Finovate Alumni News– August 15, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgANZ Group goes live with Fiserv’s Mobiliti Reach.
  • The Currency Cloud CEO, Mike Laven, explains the issues behind the recent remittance crisis.
  • IND Group & PayPal team up to offer P2P Payment via email in Europe.
  • SunTrust introduces BCSG’s Business Hub and CreditHQ tools; an online package of small business solutions.
  • Bolstr on FOX News Chicago: Local Business Raises $12,000 in under 48hrs on Bolstr.
  • Mint, Manilla featured in Digital Trends list of 12 useful online services and apps for students.
  • Quantopian’s John Fawcett writes about the intersection of social media, algorithms, and the browser when it comes to investing.
  • American Banker takes a look at Credit Agricole’s CAStore.
  • Mobile Payments Today highlights PayConnect from PreCash in a column on mobile wallets and the payment industry.
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.

Meet the Innovators of FinovateFall 2013

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FinovateFall 2013 is right around the corner. That means it’s time to start getting to know the entrepreneurs and innovators that will be presenting their technologies on stage in New York City in September.

Remember, the early bird deadline is this Friday, August 2nd. So to reserve your spot and register now.

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Akimbo Financial offers a social bank account alternative that makes sharing money easier than ever.
authenticIDs identity tools pictureID and catfishID, are the most accurate, time-saving solutions for the forms of ID we already carry.
Backbase‘s Launchpad, the Commercial Banking Edition, making CFO’s work easier.
BehavioSec uses behavioral analytics to transparently tackle web and mobile security.
BillFloat revolutionizes credit delivery to consumers and businesses.
Biometric Signature ID has a patented software-only biometric for secure ID online verification.
BizEquity is the first and leading cloud-based business valuation engine, an innovative solution to small business lead generation.
Capital Access Network is the largest and most experienced small business finance specialist.
Cardlytics uses consumer purchase data to drive a patented advertising platform. Ads are so relevant–they’re expected. 
CoverHound is a comparison insurance adviser, helping people discover, buy, and manage insurance online.
CR2 is the innovative provider of self-service banking solutions including ATM, Internet, and mobile banking.
DoubleBeam‘s SDK powers mPayments inside other mobile apps, helping signup customers quickly and save a ton on the cost of payments.
FinanceIt offers businesses the ability to provide consumer financing to their customers at the POS.
Financial Guard helps you protect your investments, providing online investment advice at the right price, finally.
Finect is the leading online network for the financial services industry.
Fiserv is a leading global technology provider serving the financial services industry, driving innovation in payments.
FlexScore “gamifies” financial planning, gives a “score” of your financial fitness, and provides education, advice, peer comparisons.
Float Money offers interest-free credit to members of its shopping club and financial health partners.
FutureAdvisor manages your investments for better returns, making quality financial advice available to everyone.
GMC Software Technology is a leading software developer of solutions that transform the customer experience.
Guide Financial is like a healthcheck for your finances – automatically scanning your accounts for ways you can earn or save more, and providing simple, easy fixes.
Ignite Sales is the leader in retail banking, customer acquisition, and retention technology.
Innovation Agency, where you can execute on your innovation mandate and unlock the wealth of ideas in your ecosystems.
Instabank – Beautiful money.
Interactions provides natural language Virtual Assistant application services for the automation customer care processes.
Jumio is a next generation credentials management company offering payments and ID scanning and validation products for mobile and web transactions.
Kofax is a leading provider of smart process applications that simplify the business critical First Mile of information-intensive customer interactions.
LearnVest empowers people everywhere to take control of their money and live their richest lives.
Level Money is a financial GPS, designed to replace budgeting.
Lighter Capital provides growth capital to technology companies in a highly-automated basis – Capital-as-a-Service.
Lumesis provides software for the fixed income municipal market. Compliance and credit-focused. 
Luminous is a boutique innovation company that has become synonymous with innovative banking around the world.
Manilla is the leading free and secure service to simplify and organize daily financial life.
MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments industry, operating the world’s fastest payments processing network.
mBank is the biggest, pure-play online bank and the third largest retail bank in Poland.
miiCard is the first digital identity verification service to prove ‘you are who you say you are’ entirely online.
Mitek is positioned as the leading innovator in mobile imaging software. 
MoneyDesktop empowers financial institutions to provide online/mobile banking experiences to promote personal financial intelligence.
Motif Investing is a thematic, customizable, low-cost and crowdsourceable ETF-like product that is disrupting investing economics.

