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Finovate Alumni News– January 17, 2013

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Bill.com, BillFloat, Compass Plus, Dashlane, Dwolla, ImpulseSave, Jack Henry, MasterCard, Mitek, PayPal, Standard Chartered Bank, TIO Networks
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgBillFloat announces $21 million in new funding.
  • Jack Henry & Associates launches retail and commercial lending platform.
  • Compass Plus completes benchmark testing on HP servers.
  • ImpulseSave releases Google Chrome e-commerce plug-in.
  • Dashlane partners with Pwnedlist to enhance security alerts. Check out Dashlane’s live demo at FinovateEurope next month.
  • Mitek to launch Mobile Deposit Alliance, allowing participant banks to share deposit data.
  • TechCrunch reports: eBay And PayPal Expect To Do $20 Billion Each In 2013 Mobile Commerce.
  • El Paso Electric Company partners with TIO Networks Corp to launch EPE MobilePay.
  • Dwolla introduces Guest Send to help developers building bank software make payments from one account to another.
  • Bill.com wins Best Software as a Service category of the 2012-2013 Cloud Awards Program.
  • Clearstream chooses Standard Chartered Bank as its clearing and settlement agent for its investments in South Africa.
  • Payments.com profiles MasterCard Worldwide’s initiatives in Africa.
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– December 12, 2012

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Categories: BrightScope, MasterCard, TSYS, Zopa

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  • BrightScope’s annual list of top 401(k) funds has been highlighted in The New York Times.
  • Two credit unions sign deal with TSYS to provide payments services for consumer credit businesses.
  • MasterCard announces investment in and partnership with C-SAM.
  • British government to loan 10 million pounds to SMEs by way of P2P lender, Zopa.
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– December 11, 2012

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Bill.com, Capital Access Network, FIS, Flint Mobile, MasterCard, Monitise
  • From online to the desktop, Bill.com is now fully integrated with Quickbooks.
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgFIS announces deal with VW Credit for North American loan and lease processing.
  • New team at Capital Acess Network to build online lending engine, CapTap.
  • MasterCard launches ‘cash electronification’ service rePower in Europe.
  • Monitise and Intuit partner to bring Mint to financial institutions.
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– December 5, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Figlo, Fiserv, Keynote DeviceAnywhere, MasterCard, Mitek, SoMoLend

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  • Mitek to power US Bank’s mobile photo bill pay; launching early 2013.
  • Fiserv reaches milestone, delivers 2 billionth e-bill.
  • The Financial Brand looks at Knab’s online bank that runs on Figlo’s platform.
  • The city of Cincinnati partners with SoMoLend to support small businesses.
  • Forbes ranks Keynote Systems “one of the best 100 companies in America.”
  • US Airways implements MasterCard PayPass for in-flight purchases.
  • Keynote Systems DeviceAnywhere now integrated with HP’s QuickTest Professional.
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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FinovateFall 2012 in the Press

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: aSpark, Banno, Credit Sesame, Dashlane, Deluxe, Dynamics, eToro, Ideon FS, ImpulseSave, LearnVest, Linkable Networks, Locaid, MasterCard, MoneyDesktop, mShift, Payfone, PayTap, Personal Capital, PreCash, Stockr, The Currency Cloud, Thomson Reuters, Tuition.io
Here’s a look at the press coverage from FinovateFall 2012 held September 12 and 13 in New York:
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ABA Banking Journal
Bank Technologists Meet American Idol
by John Ginovsky

AdvisorOne
Stock Picking Goes Social as Stockr, aSpark Debut
by Joyce Hanson
American Banker
Apple Effect Evident at Innovator Gathering
by Mary Wisniewski
Dynamics Adds Another Option for Its High-Tech Cards
by Daniel Wolfe
Payfone Aims to Make Mobile Payments Pain-Free
by John Adams
PreCash to Debut Mobile Wallet for the Underbanked
by Daniel Wolfe
Reporter’s Notebook: Day 1 FinovateFall Favorites
by Mary Wisniewski

The Top 10 Tweets of Finovate

Andera blog
Finovate Takeaway: User Experience in Retail Transactions
by Andrea Hunter

