FinovateSpring 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 3

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This is the third part in our continuing Sneak Peek series that gives a glimpse into what each company will demo live on stage at FinovateSpring.

Don’t miss part 1 and part 2 published earlier this month. 

See the full demos live at FinovateSpring next month. Get your ticket here

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Better ATM Services’ groundbreaking technology enables ATMs to dispense new, flexible prepaid cards just like cash, opening the world’s fleet of 2.3 million ATMs to the prepaidBetterATMLogo.jpg marketplace.

Features:

    • Visa and others are adopting this new distribution channel
    • Consumers love the 24/7 convenience of ATMs for prepaids
Why it’s great: Financial institutions can recapture 50%+ of customers now going elsewhere for prepaids, increasing their share of the $549 billion prepaid market.

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Bright Funds is a solution for effective charitable giving management, combining the sophistication of investing with the intuitive, engaging experience of modern web services.
Features:
    • The Bright Funds Charitable Giving Portfolio
    • The Bright Funds Impact Timeline
    • Bright Funds Public Profiles for Giving
Why it’s great: Bright Funds brings an investment approach to charitable giving.

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FamZoo’s online family banking system helps parents teach kids good money habits.
Features:
    • Family pack of affordable, widely accepted prepaid cards
    • Integrated family finance tools build good habits
    • Co-branded option delivers targeted offers
Why it’s great: FamZoo solves the “kids and money” problem for parents: prepaid cards that work together, not alone.

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Intuit delivers banking software and technology solutions for financial institutions.
Features:
    • Gives banks better insight to serve customers
    • Blurs lines between PFM/banking 
    • Learn what Mint has in store for personal business
Why it’s great: Intuit now offers the best PFM solution for all users – whether it is through Mint.com or financial institutions.

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LeapScore is financial advice for the rest of us.
Features:
    • Tailored help and advice for each individual
    • Empowers people to take more control over finances
    • Sets meaningful goals
Why it’s great: a comprehensive score that, for the first time, represents “who” you are financially.

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MicroStrategy provides online banking without usernames or passwords, instant identity validation over the phone: Usher radically changes the way IDs, cards, and keys are issued and carried.
Features:
    • Mobile phone-based digital credentials
    • Multi-factor verification including voiceprints
    • Secure out-of-band authentication
Why it’s great: Usher: an extraordinary array of identity-management services that reduce fraud, protect identities and improve customer experience.
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MoneyDesktop redefines the way millions of people interact with their finances by developing technologies that drive financial engagement between account holders and financial institutions.
Features:
    • Leverage aggregated PFM user data 
    • Segment and target your user base
    • Increase conversion rates and loan volume
Why it’s great: Insight and Target provide financial institutions with a groundbreaking new way to market and drive adoption of their most valuable services.
OneID eliminates the need for usernames and 

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passwords, while delivering a secure, compliant identity system that’s easy for your customers to use.

Features:
    • Secure, one-click login with no password
    • Customizable two-factor authentication
    • Easy cross-selling with automatic form-fill
Why it’s great: Convenience of one-click login. Security of public key cryptography. Flexibility to meet financial institutions’
needs. Identity as it should be.

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Quantopian is the world’s only browser-based algorithmic trading platform, democratizing finance by reducing barriers to entry and providing quants the tools and support needed to profit from their ideas
Feature:
    • Combines historical data, algo simulation, live market data, brokerage integration and algo development into a simple workflow
Why it’s great: Allows quants to put their ideas and algorithms to work and profit from them with the click of a button

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Refundo is designed to revolutionize the way people do banking and extend mainstream banking advantages to underbanked and unbanked communities across the nation.
Features:
    • Open an FDIC-insured bank account in seconds using your smartphone. 
    • Send money to your friends and family quickly and securely.
Why it’s great: Finally a new way to manage your money. And by new, we mean better.


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Yandex.Money’s Twym is a quick and convenient way to send money via Twitter.
Features:
    • Easy-to-use interface for collecting money
    • You don’t have to leave Twitter
    • Other users can repeat payments in one click
Why it’s great: Twym makes transferring money simple and fun.

