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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on July 12, 2016
Categories: CardLinX, D3 Banking, iSignthis, Personal Capital, Sberbank, SecondMarket, Student Loan Genius, ThreatMetrix, Trulioo

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Personal Capital Offers Digital Wealth Management for BancAlliance’s Member Banks

Student Loan Genius to Help TrendKite Employees Retire Debt Faster, Save Sooner

Finovate Debuts: CardLinx Helps Members Find & Post Card-Linked Offers

Around the web

Trulioo extends its identity-verification platform, Global Gateway, to the Middle East and North Africa.

Sberbank creates mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to pave way for launch of mobile bank.

iSignthis to provide digital KYC, customer authentication, and secure card vaulting for FxNet.com.

ThreatMetrix updates platform to enhance authentication and enable smarter decisions for fraud prevention, authentication and threat detection.

Celent recognizes D3 Banking for its commitment to customer service and innovation in Depth of Service Award.

SecondMarket settles with the SEC over Regulation M.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on February 23, 2016
Categories: Blackhawk Network, Bluefin Payment Systems, Cachet Financial Solutions, Check, Coinbase, Dream Payments, Fiserv, Guardian Analytics, Insuritas, iSignthis, Klarna, Motif Investing, PayPal, Pindrop Security, Qapital, Roostify, SecondMarket

On Finovate.com

Guardian Analytics Appoints New CEO.

Dream Payments Unveils Mobile Merchant Platform for Banks and Acquirers.

Blackhawk Network Names Talbott Roche New CEO.

Coinbase and Motif Investing Earn Spots on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2016 List.

Around the web

Fiserv named to Fortune magazine’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies in 2016.

Pindrop launches its comprehensive call center fraud-prevention platform, IVR Anti-Fraud.

Sussex County FCU picks Insuritas to deploy new insurance agency solution.

iSignthis‘ paydentity KYC service is suitable for use by businesses in the regulated sector of the Isle of Man, a global financial hub.

Inc. profiles Sweden’s Klarna and its plans for U.S. expansion.

Co-founded by former Check CMO Daniel Kjellen, MovoCash announces $700,000 seed investment.

Ingo Money partners with PayPal, adds instant check-splitting.

Roostify to integrate with zipLogix to facilitate communication between lenders and realtors.

American Banker features SecondMarket.

Qapital launches on Android.

Bluefin Payment Systems and Worldnet partner for PCI-validated P2PE on Worldnet’s payment platform.

Cachet appoints new Chief Financial Officer Bryan Meier.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 22, 2015
Categories: Algomi, Cachet Financial Solutions, Encap, Feedzai, Kabbage, LiquidLandscape, Mambu, Motif Investing, On Deck Capital, PayItSimple, SecondMarket

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Finovate debuts: “LiquidLandscape’s Visualization Solves Scattered Data”

“FinDEVr Launches in New York, March 2016″

“OnDeck adds new small business lending options”

Around the web

The Financial Brand: Beyond the Arc’s Steven Ramirez considers three fintech trends from Finovate alums.

Nasdaq acquires SecondMarket to help startups sell shares.

Motif Investing partners with J.P. Morgan to offer investors fractional IPO shares.

ING and Kabbage partner to bring platform lending to Europe’s small businesses.

PayItSimple USA changes its name to Splitit.

Encap Security announces formation of new advisory board.

Algomi wins “Most Innovative Trading Product/Service” category at the Financial News Awards in Trading & Technology for the second consecutive year.

OakNorth Bank chooses Mambu as its banking technology partner.

Feedzai introduces data science studio for fraud prevention.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on April 16, 2015
Categories: Blackhawk Network, Blockchain, Check Point, Coinbase, Emida, Evo Snap*, Financial Media Solutions, Intellaegis, Kofax, mShift, PayPal, SecondMarket, Taulia, TransferWise, Uncategorized, Xero, ZenPayroll

On Finovate.com

Xero and ZenPayroll Win Honors at CPA Practice Advisor 2015 Reader’s Choice Awards

Finovate Debuts: Using Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS to Create Videographics

Around the Web

MasterQueue, powered by Intellaegis, partners with Whitepages Pro.

ITProPortal profiles TransferWise.

Bitpost lists Coinbase and Blockchain as 2 of the top 5 bitcoin wallets on Android.

EVO Payments partners with Boomtown to simplify tech support for POS developers and merchants.

Fintech Today reports: With Paydiant, PayPal Will Be a Huge Hit with Merchants.

Blackhawk to integrate Kofax Mobile Capture SDK into its digital services platform.

Developing Telcoms spotlights Emida.