Bank Innovation
Finovate Fall 2012: Demo Performance Scores and Reviews
by JJ Hornblass

Wade Arnold, CEO of Banno, Presents Grip
by Phillip Ryan

Bank Systems & Technology
5 Hot Bank Technologies From FinovateFall 2012
by Bryan Yurcan
Banno Releases Updated Grip Product
by Bryan Yurcan
MasterCard Forms New Rewards Program Partnership with Linkables Networks
by Jonathan Camhi
Mobile Commerce Company Payfone Debuts Checkout Solution
by Bryan Yurcan

Business Insider
Financial Planning Startup LearnVest Already Has Millionaire Clients
by Alyson Shontell

The Business Review 
To save or buy is ImpulseSave’s question

Celent
FinovateFall 2012 Recap
by Jacob Jegher

Consumer Reports 
Finovate Fall 2012: A solution to the mortgage crisis?
by Tobie Stanger
Finovate Fall 2012: Help with students’ loans and seniors’ bills
by Tobie Stanger

Finovate Fall 2012: Making, managing and keeping money
by Tobie Stanger

Finovate Fall 2012: Now maybe you’ll switch banks
by Tobie Stanger

Contactless News
Dynamics unveils Triple Interface, battery-powered payment card

Credit Sesame Blog
Check Out the Newest Way to Measure Your Credit and Loan Health!
by Erin Renzas

CreditUnions.com
Finovate Dispenses Inspiring Ideas (Part 1)
by Aaron Pugh

Finovate Dispenses Inspiring Ideas (Part 2)
by Aaron Pugh
The Currency Cloud blog
Finovate NY – Video & Photo Diary
by Nasir Zubairi 

CU Soapbox
GUEST POST: Innovation Unveiled In The Big Apple
Alix Patterson

Daily Finance
A Digital Wallet for the Unbanked: Mobile Finance Goes Downmarket
by Ross Kenneth Urken

The Digital Mailer Blog
FinovateFall 2012: A Recap

Discerning Technologist
Best of Show Locked Up? @MoneyDesktop Demo At #Finovate
by Bradley Leimer
Dough Roller blog
The Best Way to Track Your Investments Online (and it’s Free!)
by Rob Berger

Dwolla Blog

Dwolla at FinovateFall
by Caitlin
Financial Planning 
LearnVest Becomes an RIA, Plans to Hire Advisors
by Elizabeth Wine
Finextra
EToro launches social trading index
PreCash introduces mobile wallet for underbanked
Fintech Marketing blog
William Mills III, CEO William Mills Agency Live Blog from Finovate Fall NYC 2012-DAY ONE
by William Mills III
William Mills III, CEO William Mills Agency Live Blog from Finovate Fall NYC 2012-DAY TWO
by William Mills III
FintechToday
TOP TEN AT FINOVATE 2012
by Walt Cox
Forbes blog
4 Great New Tools to Manage Your Money
by Richard Eisenberg
Gonzobanker Can Make FinTech Amusing
by Tom Groenfeldt
LearnVest Reinvests In Its Mission: Financial Planning For The 99%
by Meghan Casserly
If You Want to Really Raise Capital, Try This Company and Not KickStarter
by Mark Fidelman
The Problem with Finovate
by Helaine Olen
GigaOM
Forget Mint, LearnVest’s new platform takes aim at financial planning industry
by Ki Mae Heussner
Locaid bolsters location service with IP address data
by Ryan Kim
Gonzo Banker
Vendor Dirt: 2012 Finovate Fall
by Scott Hodgins
Huffington Post Money Blog
Online Financial Planning: The Chilling Thing I Found Out About My 70th Birthday
by Catherine New
JP Nicols Blog
Finovate Fall 2012 Best of Show Winners
by JP Nicols
Keeping Nickels
My Tweets from #Finovate
by Nichelle Stephens
Moment NYC blog
Finovate Fall 2012: Less tech, more desire.
by Alexa Curtis
MyBankTracker
Dashlane: Finally Something that Might Actually Make Online Shopping Easier
Dynamics Introduces Card Capable of Swipe, EMV, Contactless Payments
Finovate Wrap-Up: What Can FinTech Do for You? Really?
by Willy Staley
Ideon Choice Unveils Platform for Customer-Created Savings Products
ImpulseSave: Another App to Help You Save
LearnVest Gets SEC Certified, Announces Mobile App, Upgrades
by Willy Staley
Linkable Networks, MasterCard Expand Card-Linked Offers
by Simon Zhen
Locaid: Enter the Digital Panopticon!
MoneyDesktop Connects PFMs Across Multiple Devices
mShift’s AnyWhereMobile Wallet Actually Adds Value
by Willy Staley
New Technologies Are Coming for Unbanked, Underbanked
by Simon Zhen
PayTap Debuts Shared Bill Payment Portal
PreCash Announces FlipMoney at Finovate: Mobile Money for the Underbanked
by Willy Staley
SwitchAgent: Bank-Switching Made Easy
by Simon Zhen
Tuition.io — It’s a Pun, Get It?
The New York Times Blog
LearnVest Dips Its Toes Into Investment Advice
by Ann Carrns
Next Avenue
4 Great New Tools to Manage Your Money
by Richard Eisenberg
NYConvergence
FINOVATE: Mobile and Social FinTech Innovations Dominate
by Lauren Keyson

