Alumni News– August 20, 2014

• CUneXus improves loan acceptance by 68% over 2013 for Educational Employees CU.

• With Simple’s 2.0 mobile app update, users can send paper check payments via mobile.

• ID Analytics names Daniel Rawlings as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Essent Guaranty offering lenders access to rate quotes through an interface with D+H’s MortgagebotLOS.

• ThreatMetrix selected as one of CIOReview100s Most Promising Technology Companies.

• EyeVerify and Zumigo selected for Wells Fargo’s accelerator.

• Expensify integrates with Uber’s API to launch SmartRides feature.

• PayNearMe and SIMI partner to offer cash collection services to US government agencies.

• Kony launches MobileFabric to Accelerate Speed of Delivering Great Enterprise Mobile Apps.

• PayPal announces access to its One Touch mobile payment solution. Join PayPal in San Francisco for FinDEVr this fall.

• Cartera Commerce unveils new website.

• Wallaby Financial launches CardBase and The Card Guide, opening its credit card database to the public.

• National Real Estate Investor features Realty Mogul CEO and co-founder, Jilliene Helman.

• Forex Brokerz talks about the beta release of Darwinex’s social trading platform.

• peerTransfer tops $1 billion in international education payments, announces 500th client.

• Bloomberg.com features Venmo, Fiserv’s Popmoney, and Dwolla in column on Millennials and mobile payments.

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– August 14, 2014

• Fiserv and DBS win Asian Banker Technology Implementation award.

• Expensify enables in-app report comments to make annotations directly on expense reports.

• Merchants using WordPress now have access to two new payment gateways: Dwolla and PayPal Express Checkout.

• Bank Innovation takes a look at how “Pay with Venmo” will impact mobile e-commerce.

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.

Eleven Finovate Alums Win Awards at PYMNTS Innovation Project 2014

The votes are in. The judges have decided. And 11 Finovate alums have earned awards at the 2014 PYMNTS.com Innovation Project, including three gold medals.

Finovate alums won awards in a diverse range of categories, from “B2B Innovation” to “Best Comeback Story.” Areas where alums dominated included “Best Credit Innovation,” where Credit Karma, Lending Club, and Klarna swept the field, as well as “Best Innovation via ACH” and “Best Check Innovation.”

The Innovation Project is “powered by PYMNTS.com,” a joint venture between BusinessWire and Market Platform Dynamics. The event is in its second year, and was again held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A total of 49 awards were presented. Gold, silver, and bronze in fifteen categories, plus singular Catalyst, Women Driving Innovation in Payments, Lifetime Achievement, and Best in Show awards. 

Also announced were three inductees to the Payments Hall of Fame.

See how the rest of the Finovate family fared below.

Catalyst Award 

PayPal

• International e-commerce payments and money transfers
• Finovate demo video: Europe 2012

Gold

Bill.com

• Best B2B Innovation
• Cash flow management solution for business integrating electronic payments, accounting, digital documents, and more
• Finovate demo video: Spring 2012

Credit Karma

• Best Credit Innovation
• Aggregates consumer financial data from bank accounts and credit scores to mortgage loans in one location
• Finovate demo video: Startup 2009

PaySimple eCheck

• Best Check Innovation
• Enables check payments without having to write paper checks
• Finovate demo video: Spring 2012

Silver

Lending Club

• Best Credit Innovation
• Online, peer-to-peer lender
• Finovate demo video: Startup 2009

Pay Near Me

• Best Cash Innovation
• Cash transaction network 
• Finovate demo video: Spring 2013

Ripple Labs

• Best New Technology
• Open-source, distributed payment protocol
• Finovate demo video: Spring 2013

Venmo

• Best Innovation via ACH
• Best Check Innovation
• Send money to a Venmo account, bank account or supported debit card for free
• Finovate demo video (with Braintree): Spring 2013

Bronze

Klarna

• Most Innovative Company
• E-commerce solution mitigates credit and fraud risk for online merchants 
• Finovate demo video: Spring 2012

Ripple Labs

• Most Disruptive Innovation

Prosper

• Best Comeback Story
• Peer-to-peer lending
• Finovate demo video: Finovate 2007

Klarna

• Best Credit Innovation

Mitek

• Best Innovation via ACH
• Solution leverages mobile device camera to enable check deposit, account opening, and bill pay.
• Finovate demo video: Fall 2013

Finovate Alumni News– February 20, 2014

• BellaDati launches SDK.

• Mashable features ReadyForZero.

• TechCrunch reports: Venmo Now Lets You Find And Pay Other Nearby Venmo Users.

• Kalixa announces new offices in Sao Paolo and New York.

• ACI Worldwide’s ACI Interchange strengthens support for UnionPay card network.

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.