Alumni News– September 18, 2014

• Lighter Capital increases capital base to $17 million & completes 50th loan.

• Mint launches on iOS 8 with Touch ID.

• miiCard participates in NSTIC Pilot for State of North Carolina eID Program.

• Billhighway wins 2014 “Metropolitan Detroit Best & Brightest Company to Work For”.

• Ping Identity raises $35 million in round led by KKR.

• MasterCard announces launch of SimplifyCommerce in Ireland.

• Monitise and BlackBerry launch BBM Money service for Indonesia consumers using Android, iOS, or BlackBerry smartphones.

• Coinbase unveils its open source, bitcoin API, Toshi.

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.

Alumni News– July 7, 2014

• American Banker features Tradeshift in a column on startups innovating in the small business bill pay space.

• Credit Union Broadcast interviews Greg Ewald, VP of Marketing for Loop.

• Zighra partners with Toyuma to launch a Kickstarter project to launch PassZweipe, a password manager app.

• Billhighway to provide automated donation processing for The Michigan Humane Society.

• Open Bank Project organizing Hack/Make The Bank hackathon in Berlin. Check out more builder tools at FinDEVr this Fall.

• Bill.com, ZenPayroll, and Expensify earn spots Sqrl blog’s list of 39 apps you didn’t know could grow your business.

• Narrative Science’s Kris Hammond is featured in Business Insider’s Technology section.

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– April 23, 2014

• Nous launches two-month pilot program with Hong Kong hedge fund. Launched at FinovateEurope in February, Nous’ Spark Profit has 25,000 registered users in 194 countries.

• Heritage Bank of Nevada to deploy Fiserv’s deposit reclassification solution, ReserveLink.

• AmeriServ signs real-time account processing agreement with FIS to deploy TrustDesk.

• TSYS to discontinue operations in Japan after almost 14 years.

• Billhighway & RallyBound partner to make multi-channel fundraising a reality for nonprofits.

• Zendesk customer service software partners with Xero.

• PerformanceIn interviews Linkable Networks CEO, Tom Burgess.

• ReadyForZero announces manual entry tool.

• Insuritas working with Overstock.com to launch its virtual insurance agency solution. Come see Insuritas at FinovateSpring next week.

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– April 9, 2014

• Michigan Education Association selects Billhighway to improve membership experience.

• ProfitStars’ iPay Solutions Resource Center receives NACHA’s 2014 PayItGreen Award.

• miiCard launches IDaaS for Lenders, a solution that combines ID proofing, bureau data, bank data, & authentication.

• CardFlight launches SwipeSimple to offer a co-branded mobile POS product to merchants.

• LA Parent features Oink among its “Cool Tools.”

• OTP Banka Slovakia to deploy CRIF Credit Framework.

• LendUp launches in Mississippi, the state with the highest percentage of unbanked and underbanked households in the U.S.

• Rippleshot CEO Canh Tran to join Chicago-area startups at White House summit on entrepreneurialism. See Rippleshot demo at FinovateSpring in San Jose.

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– April 7, 2014

• Billhighway launches new website.

• Lighter Capital provides growth funding to 3 tech co’s in Colorado: Envisiontel, Influence Tech, & YogaDownload.

• Dexterity Consulting gives sneak peek of its Give API v. 2.0.

• Vietnam Eximbank deploying biometric fingerprint authentication from TSYS.

• New partnership to bring ProfitStars’ remote deposits and bill pay capabilities to Online Banking Solutions’s Messenger Financial Center e-banking platform.

• PYMNTS: Leaf Disrupts Acquirer Market.

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– January 27, 2014

• Lending Club named #5 on Forbes’ Most Promising Companies List.

• The Wall Street Journal mentions SecondMarket’s private shares trading market.

• DoughRoller blog features Jemstep.

• Doxo receives 2013 Award for best Software and App from the Seattle Award Program.

• VentureBeat lists Xero and Expensify as 2 of the best back-office software applications for small businesses.

