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Virtual Piggy, the under-17 payment system, is growing up.
The company announced today that it is transitioning away from its origins as a payment card system in order to embrace real-time, P2P mobile payments. In a note at the Virtual Piggy website titled “A Family Focused Mobile Banking Solution,” the company explains its goal of “restor(ing) value to the company” by partnering with “telecom companies, tech firms, and banking companies; strong companies with the financial wherewithal to progress our framework to fully realized product.”
Specifically, the company is abandoning its white-label, bank-oriented debit card strategy in favor of “instant P2P transfers utilizing mobile phones and online systems.” How will the new approach make money? Virtual Piggy is developing an “instant revenue-generating membership system” which they believe will provide greater flexibility, security, and keep customer acquisition costs—and regulatory hurdles—minimal. Virtual Piggy also announced a set of new software utilities that enhance their intellectual property portfolio including their Real Time Regulatory Oversight (ReTRO); Virtual Piggy Secure Financial Messaging (VPSM); and a data-mining app called Networks of Meaning ad-vantage (NOMad).
It has been just over a year since the company announced the neon release of its Oink 2.0 solution, adding TouchID, enhanced notifications, and P2P functionality to allow family and friends to deposit money in the Oink account. The company was featured in USA Today last spring in a list of five financial must-haves for college grads.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Hermosa Beach, California, Virtual Piggy demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2013. Co-founded by Dr. Jo Webber and Pradeep Ittycheria, the company rebranded as Oink in late 2013 and has raised $37 million in funding. John Coyne joined the company as CEO and chairman in May 2016.
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Touch ID authentication and an enhanced notification engine are among the features in the Neon release of the new mobile app from Oink.
The upgrades balance greater functionality for younger millennials and generation Z on the one hand, with increased transparency for parents and regulators on the other. Dr. Jo Webber, CEO and founder of Oink (formerly Virtual Piggy), acknowledged that specific challenge. “By adhering to U.S. COPPA laws we are delivering the appropriate controls and safeguards to allow Oink money-transfers to be used by all members of the family,” she said.
Oink 2.0 is available for download from the Apple Store. The app is optimized for iPhone 5 and requires iOS 7.0 or later.
The app was introduced in early June. It features a new P2P capability that allowed family to deposit funds into an Oink account that could be used to fund a parent-supervised Oink card. The new notifications engine will give parents “complete visibility” into who is funding their children’s accounts, as well as the ability to manage individual funders, and to freeze spending from the account.
This past spring, the app was featured in USA Today’s list of “5 financial musts for college grads.” Oink was founded in February 2008, and is headquartered in Hermosa Beach, California. The company demonstrated its mobile app at FinovateSpring 2013 in San Francisco, having won Best of Show honors at FinovateEurope 2013 in London earlier in the year.
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