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Yseop’s artificial intelligence software writes just like a human being, but at a speed of over a thousand pages per second and in multiple languages.
Feature:
    • Yseop boosts the productivity of your business teams by automating the delivery of best practices and personalized expertise.
Why it’s great: Yseop creates a new age where financial services delivered to customers are driven by artificial intelligence and human collaboration.
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For more information on being a part of FinovateSpring 2013, see our FAQ. To register, visit out FinovateSpring page here.

FinovateSpring 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 2

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If you missed Part 1 of our FinovateSpring 2013 Sneak Peek, click here to read about some of the innovative companies that will be presenting at our upcoming May event in San Francisco.

To learn more about the show, visit our FinovateSpring 2013 page here.  Or if you’re just looking to pick up your tickets to the event, click here.

Part 2 of our Sneak Peek will feature another 12 companies that will be among those demoing on the Finovate stage in San Francisco next month. We’ll have even more companies to show you next week.
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Allied Payment Network: Allied Payment Network’s “Pay-It-Your-Way” strategy is driving mobile bill pay adoption by leveraging technology that consumers are embracing wholeheartedly – clicking, snapping a picture, or speaking.
Features:
  • Strategic differentiator for FIs
  • Live and available through multiple reselllers
  • Easily integrate into any mobile app
Why it’s great: Allied’s PicturePay has set the new standard for simplicity in mobile bill pay, using voice or a smartphone’s camera.
Encap: Provides a banking-grade, software-based authentication solution that offers uncompromising speed, security, and simplicity to boost
the adoption of financial services and applications.

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Features:
  • 2- and 3-factor authentication that helps drive customer adoption
  • Seamless integration into apps
  • Lower cost of ownership
Why it’s great: Most 2- and 3-factor authentication solutions will make your customers hate your product. Integrating Encap will make them love it.
GoBank (by Green Dot Corporation): The first bank account designed from scratch to be opened and used on a mobile device, with deposits insured by the FDIC.

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Features:
  • Real-time alerts
  • Fast: Join in minutes
  • Fair: No overdraft fees or minimum balance
Why it’s great: GoBank was created with the user experience top of mind to develop an innovative product with no hidden fees, complete transparency, reliability and peace of mind.

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Gremln: Regulatory guidelines make social media compliance difficult for financial services. Gremln provides filtration, approval, and archiving. Teams can work together for secure social media.

Features:
  • Use social media AND keep your job
  • Verify posts are compliance before they are live
  • Multi-tiered approval process
Why it’s great: Your organization’s marketing and compliance forces can work in harmony to create secure, successful social media … all because of Gremln.
Jemstep: Jemstep Portfolio Manager is an online investment advisor that helps people lock in more money for retirement by telling them exactly what to buy and sell.
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  • Exactly what to do
  • High-caliber guidance, not high fees
Why it’s great: Jemstep Portfolio Manager is the first and only resource of its kind, and it takes the complexity out of investing.

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Licuos: A global B2B payment platform that generates the most efficient A/R and A/P netting, payment and funding proposals for businesses.
Features:
  • Improves the financial efficiency of businesses
  • Reduces businesses’s funding needs and credit risk exposure with their clients
Why it’s great: LICUOS allows businesses to reduce their dependence on banks so that they can significantly improve their working capital management.

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Leaf: Leaf empowers small business owners to run and grow their businesses by providing a mobile payment platform built for local commerce.
Features: 
  • Accept payments via the processor of your choice
  • Analyze business performance from any device
  • Easily engage customers
Why it’s great: LeafPresenter is the first tablet designed specifically for local retail, benefitting small business owners in ways not previously possible.
Lodo Software: D3 Banking uses a powerful, predictive analytics engine and adaptive UI to provide a full range of financial services tailored to customer’s needs anytime, anywhere.
Features:

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  • Consistent customer experience via any digital channel
  • Customized, automated, targeted marketing
  • Flexible integration options
Why it’s great: D3 Banking delivers data-driven, digital banking, empowering financial institutions and their customers.
Micronotes: Delivers on the cross-sell imperative for digital banks.

