Finovate Alumni News– July 18, 2013

• Pennsylvania-based First National Community Bank selects a core banking system from Fiserv.

• Check Point Software launches 13000 Appliance solution set for high-performance data center cyber security.

• Accounting and advisory firm William Buck and Xero partner to offer clients Xero as accounting solution of choice.

• eToro releases Stockwatch for Android.

• StreetFight Magazine features case study of ShopKeep POS use in cupcake bakery.

• Dwolla updates user dashboards.

• IntelliResponse announces VAR partnership with Australia-based BolderView.

• SeedInvest CEO Ryan Feit talks with the Street.com about the effect of fund advertising rule changes on crowdfunders.

• Built in Chicago blogger profiles Pangea Payments and the trillion dollar remittance market.

• 2013 Payment Hub report names ACI Worldwide “Best in Class” in payments capability.

• InComm Launches Pre-Top to Expand Availability of Prepaid Solutions.

• TransferWise featured in American Banker column on the growing online/mobile payments business. 

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 21, 2013

• Birdback teams up with Braintree for 3-day payments hackathon.

• Indiana Members CU chooses Jack Henry & Associates’ Symitar for in-house core processing.

• Keynote DeviceAnywhere adds mobile scripting, UI enhancements.

• VoiceTrust moves operational headquarters to Canada, opening offices in Toronto and Montreal.

• Figlo expands partnership with Yellowtail Consulting to enable stronger focus on South Africa.

• Wipit partners with Sprint/ Boost Mobile to bring mobile payment capability to cash-preferred consumers.

• Virtual Piggy signs first UK partners, Toy Galaxy and Toadstool.

• eToro granted UK financial regulation approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

• Silicon Republic features Holvi.

• Tyfone releases Connected Smart Card solution to allow FIs to enhance user ID info used to access sensitive data.

• Tradeshift partners with Invoiceware International to deliver compliant e-invoice validation in Latin America.

• BillGuard to integrate with Google Wallet for transaction monitoring.

• SigFig Portfolio adds support for Windows Phone.

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.

Social Investment Network eToro Reaches 50 Million Trades

eToro is marking their second year as an investment network, announcing a handful of metrics and milestones as part of the celebration:

• 50 million trades processed
• 3 million registered users
• 200,000 active investors

eToro allows investors to invest together, sharing trading information and/or following “top traders” who may have as many as 9,000 other investors following their every move in the market. The platform includes safeguards, such as a tool that will prevent investors from investing more than 20% with any one trader. Investors can participate in eToro for as little as $50. And the company is currently offering a $20 gift card to new users.

eToro was founded in 2007, and is led by CEO Jonathan Assia and CTO David Ring. The company has raised nearly $34 million in funding, including a $15 million round in March.

eToro demonstrated their technology last year as part of FinovateFall, winning Best of Show for the fourth time. See them in action here.

Finovate Alumni News– April 26, 2013

• Seventy2Minutes reviews TransferWise as a PayPal alternative.

• Wallaby Financial to participate in Frequent Travel University educational event. See them demo at FinovateSpring.

• Credit Agricole’s social media bank celebrates its second year.

• Social investment network eToro reaches 50 million trades.

• Access Softek and Geezeo partner to integrate Access Softek’s mobile banking with Geezeo’s PFM.

• Guardian Analytics unveils FraudMAP Wire product to prevent wire tap.

• San Francisco Business Times names Taulia one of the 2013 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area.

• VentureBeat reports Bill.com has converted more than 40% of its customers from checks to electronic ACH transactions.

• American Banker reports: Actiance Updates Social Media Management Software.

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 22, 2013

• Boulder Valley Credit Union introduces Tyfone Mobile Banking Financial Services.

• Nerdwallet reviews Personal Capital.

• Center for Financial Inclusion blog features Entreprenurial Finance Lab’s technology.

• Payments News reports Blackhawk Network completes IPO.

• Nerd Wallet reviews eToro.

• Community Credit Union releases MoneyDesktop 4.0 to its members.

• YFS Magazine interviews Lighter Capital.

• eToro helps new users to connect with people on OpenBook by unlocking their feed.

• Newfination hosts Carl-Henrik Somp, Trustly COO, to discuss the startup’s service.

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 19, 2013

• Arvest Bank to deploy IntelliResponse Virtual Agent technology. See them demo at FinovateSpring in May.

• GMC Software Technology founder Rene Muller wins Lifetime Achievement award.

