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A great bunch of wrap up articles on the recently concluded 2013 Finovate Spring Conference in San Francisco. Have any that we missed? Add to the list!
The Finovate conference for spring 2013 just wrapped up in San Francisco, and the audience selected their 5 favorites from a line-up of 72 financial technology innovators. As one of the presenters, I was barred from casting a formal vote, but I did keep an informal grade sheet as I watched my colleagues up on stage.
Cyber heists. Account takeovers. Wire fraud. Security has taken on increased importance this year in light of recent data breaches that have put millions of dollars on the line and the ongoing threat of distributed denial of service attacks. Reflecting this industry-wide sense of alarm, at this week's FinovateSpring there were several startups focused solely on providing authentication to bank customers.
William Mills III, Chief Executive Officer of William Mills Agency is live blogging today at Finovate Spring 2013 in San Francisco. William has more than 30 years of experience in financial technology and is a recognized leader in financial and technology marketing.
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.
Bank Innovation attended Finovate Spring 2013 in San Francisco and rated all the presenters. Here's the second half of Day 1′s presenters. Corduro introduced a cloud-based multichannel transaction engine called PayMobile. The mobile wallet solution works with cards but is designed for the smartphone.
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.
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.
After the final demos wrapped up on two fintech-packed days at FinovateSpring 2013, the audience voted for their favorite demos to ultimately decide who would be named Best of Show. The top 5 overall took home the trophies.
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 holding back mobile wallet adoption. None of the five Best of Show award winners were from these two prominent product categories.
They say you always remember your first time. After years of being built up by a great amount of hyperbole, including being dubbed The Disneyland of Fintech™ by my friend Brad Leimer , I finally decided to experience for myself a couple weeks ago in San Francisco.
...To come to FinovateSpring tomorrow? We're here at the Concourse Exhibition Center (635 8th Street at Brannan), watching presenters place the final touches on their live demos.
SAN FRANCISCO - Seven minutes to tell a company's story. That's what presenters at Finovate, the San Francisco new technology show, get to dazzle an audience filled with investors, financial institutions, press, and just the curious. Daunting as that sounds, 72 took up the challenge in the spring 2013 edition of the show.
In the math that sums up commercial lending, there are borrowers and there are the traditional lenders, banks. This week at FinovateSpring, members of a third element that could upset the simple equation, crowdfunding, showed their stuff.
It's Spring in San Francisco, so it must be time for the annual Finovate conference. Once again, Eric and Jim have pulled together an impressive group of companies and all my favorite payments geeks are in attendance, eagerly awaiting the start.
Filmmakers have Sundance. Financial tech pioneers have Finovate, a show that in a short several years has positioned itself as the go-to, be there now showcase for hot banking tech tools.
William Mills III, Chief Executive Officer of William Mills Agency is live blogging again today at FinovateSpring 2013 in San Francisco. William has more than 30 years of experience in financial technology and is a recognized leader in financial and technology marketing.
I attended FinovateSpring 2013 last week to get a preview of new products from digital technology vendors for financial services. For those of you that have not been to Finovate, it's a little like innovation speed dating - where 72 vendors have 7 minutes to win the hearts of the audience to secure the "Best of Show" Award.
Last week's FinovateSpring 2013 received great coverage through blogs, tweets and articles. Here are the highlights: Full conference live blogs Three contributors risked carpel tunnel to cover all 72 demos. Thanks to Erin McCune and William Mills III and Phillip Ryan for going the extra mile!
The financial tech side of Silicon Valley was on display this week at Finovate, a showcase of 72 technology vendors focused on financial technology innovation. You can track the market each spring by which way the startups and product gurus are steering.
