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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on July 6, 2015
Categories: Azimo, Better ATM Services, BillGuard, Bitbond, blooom, Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, Currency Cloud, Dwolla, FamZoo, Global Debt Registry, Hedgeable, Hip Pocket, Lighter Capital, Loop, Monitise, PayPal, PsychSignal, Realty Mogul, Top Image Systems, Xero, Zopa

On Finovate.com

“PayPal’s Early Valuation Tops $44 Billion”

“Monitise to Emphasize API, On-Site Solutions in Strategy Shift”

Around the web

Xero to offer foreign invoice payments via new partnership with Midpoint Holdings.

Loop featured in profile of Samsung Pay.

PYMNTS.com takes a look at PayPal CEO Dan Schulman’s conversation with the Financial Times.

Gulf News Banking highlights Zopa in its review of the rise of P2P business lending.

Ferratum Group selects Mambu to Power SME Lending.

Top Image Systems to deploy an automated multichannel and mobile data-capture project for online financing company that provides funds to India-based SMBs.

Lighter Capital closes 100 deals.

CDApress recommends FamZoo to help kids understand personal finance skills.

Credit.com blog lists Global Debt Registry as a tool to help get rid of an old debt.

Better ATM Services CEO Todd Nuttall quoted in Australian Times column on how technology delivers a growing share of bank services.

My Bank Tracker reviews and compares Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, and BillGuard.

The Bitcoin News interviews the new online marketing manager for Bitbond, Chris Grundy.

Wall Street Journal features PsychSignal in a review of stock market sentiment and social media.

Inc. feature on Silicon Prairie highlights Blooom, Hip Pocket, and Dwolla.

Rise in tech investment in the United Kingdom credited to companies like Azimo and Currency Cloud in London’s fintech sector.

Forbes column on investing for millennials features Hedgeable.

Realty Mogul adds two new vice presidents of commercial real estate.

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

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on July 2, 2015
Categories: ayondo, BankBazaar, eWise, i-exceed, Kony Solutions, Monitise

On Finovate.com:

Bankbazaar Scores $60 Million in Funding Led by Amazon.

i-exceed Teams Up with Kris FinSoftware to Promote the Mobile Internet in the Philippines

Around the web:

Wealth Help to launch advanced PFM tool using the eWise Money Manager solution.

Lufthansa Industry Solutions to use Kony to enhance its mobile portfolio.

ayondo purchases additional insurance for clients from the Lloyd’s insurance marketplace totaling up to $728k per client.

ReadyForZero completely redesigns mobile app.

Silicon Prairie News interviews Hip Pocket’s Mark Zmarzly.

Banco Santander and Monitise form a $31 million joint venture that will invest in and build fintech startups.

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

By David Penn Posted on April 13, 2015
Categories: Blackhawk Network, Bluefin Payment Systems, CashStar, CR2, Dragon Wealth, Experian, FIS, Fiserv, FreeAgent, iQuantifi, Malauzai, MasterCard, Monitise, PayPal, SaveUp, SimplyTapp, Virtual Piggy, Xero

On Finovate.com

AlwaysOn’s OnFinance Top 100 Features 30 Finovate Alums

SaveUp Purchased by Chicago-Area Entrepreneur Paul J. Burt

Around the Web

Turk Ekonomi Bankasi (TEB) launches digital banking service developed by Monitise.

Dragon Wealth earns spot in Startupbootcamp FinTEch’s inaugural Singapore program.

Ayeyarwady Bank (AYA Bank) to deploy Bankworld ATM platform from CR2.

Virtual Piggy hires Viant Capital to provide financial advice on strategic options.

MasterCard presents its PFM “in-reach” benefits-platform to help issuers engage millennials.

iQuantifi teams up with MTSU Jones College of Business to produce inaugural Millennial Money Mindset Survey.

Motif updates its iPhone app to enable search-and-browse capability of motif catalogues directly from the app.

FreeAgent launches first iOS app to help manage invoices and expenses on the go.

PYMNTS features predictions from Blackhawk Network, Bluefin Payments, CashStar, Experian, FIS, Fiserv, and SimplyTapp.

Xero Denver named Top Workplace by Denver Post.

American Banker examines how Malauzai is helping small banks get a head start on Apple Watch.

PayPal confirms bitcoin acceptance option in SEC filing.

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

By David Penn Posted on March 25, 2015
Categories: BancVue, Betterment, Billhighway, Equifax, Financial Guard, Fiserv, FutureAdvisor, Insuritas, Intuit, Kofax, Lending Club, Lendio, Monitise, Motif Investing, On Deck Capital, PayPal, Rippleshot, ShopKeep POS, SocietyOne, TD Ameritrade, TD Bank, Zumigo

On Finovate.com:

Lendio Raises $20 Million in New Funding to Help Finance Small Businesses

Motif Investing Partners with Pacific Life to Offer Cause-Based Investing.

