Finovate Alumni News– June 27, 2013

• Handpoint mobile POS apps go open source.

• Big Week for Funding: Kony Solutions, peerTransfer, The Receivables Exchange Raise a Total of $34 Million.

• Billhighway adds Cole County Residential Services as client.

• MasterCard unveils Simply Commerce to help merchants accept electronic payments.

• Newfination interviews Patrick Griffin, head of business development for OpenCoin.

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– June 5, 2013

• mBank announces new transactional service, new logo, premium offer for affluent customers.

• LICUOS selected as semi-finalist for Innotribe Startup Challenge.

• LendUp launches “Share the love” referral rewards program.

• Locaid announces commercial availability of Compliance API.

• Expensify offsets new pricing by allowing users to prepay and get 2 months free.

• Cachet Financial Solutions provides mobile deposit technology for Chexar’s Ingo Network.

• Actiance enhances Social Compliance Platform Support for Lync, Jive.

• Billhighway appoints Doug Gregory as CEO.

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– May 28, 2013

• Chris Larsen, CEO and co-founder of OpenCoin, calls Ripple, “HTTP for money” in CoinDesk feature.

• Credit Union Times: ProfitStars‘ Director of Strategic Insight Lee Wetherington talks credit unions and big data.

• Kalixa Group teams with MasterCard to test prepaid card.

• Barron’s Electronic Investor column on Quantopian now available to non-subscribers.

• Mateo’s Tech Travels reviews TransferWise.

• Business Insider hosts Dwolla CEO Ben Milne in Startup Lab interview.

• One of the largest financial services corporations in the world invests more than $4.6 million for software, maintenance and professional services with Kofax.

• American Banker reports: Kabbage’s Fresh Idea for Small Business Finance.

• TIBCO announces launch of Cloud Bus, a subscription-based Integration Platform as a service (iPaaS) offering.

• BellaDati opening partner network in Russia.

• IP Commerce closing payment processing service on June 30.

• M2CASH rebrands as V2PAY, now offers electronic ID verification, virtual loan solutions, virtual cards & virtual merchant services.

• Billhighway adds Kids Kicking Cancer as client.

• Comarch to provide reference, market data to SIX Financial Information.

• Standard Chartered launches VISA Infinite Credit Card with chip and PIN technology.

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– May 23, 2013

• CMS Wire reports: Linkable Networks: Improving the Customer’s Path to Purchase.

• Lighter Capital appoints Jeff Seely to board of directors.

• Pymnts.com reports: BillGuard Acts As Antivirus For The Disease Of Fraud.

• Expensify to begin new pricing structure.

• Global Finance magazine names Taulia the best worldwide invoice discount management solution.

• Expensify will soon be made available to over 250,000 Citrix enterprise customers.

• BillFloat extends SmartPay pilot program with Radio Shack partnership.

• Newfination interviews Mitch Fox, co-founder of GoodApril.

• Wired’s Beyond the Beyond column features OpenCoin in a report from the Bitcoin 2013 business convention.

• ProfitStar’s iPay Solutions named among best places to work in Kentucky.

• Stock Pick Previews takes a look at TradeKing.

• Billhighway adds the Friends of Birmingham Historical Museum & Park as new client.

• TransferWise wins a spot on Mashable’s list of “20 Hot London Startups You Need to Watch.”

• Yodlee and Check (formerly Pageonce) are among the companies highlighted in American Banker column on reimagining PFM for mobile.

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– May 9, 2013

• Forbes.com takes a look at the competition between Square and Flint Mobile.

• Compass Plus presents instant card issuance in debut appearance at CARTES America conference.

• SAGE SA names Amir Suleman as Head of Sales for Middle East.

• Striata receives PCI compliance for its Grade 1 infrastructure in the UK.

• New Europe Online interviews eToro’s Head of Product Marketing, Alon Levitan, about how eToro is changing online trading.

• Good.is features SaveUp’s Priya Haji.

• PEHub interviews Drew Sievers, who led mFoundry to an acquisition by FIS.

• Fraternity and Sorority Political Action Committee leverages Billhighway Give to Reach Fundraising Goals.

• Perfectsen selected as a semi-finalist for the Innotribe Startup Challenge 2013.

• OneID wins 2013 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation. Come see their presentation at FinovateSpring next week.

• Locaid earns extended relationship with LaaS company Timesheet Mobile. See Locaid demo at FinovateSpring in San Francisco.

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– May 2, 2013

• Newfination interviews Adhil Shetty, founder and CEO of BankBazaar.

• Pymnts.com features TipRanks Financial Accountability Engine. Join TipRans in San Francisco for FinovateSpring.

• Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth talks about hyper growth in Europe.

• InvestmentNews columnist takes a look at Finect. See them demo at FinovateSpring in May.

• Yodlee forms partnership with London fintech incubator Level39.

• Virtual Piggy wins The National Parenting Center’s 2013 Seal of Approval under the Websites category. See it demo live at FinovateSpring.

• Signifyd receives the Merchant Risk Council’s 2013 Emerging Technology Award in the startup company category. Come see it demo live at FinovateSpring.

• Engadget reports: PayPal and Discover expand partnership, will reach 2 million stores by year-end.

