Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • CuneXus Starts New Year Signing its 100 Customer.
  • Credorax Partners with Temenos to Enhance Payment Services.

Around the web

  • Zurich Topas Life, part of Zurich Group, selects Vymo as its sales productivity solution.
  • Modo powers new loyalty solution from FIS, Pointopia.
  • Baker Hill announces major 2018 milestones.

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.

Finovate Alumni News

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  • Thought Machine Announces Strategic Partnership with Lloyds Banking Group.

Around the web

  • OutSystems announces its partner of the year awards.
  • A €5.5 billion independent French bank will deploy Ambit Focus, a regulatory reporting as a service solution from FIS.
  • eToro invests $1 million into cryptocurrency experiment, GoodDollar, designed to reduce wealth inequality.
  • Dell Small Business’ BetaKit interviews Finn.AI co-founder and COO, Natalie Cartwright.
  • Signicat launches new B2B document signing solution, Signicat Business Signature.
  • Backbase names Capgemini its Global Solution Partner of the Year.

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.

Zenmonics Lands Funding from FIS

Zenmonics Lands Funding from FIS

Core banking specialist Zenmonics landed funding from its long-time partner FIS this week. The amount of the minority investment, along with other terms of the agreement remain undisclosed. This marks Zenmonics’ first round of funding; prior to the closing of this week’s investment Zenmonics was 100% company-owned.

The North Carolina-based company will use the funds to further its growth and burgeon capabilities of its channelUNITED platform. Riaz Syed, founder and CEO of Zenmonics said that the investment enables the company “to grow innovation and delivery capacity for our current clients, while also extending our reach in the market.”

Aimed to offer a consistent user experience across multiple channels, Zenmonics’ channelUNITED is an omni-channel solution that adapts and expands to each individual banks’ pace. The system places clients and associates on a common system to unify digital, sales, service, origination, and teller platforms.

Founded in 2007, Zenmonics has more than 200 employees. At FinovateFall 2016, the company debuted channelUnited. Earlier this week, Zenmonics earned a spot on the 2018 IDC FinTech Rankings for the second year in a row.

FIS most recently demoed at FinovateFall 2016. The company debuted its Cardless Cash solution that provides a fast, secure option for sending and picking up cash at any ATM. Headquartered in Florida, FIS serves more than 20,000 clients in more than 130 countries.

Finovate Alumni News

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  • Zenmonics Lands Funding from FIS
  • USAA Taps StreetShares for Small Business Lending

Around the web

  • Studio Bank Selects Baker Hill’s Statement Spreading Solution as Building Block for Future Growth.
  • TechCrunch: Coinbase adds ZRX to Coinbase Pro.
  • Payfone Partners with Orange to Fight Identity Fraud in Four New Global Markets.
  • Earnix and DataRobot Announce a Strategic Alliance.
  • Azimo launches new service to serve SMBs.
  • Jack Henry & Associates named a Top Workplace by The Charlotte Observer for fourth consecutive year.
  • WorkFusion launches RPA Express Pro to complement its AI automation platform and scale 40,000 users of its free RPA product.
  • Geezeo CTO featured on Amazon Web Services video series This is My Architecture.

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.

Finovate Alumni News

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  • Onfido to Enhance New Customer Onboarding for Volopa. See Onfido at FinovateFall in New York, September 24-26.

Around the web

  • bpm’online recognized by CRM Magazine Market Awards 2018 in three categories: Midmarket CRM Suite, Sales Force Automation, and Enterprise CRM Suite.
  • Australian challenger bank Judo Capital to deploy Temenos’ T24 core banking system.
  • Fintech Futures interviews Serena Smith, international payments executive at FIS.
  • PayPal tops 250 million active account milestone.
  • Sai Sundaram, former COO of UBS ODC India, joins FixNix’s advisory board.
  • Smart Valor officially accepted as a financial intermediary.
  • PayPal’s Xoom partners with OXXO to add more than 17,000 new cash pickup locations in Mexico.
  • Kasasa‘s Free Kasasa Cash Rewards Checking offering goes live with Chief Financial Credit Union.