PandoDaily
The Consumerization of Life’s Ickiest Chores Continues: LearnVest Injects Its Financial Planning Tools With Steroids
by Erin Griffith
PaymentEye
Payfone launches a mobile commerce checkout solution
PaymentsJournal 
MasterCard Keeps Investing in Rewards, This Time With Linkable Networks
PaymentsNews 
FinovateFall 2012 – Best of Show Winners
Payfone To Launch Mobile Commerce Checkout Solution
PayTap Launches Social Bill Pay Service
PreCash Introduces FlipMoney Mobile Wallet for Underbanked Consumers
The Paypers
Banno adds new features to Grip financial aggregation app
Payfone makes 1 Touch Checkout available, partners CardinalCommerce
PC World
New web apps tackle business finance problems
by Yardena Arar
PYMNTS
Banno Unveils New Features for Grip, Strengthens the Mobile Banking Standard with Pre-Transaction Insights
Silicon Prairie News
Banno unveils upgraded interface, new analysis tools for Grip
by Michael Stacy
Snarketing 2.0
SedUIced
by Ron Shevlin

Advice For Finovate Presenters
by Ron Shevlin
TechCrunch
Credit Sesame Adds Social Comparison Tools, Lets You See How Your Debt Compares With People Like You
by Sarah Perez
Dashlane’s Password Management Service Now Alerts Users When Their Accounts May Be Hacked
by Sarah Perez
It’s Not Just For Women Anymore: LearnVest Brings Financial – And Now Investment – Planning To Everyone
by Sarah Perez
Money Management Service Personal Capital Wants To Manage Your 401K
by Leena Rao
Telecompaper
Payfone launches m-commerce checkout service
Tier One blog
Finovate: Day One in Review
by Kathy Wilson
FinovateFall Part Two! All about Savings, Security and Slick New PFM Tools
by Sue Parente
The Next Web
eToro launches Social Trading Index for learning from other traders and sharing top techniques
by Jamillah Knowles
LearnVest launches redesigned tools, new financial plans and teases its upcoming iPhone app
by Harrison Weber
Thomson Reuters 
EPAM Systems and Thomson Reuters announced a partnership to develop and host an App Store solution
Upstart Business Journal
Financial planning, iPad app among best at Finovate
by Kent Bernhard, Jr
Get a 401(k), win an iPhone5
by Kent Bernhard, Jr 
LearnVest targets masses for professional financial advice
by Teresa Novellino 
No need to wait for crowdfunding
by Kent Bernhard, Jr
Personal Capital aims to disrupt 401(k)
by Kent Bernhard, Jr
Sci-fi meets finance at Finovate
by Kent Bernhard, Jr
VentureBeat
Financial planning for all: LearnVest gets its biggest update yet
by Devindra Hardawar

Locaid launches Internet and mobile location-tracking service
by Dean Takahashi
Be sure to check back because we’ll add more coverage as it is published throughout the week.

