FinovateSpring 2012 in the Press

Here’s a look at press coverage from FinovateSpring 2012 in San Francisco last week. For comprehensive coverage, be sure to check out Erin McCune’s live blog on PaymentsViews, which covers all 63 presenting companies:

2 Minute Finance
2MF @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference
by Bobby Lee
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BillGuard Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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Cardlytics Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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Concur Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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Flint Mobile Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 2)

by Bobby Lee

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Mitek Systems Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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TIO Networks Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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WattzOn Demo @ Finovate Spring 2012 Conference (Day 1)

by Bobby Lee

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Bank Innovation

5 Finovate Demo-ers’ News Catching Our Eye

by Mary Wisniewski

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4 More Finovate Products We Like

by Mary Wisniewski

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Bank Technology News

Best of Finovate Spring Day 1

by Penny Crosman

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Best of Finovate Spring Day 2

by Penny Crosman

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Dwolla Pitches Fast Fund Transfers, but Bank Participation is Vital

by Sean Sposito

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Edo to Harness Payment Data to Spur Consumer Spending

by Victoria Finkle

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WattzOn Helps Banks Help Customers Save on Energy Bills

by Sean Sposito

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BankersLab Blog

CreditLab Launch: Reactions and Responses

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BankNXT

Finovate, Simple, and Re-Imagining Banking Applications

by Bradley Leimer

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Live at FinovateSpring 2012- day 1

by Jelmer de Jong

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Live at FinovateSpring 2012- day 2

by Jelmer de Jong

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BetaKit

CoverHound Debuts Comparison Tool for Auto Insurance 

by Cheronne Thurab 

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Business Insider

Finally, a Mobile App That Helps You Save Money: Meet Urge

by Willy Staley

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Business2Community

What Does $4.6 Billion in Coupon Savings Have to Do with Savvy Consumers?

by Andre Bourque

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C’est pas mon idée!

FinovateSpring 2012: quoi de neuf?

by Patrice Bernard

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Currency Marketing Blog

Four Conference in Four Days

by Tim McAlpine

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Credit Union Times

MoneyDesktop Named Best of Show at FinovateSpring Conference

by Natasha Chilingerian

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Daily Disruption

Flint Mobile Announces Beta Launch at Finovate and Closes $3 Million Round of Financing

by Tim Rygh

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The Daily Guardian (BillGuard’s blog)

Financial Community Awards BillGuard Best Of Show at Finovate

by Maryanne

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DCisions Blog

DCisions at Finovate Spring 2012

by Kritika Ashok

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Des Moines Register 

Dwolla offers software for free

by Adam Belz

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Des Moines Register Blog

Dwolla, Social Money earn praise at national banking conference

by Marco Santana

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Exc
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Kuspit, el primer Finovate mexicano

by Alicia Salgado

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Experian Blog

Business IQ Express… what is the media saying?

by Roslyn Whitehurst 

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FamZoo Blog

Finovate Winners

by Bill Dwight

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Finextra

Flint taps phone cameras for card payments

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SoMoLend closes $1.17 million seed round

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Forrester Blog

Finovate Spring 2012: Digital Financial Services Innovation

by Tiffani Montez

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FP Pad

[Video Spotlight] inStream Solutions CEO Alex Murguia at FinovateSpring 2012

by Bill Winterberg

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[Video Spotlight] iQuantifi CEO Tom White at FinovateSpring 2012

by Bill Winterberg

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[Video Spotlight] Sarah Carter of Actiance at FinovateSpring 2012

by Bill Winterberg

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Iconowatch

Accelerating Innovation at Finovate 2012

by Hans Eisenbeis

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Investment News

Personal Capital launches iPhone app

by Davis Janowski

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Lazy Man and Money

What’s Hot and What’s Not from Finovate 2012

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Mercury News

Money Goes Mobile 

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Montreal Gazette

Montreal’s Wall Street Survivor teaches about investing

by Jason Magder

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MyBankTracker

Can FinTech Stop You from ‘Showrooming?’

by Willy Staley

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MoneyDesktop: How Personalized Deals Shine in PFM Tools

by Simon Zhen

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Save Your Wallet, and Maybe the Planet, with WattzOn

by by Willy Staley

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On Deck Capital Blog

Photo Journal: Our Finovate Demo

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PaymentsNews

Highlights from Finovate Spring 2012 San Francisco 

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PaymentsViews

Live Blogging Finovate Spring 2012 San Francisco

by Erin McCune

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The Paypers

ZipZap rolls out CashCade payment service

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PaySimple Blog

PaySimple at Finovate

by Sarah Jordan

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PC World

New Web Apps and Services for Business

by Yardena Arar

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QuidLabs

Finovate Best in Show

by Aliisa Rosenthal

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SecurityPark.net

BehavioSec voted ‘Best of Show’ for biometric solution by audience at Finovate Spring, San Francisco

