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Alumni News — Weeks of December 13 and 20, 2010

By finovate Posted on December 30, 2010

To see Finovate news updates in real-time, follow our feed on Twitter. Backbase explores mobile banking in its fall webinar series. http://bit.ly/finovate1293 BlazeMobile creates smart payments sticker.http://bit.ly/finovate12133 BrightScope releases top 30 retirement plans. http://bit.ly/finovate12143 Capital Access special report on “Black Friday” and small business sales data. http://bit.ly/finovate1282 SunTrust has added the “Transfer Now” product suite from Read more…

Part 2: Chase Apologizes for Outage in Customer Email but is Light on Details

By Jim Bruene Posted on September 20, 2010

Over the weekend, Chase Bank sent a short email apology to its online customers. Overall, the message was fine and now the bank can check that off its to-do list. I’m glad the bank didn’t waste a hundred million dollars giving everyone a $5 credit. A simple apology is the best approach, preferably during the Read more…

Last Day to Save $300 on Your FinovateFall Ticket

By Eric Mattson Posted on July 15, 2010

I love July for two reasons. First, it means that summer has finally arrived in Seattle (reminding me why I live in this beautiful city). Second, it means that we’re buried up to our eyeballs in fascinating screening calls to pick all the cool new fintech innovations that will showcased during FinovateFall. This year, our Read more…

Only 2 Days Left to Save $300 on Your FinovateFall Ticket

By Eric Mattson Posted on July 14, 2010

I love July for two reasons. First, it means that summer has finally arrived in Seattle (reminding me why I live in this beautiful city). Second, it means that we’re buried up to our eyeballs in fascinating screening calls to pick all the cool new fintech innovations to be showcased during FinovateFall. This year, our Read more…

Why You Should Build an iPad Banking App (Even Though You Don’t Need To)

By Jim Bruene Posted on April 11, 2010

One week into the iPad era there are still no banks or credit unions with iPad-specific apps (note 1). There also aren’t any major PFM or other financial brands present, other than Square and E*Trade. Mint’s not even there yet. What’s going on? On Friday, The Financial Brand’s Jeffry Pilcher tweeted the question that’s on Read more…

Prosper Back in Peer-to-Peer Lending Game with Full Approval of SEC

By Jim Bruene Posted on July 13, 2009

At our FinovateStartup conference two months ago, Prosper won a Best of Show award for the re-launch of its peer-to-peer lending platform. But apparently, the SEC didn’t share our audience’s enthusiasm over Prosper’s plan to operate under State of California regulatory authority while its SEC filings were undergoing final scrutiny. So Prosper went offline again, Read more…

Has Mercantile Bank cracked the code for generating online banking fees?

By Jim Bruene Posted on May 26, 2009

We are always on the lookout for examples of U.S. financial institutions charging fees for value-added services online (see note 1). In the past seven or eight years, the sightings have been rare. But today, we have a great one. And like most brilliant ideas, it seems pretty obvious in retrospect. The new service from Read more…

Chase Bank, Mint Top the Charts with New iPhone Apps

By Jim Bruene Posted on December 22, 2008

No one knows for sure how Apple compiles the list of its top-selling iPhone apps, but it’s related to how many are sold during the past few hours. I’ve seen speculation that the measurement period is 2 hours (see note 1). But there is no doubt about the benefits of rising to the top. The Read more…

Lending Club Files S-1, Prepares to Get Back into the P2P Game

By Jim Bruene Posted on June 22, 2008

No one said it was easy being a startup, especially a “Web 2.0 lender” in the middle of major credit turmoil. Lending Club, which had to shut down the retail lending portion of its service in April, is preparing to put the second P back into its P2P loan service (see note 1). A big Read more…

Online Personal Finance Heats Up: Part 1

By Jim Bruene Posted on September 5, 2007

The race to become the next Quicken of online finance is heating up this fall with several launches expected before year-end (note 1). At our upcoming new products conference, FINOVATE 2007, you will be treated to live demos of five leading personal finance apps. Three are newcomers: Geezeo, Jwaala, Mint, and two are industry veterans Read more…

FINOVATE 2007 Lineup: The Lending Innovators

By Jim Bruene Posted on August 27, 2007

As we enter the final week of summer, we will begin showcasing the companies that will be DEMOing new products and services at our inaugural conference FINOVATE 2007. See here for the complete lineup. Person-to-person lendingP2P lending has grabbed headlines around the world since it launched in the the United Kingdom in March 2005 by Zopa. We are pleased to have on the FINOVATE agenda the two leading U.S. Read more…

ChipIn, Another PayPal-powered Application Launches on Facebook

By Jim Bruene Posted on July 9, 2007

Watching the explosion of content, and users, at Facebook, may be the most interesting thing we've seen since the rise of the commercial Web in 1995/1996. Marc Andreessen, not know for hyperbole, had this to say in a lengthy blog posting (here) that should be required reading for all content providers, including banks and credit unions: Read more…