In Partnership with Equifax, Zumigo Further Protects Merchants.

Bank Innovation’s Coolest Brands of 2015 Features Finovate Alums.

Printer Giant Lexmark to Acquire Kofax for $1 Billion.

Around the Web:

ShopKeep POS acquires payment processing startup, Payment Revolution.

Financial Guard and FutureAdvisor are featured as alternatives in a Bloomberg column on “breaking up with your expensive adviser.”

Bank Innovation column on “InsuranceTech” and Fintech 1,000 lists Insuritas.

Opentabs integrates with PayPal to power its mobile app order-ahead services.

PYMNTS: Monitise takes itself off the market. CEO steps down.

Billhighway awarded Silver Stevie Award for Innovation in Customer Service in the Financial Services Industry category. It is the second win for Billhighway since 2013.

Dexterity Ventures (Place2Give) bolsters team with new CMO, Product Manager, Developer, and Office Assistant.

The FinTech Blog interviews Eli Broverman, Co-Founder and COO of Betterment.

Fiserv, TD Bank Group, Intuit, and PayPal rank among Forbes’ list of Americas’ Best employers.

SocietyOne appoints former Investec Group chief lending officer, Simon Schwarz, as new COO.

Ad Age highlights how BancVue seeks to level the playing field for community banks.

Rippleshot joined fellow winners of the Chicago Innovation Awards in ringing the closing bell at the Nasdaq on Monday.

BankNXT looks at the rise of marketplace lending platforms including Finovate alums Lending Club and 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 Alums Win Honors at Fintech Innovation Awards

By David Penn Posted on March 19, 2015
Categories: Alpha Payment Cloud, Azimo, Dwolla, INETCO Systems, Jumio, Loop, Misys, Monitise, Nutmeg, Top Image Systems, TransferWise, Uncategorized, Xignite, Yoyo, Zopa

Congratulations to the fourteen now and soon-to-be Finovate alums recognized by the Fintech Innovation Awards 2015. Four alums took home top honors in their categories.

Nutmeg won two categories: “Fintech Marketing Campaign of the Year” and “Fintech Startup or Early Stage of the Year”. Nutmeg CEO Nick Hungerford was also a finalist in the “Fintech Leader of the Year” category.

Jumio won the “Anti-Fraud/Security Initiative” category. Making its Finovate debut last month at FinovateEurope 2015, Yoyo won in the “Mobile Commerce and Banking” category. And INETCO, which will make its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2015 this May in San Jose, won the “Data Solutions” category.

Other Finovate alum finalists were:

Held at The Brewery in London, the FinTech Innovation Awards recognize accomplishments in global finance and payments technology. In addition to recognizing achievements by individual companies and CEOs, the event also honors collaboration via its “Project Implementation Team” and “FinTech Deal of the Year” awards (Finovate alum Dwolla was a finalist in the latter for its partnership with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange).

The Fintech Innovation Awards 2015 were held in association with bobs guide and paymenteye. Read more about the event.

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Alumni News– January 16, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 16, 2015
Categories: Arxan Technologies, Birdback, EZBOB, Infosys, Jingit, Lending Club, Mifos Initiative, Monitise, SecondMarket, Silanis Technology, Taulia

Linedata Capitalstream to offer e-SignLive by Silanis.

13 Finovate alums win 2015 Paybefore Awards.

Payment Services Provider Anderson Zaks teams up with card-linked offers specialist, Birdback.

EZBOB launches scratch card promotion.

MarketWatch’s Your Digital Self column looks at Jingit.

Baseline magazine features a recent study by Arxan Technologies on the state of mobile app security.

The Mifos Initiative joins Microcredit Summit Campaign to integrate social performance management and poverty measurement tools into its free and open source cloud-based core banking system.

The Super early bird deadline for FinovateSpring 2015 ends tonight! Pick up your tickets now to save big time.

Monetise partners with MoneyPass to offer mobile money services to MoneyPass customers.

Lending Club Pilots Program to Provide Low Interest Financing to Google Partners.

In 2014, secondary transactions surged to a record $1.4 billion on SecondMarket.

Spend Matters debunks myths about Taulia. Check out Taulia at FinovateEurope next month.

Infosys announces $250 Million USD ‘Innovate in India Fund’ to support Indian start-ups.