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Silicon Prairie News

With upgraded FiSync, Dwolla cuts 3-5 day wait to real-time

by Michael Stacy

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Silver Tail Systems Blog

Finovate Spring Demonstrates a Growing Richness in Online Interactions

by Laura Mather

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Social Lending Network

Roundup of Social Lending News – May 12, 2012

by Peter Renton

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TechCrunch 

Capital One Snags Mobile Savings Startup BankOns, Team Moving To Capital One Labs

by Sarah Perez

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Flint: A New Mobile Payment App For Small Businesses Picks Up $3M From Storm, True Ventures

by Ingrid Lunden

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How Personal Capital Wants To Bring Money Management Into The Internet Age [TCTV]

by Colleen Taylor

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Nearing The 1M User Mark, Expensify Adds ‘Trips’ Feature To Mobile Apps

by Colleen Taylor

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The Anti-Groupon? Edo Launches Real-Time Local Offers Platform, Tied To Your Bank Card For Instant Credits

by Sarah Perez

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Tradestreaming

List Of Winners Of Top Fintech Conference, Finovate

by Zack Miller

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World News (wn.com)

Instream Solutions Ceo Alex Murguia At Finovatespring 2012

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Concur’s SmartExpense Syncs with TripIt to Make Expense Reporting Easy

Today, Concur showed how SmartExpense connects with TripIt to make expense reporting even easier:

“SmartExpense is an easier way to do expense reports and does a lot of the work for you. Snap photos of business receipts with your smartphone while you travel and SmartExpense will automatically upload them to your expense report. Or, simply forward electronic receipts from hotels, mobile carriers, conferences, and more to receipts@smartexpense.com to easily add them to any expense report. 

To make travel expense reporting even easier, connect your SmartExpense account with TripIt. SmartExpense automatically creates and pre-populates expense reports with flight, hotel, and car rental reservations from your TripIt itinerary, no matter where you book.”

Product Launched: Summer 2012

HQ Location: Redmond, WA

Company Founded: 1993

Metrics: Servicing over 15,000 clients located in more than 100 countries; high client satisfaction with more than 95% client retention; total revenue was $292.9 million for fiscal 2010, up 18% year-over-year; processing over 50 million transactions worth over $50 billion in T&E spend a year; over 10% of the U.S.’s T&E spend processed by Concur solutions; more than 60% of the Fortune 500 are Concur clients, including 6 of the top 10 U.S. companies; over 60% of BTN’s Corporate Travel 100 are Concur clients

Website: concur.com

Introducing Elena Donio (EVP & GM, Emerging Business) and Ruben Alanis (Senior Product Manager)

FinovateSpring 2012 Sneak Peek: Part 3

As promised, this is part 3 of the sneak peek of the companies that will demo at FinovateSpring May 8 and 9 in San Francisco. Each company provided a short summary of the innovation they will debut on stage. In case you missed them, check out Sneak Peek Part 1 and Sneak Peek Part 2.

Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the hottest innovations in financial technology. Get your FinovateSpring ticket here.

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Access Development

It’s understood that the more customers interact with a rewards program, the more engaged and loyal they become. Redeeming points and receiving value makes them happy. Yet the hard costs and management of those rewards has become prohibitive for financial institutions. 

Access Development will debut PowerDeals, a micro-redemption engine that offers customers valuable rewards for a minimal number of points, resulting in more transactions. PowerDeals will help increase customer loyalty while significantly decreasing program costs and accrual liability for the financial institution.

Innovation type: Communications, marketing, rewards

Applause Learning 

Applause Learning is changing the way children learn about money. Their unique new product, The Coindexter Club, presents financial literacy in an innovative, game-based format that keeps children entertained as they learn the core principles of financial management. The Coindexter Club immerses children in the exciting virtual world of Econopolis (found at Coindexter.com) where they are taught to earn, save, spend, and invest money.

Innovation type: Marketing

BancBox

BancBox is an infrastructure platform that helps companies build payment services into their web and mobile applications. Based on a simple API-driven approach that allows customers to maintain control of their user experience, BancBox delivers a secure, compliant and integrated way for clients to collect, store and send money from within their applications. 

