureAdvisor
  • Giftly
  • inStream Solutions
  • IP Commerce
  • iQuanitifi
  • Kabbage
  • Keynote DeviceAnywhere
  • Klarna
  • Kuspit
  • Linkable Networks
  • Mitek Systems
  • MoneyDesktop
  • mSHIFT
  • NomisSolutions
  • On Deck Capital
  • PaySimple
  • Personal Capital
  • Pindrop Security
  • Profitstars
  • SaveUp
  • Serverside Group
  • Silver Tail Systems
  • Social Money
  • SoMoLend
  • Swipely
  • TASCET
  • Taulia
  • Thomson Reuters
  • TIO Networks
  • Transparency Labs
  • TrustEgg
  • Virtual Piggy
  • Wall Street Survivor
  • WattzOn
  • Wipit
  • ZipZap

We will also be announcing a few stealth companies closer to the conference.

If you’d like to watch these companies demo the cutting edge of fintech at the early-bird rate of $100 off, please get your ticket before March 31st. If you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@finovate.com. We hope to see you in May!

FinovateSpring 2012 is sponsored by: The Bancorp Inc., the law firm of Chambliss Bahner & Stophel, Intuit, & TxVia

FinovateSpring 2012 is partners with: BankInnovation, BankerStuff, BayPay Forum, California Bankers Association, Celent, Filene, Finance on Windows & PYMNTS.com

FinovateSpring 2012 Demo Companies Announced!

FS2012_low.png

FinovateSpring is just around the corner. And with a mere seven weeks until dozens of new fintech innovations take the stage in San Francisco, it is time to announce the handpicked companies that we’ve selected to demo their latest and greatest. It was a tremendously competitive application process and we’re very excited to showcase these new ideas.

Without further ado, here are the companies that will demo their newest innovations at FinovateSpring this year:

  • Access Development
  • Affinity Solutions
  • Alltuition
  • Applause Learning
  • BancBox
  • Bazaarvoice
  • BehavioSec
  • Bill.com
  • BillGuard
  • Blaze Mobile
  • Cachet FS
  • Cardlytics
  • Clover Network
  • CoverHound
  • CSI globalVCard
  • Dwolla
  • eDeposit
  • Expensify
  • FutureAdvisor
  • Giftly
  • inStream Solutions
  • IP Commerce
  • iQuanitifi
  • Kabbage
  • Keynote DeviceAnywhere
  • Klarna
  • Kuspit
  • Linkable Networks
  • Mitek Systems
  • MoneyDesktop
  • mSHIFT
  • NomisSolutions
  • On Deck Capital
  • PaySimple
  • Personal Capital
  • Pindrop Security
  • Profitstars
  • SaveUp
  • Serverside Group
  • ShopSavvy
  • Silver Tail Systems
  • Social Money
  • SoMoLend
  • Swipely
  • TASCET
  • Taulia
  • Thomson Reuters
  • TIO Networks
  • Transparency Labs
  • TrustEgg
  • Virtual Piggy
  • Wall Street Survivor
  • WattzOn
  • Wipit
  • ZipZap

We will also be announcing a few stealth companies closer to the conference.

If you’d like to watch these companies demo the cutting edge of fintech at the early-bird rate of $100 off, please get your ticket before March 31st. If you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@finovate.com. We hope to see you in May!

FinovateSpring 2012 is sponsored by: The Bancorp Inc., the law firm of Chambliss Bahner & Stophel, Intuit, & TxVia

FinovateSpring 2012 is partners with: BankInnovation, BankerStuff, BayPay Forum, California Bankers Association, Celent, Filene, Finance on Windows & PYMNTS.com

FinovateSpring 2012 — Get your ticket before Wednesday to lock in your spot and save $200!

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I love this time of year. The days are getting longer. Spring is just around the corner. And, at FinovateHQ, we’ve begun the fascinating process of choosing the new fintech innovations that we will showcase at FinovateSpring (May 8th and 9th in San Francisco). This year’s selection process is particularly challenging however as the volume and quality of new ideas is unprecedentedly high.

While the high-quality pool of applicants makes our job harder, it is great news for the 2012 FinovateSpring audience who will get to witness the best new fintech innovations debut via our signature format that blends fast-paced demos with high-quality networking.