Narrative Science
 
enables companies to uncover the insight hidden in their data and create new content at a scale and frequency never before possible.
Numbrs – One App – Every Bank.
P2P Cash is the mobile wallet with switch technology that allows us to aggregate all other mWallets and mobile financial services.
PayWith is powered by MasterCard. Funded by Merchants. Loved by Consumers.
PhonyInvoices provides invoice fraud detection and prevention. We check a company’s vendor lists and transactions for suspicious activity.
Place2Give provides valuable and trustworthy information to make the most impactful social capital investment decisions.
QuarterSpot lending platform delivers the lowest cost and most favorable term small business loans.
RevolutionCredit is a revolutionary solution that transforms the credit decisioning process for both creditors and consumers.
SaaS Markets is the enterprise app store company for financial organizations looking to leverage cloud-based applications for their employees or customers.
SavedPlus is an automatic savings program that helps customers save money with every purchase.
Simple Verity provides business credit reports on any SMB in America.
Socure offers a social identity verification solution to combat the growing risk of online identity fraud for financial institutions.
SpearFysh leverages mobile, speech analytics, big data, and SaaS technology to improve sales processes and drive growth.
Spreedly provides vault cards in the cloud and work with more than 50 payment gateways.
StockSmart apps and platform offer insight and information on the world’s best companies and people.
StrategyCorps delivers local/mobile/social consumer checking solutions so appealing and relevant, your customers will gladly pay for them.
Tinkoff Credit Systems is Russia’s leading provider of online financial services.
TipRanks is a cloud-based service that measures the performance of anyone giving investment advice.
Toopher eliminates online fraud using your phone’s location. Simple, secure, your phone stays in your pocket.
Unleash is the cloud CFO that helps small businesses make better decisions faster.
VerifyValid and Deluxe are giving checks their first major upgrade in more than 200 years.
Versafe protects all users from all malware, threat types. On all devices, all transparently. 
WordSentry software analyzes messages during composition, identifying non-compliant components, for correction before sending.
Yodlee is the platform for financial innovation, powering the world’s largest collection of transactional data.
Yseop creates a new age where financial services delivered to customers are driven by AI and human collaboration.
Zenmonics is a global technology services and mobile product provider to the financial services market.
Zighra empowers banks and financial institutions to leverage implicit mobile user authentication and accelerate payments.
Zooz provides complete payment essentials at your fingertips: a robust set of tools that will improve the payment process.
Plus more stealth companies to be announced in the weeks to come.
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To find out more about the upcoming FinovateFall 2013 event in New York, September 10 and 11, visit our FinovateFall information page here.

