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BizFi Lands $20 Million from Metropolitan Equity
Who said alt-lenders are going out of style? Small business financing provider BizFi garnered some funding of its own today. Metropolitan Equity Partners, which has been a backer of the New York-based...
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Finovate Debuts: BaseVenture’s Command Center for Fund Managers & Administrators
BaseVenture helps fund managers and administrators digitize and manage funds holistically. The company was launched by two of the former C-level executives of mFoundry (FinovateFall 2010 demo) after...
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Temenos to Power Wealth Management Solution for Standard Chartered
Banking software provider Temenos scored a new client for its WealthSuite solution this week. Standard Chartered Bank has selected the Switzerland-based company’s wealth management offering to deploy...
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Jumio to Power KYC & AML Services for Krypto Commerce
Mobile authentication company Jumio announced this week it will provide anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) services for Krypto Commerce. The Spanish crypto-currency company will...
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Our FinDEVr New York developer showcase was a success! FinDEVr Silicon Valley will be held October 18 & 19 in Santa Clara. Register today and save. On FinDEVr.com Quovo Teams Up with Totum Wealth...
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StockTwits Has a Big Week: New Funding, New CEO
StockTwits, a social network for stock market investing, returned from the U.S. 4th of July holiday with a double bang. The San Diego-based company today announced it not only closed on new funding,...
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eMoney Advisor’s emX Pro Fuels Wealth Planning Solution for Waddell & Reed...
eMoney Advisor, acquired by Fidelity Investments in 2015 for $250 million, is offering advisors the tools they need to compete against the robo-advisors that seem to be taking over wealth management....
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Coinbase Lands $10.5 Million in Strategic Investment from Bank of Tokyo...
Bitcoin platform for merchant processing and consumer wallets, Coinbase, received backing from Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), Mitsubishi UFJ Capital (MUCAP) and Sozo Ventures today. The three...
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Finovate Debuts: brandCrowder Offers Crowdfunding for Franchises
With Brexit and other turmoil driving recent market uncertainty alternative investments are getting an even closer look. The most recent startup to join the alt-investment movement is brandCrowder, a...
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Experian and Neustar Partner to Empower Marketers with More Data
Proving that data is power when it comes to marketing, two Finovate alums with massive amounts of data have combined forces. Neustar and Experian began working together late last month to pool their...
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Revolut Lands $8.7 Million, Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
While some European fintech companies are worried Brexit will stifle the tech industry, London-based Revolut’s latest news indicates there’s still room for growth. The company, which offers a...
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Personal Capital Offering Digital Wealth Management for BancAlliance Credit...
Wealth management platform Personal Capital is partnering with BancAlliance. This gives California-based Personal Capital access to BancAlliance’s network of 200 community banks. BancAlliance’s member...
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Finovate Debuts: CardLinx Helps Members Find & Post Card-Linked Offers
The first card-linked offers company, Cardlytics, launched in 2008. The fintech community started paying attention to the trend around 2012. By that time, so many players had entered into the market...
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Xero Partners with 60th Financial Institution to Offer Direct Feeds
Cloud accounting platform Xero announced a partnership with Australia’s largest bank, Commonwealth Bank. New Zealand-based Xero is working with the bank to launch a series of innovations to make small...
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FinDEVr APIntelligence
Our FinDEVr New York developer showcase was a success! FinDEVr Silicon Valley will be held October 18 & 19 in Santa Clara. Register today and save. On FinDEVr.com Stratumn’s LenderBot is a...
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Stratumn’s LenderBot is a Micro-Insurance Solution for the Sharing Economy
Blockchain-powered workflow solutions company Stratumn recently launched a micro-insurance proof-of-concept for the sharing economy. It’s called LenderBot, and it was developed in a partnership with...
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Betterment Surpasses $5 Billion AUM, Hires Amy Shapero as CFO
Founded in 2008, Betterment was one of the first online wealth management services to launch, entering into the industry well before the first fintech nerd uttered the word robo-advisor. In January of...
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On Finovate.com CREALOGIX Wins Best Web Development at Systems in the City Awards 2016. Yandex.Money Releases Apple Watch Payments App. Neustar Taps Former Walmart Executive Venkat Achanta as First...
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Kabbage Revamps App to Enable Mobile On-Boarding for Loan Applications
Alternative financing provider Kabbage unveiled a major mobile update this week. The Atlanta-based company revamped its iOS app to allow small businesses to apply for funding on their mobile device....
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Yandex.Money Releases Apple Watch Payments App
In a move that expands payment methods for its users, digital payments company Yandex.Money launched an app for the Apple Watch this week. The app allows users to top up their mobile money accounts,...
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