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Finovate Alumni News– June 12, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on June 12, 2012
Categories: ClairMail, ID Analytics, Intuit, Ixaris, T8 Webware, ThreatMetrix, TSYS, Tyfone, ValidSoft

Clairmail receives Frost & Sullivan Customer Value Enhancement Award.

T8 Webware adds Des Moines Office.

Ixaris names Kenneth Bonnici CFO.

ValidSoft partners with SOCURE to bring security and ID theft protection to social networks.

Intuit launches Mobile Banking Purchase Rewards for iPhone and Android.

ID Analytics names Larry McIntosh as CEO.

TSYS Acquiring Solutions launches Value Added Resource (VAR) Partner Connect Program.

Tyfone signs 10-year partnership with PT Number One in Indonesia.

ThreatMetrix forms partnership with Imperva.

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 16, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 16, 2012
Categories: Authentify, BillShrink, Check Point, CurrencyFair, Dwolla, Expensify, Lending Club, Prosper, SaveUp, TSYS

Des Moines Register reports Dwolla to establish small New York City satellite office.

Armada Data Solutions adds Check Point Software Technologies’ firewall services to security practice.

TSYS signs payment services agreement with Pivotal Payments.

AOL UK lists CurrencyFair as 1 of 5 ways to transfer money abroad.

The Washington Post lists Expensify as an app that can make life at work a bit easier. Come see their new tech at FinovateSpring.

Blaze Mobile awarded another patent for NFC payments. See its live demo at FinovateSpring.

Credit Union Times looks at Filene-backed SaveUp. Come see its live demo at FinovateSpring.

Chicago Sun-Times highlights Authentify’s technology.

The Wall Street Journal discusses P2P lending networks Prosper & Lending Club.

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– January 3, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 3, 2012
Categories: Andera, Credit Karma, Dwolla, eToro, Jemstep, Lending Club, Ping Identity, Receivables Exchange, RobotDough, TSYS, Zopa

RobotDough leaves GoDaddy due to SOPA support conflict.

Philly.com describes the Jemstep signup process.

Providence Business News reports Andera moves to a new office building.

Zopa Italy rebrands as Smartika.

eToro blog launches new column dedicated to analyzing the weekly activity on eToro OpenBook.

Forbes looks at Dwolla’s payment revolution.

Ping Identity announces PingFederate is now available as an Amazon Machine Image on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Credit Karma launches free credit monitoring service.

The Receivables Exchange announces strategic alliance with Insperity Investment.

Lending Club removes service fee on large loans.

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– November 18, 2011

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 18, 2011
Categories: BillGuard, eRollover, Expensify, FiPath, Mitek, mShift, PayPal, Stocktwits, TSYS

FiPath (formerly eRollover) launches FiPath for Advisors, online marketing solution for advisor leads.

Reuters discusses the benefits of BillGuard.

TSYS signs largest private bank in Azerbaijan.

MShift to power AmeriCU’s mobile banking platform.

StockTwits & Gnip partner to cater to traders.

StockTwits goes International with its real-time financial platform.

Mitek doubles clients, plans to enter insurance vertical.

PayPal relaunches Facebook app for friend-to-friend payments.

Expensify launches lite iPhone app for mileage support.

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 November 2, 2011
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.

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.

Source: 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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Finovate Alumni News– October 18, 2011

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 18, 2011
Categories: Betterment, BillFloat, BillGuard, CheckFree, Continuity Control, LearnVest, On Deck Capital, Plastyc, Prosper, SecondMarket, Simple, TSYS, Weemba

TSYS signs payments agreement with Imperial Bank.

The Baltimore Sun mentions BillFloat & Prosper.com as two companies that are assisting cash-strapped consumers.

LearnVest launches LV Mom’s Newsletter & 2 new products: Baby On Board Bootcamp & LV Discussions.

Weemba gives small businesses simple, direct pipeline for raising financing pre-holiday season.

Morningstar recommends CheckFree to help control your bills by setting up automatic payments.

Continuity Control buys Compliance Services Group of Iowa & Kirschler Peterson & Associates of Atlanta.

Crain’s New York Business.com mentions BillGuard, BankSimple, Betterment, SecondMarket, On Deck Captial & Plastyc.

Jemstep launches out of beta to offer custom investment advice & guidance.

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 Updates — Week of February 14th, 2011

By finovate Posted on February 23, 2011
Categories: Acculynk, GoalMine, Pageonce, SecureKey, TSYS, Yodlee, Zecco

First Data selects Acculynk’s online PIN debit service. Acculynk’s PaySecure is available to over 3,000 US e-commerce merchants. http://bit.ly/finovate216113

GoalMine introduces accounts for children. Now you can open an account under UTMA for your child or the child of a loved one. http://bit.ly/finovate216111

Pageonce hits four million users, up from just one million a year ago. h ttp://bit.ly/finovate2161134

SecureKey receives undisclosed investment from Intel Capital. SecureKey develops hardware to encrypt debit and credit card transactions. http://bit.ly/finovate216115

TSYS and CASSIS enter into mobile NFC partnership to enable merchant payments, loyalty programs, coupons and rewards. http://bit.ly/finovate218113

Yodlee announces its global reach has surpassed 26 million individuals. http://bit.ly/finovate218111

Zecco launches Zecco Mobile Lite an iPhone app to manage your Zecco brokerage account. http://bit.ly/finovate216112

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Last Chance for FinovateSpring Early-Bird Tickets — Only 2 Days Left to Save!

