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. According to Finextra, a Hello Bank! account can be opened in just four steps from an Android or Apple smartphone, tablet and over...
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VIDEO: BNP Paribas Introduces Its New Hello Bank With a ‘Surprise’ Symphony
Finovate 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. Fighting fraud costs time, money and lost orders, so Curaxian is looking to automate it and stop fraud without stopping good orders. The fraud...
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Finovate 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 and managing your financial life. Users can organize various accounts and pay bills without dealing with a stack of paper bills. It’s...
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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 multichannel transaction engine called PayMobile. The mobile wallet solution works with cards but is designed for the smartphone. On the other end of the transaction,...
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Finovate Day 1 Morning Recap and Ratings
Couldn’t make it to Finovate Spring 2013 in San Francisco? Bank Innovation did, and recorded — and rated on a scale of 1 to 5 — all the action on the big stage. SESSION 1 EyeVerify EyeVerify is a biometric verification system for online banking logins. Users “sign in” with an eyeprint – a...
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@BankInnovation Initiates Coverage of FinovateSpring 2013
Our man Phil Ryan is out in San Francisco covering FinovateSpring. See his Twitter coverage of the event at @BankInnovation or at the #finovate hashtag. Phil will also be posting Bank Innovation’s customary ratings of the demoing companies here over the next couple of days.
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VIDEO: Swipely Promo Vid Released
The payments company may have launched in 2011, but it released just its second marketing video yesterday. The video highlights Swipely’s POS and retail payments features in typical animated fashion. (It seems as though every marketing video in banking innovation today is animated.)
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Don’t Let Donald Trump Sour You on Crowdfunding
Anything Donald Trump does engenders a certain revolution. There’s no better sign of over exploitation of a concept or business than when the Donald gets involved. Last week, the Donald did his thing on crowdfunding with the launch of FundAnything, a crowdfunding venture of, well, anything. His partner on the venture, Bill Zanker, told AllThingsD...
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Why Bank Innovation Startups Need to ‘Pivot’
Earlier this week, Pageonce ditched its brand for a new identity — Check — and stepped in a different direction toward bill payment from PFM. This is a move to be proud of. Pageonce, which is an Israeli company, exhibited a strength that too many US companies lack: the ability to pivot to a...
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Some Familiar Faces at Finovate
Is Finovate really the FinTech startup showcase it is cracked up to be? Yesterday, the folks at Finovate circulated an email boasting of registration topping 1,100 people for the upcoming spring event, which starts in San Francisco in several days. And while I don’t want to dash the expectations of attendees, those of you...
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