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By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ebankIT, Ellie Mae, Emida, Enveil, eToro, FICO, inSpirAVE, Onfido, Temenos

On Finovate.com

  • eToro Adds IOTA Cryptocurrency to Platform.
  • First Data Partners with Ellie Mae to Improve Security of Lending Payments
  • Check out our latest FinovateFall Sneak Peek featuring ebankIT.

Around the web

  • UMB Fund Services adopts Temenos tech for ETF drive.
  • EMIDA joins wireless independent dealer association.
  • InSpirAVE earns spot in Top 100 at the Innovate Celebrate Conference’s Startup of the Year competition.
  • Data-in-use security specialist Enveil announces technology integration with Gemalto.
  • Onfido adds new VP of Global Marketing, General Counsel, and Director of People.
  • FICO extends partnership with Equifax Canada.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: AdviceRobo, Dwolla, Emida, Entrust Datacard, Neener Analytics

Around the web

  • Entrust Datacard appoints Beth Klehr Chief Human Resources Officer.
  • Emida announces it is actively seeking partnerships with early-stage tech companies whose products and services support the Telecommunications sector.
  • AdviceRobo and Neener Analytics selected for BNP Paribas’ Plug and Play accelerator program.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: CardFlight, Emida, MasterCard, Nymi, Ripple, TransferWise

On Finovate.com

  • “Ripple Labs Makes Waves: Raises $4 Million, Rebrands as Ripple, Launches Interledger”
  • “CardFlight Scores $4 Million in Series A Funding”

Around the web

  • MasterCard unveils Identity Check, a suite of solutions that includes biometric and SMS-based, one-time passwords to improve security for online consumers.
  • KPMG introduces KPMG Fintech 100 to recognize the world’s most disruptive and fast-emerging innovation companies in financial services. Nominations end 31 October 2015.
  • Santander invests in Ripple as startup expands services.
  • ThreatMetrix to scale global data center capacity to 200 million+ daily transactions.
  • Nymi recruits CEO John Haggard; Karl Martin will now serve as CTO.
  • Emida acquires giftcard-platform specialist Quippi Corporation for an undisclosed amount.
  • Kristo Kaarmann, co-founder of TransferWise, confirms via Twitter that former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit participated in the company’s $58 million funding round this year.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Actiance, Cachet Financial Solutions, Coinbase, Credit Karma, DRAFT, Emida, Holvi, Level, Mint, Mint Bills, Personal Capital, ReadyForZero, Toshl, TransferWise, TSYS

On Finovate.com

  • Coinbase Announces Strategic Investment from Westpac’s Reinventure

Around the web

  • Let’s Talk Payments takes a look at interactive debt repayment tool, ReadyForZero.
  • Money Under 30 features personal finance apps from Personal Capital, Mint, Toshl, Mint Bills, Draft, Level Money, Bill Guard, and Credit Karma.
  • TSYS extends multi-year payment agreement with Mexico’s Banco INVEX S.A.
  • Holvi gives a sneak peek of its business debit card.
  • Cachet Financial Solutions enhances Select Mobile Deposit with geo-fencing unlimited user groups with defined business rules, and date, signature and endorsement detection.
  • Kristo Käärmann of TransferWise is quoted in The Guardian column on the relationship between U.K. fintech startups and banks.
  • Tradeshift teams up with C2FO, expanding access to the world’s largest working capital market.
  • Actiance to Deliver Content from 70-Plus Communication Channels to Office 365.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Authentify, Backbase, Cachet Financial Solutions, Currency Cloud, Emida, EZBOB, Five Degrees, HedgeCoVest, Kony Solutions, Motif Investing, OneID, PayNearMe, Sekur.me, Trulioo, Xero

On Finovate.com

  • HedgeCoVest Wins Top Honors at 2015 Benzinga Fintech Awards

Around the web

  • oneID launches its simple, free solution to secure personal information online across all devices.
  • Born2Invest talks about “thematic investing” in its review of Motif Investing.
  • Currency Cloud opens offices in New York, kicking off its U.S. expansion.
  • Select Mobile Money from Cachet Financial Solutions now supports Apple Watch.
  • Sberbank launches new digital platform based on technology from Backbase.
  • Five Degrees named winner of Dutch FinTech Awards in Banking & IT category.
  • PYMNTS looks at Ezbob’s role in SMB lending in the United Kingdom.
  • PayNearMe enables customers of LA Covered to pay their monthly premiums in cash.
  • Critical Mass radio show interviews Sekur.me CEO Jack Bicer.
  • Trulioo wins Europe’s 2015 Digital Identity Innovation Award. Watch Trulioo demo live at FinovateSpring.
  • NAB links core API technology to Xero’s accounting cloud ecosystems, connecting client’s online bank to their Xero account.
  • Authentify enables E-Transfer Technologies to protect currency trading accounts with mobile multifactor authentication.
  • Forbes: Kony and Soasta partner to close the mobile development and monitoring loop.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Blackhawk Network, Blockchain, Check Point, Coinbase, Emida, Evo Snap*, Financial Media Solutions, Intellaegis, Kofax, mShift, PayPal, SecondMarket, Taulia, TransferWise, Uncategorized, Xero, ZenPayroll

On Finovate.com

  • Xero and ZenPayroll Win Honors at CPA Practice Advisor 2015 Reader’s Choice Awards
  • Finovate Debuts: Using Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS to Create Videographics

Around the Web

  • MasterQueue, powered by Intellaegis, partners with Whitepages Pro.
  • Bitpost lists Coinbase and Blockchain as 2 of the top 5 bitcoin wallets on Android.
  • EVO Payments partners with Boomtown to simplify tech support for POS developers and merchants.
  • Fintech Today reports: With Paydiant, PayPal Will Be a Huge Hit with Merchants.
  • Blackhawk to integrate Kofax Mobile Capture SDK into its digital services platform.
  • Team One CU to pilot MShift’s AnyWhereMobile payment-network with a locally owned restaurant in Michigan.
  • SecondMarket’s Bitcoin Desk Relaunches as Genesis Trading.
  • Taulia named by AlwaysOn as a 2015 OnFinance Top 100 Company.
  • According to Gartner, Check Point Software Technologies lead the worldwide market share for firewall equipment in Q4 2014 and FY 2014.