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MasterCard and Linkable Networks Showed How They Can Make it Easy for Banks to Implement Card-Linked Offers

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2012, Linkable Networks, MasterCard

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Then, MasterCard and Linkable Networks took the stage to demo how banks can quickly implement card-linked offers:

“MasterCard and Linkable Networks will demo the industry-first capability of enabling any MasterCard-issuing bank to present a comprehensive card-linked offer platform to their cardholders with no technical integration, allowing for these issuers to participate in this burgeoning market with no strain on internal technical and financial resources, as well as an ability to launch the capability in days, not months or years.”

Product Launched: August 2012
HQ Location: Boston, MA
Company Founded: September 2010
Metrics: 25 employees and actively engaged in an ongoing search/hiring process for several positions (both technical and non-technical). Linkable Networks has raised $11.8M from several key investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Citi Ventures, and Kepha Partners.
Twitter: @Linkables
Finovate demo video: finovate.com/fall12vid/ (demo video will be posted next week)
Introducing Tom Burgess (CEO at Linkable Networks), Doug Spear (Co-Founder and Executive Vice President), and Mario Shiliashki (SVP, Emerging Payments of MasterCard Worldwide)
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Truaxis Acquired by MasterCard

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: MasterCard, Truaxis

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Truaxis (formerly BillShrink) announced that it has been acquired by MasterCard for an undisclosed amount.

As part of this deal, the Truaxis platform will be integrated with MasterCard’s network, enabling it to offer merchants and FIs access to Truaxis’ card-linked offers solution.

Additionally, the deal will help Truaxis expand. According to CEO Schwark Satyavolu:

“Being part of the MasterCard family allows us to scale our technology platforms and continue to grow our issuer distribution pipeline globally to deliver highly personalized offers to consumers, through their preferred channels.”

To learn more about Truaxis, watch its FinovateFall 2011 demo and come to FinovateFall 2012 next week to check out its live demo.

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mFoundry Receives $18 Million in Capital Investments

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: MasterCard, mFoundry

mFoundryandMasterCard.jpgOne week after mFoundry formed a partnership with MasterCard, they announced an $18 million investment from MasterCard, along with Intel, FIS, and Motorola Mobility:

“The capital will be used to fund the development of new payments-related mobile products and services targeted at financial institutions and mobile network operators. mFoundry will also use the proceeds to support the expansion of their existing and profitable mobile banking business.”
mFoundry will continue to work closely with FIS on mobile banking opportunities, but will also work with MasterCard, Intel, and Motorola Mobility on payments innovations.
To learn more about mFoundry and MasterCard, watch mFoundry’s FinovateFall 2010 demo and MasterCard’s FinovateFall 2011 demo.

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Finovate Alumni News– December 2, 2011

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Boku, Dwolla, Expensify, Jemstep, Leadfusion, Lending Club, MasterCard, mFoundry, peerTransfer, Prosper, SecondMarket, Simple

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  • MasterCard and mFoundry executives discuss partnership.
  • The Silicon Prairie names Dwolla number 1 startup in DesMoines, looks for a number 2 startup following the “Dwolla-trajectory.”
  • Simple is slowly sending out a few dozen invites at a time.
  • Prosper announces its support of UK P2P Finance Association.
  • The Social Lending Network shows off Lending Club’s Trading Platform.
  • Bloomberg Businessweek lists Expensify as an app that lets you work like an executive.
  • peerTransfer partners with Nelnet Business Solutions, provider of campus commerce services.
  • Boku, SecondMarket, & Lending Club listed in Forbes Top 20 Private Companies.
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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MasterCard Invests in mFoundry to Bring PayPass to Mobile Phones

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: MasterCard, mFoundry

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Mobile banking solutions provider mFoundry announced a partnership with MasterCard yesterday. 

The new alliance will enable mFoundry to provide its network of over 500 financial institutions with MasterCard’s NFC-based PayPass technology. 

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To learn more about mFoundry and MasterCard, watch mFoundry’s FinovateFall 2010 demo and MasterCard’s FinovateFall 2011 demo.

