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This month, we interviewed Peter Kwakernaak, CEO of AcceptEmail, a company that enables e-billing and payments via email. Kwakernaak became CEO of AcceptEmail in August 2008, and before doing so founded two companies, OK Rent in the Netherlands and Coulorful Manor in South Africa. AcceptEmail recently demoed at FinovateEurope 2012, where it unveiled its Short Invoicing Read more…
Starting off the final session, Striata launched eConsent: “Striata will demonstrate its paperless adoption technology, which moves the control of paperless conversion into the hands of the biller – no longer relying on the customer to proactively enroll and switch off paper. This results in optimal adoption and faster ROI. Banks and financial institutions invest heavily in Read more…
Second up this afternoon, Serverside showed how its technology leverages Facebook to engage customers of financial institutions: “A Card Customization Facebook app. The app uses card customization as a new and unique way to leverage Facebook in an exciting and engaging way that can drive real brand value, loyalty, and engagement from a bank’s customers. Customers Read more…
ValidSoft took the stage next to demonstrate its voice-based authentication technology: “Our product can protect M-banking transactions from all of the attacks that affect Internet banking today, while using out-of-band, real-time voice based authentication, and transaction verification. A smart phone contains multiple channels, both voice and data. Therefore the concept of channel separation, critical for the detection Read more…
Next, miiCard launched an online identity verification service to help consumers prove that they are who they say they are: “miiCard uses information only a user would know, accesses details to their online bank account, and creates a secure, encrypted link to this account which has already approved a primary identity check to meet AML/KYC regulations. Read more…
Third, PayPal came on stage with la Caixa to show off instant account creation technology: “You can open a PayPal account in 30 seconds from the secure environment of la Caixa’s home banking. We use our combined APIs to leverage the verified customer information that la Caixa has from its clients to speed customers through the PayPal Read more…
Seattle-based doxo published an infographic yesterday detailing its successes in 2011. Doxo users: The highest number of documents uploaded by a single user was 1,206 The most provider accounts listed by a single user was 62 The most payments to providers by a single user was $9,100 Doxo providers: Users listed 13,848 different providers in 2011 New Read more…
You can really see how the global financial crisis has stunted banking innovation by looking at how little Facebook has been used as a delivery channel (note 1). The first financial institution in the world to offer Facebook account access, KeyPoint Federal Credit Union (powered by MShift) launched in Nov 2007 (post here), when the Read more…
Mobile banking platform company, Monitise and banking and payments technologies provider, FIS have entered into a five year strategic partnership agreement: “Under the terms of the five-year deal, which involves multi-million dollar per annum revenues, FIS and Monitise have created an agile mobile development and deployment team that will help banks and other financial institutions Read more…
We just finished issue number 199 of our Online Banking Report. Given that it’s a monthly publication, you can do the math, and see that we’ve been at this for a while. We’ve covered a lot of ground, but until now, we’d never taken an in-depth look at the insurance side of online delivery. Why? Read more…
The FinTech 100, a list of the top revenue-grossing fintech firms, was announced Wednesday at BAI Retail Delivery. Nine Finovate alumni made the cut, including BancVue, debuting at number 95. Pictured to the right are James Ladas and Gabe Krarcek from BancVue. Here are the Finovate alumni, listed according to rank: FIS 2011 Rank: 1 2010 Read more…
This morning, MasterCard demonstrated a feature of inControl, the Small Business Controller service: “MasterCard inControl is an innovative, flexible service, which enables issuers to easily introduce payment products that offer unparalleled controls and real-time alerts to both consumer and commercial cardholders. The suite of inControl offerings satisfies strong end-user needs for high security and controlled access to spending accounts, while providing Read more…