Finovate Alumni News– November 27, 2013

  • Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgHeckyl Technologies featured in Startup Innovation.
  • Toopher unveils WordPress plugin.
  • U.S. Bank’s Mitek-powered Mobile Photo Bill Pay wins Best Technology Initiative in Banking award.
  • Independent Research Group names Cardlytics a Best in Class Provider in 4 categories of card loyalty technology report.
  • Ally Bank adds Fiserv’s Popmoney to power recurring funds transfers on its mobile app.
  • PayPal now accepts prepaid gift cards.
  • Mashable looks at HelloWallet as an easier way to save money.
  • The Wall Street Journal reports online advisers like Jemstep enhance free services.
  • Forbes features how Moven can be especially useful over the holidays.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– November 20, 2013

  • Kabbage launches iPhone app out of test market.
  • PC Mag includes Dashlane on list of the 50 best free iPhone apps of 2013.
  • Financeit brings in $13 million in series A funding.
  • TSYS Director of Innovation Chris Colson talks about the launch of their Idea Center.
  • Intuit launches Apps.com, a small business app store, and an updated QuickBooks Online API.
  • FIS to power Bharatiya Mahila Bank Ltd., the first women-focused public sector bank in India.
  • Fiserv wins top honors at Mobile Money Global and Mobile Excellence Awards with Popmoney P2P payments service.
  • TechCrunch reports that Google Wallet customers will soon have the option of physical, prepaid Wallet cards.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– November 11, 2013

  • Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgFiserv launches Sales Enablement to help FIs accelerate revenue and reduce costs.
  • From Legacy to Leadership: A Conversation with Chris Skinner, Author of Digital Bank.
  • BBVA Compass adds remote deposit feature to mobile apps for Android and iOS devices.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– November 7, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgAmerican Banker reports: Bill.com Updates Banking Platform.
  • FIS, Fiserv, BancVue, & IND Group included in 2013 FinTech 100 rankings.
  • U.S. News and World Report wonders if FlexScore will replace credit scores.
  • Leaf earns a spot on BostInno’s “50 on Fire Finalists for Tech”.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– November 6, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgMarketWatch mentions BrightScope and FutureAdvisor as two ways to enhance your retirement portfolio.
  • Quippi to use PayNearMe to enable cash payments for its international gift cards.
  • MoneyDesktop launches Client Services product to offer employee training, marketing, tech support & other services to increase ROI PFM investment.
  • Atlanta-based Cardlytics opens first NYC office.
  • The Guardian mentions SumUp in its review of popular mobile apps for business.
  • Finovate alums FIS, Fiserv, ACI Worldwide, Jack Henry Banking, and Temenos earn spots on IDC Financial Insights tenth annual FinTech 100 list.
  • PandoDaily takes a look at Netswipe 2.0, Jumio’s payment card scanning solution.
  • Celent reviews Comarch Wealth Management Platform.
  • Ignite Sales launches mobile recommendation guides to accelerate bank customer on boarding.
  • Multicom announces partnership with pre-paid virtual card provider, Ixaris.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– November 4, 2013

  • Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgAlly Bank integrates Fiserv’s Popmoney into its set of mobile payment options.
  • Collaboration between Meniga and Promsvyazbank (PSB) brings custom-designed PFM solutions to Russian market.
  • Cardlytics announces launch of advertising platform with Lloyd’s Bank in the UK.
  • Betterment upgrades its iPhone app, launches new Android app.
  • Prosper reports $50 Million in Loan Originations in October.
  • Crowd Valley partners with BancBox, CrowdBouncer to Support Online Funding Markets.
  • Lighter Capital launches $15k Dreamforce giveaway.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– October 29, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgPayfone Brings in $10 Million from Early Warning Systems.
  • Promsvyazbank in Russia Launches PFM-Service, Powered by Meniga.
  • Payments Source: Fiserv Makes a Payments Play for Small Businesses.
  • FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 3 is up.
  • Trejdify publishes an introduction to Quantopian.
  • GMC Software Technology opens office in Australia. Join them in Singapore next month for FinovateAsia 2013.
  • For the third consecutive year Deloitte nominates Trustly as 1 of Sweden’s Tech Fast 50 companies.
  • Pennsylvania’s Customers Bank embraces mobile bill pay via Mitek-powered PicturePay.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– October 24, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgFiserv to offer clients Guardian Analytics’ FraudMAP solutions.
  • Lending Club CEO, Renaud Laplanche, named a winner of Ernst & Young’s Venture Capital Award of Excellence.
  • PayPal and Blackhawk Network join forces to bring gift card services to the digital wallet.
  • Manilla User Survey: Consumers Want Bills in One Place and Banks with Bill Management.
  • Payments, Mobile, Security, Social: A Look Ahead to FinovateAsia 2013.
  • Are Utilities Ready for Mobile BillPay? Industry Leaders Weigh-in via Check Survey.
  • Locaid featured in American Express Open Forum column on attracting mobile customers with geofencing.
  • SeedInvest “thrilled” by new rules proposed for equity crowdfunding.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– October 14, 2013

  • Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgForbes column on banking and mobile payments highlights Finovate alumni Check, Fiserv, and FIS.
  • BBC features MasterCard’s efforts to replace food stamps and cash with cards in Lebanese refugee camps.
  • Jim Marous references GoBank and Moven in report on innovation in mobile banking functionality.
  • LowCards.com reports: Dynamics offers artistic credit cards.
  • Flint Mobile opts for camera over card reader.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Fiserv Debuts Popmoney Instant Payments

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2013.

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Next, Fiserv stepped up to demo how it can help financial institutions provide a real-time payments solution to their clients:
“Financial institutions are challenged to meet the ticking clock of consumer expectations for a real‐time payments experience. The Popmoney personal payment service from Fiserv fulfills that need with Instant Payments, a new value-added feature offering real-time delivery of funds.
Popmoney lets people send, request, and receive money using an email address or mobile phone number. Traditionally, Popmoney has only been able to deliver payments via the ACH network, which works great for most payments. Funds settle in 1 to 3 business days. 
The Instant Payments feature, which is now available for financial institutions, uses the debit card networks to deliver funds in real-time – 24/7, 365 days a year. Recipients have access to funds literally in seconds.”
Product Launch: April 2013
Metrics: 2012 revenue: $4.4B, 2012 net income: $611M, about 20,000 employees worldwide, 6,000 account processing clients, & 16,000 financial institutions and businesses worldwide
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions and direct-to-consumer
HQ: Brookfield, WI
Founded: 1984
Website: fiserv.com
Twitter: @Finovate

Presenting Andrew Barnett (Sr. Mobile Solutions Consultant) and Neil Platt (SVP & General Manager, Payments)

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The full demo video will be available at finovate.com in mid-September.

Finovate Alumni News– September 6, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgFiserv launches Predictive Scores tool that models customer behavior. Come see Fiserv at FinovateFall next week.
  • First Federal Savings Bank implements PFM through MoneyDesktop. Check out MoneyDesktop’s new solution at FinovateFall in NYC.
  • PayPal Updates iOS And Android Apps With The Ability To Order Ahead, Pay Restaurant Bills, Access Bill Me Later And More.
  • Woodinville Water District Achieves Significant Increase in Paperless Water Bills in the First 90 Days of doxo Implementation.
  • Members Choice CU To Offer PFM Powered By Geezeo.
  • Braintree adds new layer of fraud protection for merchants.
  • Finovate alumni driving growth in online investment advisory industry.
  • Forbes features article on Narrative Science’s
    Quill. Come see them at FinovateFall next week.


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

FinovateFall 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 5

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We hope you’re enjoying our Sneak Peek at the presenters of FinovateFall 2013.

You can learn more about our upcoming event here. And if you’ve missed an installment of our series, here’s a handy index to this year’s innovators.