Team One CU to pilot MShift’s AnyWhereMobile payment-network with a locally owned restaurant in Michigan.

SecondMarket’s Bitcoin Desk Relaunches as Genesis Trading.

Taulia named by AlwaysOn as a 2015 OnFinance Top 100 Company.

According to Gartner, Check Point Software Technologies lead the worldwide market share for firewall equipment in Q4 2014 and FY 2014.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on April 14, 2015
Categories: Acculynk, authenticID, BioCatch, Blackhawk Network, Kofax, Lending Club, Lendio, MiiCard, Motif Investing, On Deck Capital, PaySimple, Prosper, Q2, SecondMarket, Tradier, Uncategorized

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FinovateSpring 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 3 is up. Check out what 7 presenting companies have to offer at the next Finovate.

AuthenticID Teams Up with MyECheck to Provide Document Authentication

Around the Web

OEM agreement between Kofax and BlackHawk Network enables mobile capture on GoWallet digital wallet.

Early Warning and BioCatch to collaborate in new data-sharing consortium.

Q2 teams up with Acculynk to provide real-time P2P payment service.

2Chimps reviews Motif Investing.

The Netbanker Blog is Moving to Finovate.com.

Lending Club and Citi partner with Varadero Capital to facilitate up to $150 million in loans to provide affordable credit to underserved borrowers and communities.

Options trading tool, Orca, partners with Tradier for its Brokerage API.

Prosper and OnDeck partner to offer customers more lending options.

GDS Link integrates MiiCard’s DirectID into its Credit Risk Management platform to reduce risk and increase conversion rates.

Lendio acquires Business Bounce to accelerate business lending on its marketplace platform.

PaySimple awarded Marketing Team of the Year by Marketo.

TechCrunch reports: SecondMarket launching product to put more control over secondary sales in the hands of startups.

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Alumni News: March 6, 2015

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 6, 2015
Categories: Bill.com, BioCatch, Digital Insight, MasterCard, PayPal, Qapital, Quantitative Credit Research, SecondMarket, Social Money, Temenos, Tradier

American Banker: Qapital the first nonbank in the U.S. to go live with Social Money’s CorePro API.

Finovate Debuts: Quantitative Credit Research Helps Lenders Understand Economic Risks.

PayPal buys CyActive, an Israeli cyber-security company.

Community & Southern Bank to deploy digital banking solutions from Digital Insight.

BioCatch launches its new account-fraud-detection solution.

Bill.com appoints Sheela Zemlin to SVP of Sales and Customer Success.

MasterCard and Microsoft partner to encourage financial inclusion in Mexico.

Temenos acquires Multifonds, an international fund administration software provider.

SecondMarket among bidders in U.S. government’s third Silk Road bitcoin auction.

Listen to Tradier CEO Dan Raju on Money Talk with Jesse Torres.

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Alumni News– January 16, 2015

By David Penn Posted on January 16, 2015
Categories: Arxan Technologies, Birdback, EZBOB, Infosys, Jingit, Lending Club, Mifos Initiative, Monitise, SecondMarket, Silanis Technology, Taulia

Linedata Capitalstream to offer e-SignLive by Silanis.

13 Finovate alums win 2015 Paybefore Awards.

Payment Services Provider Anderson Zaks teams up with card-linked offers specialist, Birdback.

EZBOB launches scratch card promotion.

MarketWatch’s Your Digital Self column looks at Jingit.

Baseline magazine features a recent study by Arxan Technologies on the state of mobile app security.

The Mifos Initiative joins Microcredit Summit Campaign to integrate social performance management and poverty measurement tools into its free and open source cloud-based core banking system.

The Super early bird deadline for FinovateSpring 2015 ends tonight! Pick up your tickets now to save big time.

Monetise partners with MoneyPass to offer mobile money services to MoneyPass customers.

Lending Club Pilots Program to Provide Low Interest Financing to Google Partners.

In 2014, secondary transactions surged to a record $1.4 billion on SecondMarket.

Spend Matters debunks myths about Taulia. Check out Taulia at FinovateEurope next month.

Infosys announces $250 Million USD ‘Innovate in India Fund’ to support Indian start-ups.

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Alumni News– December 9, 2014

By David Penn Posted on December 9, 2014
Categories: Actiance, App Annie, Betterment, Blackhawk Network, Cachet Financial Solutions, CrowdFlower, Dashlane, iQuantifi, Klarna, Knox, Mitek, Personal Capital, SecondMarket, SigFig, Trustev, Wealthfront, Yodlee

Cachet Financial Solutions to offer Mitek’s Mobile Photo Account Opening SaaS suite.