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Finovate Alumni News– December 1, 2011

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, ActivePath, billFLO, Cardlytics, Continuity Control, Dwolla, HelloWallet, MasterCard, mFoundry, PayPal, peerTransfer, Plastyc

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  • Bank Technology News lists ActivePath, Cardlytics, and PayPal as 3 of the top 10 tech companies to watch.
  • mFoundry powers First Hawaiian Bank’s m-banking.
  • The Houston Chronicle examines how Dwolla helps consumers give money to friends & family without exchanging cash.
  • Mixergy interviews Matt Fellowes, CEO of HelloWallet, to discover how it went from 0 to 300K subscribers in 5 months.
  • Plastyc receives over $1.2 mil in new funding from undisclosed investor.
  • Acculynk forms International Internet PIN Acceptance Consortium with major e-commerce merchants.
  • Taulia’s billFLO to continue service beyond December 1 shutdown date.
  • Continuity Control doubles 3rd quarter revenue, partners with BancVue.
  • PeerTransfer partners with Tuition Management Systems.
  • MasterCard invests in mFoundry to bring PayPass to mobile phones.
  • Dwolla now free for transactions under $10.
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 Website Traffic in September

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Adobe, Andera, Betterment, Bill.com, Billeo, BillFloat, Bills.com, Boku, BrightScope, Bundle, Cardlytics, CashEdge, CashStar, ChargeSmart, Check Point, CheckFree, Cortera, Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, Credit.com, DebtGoal, Discover, Doxo, Equifax, eRollover, eToro, Expensify, Experian, FeeFighters, findabetterbank.com, Fiserv, Google, HR Block, Infosys, Intuit, Jack Henry, Kabbage, Kapitall, Kasasa, Leadfusion, LearnVest, Lending Club, Lendio, MasterCard, Metavante, Mint.com, MoneyAisle, Motley Fool CAPS, MyBankTracker, Offermatic, Online Resources, Outright.com, Pageonce, PayPal, Prosper, Receivables Exchange, S1, Sears Credit Score, Seeking Alpha, Simple, Simple Tuition, smartcredit.com, SmartyPig, Standard Chartered Bank, Stocktwits, Striata, Sybase 365, TradeKing, TransUnion Interactive, Truaxis, TrustedID, TSYS, VISA, Wall Street Survivor, Weemba, Wesabe, Wikinvest, wipro, Yodlee, Zecco
Each month we survey the Web-traffic performance of Finovate alums using data from Web-analytics company Compete.
Out of 268 alumni, 80 had more than 10,000 unique U.S. visitors in September 2011 and are included in the tables below. Of those, 33 (41%) had more visitors in September than August. Year-over-year, 42 (52%) had traffic increases.
Private Companies
  • Seeking Alpha and Cortera had the highest traffic in September with 2.1 and 2.0 million unique visitors, respectively. Cortera also had the highest increase in number of unique year-over-year visits with over 1.5 more visits in 2011 than in 2010.
  • Kabbage had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, up 280x.
  • Weemba saw the highest monthly growth percentage with more than 7.5 times the number of unique visitors in September compared to August.
  • SmartCredit.com had the highest increase in number of unique year-over-year visitors, growing by 126,000.
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Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 26, 2011
 
1) The previous month recorded was August 2011
2) Sears Credit Score is powered by CreditKarma.com
3) Truaxis was formerly BillShrink
4) Kasasa is powered by BancVue
Public companies
 
  • CheckFree had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, with over 7 times the number of visitors this year than last year.
  • Intuit had a notable increase in number of unique, year-over-year visitors, increasing by 300,000 visits.
  • Check Point had the highest month-over-month percent growth, with 41% more visitors in September than in August.
PublicWebTrafficSeptember2.jpgSource: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 26, 2011

1) The previous month recorded was July 2011.
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Notes:
1. We reviewed 268 Finovate alumni. Only those with at least 10,000 unique visitors in July are listed.
3. NM = not measurable
4. t= tie
5. Compete estimates online visitors based on the activity of a panel of more than 2 million U.S. Internet users. It is only an estimate of traffic and may undercount at-work usage.

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