Finovate Alumni News– June 11, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgTagit wins coveted Emerging Enterprise Award 2012.
  • BlogTalkRadio talks to Kathryn Petralia, COO & Co-founder of Kabbage.
  • Offermatic alters business model, no longer pursuing card-linked offers.
  • Chicago Tribune looks at Future Advisor and Betterment as two inexpensive investing platforms.
  • BBC news reports Zopa has lent more than £200m since it started in 2005.
  • Credit Sesame Scores $12 Million in Series C Funding.
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– May 30, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgTradeshift to Offer Taulia’s Dynamic Discounting.
  • Startup Beat interviews CoverHound CEO, Basil Enan.
  • Acculynk and National Payments Corporation of India Announce Internet PIN Debit Partnership.
  • miiCard Launches Twitter Trust Campaign By Verifying Real Identities.
  • PaySimple Named Red Herring Americas Top 100 Winner.
  • Financial Post discusses Kashoo’s mobile distribution strategy.
  • High Beam Research reports on DoughMain’s financial education pointers.
  • TechCrunch reports BOKU Scales Up, Will Power Carrier Billing For In-App Payments In The T-Mobile Mall.
  • CU Times reports MoneyDesktop Adds 17 Credit Unions as PFM Users.
  • Check Point Introduces New Security Acceleration Module with Advanced SecurityCore Technology for High Performance in Low Latency Environments.
  • CNN Money Launches New Investing Home Page with StockTwits Trending Tickers.
  • Advocate’s Studio recommends Enloop for when you need a fast business plan.
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– May 24, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgBank Technology News reports WattzOn Helps Banks Help Customers Save on Energy Bills.
  • Fast Company reports Personal Capital’s beautiful app convinces the wealthy to trust their money to strangers.
  • TechCrunch reports that Mint.com updated its app to allow users to split transactions.
  • Crain’sNewYorkBusiness.com describes how BillGuard fits into the Big Data scene.
  • How DCisions, Personal Capital, SigFig, FutureAdvisor, and Jemstep Are Shaking Up Wealth Management.
  • Klarna adds Nigel Morris, co-founder of Capital One, and Anton Levy, MD of General Atlantic, to its board of directors.
  • Westmoreland Community FCU chooses Geezeo for PFM.
  • StockTwits debuts new social signals features.
  • Kony Solutions announces $15 million series C financing.
  • Mitek enables $10 billion worth of mobile deposits.
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– April 25, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgTIO Networks named one of Canada’s leading tech companies, placed in Canada’s Branham25. See TIO Networks new tech at FinovateSpring.
  • SecureKey named  one of the top 25 up and comers in the Branham300 list of top tech companies in Canada.
  • Guardian Analytics launches fraud detection software for mobiles.
  • The Brainyard reports Bazaarvoice adds SAP, Salesforce.com integration.
  • Mortgagebot’s online lending tech supports 25% increase in loan production for Bank of Colorado.
  • DoughMain launches new savings tool for kids.
  • KeyBank launches new mobile banking solution with mFoundry.
  • SpendMatters covers Taulia. Come see Taulia’s demo at FinovateSpring 2012.
  • WSJ looks at US Bank’s implementation of FreeMonee.
  • Figlo expands Asia Pacific focus.
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– March 28, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgCheck Point positioned as a leader in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for UTM.
  • Silicon Prairie News features T8 Webware’s Product Marketing Manager, Bryan McCarty.
  • StockTwits streams now on MSN Money.
  • Zoho Books introduces Bank Feed feature powered by Yodlee.
  • Equifax announces access to undisclosed debt monitoring.
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– March 1, 2012

  • Kony and VASCO form alliance to offer a higher level of security for mobile applications.
  • Daily Disruption features Matt Fellowes, HelloWallet CEO, as the disruptor of the day.
  • Credit Union Times reports Fiserv melds P2P services ZashPay & Popmoney.
  • Finextra talks with Cartera Commerce, Cardlytics, Segmint, and Truaxis (formerly BillShrink) about how banks can use reward programs.
  • Finsphere awarded U.S. patent recognizing innovation in mobile identity authentication.
  • T8 Webware wins interactive media award at the 2012 ADDY Awards.
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.

StockTwits Launches Feature to Help Users Discuss Stocks

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Yesterday, online financial communication platform StockTwits launched a new capability called Conversations:

“StockTwits Conversations group new contributions made in response to any piece of content together, creating another way to share and consume messages beyond real-time StockTwits streams.”

The new feature should bring the communication from Twitter to the StockTwits platform and help users find and contribute to conversations.

To learn more about StockTwits, watch its FinovateEurope 2011 demo.

Finovate Alumni News– February 17, 2012

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  • Prosper celebrates its 6th birthday by offering to pay your second loan payment today (Friday, Feb. 17) only.
  • HelloWallet appoints Aaron Benway as new CFO.
  • American Banker reports PayPal is partnering with banks to attract new customers.
  • American Banker reports Intuit adds iPad banking app.
  • CNN Money looks at how SecondMarket will survive now that Facebook has gone public.
  • StockTwits launches feature to help users discuss stocks.
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.

Five of Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in Finance are Finovate Alums

Fast Company recently published a list of most innovative companies that contained multiple Finovate alumni. Here’s the breakdown:

Overall top 50 most innovative companies:

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Google
Rank: 3
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PayPal
Rank: 43
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Top 10* in finance category:

PayPal
Rank: 4
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SecondMarket
Rank: 6
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Dwolla
Rank: 8
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Simple (formerly BankSimple)
Rank: 9
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StockTwits
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*Also included in the finance category are:

2. Starbucks
3. Kickstarter
5. Y Combinator
7. American Express

Finovate Alumni News– February 1, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgPlastyc’s UPside Visa named winner in sixth annual Paybefore Awards.
  • TechCrunch reports IBM buys WorkLight for $70 million.
  • StockTwits partners with Q4 Web Systems.
  • Actiance announces Socialite Engage to help advisors strengthen client relationships and drive new business. See its live demo at FinovateEurope next week.
  • Luup wins the Financial-i Leaders in Innovation Award for Most Innovative New Mobile Corporate Banking. See its live demo at FinovateEurope next week.
  • eToro releases Chinese version of OpenBook.
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– January 31, 2012

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgStockTwits now powered by Revere Data.
  • PC World includes HelloWallet in its list of software that does it all.
  • Investment News looks at SigFig’s free service.
  • American Banker examines Dwolla’s role in digital disintermediation in the banking industry.
  • Technorati explains how Kabbage can help small businesses. Come to FinovateEurope to see its live demo.
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.

StockTwits Enables Public Companies to Publish News on the Yahoo! Finance Site

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Financial communications company StockTwits yesterday announced a new product called Direct that will enable public companies to post new on the Yahoo! Finance Quote page.

“StockTwits Direct allows subscribing companies to publish their most important updates directly to a module on the main “Quote Summary” page on Yahoo! Finance for their ticker symbol. Companies can easily modify or change their updates at any time and access usage metrics through a simple web dashboard within their StockTwits account.”

HP, Intel, Royal Dutch Shell and Yahoo are all currently using the product in order to communicate updates to the public.

To learn more about StockTwits, watch its FinovateEurope 2011 demo