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Alumni News– February 19, 2015

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Azimo, Digital Retail Apps, Dwolla, Encap, eToro, Finsphere, Kantox, MaxMyInterest, Motif Investing, PayPal, Pindrop Security, Ping Identity
  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgAmerican Banker: Retail Banking Vet Deanna Oppenheimer Joins Tech Vendor Finsphere.
  • American Banker: Federal Payments Website Partners with PayPal, Dwolla.
  • Kantox Surpasses $1 Billion in Foreign Exchange Transfers.
  • Pindrop Security Raises $30 Million.
  • eToro launches its Popular Investment Programme to recognize and reward the network’s top traders.
  • Phroogal reviews Motif Investing.
  • MaxMyInterest brings consolidated tax reporting functionality to its cash optimization platform.
  • Encap Security CEO Thomas Boström Jörgensen and Ping Identity Managing Director EMEA Jason Goode weigh-in on Touch ID banking.
  • Digital Retail Apps featured in Toronto Star’s coverage of Canada’s first financial technology cluster.
  • Azimo launches its money transfer service in China.
  • Finsphere Lands $1.8 Million, Partners with Visa.
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.

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Kantox Surpasses $1 Billion in Foreign Exchange Transfers

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Kantox

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Foreign exchange management solution Kantox last week announced that it has exceeded $1 billion in currency transfers since its 2011 launch.

The U.K.- and Barcelona-based company reports that $200 million was traded in November and December alone. At this rate, it expects to reach another $1 billion by the end of 2015.

Kantox counts more than 1,000 businesses as clients, which is double the number of businesses that were using the platform a year ago.

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Kantox drives down FX costs by disintermediating banks and brokers with its platform, whereby companies can trade directly with one another.

Kantox demonstrated Peer FX at FinovateEurope 2013. Check out the video here.

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Alumni News—February 18, 2015

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ayondo, BehavioSec, Bluefin Payment Systems, BlueVine, Braintree, Check Point, Coinbase, D3 Banking, Expensify, Hidden Levers, Insuritas, Kantox, Lending Club, Malauzai Software, Mitek, NICE Systems, Payfone, Ripple, Taulia, Temenos, TIO Networks, Tradier, TransferWise, Tuition.io
  • Mitek launches Commercial Mobile Deposit Capture, bringing MDC technology to the enterprise.
  • Malauzai reports doubling revenues, growth of customer base to more than 300 community banks and credit unions.
  • D3Banking adds to leadership team with four new appointments.
  • Check out FinovateEurope 2015 in the press.
  • Bluefin Payment Systems to provide Decryptx point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution to Heartland Payment Systems’ clients.
  • Temenos purchases Akcelerant to accelerate growth in North America.
  • Lending Club partners with BancAlliance, a national consortium of 200 community banks.
  • Fast Company lists BehavioSec, Ripple, Braintree, Expensify, NICE and BlueVine as top innovative companies in the money category
  • PYMNTS discusses retail’s adoption of mPOS with Bluefin Payment systems.
  • ayondo clients now receive free access to real time analysis tools from StockPulse.
  • Kantox uses Apply Financial’s API to enhance customer service and enable more integrated international payments.
  • TechFlash interviews Payfone CEO and co-founder Rodger Desai.
  • Stockhouse: TIO Networks poises to capture major portion of mobile payment market.
  • USA Today highlights Tuition.io for student debt management.
  • TransferWise launches in United States.
  • Code CU to use Insuritas for insurance agency solution.
  • Coinbase Android and iOS apps now available in 11 new languages.
  • Global Financial Private Capital selects HiddenLevers to help advisors grow their practice.
  • Tradier’s API takes 15 million production calls in Jan., a 33% increase in a single month.
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.