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Features:
  • Most productive digital cross-sell tool
  • Maximizes $/square inch of digital real estate
  • Gives interactive a whole new meaning
Why it’s great: Micronotes’s Cross-Sell helps financial institutions radically improve the productivity of cross-selling online to increase revenue.
Persint: Provides consumer analytics, leveraging account aggregation and peer data to answer every household’s financial questions of “where do we stand?” and “what next?”
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Features:
  • 120 demographic peers from 5-click survey
  • Scoring of net worth, cash flow and risk
  • Opportunity identification & solution mapping
Why it’s great: Persint’s integration of peer data allows PFM to deliver objective conclusions on performance and credible advice on next steps.
Prestadero: The first, fully operational, peer to peer lending platform for the Mexican market.
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Feature:
  • Prestadero is upending traditional savings and loan operations in Mexico, offering loan rates and fixed income returns never before seen in our market.
Why it’s great: Mexico has some of the largest financial spreads in the world. Why? Nobody knows. Prestadero is here to change that.

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TSYS: By putting people at the center of every decision we make, TSYS is able to support financial institutions, businesses, and governments in more than 80 countries.
Features:
  • Remotely control how, when, by whom, and where money is used.
  • Real-time remote monitoring transactions
  • Increased risk mitigation
Why it’s great: TSYS is bringing its industry expertise to the exciting and fast-paced area of payments and mobile to show a completely different experience from the end-user perspective.
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For more information on being a part of FinovateSpring 2013, see our FAQ. To register, visit out FinovateSpring page here.

FinovateSpring 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 1

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On May 14 and 15, Finovate returns to San Francisco where more than 70 companies will showcase their new technology. The majority will be making their first appearance on the Finovate stage.

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

To be a part of the excitement, Get your ticket here

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Balance Financial: is a digital workspace that helps FIs drive revenue growth, improve client engagement and scale service delivery.

Features:

    • Customizable digital workspace for financial service professionals & their clients
    • Professional grade branded PFM, bill pay and file sharing tools
Why it’s great: Helps financial service professionals leverage technology to grow their business by building and maintaining better client relationships.
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Curaxian: The fastest and easiest way to find solutions to difficult fraud problems.

Features:

    • Find optimal solutions to fraud attacks
    • Improve portfolio profitability, retention, and relationship management
    • Manage authorization declines and interchange downgrades
Why it’s great: There is no easier or more effective way to resolve a fraud attack.
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Cymonz: Provides the software and business processes to easily integrate a currency exchange and international payments service into your business

Features:

    • Customizable online currency exchange for your clients
    • Management for your currency operations
    • White label for your partners
Why it’s great: Currency exchange and payments service for your brand.


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EyeVerify: Has commercialized a software-only biometric method for verifying the identity of mobile users – a safe, simple replacement for passwords.

Features:

    • Eliminate end users’ password fatigue
    • Reduce fraud and identity theft
    • Make mobile transactions safer and more convenient
Why it’s great: The password is dead – and now we have the replacement!

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GoodApril: Online tax planning: your guide to tax savings, helping you take actions today to reduce your taxes next April.

Features:

    • Identification of tax saving actions you can take in the year ahead
    • Forecast of how the 2013 tax law changes will impact you
Why it’s great: Consumers leave $22 billion in tax saving opportunities on the table each year – GoodApril helps make sure you’re not one of them.

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Palo Alto Software: Its LivePlan software helps a business forecast and budget for a successful future, and also helps a business understand the KPI’s it needs to manage for growth

Features:

    • Build a cash flow forecast
    • Gather business intelligence via enhanced dashboard
Why it’s great: There is no better way to manage your business online than with LivePlan
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Realty Mogul: A marketplace for accredited investors to pool money online and buy shares of pre-vetted investment properties.

Feature:

    • Investors get access to real estate investments they historically did not have access to
Why it’s great: Real estate investing made simple.
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Signifyd: Fights fraud using the Social Graph. By guaranteeing payments, Signifyd provides an insurance for e-commerce merchants.

Features:

    • Fraud detection today is slow, inaccurate and expensive
    • Harnessing the Social Graph to fight fraud
    • Insurance for e-commerce
Why it’s great: Signifyd provides an insurance for e-commerce
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TipRanks: The first online co-browser that aggregates, scrutinizes, and evaluates digitally published stock recommendations.

