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 say mysterious) wallet seems to be enjoying far greater interest and appeal among Android users. If you haven’t heard of Droid Wallet, you are...
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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 company Malauzai. Robb Gaynor, chief product officer for Malauzai, told Bank Innovation that adoption of the company’s PicturePay product is already at 5%...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Financial institutions own the customer’s primary relationship with his money, so patience and persistence should win them the mobile wallet wars, right? Maybe. In a panel discussion on mobile payment trends at a recent event in the Carlisle & Gallagher Insight Series, attention was called to the carriers, who control something equally important: the...
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