Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • Stockpile Raises $30 Million to Boost Millennial Stock Ownership.
  • Vera to Provide Data Security Services for GE

Around the web

  • Meniga expands global footprint with new office opening in Poland
  • Mediterranean Bank Goes Live With Infosys Finacle Lending Solution
  • Revolut expands services with cell phone insurance in the U.K.
  • Entrust Datacard joins the Industrial Internet Consortium
  • NYMBUS Introduces Next-Generation Digital Platform For Internet And Mobile Banking
  • CardFlight partners with Dynamics Payments to help businesses affected by Hurricane Maria by waiving monthly and setup fees for SwipeSimple.

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 Alums Earn Spots in European Fintech 100

Finovate Alums Earn Spots in European Fintech 100

Powered by collaborative Belgian innovation platform, B-Hive, and Dutch financial consulting firm, Alex van Groningen BV, the European Fintech Awards & Conference recognize fintech innovators working in a variety of areas ranging from the Blockchain/Bitcoin and Financial Inclusion to InsurTech and Payments.

The awards consist of a European Fintech 100 and a Top Three which will be selected from among the top three startups in each of the conference’s nine categories during a pitch contest at the end of September. Here are the Finovate alum finalists who will compete for top honors in their respective categories this fall.

Dorsum (FinovateEurope 2017)

  • Category: Innovative Banking Software
  • Founded in 1996
  • Headquartered in Budapest, Hungary
  • Róbert Kő is CEO and Founder

Meniga (FinovateEurope 2017)

  • Category: PFM / Robo Advisory
  • Founded in 2009
  • Headquartered in London, U.K.
  • Won Finovate Best of Show three times
  • Georg Ludviksson is CEO

Revolut (FinovateEurope 2015)

  • Category: Challenger Banks
  • Founded in 2013
  • Headquartered in London, U.K.
  • Nikolay Storonsky is CEO and founder

TWINO (FinovateEurope 2016)

  • Category: Alternative Finance
  • Founded in 2015
  • Headquartered in Riga, Latvia
  • Jevgenijs Kazanins is CEO

Below are the Finovate alums that have been named to the European Fintech 100.

 

 

 

 

See the full European Fintech 100 list.

Interested in fintech in Europe and the U.K.? Finovate brings its new, expanded format to London in February. With live demos on Days One and Two, and a diverse range of keynotes, panel discussions, and round tables with fintech professionals on Days Three and Four, FinovateEurope 2017 is an event you won’t want to miss. Visit our FinovateEurope page today to learn more and to take advantage of huge early-registration savings.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • Mexican Payment Processor Chooses Fraud Fighting Technology from Featurespace.
  • Ripple Unveils Expanded Suite of Offerings

Around the web

  • BBVA announces record product sales through digital channels in June.
  • Tennis star Andy Murray revealed to be among 40,000 Revolut users pre-registered for the company’s crowdfunding initiative.
  • DefenseStorm hires Bob Thibodeaux as Chief Information Security Officer.
  • Modo Payments goes dark in Monday “Unnouncement.” Affirms plans to refocus on payments after hiatus.
  • Mashreq deploys Vipera for mobile wallet.
  • NICE inContact introduces CXone cloud customer experience platform.

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

On Finovate.com

Around the web

  • BanqUP announces alpha roll-out alpha of SME fintech bank.
  • Flywire announces record results in payments processed and institutions and students served in the past year.
  • Expensify ships 5 new travel integrations.
  • Revolut’s new feature allows users to generate their own IBAN for Euro transactions.

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.

You Know It’s Gonna Be Alright: Revolut Raises $66 Million Series B

You Know It’s Gonna Be Alright: Revolut Raises $66 Million Series B

In a round led by Index Ventures and featuring participation from existing investors Balderton Capital and Ribbit Capital, Revolut has locked in $66 million in new funding. The investment takes Revolut’s total capital to more than $81 million raised since the London-based company was founded in 2015.