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.

Finovate Alumni News

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  • Microsoft, Nationwide Invest $12 Million in SME Lender BlueVine.
  • Gusto Brings in $140 Million, Doubling Valuation to $2 Billion.
  • Tavant Technologies Powers New Personalized Mortgage POS System from Ditech.

Around the web

  • Coinbase taps Jeff Horowitz as its next Chief Compliance Officer.
  • Thomson Reuters announces strategic partnership with global cryptocurrency market data aggregator, CryptoCompare.
  • FIS and blockchain platform Billon sign letter of intent to pursue joint product development.
  • Prosper surpasses 1 million loans have been originated, totaling about $13 billion.
  • Kofax enters sales agreement with JIEC to deliver RPA and digital transformation solutions.
  • CurrencyFair surpasses milestone: €7 billion traded.

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.

Finovate Alumni News

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  • Sberbank in Slovenia Partners with Open Banking Platform Provider Token.
  • Equifax Acquires DataX to Promote Financial Inclusion.

Around the web

  • Wirecard and Mastercard collaborate to make contactless payments using wearable technology more accessible.
  • Roostify expands leadership ranks with new Chief Customer Officer, new VP of Sales, and new General Counsel.
  • VyStar Credit Union ($7.6 billion in assets) to upgrade core banking solution with technology from FIS.
  • Hyperwallet to provide mass payment distribution for content processing platform, Wordapp.com.
  • Premier America Credit Union ($2.5 billion in assets) to deploy core processing technology from Jack Henry & Associates.
  • Santander integrates nCino’s Bank Operating System.
  • Carte Wealth Management to launch advisor engagement platform powered by DigitalReach from BlueRush.
  • TechCrunch reports: Coinbase Reportedly Gets Approval from US regulators to Start Listing Tokenized Securities.
  • Ephesoft releases new Swagger/OpenAPI-web services for Ephesoft Transact.

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.

Ignite Sales and FIS Team Up on Digital Engagement

Ignite Sales and FIS Team Up on Digital Engagement

Data analytics company Ignite Sales and financial services giant FIS joined forces this week. Through the partnership, Ignite Sales will make its customer engagement technology available to FIS community banking clients.

The cloud-based customer engagement and application conversion technology, Ignite Dialogue, is made available in affordable, easy-to-implement packages. Ignite adapted this technology last March to make the service– previously only accessible to larger banks– now affordable and approachable for smaller financial institutions.

“We are excited and honored to partner with the FIS team,” said George Noga, CEO of Ignite Sales. “We share a common goal of empowering banks and credit unions with technology and service that delivers a competitive differentiator in the market place.”

Ignite Dialogue helps smaller banks enhance the customer experience for their consumer and small business customers by guiding banks to discover each client’s needs and match them with products and services tailored to meet their specific financial requirements. The service comes with an IQ Analytics reporting portal that guides the bank to develop their sales capabilities across all channels. The press release reports strong success metrics, citing that banks using the technology “often see customer satisfaction scores go up by as much as 40% and an increase in customer product adoption by as much as 200%.”

Headquartered in Texas, Ignite Sales offers customer engagement solutions for a range of bank sizes. The company also offers LeadLync, which automatically reports customer engagement results and recommendations directly into Salesforce; and IQAnalytics, an on-demand cloud-based analytics solution for customer and front office insights.

At FinovateFall 2013 the company launched the Branch Profitability Dashboard that offers a visual overview of profitability and sales across branches. The dashboard also presents a gap analysis for each sale to uncover where the branch falls short. Last month, Ignite Sales won a 2018 Stevie Award for AI / Machine Learning New Product of the Year.

FIS most recently demoed at FinovateFall 2016. The company debuted its Cardless Cash solution that provides a fast, secure options for sending and picking up cash at any ATM. Headquartered in Florida, FIS serves more than 20,000 clients in more than 130 countries.