Features:

    • Accountability for those who dish financial advice
    • Empowerment for those who seek it
    • Free, unbiased and transparent information
Why it’s great: TipRanks helps provide the answer for all individual investors – should I take this particular person’s financial advice?

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Tradeslide: Empowers independent financial traders

Feature:

    • The TS Score empowers independent traders by diagnosing performance, for traders’ and investors’ benefit.
Why it’s great: Tradeslide rates independent trading talent

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TrustEgg: Reinventing how parents save for their children

Features:

    • Parents can set up a Trust for free
    • Invite friends and family to contribute
    • Money invested in mutual fund until child turns 18
Why it’s great: TrustEgg is the simple, social way to save for your kids.

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ValidSoft: SMART – Secure Mobile Architecture for Real-time Transactions

Features:

    • Custom built strong authentication platform for the mobile world
    • No customer friction
    • Using proprietary voice biometrics
Why it’s great: SMART secures your mobile wallet without customer friction: Simple, Secure, Safe

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For more information on attending, see our FAQ. To register, visit our FinovateSpring page here.

FinovateSpring 2013 Presenter Lineup Revealed!

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With less than two months to go until FinovateSpring 2013, the event is shaping up to be our largest Finovate conference yet — topping last spring’s record crowd of 1,200 bankers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

The pool of applicants for demo slots was deepest we’ve ever seen in quality and number. While that dynamic made our job of choosing the most interesting ones harder, it also means that the event is going to be an amazing showcase of new fintech innovation.

After weeks of sorting applications and screening calls, we’re very excited to finally reveal the presenter lineup. Without further delay, here are the cutting-edge companies that will be demoing their latest and greatest innovations in May in San Francisco:

  • Adobe
  • Allied Payment Network
  • Arxan Technologies
  • AuthenticID
  • Balance Financial
  • Banno
  • BBC Easy
  • Better ATM Services
  • Braintree
  • Bright Funds
  • Corduro
  • cymonz
  • Digital Life Technologies
  • Escardgot
  • Expensify
  • EyeVerify
  • FamZoo
  • Finect
  • Finovera
  • FIS
  • Fiserv
  • GoodApril
  • Green Dot
  • Internet Biometric Security Systems
  • Intuit Financial Services
  • invoiceASAP
  • Jemstep
  • Kofax
  • Leaf
  • LendUp
  • LICUOS
  • Lodo Software
  • Micronotes
  • MicroStrategy
  • MoneyDesktop
  • Mortgage Harmony
  • MovenCorp
  • Narrative Science
  • OneID
  • OpenCoin
  • P2Binvestor
  • Palo Alto Software
  • Pangea Payments
  • PayNearMe
  • Persint
  • Placecast
  • Plastyc
  • Prestadero
  • Quantopian
  • Realty Mogul
  • Refundo
  • SeedInvest
  • Signifyd
  • TipRanks
  • Tradeslide Ventures
  • Trusted Knight
  • TrustEgg
  • TSYS
  • ValidSoft
  • Wallaby Financial
  • Yseop
  • Zooz
  • And more to be announced!

If you’d like to watch the future of fintech unfold live on stage at FinovateSpring and network with over 1,200 fellow innovators, early-bird tickets are on sale through April 5th. Please register soon to lock in your seat and these savings.

We’ll see you in San Francisco in May!

FinovateSpring 2013 is sponsored by: Financial Technology Partners, Hudson Cook LLP, Intuit Partner Platform, Microsoft Advertising, The Bancorp, Think! Finance, Visa & Yodlee

FinovateSpring 2013 partners include: BankersHub, Bay Area FinTech Startups, BayPay Forum, California Bankers Association, Celent, Filene Research Institute & Finance on Windows

FinovateSpring 2013 Presenter Lineup Revealed!

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With less than two months to go until FinovateSpring 2013, the event is shaping up to be our largest Finovate conference yet — topping last spring’s record crowd of 1,200 bankers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

The pool of applicants for demo slots was deepest we’ve ever seen in quality and number. While that dynamic made our job of choosing the most interesting ones harder, it also means that the event is going to be an amazing showcase of new fintech innovation.