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Alumni News– November 13, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Betterment, BioCatch, CAN Capital, DeviceFidelity, Diebiold, Encap, FIS, Fiserv, Fuze Network, Guardian Analytics, Kantox, Larky, Linqto, On Deck Capital, Personal Capital, Ripple, Rippleshot, SigFig, The Currency Cloud, Trulioo, TSYS, VerifyValid, Wealthfront, Xpenditure
  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgKili acquires NFC microSD pioneer DeviceFidelity.
  • American Banker lists Currency Cloud, BioCatch, Linqto, VerifyValid, and Rippleshot as top 10 tech companies to watch.
  • Fintech in the fall: themes and company updates from CAN Capital, Encap Security, Fuze Network, Guardian Analytics, Larky, Ripple, and Xpenditure.
  • American Banker examines 2015 plans for FIS, Fiserv and Diebold.
  • Forbes looks at the success of RoboAdvisors: Betterment, Wealthfront, Personal Capital, and SigFig.
  • Forbes examines Kantox’s P2P FX trading technology.
  • TSYS partners with FICO to deliver a marketing product for card issuers called TSYS Targeted Messaging.
  • Digital Insight enters reseller agreement with Guardian Analytics to deliver anomaly detection services to financial institutions.
  • Trulioo wins 2014 Canadian Technology Companies to watch award from Deloitte.
  • Huffington Post interviews Andrea Gellert, SVP Marketing at OnDeck.
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.

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Finovate Alumni News– April 24, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Actiance, Check, Check Point, Doxo, Kantox, Klarna, Linkable Networks, Simple, ThreatMetrix
  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgLinkable Networks teams up with Ohana to deliver card-linked savings.
  • Actiance launches its Actiance Technology Partner Program.
  • Check Point Software Technologies launches new 41000 Security System, expanding its network security portfolio.
  • The Paypers interviews ThreatMetrix CEO, Reed Taussig.
  • Kantox announces formation of European Advisory Board.
  • doxo launches real-time business analytics and market data for service providers.
  • The Simple customer experience as experienced on a 3 week bike trip to 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.

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Finovate Alumni News– April 22, 2014

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Kantox, Kapitall, MoneyDesktop, Taulia
  • ACI Worldwide joins electronic payments standards organization, EPASOrg, as a principal member.
  • Taulia named to 2014 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area List.
  • Silicon Slopes features MoneyDesktop’s recruiting efforts.
  • Kapitall launches Klub Kapitall loyalty program with reduced live trading commissions.
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.

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Finovate Alumni News– April 3, 2014

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Actiance, BancVue, Braintree, Insuritas, Kantox, Misys, Nostrum Group, PayPal, Top Image Systems
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgTop Image Systems wins awards for innovations in crowdsourcing and mobile imaging.
  • Insuritas E-InsuranceAISLE Platform generated more than 2 million product impressions in March. The technology is deployed in more than 50 banks and credit unions, supporting more than $1.5 million in product sales. See them demo at FinvoateSpring.
  • Misys trade and supply chain finance processing platform embraced by National Australia Bank (NAB).
  • Nostrum Group announces opening of new office in London.
  • Kantox integrates AU10TIX B.O.S solution to auto-classify, authenticate and extract data from of images of customers ID documents.
  • Compliance Week looks at how Actiance helps banks stay compliant with social media.
  • The Australian looks at PayPal’s Braintree.
  • BancVue launches new youth spending app, PiggyBot.
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.

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Finovate Alums Raise $600 Million in First Quarter of 2014

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Azimo, BankBazaar, Birdback, CAN Capital, Credit Karma, Doxo, Kantox, Kapitall, Kensho, Klarna, On Deck Capital, PayNearMe, Payoneer, peerTransfer, Realty Mogul, Red Zebra, SmartAsset, SocietyOne, Spreedly, ThreatMetrix, Tradeshift, ZenPayroll, Zopa

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Want some context on the torrid pace of fintech financing in the first three months of 2014?

Consider this: a year ago, fourteen Finovate alums raised a total of more than $150 million in the first quarter of 2013.

A year later, we have just nine alums raising more than twice as much in the month of March alone.