CrowdFlower CEO Lukas Biewald writes personally about the relationship between startups and their boards of directors.

Investor Junkie reviews roboadvisor, iQuantifi.

Knox Payments partners with ChangeTip to support bitcoin transaction via ACH.

CardNotPresent takes a look at Klarna’s US expansion plans.

Yodlee introduces transaction data enrichment service.

Fox News compares funding of Wealthfront, Personal Capital, Betterment, and SigFig.

Blackhawk Network’s closed loop gift cards available at some USPS locations.

VentureBeat: App Annie now tracks stats from Windows and Windows Phone stores.

SecondMarket wins 48,000 Bitcoin in U.S. Marshals auction.

Actiance extends security capabilities to email.

TechCrunch: Trustev Uses Fraud Detection Software to Crack Down on Internet Trolls.

Dashlane launches one-click password changer.

BehavioSec Lands $6 Million Led by Northzone and Octopus Investments.

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Alumni News– July 25, 2014

By David Penn Posted on July 25, 2014
Categories: Actiance, BillGuard, Cartera Commerce, Coinbase, DemystData, eToro, FutureAdvisor, Holvi, Jemstep, Kabbage, LendingTree, Malauzai Software, MoneyDesktop, Monitise, Personal Capital, SecondMarket, Wealthfront, Zooz

Fox Business News features Kabbage’s small business lending process.

Huffington Post describes how DemystData’s big data analytics help evaluate creditworthiness.

Cartera Commerce’s CFO Karen Cambray named a finalist in Boston Business Journal’s 2014 CFO of the Year Awards.

Bloomberg: BillGuard programmers code in bomb shelters.

Coinbase launches Coinbase Vault to Better Secure Your Bitcoins.

MoneyDesktop appoints Brandon Dewitt as its first ever CTO.

SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert stepping down in order to refocus his attention solely on bitcoin.

InvestmentNews features roboadvisors Jemstep, FutureAdvisor, Wealthfront, and Personal Capital.

The Irish Times looks at Holvi’s move into Ireland.

CMS Wire: Actiance wants to help companies curb social media mistakes.

Karen Webster of Market Platform Dynamics interviews Zooz CEO Oren Levy.

eToro announces new version of OpenBook for iOS.

Mobile Entertainment talks with Adam Levene, SVP of Strategy at Monitise Create.

LendingTree launches personalization platform.

Pymnts takes a look at the partnership between Malauzai Software and Trusteer. See Malauzai at FinovateFall in September.

Fortune.com interviews Bill Siegel, interim CEO of SecondMarket.

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Alumni News– June 16, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on June 16, 2014
Categories: Bill Guard, Blackhawk Network, CashStar, Kiboo, Luxoft, SecondMarket

BillGuard named one of Business Insider’s “20 Hottest Startups from Israel in 2014.”

Luxoft announces new offices in Detroit, Michigan.

Mobile Payments today interviews CashStar president and CEO, Ben Kaplan.

Investor Place looks at Blackhawk Networks’ place in ecommerce.

SecondMarket to form a syndicate to bid on upcoming bitcoin auction by the U.S. Marshals service.

Kiboo launches getback.net to tackle employee expenses.

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Finovate Alumni News– April 17, 2014

By David Penn Posted on April 17, 2014
Categories: BillGuard, Qapital, SecondMarket, Temenos

Finovate alums earn spots on Fast Company’s Top 10 Most Innovative in Finance.

Qapital featured in Finextra and TechCrunch profiiles. See Qapital demo at FinovateSpring in San Jose, April 29 and 30.

Temenos appoints Martin Frick to head APAC.

BillGuard launches in Canada.

News BTC reports: SecondMarket Welcomes Investors Seeking to Trade 25 BTC Or Greater.

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Finovate Alumni News– March 20, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 20, 2014
Categories: Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, Feedzai, Fenergo, MasterCard, Matchi, mBank, Narrative Science, SecondMarket, Striata, Thomson Reuters

More than 25 banks have signed up for Matchi since its launch in November last year.

American Banker looks at how Credit Karma and Credit Sesame provide more than just a credit score.

Thomson Reuters launches Know-Your-Customer service.

SecondMarket seeks to open Bitcoin fund to ordinary investors.

Pymnts features Feedzai’s CEO Nuno Sebastiao.

Striata unveils new logo, new website.

Fenergo appoints Oliver White to UK Head of Sales.

mBank and Orange partner to launch full-service, retail mobile bank in second half of 2014.

MasterPass from MasterCard now available in Italy.

Narrative Science launches free app to turn data into readable documents.

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