• PrivatBank to provide service to customers wearing Google Glass.

• American Banker interviews Pageonce COO Steve Schultz on the company’s goal to be the “go-to financial app on the phone”.

• Mountain America CU launches MoneyDesktop’s My Money Manager PFM.

• Blackhawk Network prices of its IPO of 10,000,000 shares of Class A common stock at $23 per share.

• American Banker reports: Planwise Courts Bank Partners.

• Black Enterprise features Bolstr as Tech Startup of the Week.

• American Banker reports BillGuard has flagged $50M in suspect charges.

• The Globe and Mail considers how eToro can benefit investors.

• TechCrunch reports: SMB Inventory Management Startup TradeGecko Partners With Xero Accounting.

• Rebirth Financial unveils white-label crowdfunding platform.

• Trustly has now processed 10 billion SEK in payments since it began in 2008, has fully rolled out Direktbetalning in Sweden 

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, 2013

• AG Beat features Entrepreneurial Finance Lab.

• BSCG, Mitek, and Yodlee selected as Monarch B2B Innovation Award Winners.

• Lodo Software appoints Matthew Lawlor, former founder & CEO of Online Resources, to board of directors.

• South African Logistics Company implements Kofax Software to Automate HR. Watch Kofax demo live at FinovateSpring.

• Business Credit Radio features Sue Heilbronner, PaySimple’s Chief Growth Officer.

• American Banker highlights Plastyc’s unique approach to serving prepaid card users. Watch Plastyc’s demo at FinovateSpring.

• Mati Greenspan, senior investment consultant at eToro, explains how eToro will soon support Bitcoin.

• American Banker looks at Braintree’s multi-merchant approach. Come see Braintree demo at FinovateSpring.

• Live Science considers how Narrative Science
  automates journalism and report generation. See Narrative Science’s live demo at FinovateSpring.

• Quantopian announces algorithm development competition.  The company will demo at FinovaeSpring in May.

• Bank Innovation reports: Intuit will continue to support FinanceWorks.

• Reuters takes a look at TipRanks. See them demo at FinovateSpring.

• eDeposit announces major new features in upgrade of mobile app.

• TradeHero a winner at Echelon Singapore Satellite pitch competition.

• INTJ Capital gives kudos to Quantopian’s decision to provide for external data sets. Join Quantopian in San Francisco for FinovateSpring in May.

• American Banker interviews Green Dot CEO and founder Steven Streit. See Green Dot demo at FinovateSpring.

• Realty Mogul is among the companies highlighted in Upstart Business Journal column on crowd funding. See them demo at FinovateSpring.

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 4, 2013

• Kabbage brings in $75 million in debt financing.

• Finextra reports: eToro launches social alerts app.

• PaymentEye features Virtual Piggy. Come see its live demo at FinovateSpring next month. http://bit.ly/Zaunjl

• InternetRetailer previews Giftly.

• Business Solutions speaks with Jason Richelson, ShopKeep POS CEO, who debunks the myth that cloud POS fails when the internet shuts down. 

• TechCrunch TV interviews Nick Hungerford, Nutmeg CEO on how he aims to disrupt the financial investment world.

• Verity CU features FamZoo, makes it available to members. Come see FamZoo’s latest development at FinovateSpring.

• Kashoo releases new version of iPad app.

• Monitise Executive Vice President Lisa Stanton interviewed by Bdaily.

• Jack Henry & Associates’s Symitar platform to be deployed by Kitsap 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– March 25, 2013

• Innovations in gamification help True Office win Computerworld Honors Program award.

• Aiming for the enterprise: Mobile Payments Today features Corduro.

• Azimo goes live on Google Affiliate Network.

• American Banker reports: Randolph-Brooks chooses Andera’s online account opening platform.

• The gamification revolution interviews Michelle Katics, CEO of BankersLab.

• Kabbage takes home first place for Top B2B Innovation from PYMNTS.com.

• Virtual Piggy taps into $10Bn Annual Market with epay Partnership.

• eToro placed on the 2013 FinTech50 Watchlist, a shortlist of 50 companies in Europe that are redefining financial services through technology.

• Macgasm features Tuition.io as 1 of 5 apps of the week.

• Newfination interviews SumUp’s Florian Richter.

• Tradeshift features Intuit’s Eric Dunn to talk about the recent partnership.

• TechCrunch reports: Yodlee Interactive now powers financial data for 300 apps and businesses; on pace to surpass 500 in 2013.

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.