Finovate Alumni News– July 23, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgYodlee launches suite of solutions to give self-directed investors a full picture of their wealth and investments in one place.
  • Forbes lists Narrative Science as 1 of 5 exciting tech companies you’ve probably never heard of.
  • Huffington Post features Personal Capital, Mint, and Manilla as tools to organize finances.
  • First Federal Bank and United Community Bank have selected Fiserv’s DNA account processing platform.
  • Commerce Bancshares extends use of Alogent Payments Gateway from ProfitStars.
  • Thomsen Reuters announces availability of Checkpoint Pocket Assistant for the iPhone, free app for tax professionals.
  • Check to provide mobile bill pay to Desert Water Agency customers.
  • NYSE CIO Peter Leukert to lead FIS’s strategy and thought leadership team.
  • Technologies from Kalixa, DeviceFidelity, and MasterCard combine to bring moneto mobile wallet to the U.K.
  • VerifyValid partners with Deluxe to offer secure check payment solution to small businesses. See VerifyValid demo at FinovateFall in New York.
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– July 18, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgPennsylvania-based First National Community Bank selects a core banking system from Fiserv.
  • Check Point Software launches 13000 Appliance solution set for high-performance data center cyber security.
  • Accounting and advisory firm William Buck and Xero partner to offer clients Xero as accounting solution of choice.
  • eToro releases Stockwatch for Android.
  • StreetFight Magazine features case study of ShopKeep POS use in cupcake bakery.
  • IntelliResponse announces VAR partnership with Australia-based BolderView.
  • SeedInvest CEO Ryan Feit talks with the Street.com about the effect of fund advertising rule changes on crowdfunders.
  • Built in Chicago blogger profiles Pangea Payments and the trillion dollar remittance market.
  • 2013 Payment Hub report names ACI Worldwide “Best in Class” in payments capability.
  • InComm Launches Pre-Top to Expand Availability of Prepaid Solutions.
  • TransferWise featured in American Banker column on the growing online/mobile payments business. 
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’s Snap to Tag Feature Brings More Detail to PFM

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This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.
Then, Fiserv showcased its new Snap to Tag feature:
“Snap to Tag brings together real-world receipts with digital experiences. It enables consumers to take a photo of a merchant receipt within their mobile banking application, extracting key data elements and automatically attaching the image and its data to transaction details within mobile and online banking transaction listings. Consumers can then review the image if they have any queries at some point in the future. It addresses specific use cases like having receipts for expense management and / or product warranties.
Snap to Tag will be a feature within our Mobiliti application – our market leading mobile banking and payment platform.”
Product Launch: Available now for pilot
HQ: Brookfield, WI
Founded: July 1984
Metrics: 2012 Revenue: $4.4B, 2012 Net income: $611M, Employees: about 20,000 worldwide, 16,000 financial institutions and businesses worldwide, 6,000 account processing clients
Website: fiserv.com
Presenting Andrew Barnett (Sr. Mobile Solutions Consultant) and Caroline Jones (User Experience Designer)

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Finovate Alumni News– April 11, 2013