FinovateFall 2013 Sneak Peek #1

Today we’ll introduce you to our fifth set of companies that will be demoing on the Finovate stage in September: Capital Access NetworkFutureAdvisor, Instabank, miiCard, Narrative ScienceP2P Cash, and StrategyCorps.

So why not join us in New York for the show? Get your tickets to FinovateFall 2013 in New York here.


Capital Access Network’s Mobile Funder is a tablet-based tool enabling finance reps to seurely pre-qualify small businesses for capital and submit a full application in a single visit.

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Features:
  • Capital delivered in days, not weeks
  • Empowers reps with direct access to qualification tools
  • Pre-qualifies prospects for two products with one application
Why it’s great: This all-in-one tool gives small business finance reps the power to expedite decisions, close more deals, and deliver capital faster.

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Dan DeMeo, CEO, Capital Access Network
Mr. DeMeo joined in 2010 with an extensive financial services background (Citibank, GE Capital, JP Morgan) and a history of growing businesses profitably.
Meet the Capital Access Network team here.

FutureAdvisor’s FutureAdvisor Premium automatically manages your current investments.

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Features:
  • Manage investment holdings from multiple institutionsFeatures:
  • Rebalance your portfolio automatically
  • Recognize and invest new cash immediately
Why it’s great: Guide your investment portfolio – automatically
Meet the FutureAdvisor team here.

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Instabank set out to create the most beautiful, efficient, and social mobile bank.
Features:
  • Transfer/request money to/from Facebook friends
  • Add photos, comments, Foursquare venues to purchases
  • Rich activity stream and PFM
Why it’s great: Instabank aims to unlock viral customer acquisition via Facebook and become the Dropbox of retail banking.

miiCard (my Internet Identity) is the first global Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform providing trusted and traceable customer identities purely online in the digital economy.

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Features: 
  • Eliminate up to 80% fraud
  • Reduce new customer dropout by 50%
  • Dramatically reduce operational costs
Why it’s great: Enabling purely online sales of regulated and high value products in banking, virtual currencies, payments, wealth management, lending and more.

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James Varga, Founder, CEO, miiCard
Mr. Varga has more than a 20-year career in technology and innovation.

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Magnus Bray, Sales Manager, miiCard
Mr. Bray has experience in bringing new innovations to global financial institutions.
Meet Team miiCard here.

Narrative Science provides financial institutions with a fast, cost-effective way to analyze data and automatically generate natural language communications that answer important questions and provide timely insight.

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Features:
  • Infinitely scalable content generation
  • On-demand communications tailored to any audience
  • Consistent narratives structured to meet guidelines
Why it’s great: Quill Financial automatically transforms portfolio and market data into human-quality communications and reports for financial institutions.
Meet the Narrative Science leadership team here.

P2P Cash developed an industry-standard, scalable mobile financial services solution that provides secure, compliant and transparent mobile banking to the world’s 3 billion unbanked mobile phone users.

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Features:
  • Send cash home free
  • Mobile international remittance
  • Only SMS required for recipient
Why it’s great: Send cash home free #InternationalRemittance

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Thomas Meredith, Chairman and CEO, P2P Cash
Mr Meredith has Internet, financial services, and telecommunications experience. Stanford engineer. Harvard MBA.

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Donald Chapman, VP, Business Development, P2P Cash
Mr. Chapman has Consulting, IT, Sales & Marketing experience. Providence College. Babson MBA.
Meet the P2P Cash team here.

StrategyCorps’ BaZing solution makes mobile and online banking so appealing and relevant to customers’ lifestyles they’ll gladly pay a fee for them.

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Features:
  • 300,000+ deals at your fingertips
  • Local merchant offers around every branch
  • Connect like no banking product can
Why it’s great: Customers don’t like fees for basic banking products. BaZing changes that by making banking products worth paying for.

Stay tuned for more from our FinovateFall 2013 presenters in edition #6 of our Sneak Peek series, coming Thursday.
FinovateFall 2013 is only a few weeks away. To learn more about FinovateFall – and to register and get your tickets today – visit our FinovateFall 2013 page here.