After weeks of sorting applications and screening calls, we’re very excited to finally reveal the presenter lineup. Without further delay, here are the cutting-edge companies that will be demoing their latest and greatest innovations in May in San Francisco:

  • Adobe
  • Allied Payment Network
  • Arxan Technologies
  • AuthenticID
  • Balance Financial
  • Banno
  • BBC Easy
  • Better ATM Services
  • Braintree
  • Bright Funds
  • Corduro
  • cymonz
  • Digital Life Technologies
  • Escardgot
  • Expensify
  • EyeVerify
  • FamZoo
  • Finect
  • Finovera
  • FIS
  • Fiserv
  • GoodApril
  • Green Dot
  • Internet Biometric Security Systems
  • Intuit Financial Services
  • invoiceASAP
  • Jemstep
  • Kofax
  • Leaf
  • LendUp
  • LICUOS
  • Lodo Software
  • Micronotes
  • MicroStrategy
  • MoneyDesktop
  • Mortgage Harmony
  • MovenCorp
  • Narrative Science
  • OneID
  • OpenCoin
  • P2Binvestor
  • Palo Alto Software
  • Pangea Payments
  • PayNearMe
  • Persint
  • Placecast
  • Plastyc
  • Prestadero
  • Quantopian
  • Realty Mogul
  • Refundo
  • SeedInvest
  • Signifyd
  • TipRanks
  • Tradeslide Ventures
  • Trusted Knight
  • TrustEgg
  • TSYS
  • ValidSoft
  • Wallaby Financial
  • Yseop
  • Zooz
  • And more to be announced!

If you’d like to watch the future of fintech unfold live on stage at FinovateSpring and network with over 1,200 fellow innovators, early-bird tickets are on sale through April 5th. Please register soon to lock in your seat and these savings.

We’ll see you in San Francisco in May!

FinovateSpring 2013 is sponsored by: Financial Technology Partners, Hudson Cook LLP, Intuit Partner Platform, Microsoft Advertising, The Bancorp, Think! Finance, Visa & Yodlee

FinovateSpring 2013 partners include: BankersHub, Bay Area FinTech Startups, BayPay Forum, California Bankers Association, Celent, Filene Research Institute & Finance on Windows

Announcing FinovateSpring 2013 — Come see Silicon Valley’s best fintech innovations debut live in May 2013!

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Today, we’re very excited to announce that FinovateSpring 2013, our San Francisco showcase of the best new fintech ideas from Silicon Valley will take place on May 14-15 next year.

In 2012, the conference grew almost 50% to 1,200 innovators eager to see the future of fintech debut live on stage via our fast-paced, demo-only format. For 2013, we expect the conference to be even bigger and better!

If you want to relive the demos from FinovateSpring 2012 to whet your appetite for next year, they’re all available free in the Finovate Demo Video Archives

If you’re curious the type of people you’d meet at the conference, please check out this small list of sample organizations that attended FinovateSpring 2012.

Tickets for the event are now on sale at the low “pre-sale” price of $995 ($400 off list price). We’re expecting a packed house so please lock in your seat now to guarantee your ability to attend (and these savings).

We’ll see you in San Francisco in May (or Singapore in November)!

FinovateSpring 2013 is sponsored by: Financial Technology Partners and more to be announced

Announcing FinovateSpring 2013 — Come see Silicon Valley’s best fintech innovations debut live in May 2013!

btn2_ov.png

Today, we’re very excited to announce that FinovateSpring 2013, our San Francisco showcase of the best new fintech ideas from Silicon Valley, will take place on May 14 and 15 of next year.

In 2012, the conference grew almost 50% to 1,200 innovators eager to see the future of fintech debut live on stage via our fast-paced, demo-only format. For 2013, we expect the conference to be even bigger and better!

If you want to relive the demos from FinovateSpring 2012 to whet your appetite for next year, they’re all available free in the Finovate Demo Video Archives

If you’re curious the type of people you’d meet at the conference, please check out this small list of sample organizations that attended FinovateSpring 2012.

Tickets for the event are now on sale at the low “pre-sale” price of $995 ($400 off list price). We’re expecting a packed house so please lock in your seat now to guarantee your ability to attend (and these savings).

We’ll see you in San Francisco in May (or Singapore in November)!

FinovateSpring 2013 is sponsored by: Financial Technology Partners and more to be announced