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Alumni News– October 17, 2014

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Emida, Google Cloud Platform, MasterCard, Nymi, Patch of Land, Quantopian, SeedInvest
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgPatch of Land turns to SeedInvest in public fundraising effort for its seed round.
  • Quantopian raises $15 million in Series B round; launches crowdsourced hedge fund.
  • MasterCard teams up with Zwipe to launch credit card with fingerprint-based authentication.
  • Arroweye Solutions increases payment card security against hacking threats.
  • Emida partners with Defense Mobile to distribute its mobile solutions through Emida’s network of distributors.
  • BlogTO looks inside the offices of Nymi during an open house.
  • Google Cloud Platform launches simpler billing.
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Emida Launches New Smartphone Android POS App

Emida Launches New Smartphone Android POS App
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Emida

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Just in time for the second half of 2014, Emida’s Android POS app is ready for launch.

Traci Jones, VP of Global Product Development said, “We know through our 20 years of experience that we excel in prepaid technology simply because we understand the needs of our partners, worldwide.”

The new Android app is optimized for both Android smartphones and tablets, and provides much of the same functionality as Emida’s POS terminals. The app is available to all of Emida’s U.S. partners.
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Emida maintains an international network that allows carriers, service providers, merchants, retailers and others to offer prepaid products to their customers via standard POS terminals. These prepaid products and services range from wireless and long distance, to bill pay and lottery, to stored value card and international top-up.
Take a look at a handful of Emida metrics:
  • Headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California
  • Operates in 37 countries worldwide
  • Supports network with more than 54,000 retail points
  • Network annual dollar payment volume of more than $1.5 billion
  • Network processes more than 240 million annual payment transactions
David Kirtman is CEO.
Emida demoed its technology as part of the FinovateFall 2012 conference in New York. See the company in action here.

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Alumni News– July 2, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Emida, Market Prophit, Q2, SafetyPay, Yodlee
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgSafetyPay announces partnership with Alpha Payments Cloud.
  • Reuters Insider interviews Igor Gonta, CEO of Market Prophit.
  • Q2 partners with Easy Solutions to bring multi-factor authentication to FIs.
  • Yodlee files for initial public offering; seeks to raise $75 million.
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Finovate Alumni News– December 18, 2013

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Check Point, CR2, Dwolla, Emida, Geezeo, MasterCard, Mitek, MoneyDesktop, Payfone
  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgDwolla launches Form Builder to enable users to build free custom payment forms.
  • Utah Valley Business Q Mag recognizes MoneyDesktop for its billboard advertising (see page 52-53).
  • Blue Coat and Check Point Extend Partnership on High-End X-Series Network Security Systems.
  • Payfone to use AT&T’s network data to enhance its mobile identity services.
  • Vovox and Emida partner to provide enhanced mobile payment options for users.
  • West – Aircomm FCU to offer PFM powered by Geezeo.
  • Mike Brady named COO at CR2.
  • MasterCard debuts MasterPass in Italy. 
  • Business Banking Review names Mitek-powered U.S. Bank Mobile Photo Bill Pay “Best Technology Initiative in Banking”.
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Emida Recruits David Kirtman as New CEO

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Emida

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Global prepaid solutions company, Emida, has recently added new talent to its team. It announced today that David Kirtman (LinkedIn) will join the company as its new CEO.

Kirtman brings years of stored value and payments experience to the California-based company. Prior to EmidaCEO.jpg joining Emida, David worked for iSend where he helped build the company’s in-kind international payments business.

Shane Belovsky, who was serving as interim CEO, will continue with Emida as COO.

Emida debuted its Cash and Transact service at FinovateFall 2012.

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Finovate Alumni News– December 4, 2013

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, BancVue, BBVA, Digital Insight, Doxo, Emida, EyeVerify, IntelliResponse, Intuit, Kabbage, MiiCard, Mint.com, Payoneer, PayPal, Prosper, RevolutionCredit, Taulia, TipRanks
  • BBVA Compass announces launch of BBVA Research iPad app.
  • Bank Innovation column on fintech in Israel features TipRanks and Payoneer.
  • Emida launches Handset and SIM Programs.
  • BancVue and other Credit Unions Help U-Haul Refinance Corporate Debt.
  • Prosper’s daily average loan originations grew almost 10% in November over October.
  • The Next Web reports: PayPal launches a digital gift store, featuring Apple as its sole launch partner.
  • City of Gig Harbor Launches on doxo; More than 5% of Residents Go Paperless in the First 90 Days.
  • Forbes: Kabbage Now Uses Square Data to Provide SMB Funding.
  • Mint is now available on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.
  • btcQuick Bitcoin Exchange working with miiCard to mitigate fraud.
  • EyeVerify interviewed on The Kansas City Power Lunch radio program.
  • IntelliResponse wins bronze in Best in Biz Awards’ Most Innovative Product of the Year category for 2013.
  • Intuit to purchase document startup company, Docstoc.
  • American Banker features Zaydoon Munir, founder of RevolutionCredit.
  • ACI Worldwide adds new executives, open new South American HQ in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
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