BancBox also offers a unique service that assists clients in addressing the regulatory complexities of moving money in compliance with state money transmitter laws. As a trusted expert with years of payment operations experience, BancBox has opened over one hundred thousand consumer accounts and processed billions of dollars in payments.

Innovation type: Banking, cards, payments, security

BankersLab

If you’ve invested in a better airplane; why haven’t you invested in the pilot? Introducing CreditLab— the flight simulator for the retail lending world. 

Focused on credit risk management skills, this dynamic training system requires players to manage their lending portfolios through stormy conditions, such as heavy price competition and an economic recession. Pitted against competitive teams, players must make tough choices, learning to anticipate portfolio management adjustments so that they can stay the course.

Innovation type: Back office, cards, lending

Blaze Mobile

Blaze Mobile develops innovative mobile commerce, healthcare, banking and advertising solutions that enable secure, convenient, cost-effective transactions and promotions from the mobile device. Utilizing its patented NFC and mobile technology, the Blaze Mobile product suite includes:

• Mobile Wallet
• NFC-enabling Payment Stickers
• Blaze Mobile Advertising Platform that delivers personalized ads and coupons based on customer shopping history, location, interests, gender, and other data

Innovation type: Mobile and tablet, payments, rewards

Concur

More than 15 million people in 100 countries trust Concur to manage their travel and expenses, and save them time. In 2011, Concur acquired TripIt, the leading mobile trip organizer that makes it easy for millions of people to organize and share their travel plans. Together, Concur and TripIt make it possible for companies to use trip data to simplify expense reports and save time. Come find out what that means for you.

Innovation type: Back office, mobile and tablet, online, small business

DeviceFidelity

moneto is a prepaid mobile wallet powered by MasterCard PayPass technology and created by DeviceFidelity. Using DeviceFidelity’s globally renowned In2Pay microSD solution, moneto’s unique portability and consumer centric approach means greater adoption and rapid penetration.

moneto makes money management easy from start to finish. It’s the simple, secure and elegant way to give users the most from their cash using just their mobile phone. Compatible with both iPhone and Android and accepted at hundreds of thousands of retailers nationwide, moneto is the ultimate virtual wallet.

Innovation type: Banking, cards, mobile, payments, PFM, rewards

Experian 

According to a recent report from the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), cash flow was identified as the highest-priority finance issue affecting small-business owners. Experian’s Business Information Services will demonstrate a new solution that helps small businesses solve this issue by enabling owners and principals to quickly and easily make better decisions across the entire Customer Life Cycle. It is these important decisions that help businesses meet their obligations and often can mean the difference between success or failure.

Innovation type: Small business

inStream Solutions

inStream Solutions grew out of a desire to help financial advisors provide better service to their clients. This is the first proactive financial planning software for financial advisors that integrates financial advice and coordinates financial services with a lead generation model. 

inStream Solutions also leverages the knowledge generated by advisors into a best practices resource, provides real-time insight into how advisors use financial products to solve the issues of their affluent clients, and helps advisors understand what is going on within their practice.

Innovation type: Investing, PFM

IP Commerce

Powering Innovation for Commerce — The IP Commerce Platform and Commerce Playlists enable developers to create innovative applications and workflows that incorporate all channels of commerce.

IP Commerce offers the fastest, easiest way to enable commerce services for complex multi-channel applications. With IP Commerce, you can create rich interactions between all parties of a commerce ecosystem (Retailers, ISVs, Acquirers, Processors, Social Networks, Value-Added-Service Providers, etc.).

The world of commerce technology is growing as never before and IP Commerce is at the vanguard.

Innovation type: Payments

TIO Networks

TIO Networks is a cloud based multi-channel bill payment processor serving the largest telecom, wireless, cable and utility bill issuers in North America. TIO enables these companies to provide bill payment services to the population of over 60 million underbanked consumers.  With more than 55,000 physical location endpoints to its bill payment processing network, TIO symbolizes fast, convenient and secure access to expedited payment services.

Innovation type: Back office, mobile, payments

WattzOn

Increase consumer engagement and drive loyalty with our WattzOn Personal Energy Management Platform. WattzOn provides your consumers with easy-to-use tools that help people use less energy, save money and be green. Personalized recommendations can be enhanced with complementary financial products such as credit cards, savings accounts, home and car loans.

Features include:

• Apples-to-apples comparisons of home energy use to similar homes
• Personalized energy saving recommendations
• Fuel-efficient car savings calculator
• Automated monitoring with secure connections to 100+ energy utilities
• Instant home solar savings calculator

Innovation type: Marketing, online, PFM