• PandoDaily looks at Xero’s stealth period.

• Billhighway partners with the Automation Alley Fund organization.

• Braintree hires Google Wallet co-creator &
  former Square employee Rob von Behren as lead software engineer.

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 30, 2013

• Cortera now offering free Cortera Business Directory accounts.

• Lendio announces record year-over-year revenue growth of 97% for the first quarter of 2013.

• Zopa launches Safeguard offer that protects lenders from faulty borrowers through a fund held by a non-profit.

• PayMyStudentLoans.com reviews ReadyForZero can help students save money in college.

• PA Consulting Group will deliver identity verification solutions using miiCard.

• MoneyDesktop launches new version of PFM & updates MoneyMobile app.

• South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce Bank is the fifth Bangladeshi bank to deploy Temenos T24 banking software.

• Leaf announces Leaf Membership Network. Join Leaf in San Francisco for FinovateSpring in May.

• Financial Advisor introduces Finect. Come see Finect demo their technology at FinovateSpring.

• Dividend Kings take a look at BillFloat.

• appPicker reviews Kashoo Accounting for iPad.

• Small Business Association of Michigan selects Billhighway Give as its mobile fundraising solution.

• Intuit releases Android tablet banking app. Come to FinovateSpring to watch Intuit unveil its new technology.

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 10, 2013

• FamZoo and Transcard roll out family banking. Come see FamZoo demo it live at FinovateSpring.

• Sigma Phi Lambda Sorority selects Billhighway for enterprise payment solution.

• Linkable Networks partners with Lyfepoints, enabling users to apply savings to utility payments.

• Business news Daily reports: Dashlane Makes Remembering Passwords a Breeze.

• Bank Systems & Technology reports PayPal partners with Chilean payment network Multicaja.

• HeathWallace & Backbase partner to implement Backbase Bank 2.0 Portal throughout Middle East.

• The Examiner recommends BillGuard to identify fraudulent credit card charges.

• Payments Journal reports Fiserv Launches Remote Deposit Capture Product.

• TechCrunch looks at Yandex’s use of gesture-based interfaces to power apps.

• PVAngels features TrustEgg. Join TrustEgg in San Francisco in May for FinovateSpring.

• BrightScope is collecting fee data from advisory firms, report expected by fall 2013.

• MC Helper looks at EyeVerify and the future of internet security. See EyeVerify in action at FinovateSpring.

• Nomis Solutions unveils their latest pricing management software tool, the Nomis Discretion Manager.

• Thomson Reuters announces launch of insurance compliance solution, Accelus.

• InvestorIdeas takes a look at TipRanks. Join TipRanks in San Francisco for FinovateSpring in May.

• TransferWise to provide $100,000 in free international money transfers to 1,000 start-ups.

• Lake Trust Credit Union to be the first CU to deploy MasterCard’s MasterPass digital wallet.

• Kalixa Group launches a trio of mobile payment products: Pro, Pay, and Accept.

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– March 6, 2013

• TSYS makes Ethisphere Institute’s list of the world’s most ethical companies.

• Opportunity International becomes the first microfinance provider to license analytics solution, Insight, from Temenos.

• ACI Worldwide presenting at Wedbush Securities Transformational Technologies Management Access Conference today.

• PayPal signs agreement with Japan-based Softbank and Nihon PayPal KK to extend the PayPal Here mobile payment service to small businesses and entrepreneurs.

• Cartera Commerce selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Private Company for third consecutive year.

• MyBankTracker compares Mint, HelloWallet, and Pageonce.

• Billhighway announces availability of Give mobile fundraising application.

• My Money Purdue talks about budgeting with Buxfer.

• Pageonce COO Steve Schultz interviewed by PYMNTS.com.

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 — February 19, 2013

• Rescuecom highlights TransferWise as low cost, currency conversion option.

• Acculynk‘s Payzur brings person-to-person payments to consumers on PULSE debit/ATM network.

• Compass Plus helps Russian-based FI SwitchMaster reach processing benchmark.

• ekmPowershop announces partnership with EZBOB.

• American Banker reports: Planwise to Participate in Yodlee’s Incubator Program.

• BillHighway hires new CFO.

• Arroweye Solutions reports 40% growth due to 175% uptick in open loop card production, added 27 new clients in 2012.

• Fuze Network now guarantees no late fees.

• Bill.com to provide Frantopia with accounting services.

• Prosper unveils new protection for lenders.

• The Next Web reports: Tradeshift adds support for accounting services Sage and Kashflow, helping businesses get paid.

• Forbes considers how SoMoLend provides capital to small businesses.

• VentureBeat reports SecondMarket is partnering with CircleUp to allow investors to invest in up-and-coming consumer product businesses.

• Thomaston Savings Bank selects Q2ebanking’s full suite of ebanking solutions.

• HiddenLevers launches portfolio stress testing app to help advisors generate leads.

• Fiserv awarded Best-in-Class rating in 2012 Anti-Money Laundering Technology Review.

• Gifting app Wrapp selects Braintree to power payments.

• Social Commerce Today features Azimo.

• FIS launches new P2P platform.

• Pageonce adds person-to-person payment functionality to mobile app.

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.