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MasterCard Accelerator for European Startups Announces May 16 Deadline

By David Penn Posted on May 7, 2014
Categories: MasterCard

Are you a European startup with seed funding and a beta program ready to go?

If so, MasterCard’s Start Path Accelerator program may be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

The Start Path Accelerator program will give up to eight startups the opportunity to spend four months in Dublin working with MasterCard. The companies will also be mentored by program partners like Asos and Capital One. The goal of the program is for each startup to develop a pilot project with MasterCard or a MasterCard partner during the period.

Startups will also receive €35,000 to help cover expenses while working in Ireland.

MasterCard says that companies participating in the program will have “direct access” to the company’s wealth of knowledge and experience. We also know that MasterCard’s knowledge and experience with incubators and accelerators likely has been enhanced through their work with other successful programs such as FinTech Collective and Techstars.

If you’re interested, there’s no time like the present to apply. The deadline for applications is Friday, May 16.

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Finovate Alumni News- May 2, 2014

By David Penn Posted on May 2, 2014
Categories: Banno, Jack Henry, MasterCard, PayPal, SafetyPay

MasterCard announces Australian launch of mobile payment app for education expenses.

PayPal partners with checkout app MyCheck.

SafetyPay teams up with Brazil’s UOL Boa Compra to bring online payments to gamers in Latin America.

SEC filings show Jack Henry’ & Associates’ $28 million cash expense for Banno acquisition.

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 18, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 18, 2014
Categories: Expensify, FutureAdvisor, Kabbage, Lending Club, MasterCard, MiiCard, Pindrop Security, Tuition.io

Tuition.io brings in funding, surpasses $1 billion in loans under management.

eWeek talks to Pindrop Security about scams during tax season.

PYMNTS.com chats with miiCard CEO James Varga about identity theft.

Financial Samurai interviews FutureAdvisor CEO, Bo Lu.

Lending Club raises $115 million in debt and equity; acquires Springstone Financial.

Kabbage blog features Expensify in its list of the 10 best mobile apps for small businesses.

MasterCard to acquire APAC-region loyalty and rewards provider, Pinpoint.

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 Make Fast Company’s Top 10 Most Innovative in Finance

By David Penn Posted on April 16, 2014
Categories: Dwolla, eToro, MasterCard, NICE Systems, OneID, TransferWise

Who knew? More than half of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in finance are Finovate alums.

Don’t just take our word for it. Fast Company published its roster of innovation in the financial space as part of their quest to find those companies that are “creating radical new approaches to move cash from one place to another.”

And among such widely-known and talked-about entities as Square and Bitcoin, we find more than a handful of innovators who have used the Finovate stage to help show their technology to the world.

Take a look at the companies below, accompanied by Fast Company’s take on just what makes each innovator truly unique.

#1 NICE Systems

Fast Company: “For connecting banks and other clients to frazzled end users when problems arise.”

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#5 Dwolla

Fast Company: “For daring to take on the fee-laden credit card establishment.”

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#6 TransferWise

Fast Company: “For slashing pesky foreign-exchange costs by creating a transparent peer-to-peer network.”

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#7 OneID

Fast Company: “For establishing a single login for web users and taking a giant leap toward eradicating the scourge of the Internet: passwords.”

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#8 MasterCard

Fast Company: “For luring international customers with a mobile-payment network that lets them purchase with a simple click.”

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#10 eToro

Fast Company: “For creating a social network that lets traders emulate those with skin in the game.”

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Finovate Alumni News– April 4, 2014

By David Penn Posted on April 4, 2014
Categories: Actiance, Equifax, Fiserv, MasterCard, Yseop

Have you checked out the six companies in our latest FinovateSpring 2014 Sneak Peek?

MasterCard partners with SIX Payment Services to bring MasterPass to Switzerland.

Texas Bay Area Credit Union to deploy Fiserv payments solution suite.

New agreement means MasterCard EMV debit cards will run on First Data’s STAR Network.

Pymnts News: Equifax partners with Jumio for Mobile Commerce.

Actiance’s partnership with Trustlink to give it access to a growing market in Africa.

D magazine interviews Yseop CEO John Rauscher. See Yseop demo at FinovateSpring in San Jose.

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– March 28, 2014

By David Penn Posted on March 28, 2014
Categories: BBVA, BehavioSec, eToro, Kantox, Klarna, Mambu, MasterCard, Nostrum Group

Mambu 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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Finovate Alumni News — March 26, 2014

By David Penn Posted on March 26, 2014
Categories: Boku, Digital Insight, Dynamics, Fidor Bank, Jumio, Kasasa, Kofax, MasterCard, MiiCard, ProfitStars, Xero, ZipZap

ProfitStars’ Gladiator ranks #36 in MSPmentor’s top 501 managed service providers.

Kofax Mobile Capture platform wins “Elegant Implementation” category of Housing-Wire magazine’s HW TECH 100.