March Madness, indeed.
Q1 of 2014 saw 23 Finovate alums walk away with just under $600 million in capital. The biggest haul of the quarter came courtesy of Klarna, which raised more than $125 million. 
But there were plenty of similarly impressive fundraisings, including the $85 million raised by Credit Karma, and the $77 million and $75 million secured by OnDeck and Tradeshift, respectively.
Total raised = More than $592 million
January — $91 million raised by seven companies
February — $139 million raised by seven companies
March — $362 million raised by nine companies
Note: Funding prior to becoming a Finovate alum not included. Questions? Comments? Email us at David@finovate.com or Julie@finovate.com

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Finovate Alumni News– March 28, 2014

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: BBVA, BehavioSec, eToro, Kantox, Klarna, Mambu, MasterCard, Nostrum Group
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgMambu wins Cloud Computing Innovation of the Year awards at 2014 FStech Awards.
  • eToro launches new version of OpenBook.
  • Nostrum Group ranked 9th in GP Bullhound’s Northern Tech 50.
  • Global Payments to offer MasterCard’s MasterPass digital payments solution.
  • New partnership means V&D customers will be able to pay via Klarna.
  • Innotribe interviews Kantox’s CEO, Philippe Gelis.
  • The Financial News features BehavioSec.
  • BBVA and Google sponsor developer competition for SME business apps geared toward Spanish, Latin American markets.
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.

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B2B Currency Exchange Specialist Kantox Raises $9 Million in Series A Round

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Kantox

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This time a year ago, Kantox was on stage at FinovateEurope, showing the world its peer-to-peer currency exchange for SMEs.

Today, the company is announcing its largest funding round to date: a Series A investment of €6.5 million (approximately $9 million). The round was led by Partech Ventures and IDinvest Partners, which joined previous investor, Cabiedes & Partners.

The new investment brings the company’s funding total to more than $12 million. Kantox plans to use the capital to help develop its peer-to-peer trading technology, as well as to expand the company’s presence in Europe. Philippe Gelis, Kantox CEO, said, “We are extremely excited to have secured this latest round of funding, and can’t wait to continue building out our sales teams in Germany, France, Spain, the UK and Italy.”

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Kantox specializes in helping small and medium sized businesses access optimal foreign currency exchange rates. Kantox leverages its peer-to-peer technology to provide SMEs with a way to avoid costly (and often undisclosed) FX fees typically demanded by brokerage firms and banks.
“Large corporates enjoy access to really competitive rates while SMEs and mid-caps – who usually don’t have access to live rates or an in-house FX expert – are overcharged by a banking oligopoly which promotes opacity,” Gelis said.
A few Kantox metrics:
  • Serves more than 500 corporate clients
  • Anticipates processing more than 1 billion euros in transactions in 2014.
  • Provides ability to trade more than 25 international currencies
  • Saved more than 70% of its customers more than 80% compared to banks and brokerages
Kantox is one of a number of innovators in this P2P currency exchange space, competing alongside fellow Europeans (and Finovate alums) like CurrencyTransfer and TransferWise. The company is headquartered in the UK, and has offices in Barcelona, Spain.

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Finovate Alumni News– October 4, 2013

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Braintree, CardFlight, Geezeo, Kantox, Mitek, Motif Investing
  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgDel-One Federal Credit Union to offer PFM powered by Geezeo.
  • GigaOm reports: Braintree’s cross-app payment service Venmo Touch comes to the U.K.
  • BBVA blog features Philippe Gelis, founder and CEO of Kantox.
  • Bank Innovation calls CardFlight “a dongle with a difference.”
  • The Financial Brand takes a look at mobile photo account opening via Mitek.
  • Motif Investing CEO talks about motif building in an interview with NBC.
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.

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Finovate Alumni News– February 25, 2013

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Azimo, Banno, BillGuard, Continuity Control, Kantox, Kony Solutions, MasterCard, SafetyPay, Service2Media, TrustedID, TSYS, Xero
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgMasterCard announces MasterPass, enabling one-touch transactions with payment cards and devices.
  • Service2Media launches new version of App Lifecycle Platform, M2Active 4.0.
  • TSYS extends payment processing contract with Green Dot.
  • lovemoney.com features Azimo’s money transfer service.
  • Continuity Control releases regulatory compliance management system for small- to mid-size credit unions.
  • Kantox adds spot transactions to FX to offer a full range of FX services to corporate clients.
  • Kony opens EMEA office, enhances mobile CRM product.
  • Market Consensus reviews BillGuard.
  • New Zealand-based bank, ASB, supports automagic bank feeds into Xero.
  • Next Advisor compares TrustedID with competitor.
  • Des Moines Register reports: Open atmosphere, passion for product help Cedar Falls’ Banno grow.
  • SafetyPay to power Computop’s Paygate payment platform.
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