If you’re interested in where trends like mobile, NFC, biometrics, offers, big data, social, tablets, p2p, apps, the cloud and more will take the financial world in 2012 then I hope you’ll consider joining us in San Francisco in early May.

Tickets for the event are selling quickly and we’re on pace to beat last year’s record attendance of 850. The already long list of registered attendees includes executives from leading organizations like: American Express, Sallie Mae, Wells Fargo, MasterCard, Mint.com, Charles Schwab, Citi, CNNMoney, Aite Group, H&R Block, BBVA, Capital One, Battery Ventures, Celent Research, SunTrust, PayPal, Wired Magazine, Visa, FIS, E*Trade, BNY Mellon and USAA (to name just a few).

Please get your ticket before this Wednesday to lock in your spot at the very early-bird discount of $200 off. If you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@finovate.com. We hope to see you in May!

FinovateSpring 2012 is sponsored by: The Bancorp Inc., the law firm of Chambliss Bahner & Stophel, Intuit, & TxVia

FinovateSpring 2012 is partners with: BankInnovation, BankerStuff, Celent, Filene, Finance on Windows & PYMNTS.com

FinovateSpring 2012 — Get your ticket before Wednesday to lock in your spot and save $200!

FS2012_low.png

I love this time of year. The days are getting longer. Spring is just around the corner. And, at FinovateHQ, we’ve begun the fascinating process of choosing the new fintech innovations that we will showcase at FinovateSpring (May 8th and 9th in San Francisco). This year’s selection process is particularly challenging however as the volume and quality of new ideas is unprecedentedly high.

While the high-quality pool of applicants makes our job harder, it is great news for the 2012 FinovateSpring audience who will get to witness the best new fintech innovations debut via our signature format that blends fast-paced demos with high-quality networking.

If you’re interested in where trends like mobile, NFC, biometrics, offers, big data, social, tablets, p2p, apps, the cloud and more will take the financial world in 2012 then I hope you’ll consider joining us in San Francisco in early May.

Tickets for the event are selling quickly and we’re on pace to beat last year’s record attendance of 850. The already long list of registered attendees includes executives from leading organizations like: American Express, Sallie Mae, Wells Fargo, MasterCard, Mint.com, Charles Schwab, Citi, CNNMoney, Aite Group, H&R Block, BBVA, Capital One, Battery Ventures, Celent Research, SunTrust, PayPal, Wired Magazine, Visa, FIS, E*Trade, BNY Mellon and USAA (to name just a few).

Please get your ticket before this Wednesday to lock in your spot at the very early-bird discount of $200 off. If you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@finovate.com. We hope to see you in May!

FinovateSpring 2012 is sponsored by: The Bancorp Inc., the law firm of Chambliss Bahner & Stophel, Intuit, & TxVia

FinovateSpring 2012 is partners with: BankInnovation, BankerStuff, Celent, Filene, Finance on Windows & PYMNTS.com

FinovateSpring 2012 — Save Big with a Super Early-Bird Ticket!

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With 2012 underway and winter out in full force, it means that spring is just around the corner. And with the warmer weather will come our return to San Francisco with FinovateSpring 2012.

On May 8th & 9th, we will again be showcasing dozens of Silicon Valley’s newest fintech innovations via our signature format that blends fast-paced demos with high-quality networking.

Tickets for the event are selling quickly and we’re on pace to beat last year’s record attendance of 850. The already long list of registered attendees includes executives from organizations like Wells Fargo, MasterCard, Mint.com, Charles Schwab, Citi, CNNMoney, Aite Group, H&R Block, Intuit, BBVA, and USAA (to name just a few).

If you’re interested in joining them to watch the future of financial and banking
technology unfold live on stage at this must-attend event then please get your ticket before Friday to lock in your spot at the low super early-bird rate of $300 off. That said, if you can’t wait until May for your next fix of fintech innovation, we do still have a few tickets left for FinovateEurope 2012 (February 7 in London).

FinovateSpring 2012 is sponsored by: The Bancorp Inc., the law firm of Chambliss Bahner & Stophel & TxVia

FinovateSpring 2012 is partners with: BankInnovation, BankerStuff, Celent, Filene, Finance on Windows & PYMNTS.com