Finovate Day 1 Afternoon Recap and Ratings
Bank Innovation attended Finovate Spring 2013 in San Francisco and rated all the presenters. Here’s the second half of Day 1′s presenters. SESSION 3 Corduro Corduro introduced a cloud-based...
View ArticleFinovate Day 2 Morning Recap and Ratings
We’re into Day 2 here at Finovate. Bank Innovation has been following the presentations and here’s our recap and ratings for your reading pleasure. SESSION 1 Finovera Finovera is a tool for simplifying...
View ArticleFinovate Day 2 Afternoon Recap and Ratings
Finovate Day 2 Afternoon Recap, Reaction, and Ratings, from Bank Innovation Curaxian Curaxian is taking on ecommerce payment fraud. Curaxian analyzes payments data to cut down on manual review costs....
View ArticleVIDEO: Google Enables the Sending of Money Using Gmail
Google stole a bit of the thunder from Finovate Spring 2013 when it announced yesterday — at its I/O event very close by in San Francisco — that it was enabling Gmail users to send money using just...
View ArticleSecurity and Mobile Wallet Top of Mind At Finovate Spring 2013
Authentication of users, particularly users of mobile banking, was top of mind at Finovate, as was mobile wallet. This is fitting, since a recent study showed security fears were the number one reason...
View ArticleVIDEO: BNP Paribas Introduces Its New Hello Bank With a ‘Surprise’ Symphony
BNP Paribas, the French bank which generated $12.9 billion of revenue last quarter, has launched the first “standalone, digital mobile bank” in Europe — and has done so with a rousing symphony....
View ArticleMobile Photo Bill Pay Adoption is High, But Transaction Values Are Not
Mobile photo bill pay is seeing faster adoption than traditional bill pay, and is also beating traditional bill pay in usage on the smartphone, according to data from the mobile software development...
View ArticleGoogle Wallet vs… Droid Wallet?
There is little doubt that Google Wallet adoption will spike following Google’s unveiling last week of the new Gmail payments function, which relies on Wallet. Despite this, a little-known (we might...
View ArticleGoogle and Square Take a Bite Out of PayPal’s Market
Both Google and Square clearly have PayPal in their sights. Both want to leverage their scale to get users on board their payments platform, starting with sending money by email. In the span of one...
View ArticleVIDEO: Why OpenCoin Just Got Funding from Google Ventures
What’s with all the bitcoin? Last Friday, Chris Larsen’s new bitcoin-related venture scored another round of funding, and that caught our attention. Larsen is something of a FinTech startup legend,...
View ArticleTwo Startups Ask Users to Lend Money to Friends
Two new startups promise to ease the pain of borrowing money by making the lenders into your friends rather than banks. One is called Lendstar, based in Germany, and the other is Puddle. Lendstar...
View ArticleTechnology Implementations Change, But APM Always Matters
Although the core problems enterprise companies face haven’t changed, modern applications and complexities in the IT infrastructure mean they require different technical solutions and data gathering...
View ArticleWhy are we racing to build mobile wallets?
By Michael Connor, Managing Principal I was at an industry conference recently that focused entirely on mobile wallets, listening to presenters from various industries talk about the future of mobile...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who is Best Positioned to Monetize Data and Analytics?
I recently attended a debate run by Payments Forward in London. The debate consisted of a Capital One and American Express team proposing that the payments industry was best positioned to “monetize...
View ArticleBank Innovation’s First Investment — in Giftly — Scores as the Startup Finds...
Barely a month ago, Bank Innovation began investing in FinTech startups. Yesterday, our first investment, in Giftly, exited in a sale to GiftCards.com. We didn’t even have a chance to announce that we...
View ArticleVIDEO: IBM on Why Now Is the Time for the Customer-centric Banking Model
Mike Hobday, banking practice leader, IBM Global Business Services, UK and Ireland, talks to Finextra about the challenges banks face when creating a customer-centric business model. While banks “have...
View ArticleRDC Giving New Life to Paper Checks (Drop Jaw Now)
Smartphone technology is disruptive to many areas of banking, and in the payments space, it has been said that mobile banking — particularly person-to-person payments and mobile wallet — will help...
View ArticleThe Great Debate: The Future of the Bank Branch
How many times have you been in your local bank branch in the last 6 months (for anything other than to get a sucker)? If the answer is on more than one hand, you were probably born before the...
View Article5 New Tools for FinTech Developers
Whether you are a developer at a startup or a Big Four bank, you can never have too many tools for helping develop that New New Thing in financial services. Here are five tools newly available: Quintly...
View ArticleThe Scoop on Google Wallet’s 11 Partner Companies
Google Wallet has been quietly inking deals with a host of e-commerce companies that provide an array of functionality and services. So what are these companies all about? What follows is a rundown of...
View Article