“We will be using the investment raised to take Revolut global, with the aim of establishing ourselves as the number one platform for consumers and businesses to manage their finances,” the company wrote in its announcement of the funding. Asia and North America are the initial destinations of Revolut’s global expansion “whilst growing our community of 700,000 customers across Europe.” To facilitate the company’s expansion in Europe, Revolut has hired a team of “international expansion managers. Switzerland, Germany, and France were name-checked as among the countries where the managers will be deployed. Revolut also announced that it is using a new provider, Google Cloud Platform.

Pictured (left to right): CEO and founder Nikolay Storonsky and CTO Vlad Yatsenko demonstrating Revolut at FinovateEurope 2015.

An alternative to traditional banks, Revolut is a Personal Money Cloud designed especially for traveling millennials. With the Revolut app and multi-currency card, users can make purchases in more than 100 currencies without worrying about exchange rate fees, and save up to 7.5% on international transfers in more than 20 different currencies. Revolut users can send or request money to and from friends via the app, email, or through social networks. The card and app provide push notifications, as well as a blocking feature in case of loss or theft. The app is available on both iOS and Android.

Revolut demonstrated its Personal Money Cloud platform at FinovateEurope 2015. Last month, the company launched business accounts in the U.K. and Europe and was named to both FinTechCity’s FinTech 50 and CB Insights’ Fintech 250 list. In April, Revolut partnered with U.K.-based online mortgage broker, Trussle, to enable homebuyers to begin the application process via mobile device, and in March, the company announced its £4 million crowdfunding investment round and the launch of its new Premium subscription service. Revolut teamed up with P2P lender Lending Works earlier this year, and introduced its customer service chatbot, Rita (“Revolut’s Intelligent Troubleshooting Assistant”) in February.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • You Know It’s Gonna Be Alright: Revolut Raises $66 Million Series B.
  • Finicity Inks Data Sharing Deal with JPMorgan Chase.
  • Fintech 71 Accelerator Application Deadline Less Than One Week Away.

Around the web

  • Forrester names Backbase a leader in digital banking solutions.
  • Alpha Payments Cloud earns Fin5ive Payments Award at BankTech Asia.
  • Let’s Talk Payments interviews SecureKey CIO Andre Boysen.
  • Finland-based Aktia goes live with T24 core banking system from Temenos.
  • FICO enables identification of fourth party risks with new Security Score upgrade.
  • iSignthis subsidiary iSignthis eMoney teams up with Worldline to provide Paydentity services in EU.
  • CashStar adds real-time card activation, improved security, and streamlined ordering in new platform upgrade.
  • Dream Payments opens Centre of Excellence in Moncton, New Brunswick.

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.

 

44 Alums Populate CB Insights’ Fintech 250 List

44 Alums Populate CB Insights’ Fintech 250 List

This week, CB Insights unveiled its Fintech 250 list. The research outfit selected 250 emerging, private companies in 17 sub-sectors of fintech that are changing the face of financial services. The roster includes 44 Finovate and FinDEVr alums that were selected using CB Insights’ data-driven process that analyzes company momentum, market participation, funds raised, and investor quality.

The list is in alphabetical order.

Algomi

AutoGravity

Avalara

Behalf

Betterment

Blend

Chain

Coinbase

Credit Karma

Currencycloud

CurrencyFair

Fenergo

Financeit

Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll)

Juvo

Kabbage

Kensho

Kreditech

Klarna

LendUp

Moneytree

PayNearMe

Payoneer

Personal Capital

Plaid

Quantopian

Quovo

Revolut

Ripple Labs

Roostify

Signifyd

SocietyOne

Socure

Tink

Token

Tradeshift

Transferwise

TrueAccord

Trulioo

VATBox

Wealthfront

Xignite

Zooz

Zopa

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • FutureVault Partners with BlueRock Wealth Management.

Around the web

  • Fiserv to enhance digital banking strategy for Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union.
  • American Banker profiles Ripple’s strategy to partner with– and compete with — banks.
  • U.S. News profiles PayNearMe as a tool to help consumers shop online without a credit card
  • Revolut launches business accounts in U.K. and Europe to complete with Transferwise
  • FICO launches new fraud solution to identify the source of compromised cards faster

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.

