Alumni News– September 19, 2014

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgGreen Dot Agrees to Buy TPG for Tax Refund Processing.
  • PayPal Here now on Android tablets.
  • Klarna Announces U.S. Team As It Plans For 2015 Launch In The U.S.
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.

Alumni News– August 7, 2014

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  • Payoneer partners with Gosocet to bring cross-border e-invoicing capabilities to Latin American businesses.
  • American Banker interviews Green Dot CEO, Steve Streit, on the relationship between fraud and reload cards.
  • PYMNTS column on what to expect in the 2nd half of 2014 features thoughts from Justin Benson, CEO of Spreedly, and Teri Llach, CMO of Blackhawk Network.
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.

Alumni News– August 7, 2014

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgTSYS to license payment transaction processing platform to Metrobank Card Corporation in the Philippines.
  • Payoneer partners with Gosocet to bring cross-border e-invoicing capabilities to Latin American businesses.
  • American Banker interviews Green Dot CEO, Steve Streit, on the relationship between fraud and reload cards.
  • PYMNTS column on what to expect in the 2nd half of 2014 features thoughts from Justin Benson, CEO of Spreedly, and Teri Llach, CMO of Blackhawk Network.
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– February 26, 2014

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgOn Budget wins 2014 Paybefore Award as “One to Watch.”
  • United Bank Limited picks VoiceTrust for voice biometrics.
  • InComm partners with Asia-based Money Online to launch POS-activated gift card mall solutions in Southeast Asia.
  • Rezzcard to integrate with InComm’s Cashtie to enable Rezzcard cardholders to pay their rent in cash at over 70,000 retail locations.
  • American Banker reports: Western Union to use NICE Customer Analytics. Come see its new tech at FinovateSpring.
  • Xero reaches 100,000 paying customers in Australia.
  • Check out an interview with BRIDGEi2i Director and Co-Founder, Ashish Sharma.
  • SecondMarket considering U.S.-based bitcoin exchange.
  • Live Gamer customers to get access to MasterCard’s MasterPass digital payment service.
  • authenticID enhances ID proofing technology to help combat cloned credit card fraud.
  • Green Dot wins top honors in four categories at 2014 Paybefore awards.
  • Global Banking & Finance Review takes a look at Kalixa Group’s American expansion.
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 19, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgBillhighway listed as one of the 100 Best & Brightest Companies to Work for.
  • Actiance to launch Vantage Compliance App on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange.
  • Virtual Piggy launches new iOS mobile app. 
  • hyperWALLET to integrate with PayNearMe to offer cash payment acceptance options.
  • Uber is first company to use PayPal’s mobile SDK.
  • Acculynk offers UnionPay debit card acceptance to U.S. merchants.
  • American Banker takes a look at efforts by Moven and GreenDot to bring transparency to payments.
  • Techcrunch reviews Finovera, includes shout-outs to Mint, Manilla, and doxo.
  • Intellaegis to provide masterQueue to Portfolio Recovery Associates, world’s largest debt buying company.
  • The Week features Saved Plus in column “3 money apps that look more useful than Coin.”
  • MasterCard and Worldline partner to provide MasterPass-powered digital wallet.
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 8, 2013

  • Thumbnail image for FinovateLOGO.jpgGreen Dot taps Grace Wong as Chief Financial Officer.
  • TSYS extends processing agreement with MainStream Merchant Services.
  • FIS brings cloud-based, real-time, core banking utility to Central, Eastern European mid-tier banks.
  • Fenergo secures 4 million euro investment from Investec Ventures.
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.

GoBank Goes Live, Mobile Banking App Available on iOS

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Out of the beta and into the App Store.

That’s the news out of GoBank, the first bank designed from the ground up with mobile banking in mind. Developed by Green Dot and FDIC insured, GoBank has been in private beta all year. Today marks the first time that the general public will be able to download the GoBank app and begin opening and managing their accounts.

       

The GoBank mobile app is currently available only on iOS. An Android version is expected soon. The app can be downloaded from the Apple AppStore or at GoBank.com
A number of companies will be distributing the app, including Rewardable, Tango Card, WePay, and Finovate alum, Check. The launch will be accompanied by promotional campaigns ranging from in-store promotions at Barnes & Noble bookstores, to sponsorship of the upcoming season of reality show, Project Runway.
GoBank was one of the companies that demoed their technology at FinovateSpring 2013 this May in San Francisco. See the company’s technology at work here.

Finovate Alumni News — June 25, 2013

  • FinovateLOGO.jpgProfitStars launches Gladiator eBanking Compliance Services.
  • IntelliResponse announces release of VOICES, virtual agent technology that captures consumer data from client interactions.
  • GoBank emerges from beta, mobile app now available on iOS.
  • ACI Worldwide launches Proactive Risk Manager to combat account takeover and ACH/wire fraud.
  • Check out Stockr’s winning video at Splash LA May 2013.
  • ReadyForZero announces new credit score and mortgage resource centers.
  • Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche named 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner.
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– June 11, 2013

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  • miiCard partners with authentication company, Toopher, to help users and businesses more effectively fight fraud and secure new services online.
  • BBVA Compass deploys Mitek’s Mobile Photo Bill Pay.
  • TIBCO Software acquires StreamBase Systems.
  • Kofax issued patent that covers sending receipt confirmation for a fax.
  • AU Arts Hub profiles Narrative Science’s approach to journalism.
  • Cashstar announces patent for virtual gift card technology.
  • Keynote brings MITE Enterprise, DeviceAnywhere Enterprise to UFT users.
  • Green Dot to acquire Walmart’s reloadable prepaid card business, MoneyCard.
  • Affinity Solutions raises more than $21 million.
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.

GreenDot Introduces GoBank, the Mobile-Optimized Bank

GoBank_Logo_small.jpgThis post is part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

One of the biggest names in prepaid cards, GreenDot is here to present their latest innovation: GoBank.
“GoBank is a brand of Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC. GoBank is the first bank account designed from scratch to be opened and used on a mobile device. With GoBank, members have full access and control of their money from their iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android device, have no overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements, and can withdraw cash from more than 42,000 fee-free ATMs in the U.S.”
Product Launched: 2013: beta in January; general availability in June
HQ Location: Pasadena, California
Company Founded: Green Dot, 1999; GoBank 2013
Metrics: More than 590 team members; more than 4 million active prepaid cardholders
Website: gobank.com
Twitter: @gobank
Presenting Steve Streit (CEO & Chairman) and Alok Deshpande (VP Product Development)

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Finovate Alumni News– April 24, 2013

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgAdobe and SapientNitro form partnership. Come see Adobe’s new tech at FinovateSpring.
  • Forbes lists Zopa as 1 of 10 top P2P lending platforms in Europe. 
  • MicroStrategy unveils upgrade to company’s enterprise analytics platform. See them demo at FinovateSpring in May.
  • Bank Systems & Technology takes a look at ACI Worldwide’s new Universal Payments Platform.
  • CommunityLend’s FinanceIt named 1 of Branham300’s Top 25 Up-and-Coming companies.
  • Is TransferWise a “simplified PayPal for business banking”?
  • ACI Worldwide to offer Mobile Bill Pay Suite.
  • Bank Investment Consultant features social media resource Finect. Come meet Finect at FinovateSpring in San Francisco in May.
  • Newser takes a look at Green Dot’s new online bank: GoBank. See a demo of GoBank at FinovateSpring.
  • Motherhood Moment interviews TipRanks CEO and co-founder Uri Gruenbaun. See TipRanks in action 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.

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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