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– January 15, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 15, 2015
Categories: Algomi, BehavioSec, Cloud Lending, D3 Banking, Fiserv, FreeAgent, Kiind, Kony Solutions, Market Prophit, MasterCard, Misys, Monitise, MX, TIO Networks, Yodlee

Fiserv launches its mobile card management app, CardValet.

Monitise teams up with the MoneyPass Network to offer Mobile Money services and card control functionality.

Misys adds DTCC connectivity to its Regulatory Reporting Service.

Partnership between MasterCard and Movistar brings mobile money service to Peru.

Benzinga columnist profiles Market Prophit in his look at Apple, Facebook, and JP Morgan.

Kiind rebrands to giftbit.

Yodlee now powering 80 financial solutions for smbs.

LendAcademy features Cloud Lending.

PlanetBiometrics profiles Neil Costigan, BehavioSec CEO.

D3 Banking reveals 2015 plans to release digital offering for bank’s SMB customers & launch SaaS-based offering.

Kony receives the highest scores in 3 out of 4 use cases in New Gartner Report: Critical Capabilities for Mobile Application Development Platforms.

TIO Networks partners with City of Baltimore to launch mobile phone bill payments for residents.

James Dotter, Utah Business’ 2013 CFO of the Year, joins MX as CFO.

FreeAgent offers £5k tax bill prize to ease Self Assessment woes.

Algomi reports strong growth, plans to triple U.S. staff.

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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Monitise to Bring Mobile Banking Solutions to Virgin Money

By David Penn Posted on December 5, 2014
Categories: Monitise

Monitise announced a deal with Virgin Money that will bring a host of mobile banking solutions to the UK-based retail bank.

Monitise Co-CEO Alastair Lukies said, “There are significant opportunities ahead for Virgin Money in the digital space. We’re looking forward to supporting the bank across a number of exciting initiatives in its journey to transform the way consumers can manage their money.”

And by initiatives, Lukies means mobile. Virgin Money CEO Jayne-Anne Gadhia specifically mentioned the importance of the mobile banking channel as a way of driving growth for her newly-public company. As part of the seven-year deal, Monitise will help the bank develop its own products and services leveraging Monitise solutions such as its Bank Anywhere account management app and Pay Anyone and Buy Anything P2P payment and e-commerce apps.

Dubbed “UK’s Coolest Bank” this fall by The Centre for Brand Analysis, Virgin Money is a retail bank operating in the UK. With more than 2 million customers and £24 billion in assets, Virgin Money went public in mid-November, trading under the symbol “VM” on the London Stock Exchange. The bank was founded in 1995 by Sir Richard Branson, who owns 34% of the company after selling a 15% stake worth £70 million last month.

Monitise is one of the largest mobile banking, payment, and commerce solution providers. The company serves more than 350 financial institutions around the world, has 30 million users, and processes four billion mobile transactions a year worth $88 billion.

Other recent Monitise news includes being named to the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 in November, which recognized the company’s growth rate of 2,000% over the past five years. Monitise also formed a strategic partnership with Santander in September, and announced an expansion of its partnership with IBM in August. We profiled how Monitise was helping banks engage in e-commerce earlier this year.

Founded in 2003 and headquartered in London, Monitise is a charter Finovate alum, demoing at the inaugural event in 2007.

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Alumni News– November 25, 2014

By David Penn Posted on November 25, 2014
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Actiance, Billhighway, Fenergo, FreeAgent, Global Debt Registry, Insuritas, Mitek, Monitise, Nostrum Group, PayItSimple, PayStand, ProfitStars, Temenos, True Potential

Fenergo wins Outstanding Achievement in International Growth award from Irish Software Association.

Global Debt Registry launches Debt Lookup, a free online service for consumers.

Eastern University chooses ACI Worldwide to power its payment plan and tuition payments.

Monitise, FreeAgent, True Potential, and Nostrum Group earn spots in Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50.

Pymnts.com: PayStand takes eChecks to the next level.

Finovate Debuts: PayItSimple’s Financing Tool Gives Customers Extra Time to Pay for Goods, Interest-Free

Pymnts considers Mitek’s growth and future plans.

ProfitStars launches behavior-driven marketing capabilities with Kernel.

Western Heritage Credit Union hires Insuritas to install their insurance agency for the CU’s 10,000 members.

Actiance announces enhanced voice recording for Microsoft Lync 2013.

Billhighway takes “Triple Crown” in Workplace Culture Awards with #6 rank on Crain’s Cool Places to Work List.

Temenos positioned as a leader in Gartner’s Magic
Quadrant for International Retail Core Banking.