European Alums Shine in FinTechCity’s FinTech50 2017

European Alums Shine in FinTechCity’s FinTech50 2017

Less than a week before FinDEVr London 2017, we’ve learned that fifteen of the companies selected by FinTechCity for this year’s FinTech50, a list of top European fintechs, are alums of Finovate and FinDEVr conferences. This is up from last year, when 13 alums who made the list. last year’s list. Six of the companies on the 2017 roster are making repeat appearances: BehavioSec, Fenergo, Kantox, Mambu, Meniga, and Revolut.

Eight of the alums in the FinTech50 are headquartered in the U.K., three hail from Germany, two from Switzerland and one each from Ireland and Sweden. The judges for the FinTech50 are a panel consisting of 60 financial services professionals from banking, payments, venture capital, and public policy-making, among other relevant fields.

2017 marks the fifth year that FinTechCity has produced its roster of the most innovative fintech companies headquartered in the U.K. and Europe. The list is designed to focus on the technology innovations each company has developed rather than the amount of money the companies have made from their technologies.  In a statement at the FinTechCity website, the organization explains the sole criteria for inclusion in the FinTech50 as “the potential to become a game-changer or the competitive staying power to continue being one.”

Here are our winning alums for 2017.

Check out the full 2017 roster. FinTechCity also honored ten fintech startups in an honorable mention category, Hot Ten 2017. Ten companies have also been recognized as the founding members of the FinTech50 Hall of Fame, including Finovate/FinDEVr alums Currencycloud, eToro, Klarna, Nutmeg, TransferWise, and Zopa. Founded by Julie Lake (CEO) and Nicky Cotter, FinTechCity will also unveil the inaugural FinTech50 Asia later this year.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • Finovate Debuts: unblu Delivers an In-Person Customer Experience Online.
  • Check out our latest Sneak Peeks of upcoming FinovateSpring demos from Newchip, IBM Trusteer, Divy, CallVU, Finicity, GoodData, & NCR Corporation.
  • Narrative Science Raises $11 Million Series E.

Around the web

  • MaxMyInterest members gain access to increased FDIC insurance and competitive yields on cash balances courtesy of new partnership with UFB Direct.
  • Bahrain-based Bank ABC goes live with omni-channel digital banking service using Backbase’s platform.
  • Revolut joins forces with UK online mortgage broker, Trussle, enabling prospective homebuyers to begin the application process on mobile phones.
  • PayPal teams with Android to launch a new way to pay.
  • Lending Club launches mobile app for investors.
  • Handpoint launches analytics dashboard.
  • ProfitStars and Tyfone partner to offer digital banking and billpay solution.

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

On FinDEVr.com

Around the web

  • PaySimple unveils new Service Point of Sale (sPOS) platform.
  • NY State Department of Financial Services to allow Coinbase to offer Ethereum and Litecoin to customers in New York.
  • Backbase to locate new R&D center in Cardiff, Wales.
  • Revolut announces £4 million crowdfunding investment round and launch of subscription service.
  • Scalable Capital founder and CEO Adam French earns spot on 2017 PAM Top 40 Under 40 roster.
  • Innovate Finance names Nous Global Markets, Moxtra, and Qumram as finalists in its Pitch360 fintech startup competition.
  • WePay customers can now use Apple Pay on the Web and Google’s Android Pay on the Web for increased revenue generation.

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

On FinDEVr.com

Around the web

  • Barclaycard adds free Uber ride as reward for loyal cardholders. See Barclaycard next week at FinDEVr New York.
  • Revolut teams up with Lending Works to deliver lower-cost loans.
  • Geezeo powers new financial wellness solution from Jack Henry & Associates, JHA Online Financial Manager.
  • Partnership with BBVA marks Fenergo’s expansion into Spain.
  • Ripple launches cost model to help banks estimate their cross border payment costs.
  • EarlyBird unveils new SmartTracks to enable investment banks, hedge funds to better track European news on Twitter.

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.