By Eric Mattson Posted on March 30, 2010
Categories: Backbase, Bill.com, Billeo, Bobber Interactive, Check Point, ConsumerDirect, Continuity Control, Controlabill, Cortera, Cross Commerce Media, DebtGoal, eRollover, Expensify, FinovateSpring 2010, Fiserv, FTRANS, Garland Group, Ideon FS, Jemstep, Kabbage, Liqpay.com, MoneyAisle, oFlows, Pageonce, Point of Wealth Systems, SafetyPay, Segmint, TSYS, UBank, VISA, Wikinvest, Worklight

Just a quick reminder that the early-bird ticket prices for FinovateSpring 2010 (May 11, San Francisco) will expire at the end of March (less than 2 days from now). If you register by March 31, you’ll save $100 on your ticket and lock in your spot to see debuts and demos of dozens of new financial and banking technological innovations.

We’ve handpicked an amazing list of companies to demo their latest including:

Tickets are selling well with hundreds of registered attendees from great organizations like:

AARP
BNP Paribas
CBS
Experian
Google
Intuit
Kaiser Permanente
Mechanics Bank
Tower Group
USAA
Visa

Aite
Capital One
Celent
Filene
H&R Block
Jack Henry
Motley Fool
Target
PayPal
US Bank
Wells Fargo

Alliant Credit Union
Canaan Partners
Discover
Forrester Research
ING DIRECT
Highland Capital
Javelin Research
NY Times
TransUnion
Venrock
Wired Magazine

FinovateSpring is one of our twice-yearly showcases of the best new ideas in banking and financial technology. The show is built around a unique blend of fast-paced demos of actual technology (no slides!) and high-quality networking with an audience of senior FI executives, fintech entrepreneurs, VCs, press, industry analysts and bloggers. It’s an awesome environment to find your next competitive edge.

Don’t miss out on the early-bird price on your ticket to this great show. Register now!

P.S. Online Banking Report subscribers are entitled to an extra discount to our Finovate conferences. Email me to get it.

Eric Mattson is CEO of Online Financial Innovations, the parent company of NetBanker, Online Banking Report and the Finovate Conference Series. He can be reached at eric@netbanker.com.

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FinovateSpring 2010 Demo Companies Revealed

By Eric Mattson Posted on March 17, 2010
Categories: Backbase, Bill.com, Billeo, Bobber Interactive, Check Point, ConsumerDirect, Continuity Control, Controlabill, Cortera, Cross Commerce Media, DebtGoal, DeviceFidelity, eRollover, Expensify, FinovateSpring 2010, Fiserv, FTRANS, Garland Group, Ideon FS, Jemstep, Kabbage, Liqpay.com, MoneyAisle, Monitise, oFlows, Pageonce, Point of Wealth Systems, SafetyPay, Segmint, Silver Tail Systems, TransUnion Interactive, TSYS, UBank, VISA, Wikinvest, Worklight

We’re very pleased to announce the lineup for the upcoming FinovateSpring 2010 conference. Taking place on Tuesday May 11 in San Francisco, the conference will showcase dozens of handpicked companies debuting and demoing their latest and greatest fintech innovations. The quality of the new ideas that will be demoed on stage is very high this year and we’re incredibly excited to showcase them to you.

The demoing companies selected (that we can reveal so far) are:

These companies will be showcased to an audience of senior financial/banking/credit union executives, influential press, industry analysts, venture capitalists, bloggers, tech companies and entrepreneurs.

A sampling of the great organizations already registered to attend includes: AARP, Aite, Alliant Credit Union, BNP Paribas, Capital One, Celent, Discover, Experian, Fidelity, Filene, Forrester Research, Google, Highland Capital, Intuit, Javelin Strategy, Jack Henry, Mechanics Bank, Motley Fool, NY Times, PayPal, Tower Group, USAA, US Bank, Venrock, Wells Fargo, and Wired Magazine.

We’d love to have you join us at the spring event and watch the future of finance/banking unfold onstage. If you register today you’ll save $100 via the early-bird ticket discount. Please note that the early-bird prices expire at the end of this month and space is limited so lock in your spot now!

Eric Mattson is CEO of Online Financial Innovations, the parent company of NetBanker, Online Banking Report and the Finovate Conference Series. He can be reached at eric@netbanker.com.

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Western Union Spin Off May Do Little for First Data

By Jim Bruene Posted on January 30, 2006
Categories: Chase Paymentech Solutions, First Capital, First Data, JP Morgan Chase, MBNA, Mergers & Acquisitions, MoneyGram, Payment Cards, Strategic Planning, Synovus, TSYS, Western Union

Last week’s news that First Data Corp. will spin off its Western Union operations to First Data shareholders and create a company worth an estimated $20 billion is probably good news for Western Union. Noting that the parent company will be keeping its card processing, card services, and international business lines, observers were asking what had otherwise changed.

The answer: Nothing. “The bottom line for me is that this doesn’t change the realities, which are that even though they’re going to reconstitute what First Data will be, it doesn’t change the facts that Western Union, while it’s a good business, is facing increasing competition around the world, that the card business is struggling mightily, and that merchant processing is a commoditized business,” says Scott Kessler, who follows First Data for Standard & Poor’s.

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