On Finovate.com

• “Finovate Debuts: Whodini Takes KYC to the Bluetooth Level”

• “DriveWealth Hires Harry Temkin as New Chief Information Officer”

Around the web

• PYMNTS chats with Morgan Beard, strategic marketing director at TSYS about how “Bring Your Own Persona” applies to banking.

• Akamai Technologies partners with CU Cloud, China Unicom’s cloud business, to offer web performance, media delivery, and cloud security services.

• TransferWise surpasses £500 million transferred worldwide every month, representing 2% of the U.K.’s global remittance market.

• Money.com’s column on the secrets of crowdfunding success highlights Realty Mogul.

• Financial Times profiles European payments innovator, Klarna.

• GAINSCO Auto Insurance to provide agents with e-signature technology from Silanis Technology.

• Wealth Management looks at the “new breed” of fintech companies specializing in alternative investments such as HedgeCoVest and Hedgeable.

• Benzinga’s Jim Probasco interviews Sang Lee, CEO and co-founder of DarcMatter.

• Edenred Mexico to deploy real-time transaction-monitoring and customer-analytics technology from INETCO Systems.

• Market Prophit and TickerTags are featured in a Waters Technology column on the changing nature of market data.

• HuffPo Business interviews TrueAccord COO Sofya Pogreb as part of its series on women in business.

• Coin Telegraph lists Bitbond, Wealthfront, and TrueAccord in its roundup of “rising fintech startups.”

• Tech.co looks at how Trulioo defends startups against credit card fraud.

• How Motif CEO Hardeep Walia and Personal Capital CEO Bill Harris feel about the term “robo-advisor”.

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