Finovate Alumni News

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  • Envestnet | Yodlee’s AI FinCheck Takes Financial Wellness to a New Level.
  • Blockbid Partners with LexisNexis Risk Solutions and ThreatMetrix.
  • Ignite Sales and FIS Team Up on Digital Engagement.

Around the web

  • Revolut goes live in Russia courtesy of partnership with QIWI.
  • Clinc brings its conversational AI technology to Turkey’s Isbank.
  • BBVA teams up with IPsoft to enhance service at its call centers in Mexico.
  • PYMNTS.com interviews BlueVine CEO Eyal Lifshitz on the “real value of invoice factoring.”
  • CFO Tech Outlook names Urban FT a top ten fintech solution provider.
  • NF Innova powering omnichannel banking for Halkbank ad Skopje.
  • Geezeo issues fully-fledged launch of Responsive Tiles PFM feature.

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.

Finovate Alumni News

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  • TransUnion to Acquire Callcredit for $1.4 Billion.
  • Mortgagetech Company Mr. Cooper Appoints Tony Ebers as COO. Come check out Mr. Cooper’s live demo at FinovateSpring next month.

Around the web

  • Fiserv announces partnership with Mexican credit union cooperative, Siscoop.
  • Customers Bank ($10 billion in assets) chooses core banking platform from FIS.
  • La Voz de Galicia profiles Spanish mobile banking startup, Fintonic (in Spanish).
  • Ovum names OutSystems a Market Leader in for Enterprise Mobile Application Development platforms.
  • TransUnion to acquire Callcredit in deal valued at £1 billion ($1.4 billion).
  • Ovum names Kony a leader in mobile app development platforms.
  • Cardlytics Chief Legal Officer named Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Corporate Counsel of the Year.
  • Uniken CEO recognized as a top 100 Most Innovative Business Leader.

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.

FIS to Manage Lease Portfolio for CNH Industrial Capital America

FIS to Manage Lease Portfolio for CNH Industrial Capital America

CNH Industrial Capital America (CNH), the captive finance company for capital goods provider CNH Industrial America, has selected FIS’s asset finance solution for managing its commercial contract and lease portfolio, reports Antony Peyton of Banking Technology (Finovate’s sister publication).

According to FIS, CNH was looking to consolidate management of its disparate commercial contract and lease portfolios on a single integrated platform.

Brett Davis, president, CNH Industrial Capital America, said the solution provides a “new level of configuration, automation and advanced integration capabilities for managing our business.”

By selecting the solution, CNH will get an integrated view of customer and dealer information, “enhancing its decision-making while simplifying accounting and tax reporting, managing regulatory compliance and reducing costs.”

At FinovateFall 2016, FIS demonstrated how it was extending Cardless Cash solution to enable mobile banking customers to pre-order funds and withdraw cash at participating banks and ATMs in more than 70,000 location in the U.S.

In March, FIS was recognized for Best In-Class Wealth Management Outsourcing in the 2018 Family Wealth Report Awards. The company also picked up 15 Stevie Awards in the 2018 American Business Awards for Sales & Customer Service last month,

With more than 20,000 clients in more than 130 countries, FIS is a global financial services technology company with more than 57,000 employed around the world. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and was founded in 1968.

Finovate Alumni News

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  • Bambu Goes Global, Launches London Office, Adds Technical Talent.
  • 3dcart Picks Payoneer for New Cross-Border Payments Partnership.

Around the web

  • Thomson Reuters enhances the investment portfolio risk management functionality of its Eikon solution by integrating MSCI’s RiskMetrics technology.
  • Avaloq announces status as founding partner of FinTech Scotland.
  • IdentityMind Global collaborates with digital shopping platform, Fluz Fluz, to boost KYC and AML compliance.
  • CNH Industrial Capital America (CNH) chooses FIS’ asset finance solution to manage its commercial contract and lease portfolio.
  • SuperMoney surpasses $500 million in loan requests processed since launch in April 2017.

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.