Online TV host Doug Sleeter interviews Xero CEO, Rod Drury.

Jumio wins 2014 METAward in “established” category.

BancVue releases its Kasasa PFM app.

miiCard bringing its ID verification technology to eMerchantPay.

WTOP News asks: is the credit card with keypad from Dynamics is the “card of the future”?

MasterCard selects Anna Yip as head of Hong Kong and Macau.

Digital Insight to expand online banking portfolio to include shared access and small business payments. Come see Digital Insight demo at FinovateSpring next month.

Kraken, the digital currency exchange platform used by Fidor Bank, raises $5 million.

ZipZap pauses UK cash-to-bitcoin transfers through its platform.

Boku partners with sunhill technologies to enable direct global carrier billing for sunhill’s services.

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– March 21, 2014

By David Penn Posted on March 21, 2014
Categories: App Annie, MasterCard, MiiCard, PayNearMe, Payoneer, PayPal, Ping Identity, Q2ebanking

TechCrunch features an interview with App Annie CEO, Bertrand Schmitt.

MasterCard announces MasterPass debut in China.

Q2 goes public, shares rally early in trading debut as company earns $533 million market cap.

miiCard working with eMerchantPay to offer merchants a more secure payment processing platform.

PayNearMe partners with self-storage management software E-SoftSys to enable users to accept cash payments online.

PayPal to let UK users order food ahead of visiting a restaurant, and use its app to pay for their food with a four-digit code when eating at a restaurant.

Venture Beat: Ping Identity acquires Accells Technologies.

Payoneer wins role as payments provider for Google Trusted Stores.

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– March 20, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 20, 2014
Categories: Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, Feedzai, Fenergo, MasterCard, Matchi, mBank, Narrative Science, SecondMarket, Striata, Thomson Reuters

More than 25 banks have signed up for Matchi since its launch in November last year.

American Banker looks at how Credit Karma and Credit Sesame provide more than just a credit score.

Thomson Reuters launches Know-Your-Customer service.

SecondMarket seeks to open Bitcoin fund to ordinary investors.

Pymnts features Feedzai’s CEO Nuno Sebastiao.

Striata unveils new logo, new website.

Fenergo appoints Oliver White to UK Head of Sales.

mBank and Orange partner to launch full-service, retail mobile bank in second half of 2014.

MasterPass from MasterCard now available in Italy.

Narrative Science launches free app to turn data into readable documents.

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– March 12, 2014

By David Penn Posted on March 12, 2014
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Actiance, Cachet Financial Solutions, Credit Sesame, Fiserv, Guide Financial, Leaf, Lighter Capital, MasterCard, SigFig, Top Image Systems, Toshl, VerifyValid

Fiserv digital banking solutions to be deployed at Finger Lakes Federal Credit Union.

ACI Worldwide launches latest version of UP BASE24-eps to enable “any-to-any” real-time payments.

Market Platform Dynamics CEO Karen Webster interviews Aron Schwarzkopf, CEO of Leaf.

The Guardian ranks Toshl among its top ten free apps for students.

Fiserv and MasterCard reach agreement to support adoption of debit EMV technology.

PromotedApp features VerifyValid’s multi-purpose, electronic checkbook.

TechCrunch: SigFig hires Financial Engines exec Steve Lifgren to build out its operations team.

The Start reports: Revenue loans like the ones from Lighter Capital are new way for tech firms to raise cash.

Actiance launches Socialite Feature Control, a new licensing option, in response to SEC ruling.

Credit Sesame launches premium services to better protect people’s credit and identity.

Cachet Financial Solutions acquires prepaid mobile platform business unit from DeviceFidelity.

Top Image Systems launches MobiREMIT, mobile remittance processing to streamline and accelerate payment processing.

Guide Financial to provide software for the more than 300 advisory firms in the Garrett Planning 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.

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Finovate Alumni News — March 4, 2014

By David Penn Posted on March 4, 2014
Categories: CUneXus Solutions, Digital Mailer, Fiserv, Jack Henry, LICUOS, MasterCard, MicroStrategy, VerifyValid

Jack Henry & Associates completes acquisition of Banno.

VerifyValid announces new iPhone app, Mobile Checkbook.

Finovate alums Fiserv, MicroStrategy, Digital Mailer, LICUOS, and CUneXus demo at Bank Innovation 2014 DEMOvation event. Catch Fiserv and CUneXus at FinovateSpring 2014 in San Jose.

MasterCard expands presence in Africa, entering seven new 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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Finovate Alumni News– February 26, 2014

By David Penn Posted on February 26, 2014
Categories: authenticID, BRIDGEi2i, CRIF, Green Dot, InComm, Kalixa, MasterCard, Mobino, NICE Systems, OnBudget, SaaS Markets, SecondMarket, VoiceTrust, Xero

On Budget wins 2014 Paybefore Award as “One to Watch.”

FinovateEurope: Behind the Scenes with CRIF, Mobino, and SaaS Markets.

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.

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