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  • Alliance Data teams up with Locaid to provide opt-in geofence pilot program for branded cards.
  • Currensee announces Trade Leaders Investment Program.
  • Leaf announces Quick Serve POS solution for restaurants. See Leaf in action at FinovateSpring in May.
  • Credit Sesame reports growth figures.
  • Banno creates 15 responsive design websites in Q1 2013.
  • HelloWallet hires 6, bringing total number of employees to 40.
  • LG now offers the convenience of purchasing via PayPal on their 2013 line of Smart TVs.
  • American Banker reports Fiserv updates its Unified Wealth Management platform.
  • Money Marketing features Rplan, Nutmeg, and LoveMoney as startups that appeal to the under-30 crowd.
  • Dropbox offers single sign on through partnership with Ping Identity.
  • CMO.com interviews Yandex CEO Bernard Lukey is the director of sales and business development.
  • GigaOM reports PayPal offers 2 new extensions for Magneto merchants.
  • The Economist takes a look at the bitcoin boom, including alternatives like OpenCoin. See OpenCoin demo Ripple at FinovateSpring in May.
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– April 10, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgFamZoo and Transcard roll out family banking. Come see FamZoo demo it live at FinovateSpring.
  • Sigma Phi Lambda Sorority selects Billhighway for enterprise payment solution.
  • Linkable Networks partners with Lyfepoints, enabling users to apply savings to utility payments.
  • Business news Daily reports: Dashlane Makes Remembering Passwords a Breeze.
  • Bank Systems & Technology reports PayPal partners with Chilean payment network Multicaja.
  • HeathWallace & Backbase partner to implement Backbase Bank 2.0 Portal throughout Middle East.
  • The Examiner recommends BillGuard to identify fraudulent credit card charges.
  • Payments Journal reports Fiserv Launches Remote Deposit Capture Product.
  • TechCrunch looks at Yandex’s use of gesture-based interfaces to power apps.
  • PVAngels features TrustEgg. Join TrustEgg in San Francisco in May for FinovateSpring.
  • BrightScope is collecting fee data from advisory firms, report expected by fall 2013.
  • MC Helper looks at EyeVerify and the future of internet security. See EyeVerify in action at FinovateSpring.
  • Nomis Solutions unveils their latest pricing management software tool, the Nomis Discretion Manager.
  • Thomson Reuters announces launch of insurance compliance solution, Accelus.
  • InvestorIdeas takes a look at TipRanks. Join TipRanks in San Francisco for FinovateSpring in May.
  • TransferWise to provide $100,000 in free international money transfers to 1,000 start-ups.
  • Lake Trust Credit Union to be the first CU to deploy MasterCard’s MasterPass digital wallet.
  • Kalixa Group launches a trio of mobile payment products: Pro, Pay, and Accept.
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– April 8, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgInvestors Business Daily interviews Barry Silbert, SecondMarket CEO, who says the stock market is broken.
  • Xero opening new LA office for Southern California team.
  • Bank Innovation reports: Fiserv Tops 1 Million Mobile Deposit Capture Users, 7 Million Mobile Users.
  • Radio New Zealand reports: Xero to launch fully into U.S. market in July.
  • Candace Klein, SoMoLend CEO, discusses the hardship that the SEC’s delay of the JOBS Act has caused.
  • Dwolla updates Magneto extension.
  • Yodlee receives 2013 Honorable Mention in Industry Partner category for the Barlow Research Associates’ Monarch Innovation Awards.
  • Virtual Piggy integrates with Oracle ATG Web Commerce, expands reach of network to more than 390,000 brands.
  • Mitek’s Mobile Deposit solution receives top award for Overall Most Innovative from Barlow Research Associates.
  • Management Today interviews Zopa CEO, Giles Andrews.
  • TechCrunch looks at Realty Mogul and its recent win at the Founder Showcase pitch competition. See them in action at FinovateSpring in May.
  • GreenDot and UniRush launch reloadable prepaid Visa card. Join GreenDot for FinovateSpring in San Francisco.
  • Allied Payment Network bill payment technology integrates with CSPI’s Aurora online banking platform.
  • Zooz announces partnership with ChronoPay. Join Zooz in San Francisco for FinovateSpring in May.
  • Identity Theft 911 CEO to lead discussion on social media and insurer risk at upcoming NAMIC seminar.
  • Roadtrip Nation interviews Dan Reed of Bazaarvoice.
  • Money Street Smart reviews TradeKing.
  • Hard Assets Alliance features an interview with Gold Bullion International CEO Steven Feldman.
  • Newfination interviews Taavet Hinrikus of TransferWise.
  • Engine talks about rewarding risk-takers with GoodApril founder Benny Joseph.
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– April 3, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgTech Dirt looks at Narrative Science’s role in algorithmically-generated journalism. Come See Narrative Science at FinovateSpring.
  • Bdaily talks with Monitise EVP, Lisa Stanton, about mobile banking.
  • Numerica Credit Union adopts BBC Easy’s C&I Lending program.
  • CU Times reports Fiserv’s Spot Pay offers CUs a co-branded mobile payment platform and dongle.
  • Forbes looks at the growth of edo, Cardlytics, and Cartera Commerce and how card-linked offers are better than daily deals.
  • TechCruch reports OpenCoin has acquired SimpleHoney. See OpenCoin demo at FinovateSpring in May.
  • ProfitStars launches BillSimple from iPaySolutions.
  • TSYS to present at annual card forum and expo in April.
  • IntelliResponse adds 155th customer, the company’s first credit union.
  • Convenience Store Decisions notes the growing role of mobile payment options such as PayPal and Flint Mobile.
  • FIS, Open Solutions veteran Gary Daniel to join Allied Payment Network. Join them in San Francisco for FinovateSpring.
  • Banking Technology looks at eWise, Pageonce, Mint.com, Kiboo, Holvi, & Moven as PFM resurgence examples.
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– March 29, 2013