• Billhighway Prepaid MasterCard named winner in eighth annual Paybefore Awards.

• Bank Systems & Technology features Allied Payment Network’s Picture Pay mobile bill pay app.

• FIS wins Frost & Sullivan Customer Value Enhancement award for FIS Mobile Wallet.

• Credit Card Vault in the Cloud Spreedly Raises $500k.

• Find Biometrics takes a brief look at 2013 and 2014 with EyeVerify’s Director of Marketing, Denise Myers.

• DeviceFidelity announces availability of its IsisReady NFC cases for iPhone.

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– November 19, 2013

• Billhighway listed as one of the 100 Best & Brightest Companies to Work for.

• Actiance to launch Vantage Compliance App on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange.

• Virtual Piggy launches new iOS mobile app. 

• hyperWALLET to integrate with PayNearMe to offer cash payment acceptance options.

• Uber is first company to use PayPal’s mobile SDK.

• Acculynk offers UnionPay debit card acceptance to U.S. merchants.

• American Banker takes a look at efforts by Moven and GreenDot to bring transparency to payments.

• Techcrunch reviews Finovera, includes shout-outs to Mint, Manilla, and doxo.

• Intellaegis to provide masterQueue to Portfolio Recovery Associates, world’s largest debt buying company.

• The Week features Saved Plus in column “3 money apps that look more useful than Coin.”

• MasterCard and Worldline partner to provide MasterPass-powered digital wallet.

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– November 18, 2013

• RentPaidOnline and PayNearMe partner to bring cash payments to its online platform 

• Daily Finance interviews PaySimple CEO Eric Remer on Next-Gen Payment Processing.

• ShopKeep POS releasing new version of its iPad-based sales mgmt system to cut checkout time in retail locations.

• Novant Health launches on doxo to deliver bills & simplify the patient experience.

• Lendio named one of Utah Business Magazine’s Best Companies to Work for in 2013.

• Credit Sesame launches banking channel with new interest rate comparison tool.

• Billhighway ranked no. 146 fastest growing company in North America on Deloitte’s 2013 Tech Fast 500.

• Former U.S. Treasury assistant secretary for financial institutions and Google SVP join Lending Club’s advisory board.

• The Paypers reports SumUp extends to Latin America with launch of m-payments service in Brazil.

• Lend Academy reports: Lending Club now valued at over $2 Billion.

• Open Bank Project organizing the second edition of Hack/Make The Bank FinTech hackathon in Paris on Nov 30th.

• EyeVerify competes tonight in Kauffman Foundation’s “Get in the Ring: The American Startup Clash”.

• Texas Advanced Computing Center to test pilot Toopher’s Invisible Multifactor Authentication solution.

• MasterCard opens office in Bangladesh.

• GetRichSlowly reviews FlexScore.

• Leaf featured in column on Boston-based mobile payment hardware systems.

• The Points Guy compares new Coin card to Wallaby Card.

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– October 2, 2013

• Billhighway 3-peats with “Metropolitan Detroit Best and Brightest Company to Work For” 2013 win.

• BehavioSec awarded DARPA Phase 2 contract.

• Spend Matters interviews Tradeshift CEO, Christian Lanng.

• ACI Worldwide embraces Experian Decision Analytics decisioning solution.

• FIS announces partnership with Australian debit card system eftpos to build payments hub.

• Quantopian raises $6.7 million in Series A round.

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– September 26, 2013

• Updated Google Wallet app lets users store loyalty cards.

• MasterCard teams up with National Bank of Egypt, Egyptian Banks Company, and Fawry to launch m-wallet in Egypt.

• EBay’s PayPal acquires Braintree in $800M cash deal.

• The Boston Business Journal features peerTransfer.

• miiCard presents trends from the innovators at FinovateFall.

• KillerStartups features Finovera.

• Lendio raises $4.5 million for small business loan-matching Service.

• TechCrunch reports: SecondMarket launches a Bitcoin investment trust for accredited investors.

• Billhighway adds Boys & Girls Club of Troy as client.

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.