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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Alums Earn Spots in Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50

By David Penn Posted on November 24, 2014
Categories: FreeAgent, Monitise, Nostrum Group, True Potential

With FinovateEurope 2015 just around in the corner, it was nice to begin the week with news that a quartet of alums have been named to the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 for 2014.

The Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 ranks the 50 fastest growing technology companies over the last five years based on revenue growth. David Halstead, Deloitte partner leading the Tech Fast 50, noted that software companies were “showing particular strength” this year, with the largest number of entries coming from this group.

#11 Monitise – Finovate 2007

Technology and financial services provider enabling mobile banking and payments

HQ: London

Founded: 2003

Growth rate: 2,639%

“With so many fast-growing technology companies emerging over the last few years, to be ranked among the top 15 in the UK for four years running is a tremendous achievement. This can be credited to our fantastic team based in the UK and beyond . . . who are creating, launching, and maintaining market-leading services for our clients around the world every day.”

Lee Cameron, Chief Commercial Officer and Deputy CEO

#18 Free Agent – FinovateEurope 2013

Small business cloud accounting systems provider

HQ: Edinburgh

Founded: 2007

Growth rate: 1,274%

“Being recognized in the Deloitte Fast 50 list is a great accolade in itself, but being listed for two years in a row is a tremendous achievement. It’s a real testament to the hard work of our team, our continued growth as a company and the rising number of passionate and loyal customers who are using FreeAgent to manage their small business finances.”

Ed Molyneux, CEO and C0-Founder

#33 True Potential – FinovateFall 2014

Financial services company providing technology and business solutions

HQ: Newcastle upon Tyne

Founded: March 2007

Growth rate: 837%

“The UK is facing a savings crisis where people are not saving the amount they need for a comfortable retirement. At True Potential we believe in making saving and investing simple and more accessible using cutting edge technology, so this recognition is particularly rewarding.”

David Harrison, Managing Partner

#35 Nostrum Group – FinovateEurope 2014

Developers of automated loan management technology

HQ: Harrogate

Founded: August 2001

Growth rate: 812%

“Making the Technology Fast 50 for the second consecutive year is a significant accomplishment for us and another proud milestone in our journey. This year we were named in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 for the first time, and we’ve also just heard that, once again, we’ve been accepted for FinovateEurope 2015 which is a premier platform for FinTech businesses like ours.”

Richard Carter, Chief Executive

Speaking of FinovateEurope 2015, join Nostrum Group and 70 other fintech innovators for our upcoming conference in London on February 10 and 11. Click here to get your tickets and take advantage of special early bird pricing.

And for more information on the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50, click here for an extensive info graphic that provides growth comparisons between the 2013 and 2014 winners, sector and regional breakdowns, and more.

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Alumni News– September 18, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 18, 2014
Categories: Billhighway, Coinbase, Lighter Capital, MasterCard, MiiCard, Mint.com, Monitise, Ping Identity

Lighter Capital increases capital base to $17 million & completes 50th loan.

Mint launches on iOS 8 with Touch ID.

miiCard participates in NSTIC Pilot for State of North Carolina eID Program.

Billhighway wins 2014 “Metropolitan Detroit Best & Brightest Company to Work For”.

Ping Identity raises $35 million in round led by KKR.

MasterCard announces launch of SimplifyCommerce in Ireland.

Monitise and BlackBerry launch BBM Money service for Indonesia consumers using Android, iOS, or BlackBerry smartphones.

Coinbase unveils its open source, bitcoin API, Toshi.

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– September 15, 2014

By David Penn Posted on September 15, 2014
Categories: Allied Payment Network, Betterment, Braintree, Coinbase, Feedzai, HelloWallet, Kalixa, Lending Club, Monitise, Moven, ProfitStars, Rippleshot, SocietyOne

Moven CEO Brett King says Apple Pay anticipates the end of physical bank cards.

United Way Worldwide now accepts bitcoin courtesy of Coinbase.

Monitise releases fiscal year 2014 financial results; announces new strategic partnership with Santander.

Business Spectator looks at how Apple, Google, Lending Club, and SocietyOne are part of “banking’s double disruption.”

Allied Payment Network announces integration of FlexPay with PicturePay.

Feedzai teams up with Azul Systems to speed its real-time data analysis.

The Washington Post features Betterment and HelloWallet.

Millicom and Kalixa partner to offer payment acceptance services for businesses and consumers in Africa and Latin America.

ProfitStars introduces Gladiator Hosted Network Solutions to enable FIs to move their IT infrastructures to the cloud.

Rippleshot, Braintree highlighted in Chicago Tribune column as examples of local contributors to the commerce infrastructure.

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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