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  • Atlanta Business Chronicle takes a look inside the TSYS/NetSpend merger.
  • TradeHero reaches $5 billion in virtual currency traded over 350,000 trades in the first three months.
  • Washington Trust Bank to deploy Jack Henry & Associates‘ SilverLake System core processing platform.
  • The Options Insider interviews TradeKing CEO Don Montanaro.
  • Leading U.S. healthcare insurer invested more than $250k to implement a Kofax-based solution. See Kofax demo at FinovateSpring.
  • Bill.com announces it enables more than 175k businesses to pay and get paid.
  • Fargo bank adds Fiserv mobile banking, payment tools.
  • Dwolla site back up after DDoS attack.
  • BBC Easy launches C & I Loan Management Software for businesses looking to save time on cumbersome BBCs. Check out BBC’s demo at FinovateSpring.
  • Keynote DeviceAnywhere platform now integrated with Worksoft Certif.
  • AH Capital raises more than $100,000 using Realty Mogul’s real estate crowd funding platform. Join Realty Mogul in San Francisco this May at FinovateSpring.
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– March 27, 2013

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  • Acculynk to provide UnionPay International UPOP authentication service via PaySecure.
  • GMC  Software Technology’s GMC Inspire now available as a complete solution with Xerox devices.
  • Klarna AB wins SEK 150 million contract with EVRY.
  • Finextra reports East River FCU & Ishpeming Community FCU to integrate Geezeo’s PFM product.
  • International Business News reports Aditi Technologies and TIBCO Software announce strategic alliance to bolster enterprise social and e-commerce solutions.
  • Lend Academy reports: Lending Club adds monthly income and loan ID filters.
  • American Banker reports: Harleysville Savings chooses Q2ebanking’s online banking platform.
  • TIO Networks surpasses 1 million transactions across all TIO Wallet members.
  • BankersLab launches Collections Edition of its Bank-it mobile game.
  • Bell State Bank deploys Fiserv’s mobile banking system.
  • Banking Technology looks at Kiboo’s participation in London’s fintech Innovation Lab.
  • Wilson Bank & Trust introduces MoneyDesktop to members.
  • TIBCO Software acquires Maporama Solutions.
  • P2P lending comes to real estate courtesy of Realty Mogul.
  • Small Business Computing takes a look at Flint’s pursuit of “highly mobile small businesses.”
  • Retail Touch Points features Jingit and a conversation on the importance of in-store marketing ROI.
  • Bank Crerdit News talks compliance with Fenergo CEO Marc Murphy.
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– March 26, 2013

  • Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgTransferWise featured in HuffPost Students United Kingdom.
  • EZBOB investor John Garfield profiled in The Telegraph.
  • Money.co.uk compares money transfers through Azimo.
  • Fiserv partners with Romania-based Eutron Invest to provide Cash and Logistics solution portfolio to the Romanian market.
  • Forbes looks at the “best of the best” debt crowdfunders including Lending Club, Prosper, Zopa, SoMoLend, Rebirth Financial.
  • SecureKey announced availability of its cloud-based briidge.net identity and authentication platform.
  • ID Analytics introduces fraud detection solutions for online retailers.
  • The Globe and Mail lists Expensify as 1 of 5 apps that take the bumps out of business travel.
  • Petter Made, co-founder and COO of SumUp, talks about the advantages of Dublin as a base for business.
  • Credit Union Times reports: Fiserv launches SpotPay.
  • Finextra reports G&D and PayPal team on pre-paid mobile top-ups in Brazil.
  • Practical eCommerce takes a look at Klarna Invoice for OSC programs.
  • CSI’s globalVCard wins top entrepreneurial prize at 2013 Innovation Project.
  • Newfination interviews CurrencyFair’s Brett Meyers.
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.