Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Consider three articles published in the past week: Bank Innovation covering Associated Bank branch closures to fund digital channel initiatives. And, in some cases, the user experience is poor. Source: Celent survey of North American financial institutions, October 2014, n=156. The next few years will be telling.

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Celent Banking

JUNE 26, 2015

The theme of the conference was that customer-centricity and innovation need to be the guideposts to a bank’s transformation from a bricks-and-mortar operation into a digital enterprise. Nicola has a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, a very hot area of IT these days as the focus is on UI organization and the impact on user experience.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Digital banks.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 22, 2024

Only 17 have gone out of business, mostly in the 2014 to 2017 vintage, which makes sense as well-funded startups usually last at least 5 years. And prior to 2014, the line-up was smaller and highly curated. Wink: Social media startup, innovative interaction features, struggling with user acquisition despite good initial reception.

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 15, 2015

The 2014 Federal Reserve report identified that, for the first time, more than 50% of smartphone owners are using mobile banking. The big new feature in 2014 was Apple Pay, which had many banks scrambling to get onboard after the November launch. Payment disruption and innovation. Branch innovation and branch closings.

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NCR

JANUARY 15, 2018

Ever since Facebook spent $2 billion in 2014 to acquire the technology behind the Oculus Rift – a product that started life as a crowd-funded Kickstarter project – people have been waiting expectantly for it to hit the mainstream.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 24, 2017

. “To help grow their role and create effective change, compliance needs to embrace the process and tools of change, innovation, and technology,” the blog authors wrote. Pictured: Anatoly Kvitnitsky of Trulioo during his presentation, “Trulioo’s Global Gateway,” at FinDEVr 2014 Silicon Valley.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

With nearly one in four consumers trying Apple Pay this year, according to the PYMNTS Apple Pay Adoption Tracker , there’s been a steady increase in use of and interest in the mobile wallet since late 2014, when only 9 percent of those surveyed used it to make a purchase. Stay tuned: It may be a bit of a drive.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Whether in service of greater security or lesser friction in e-commerce – or both – companies are busy leveraging sound and voice to improve the user experience in fintech. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Montauban 82000, France, CopSonic (as Pixeliris) demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2014.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 22, 2016

Nevertheless recognizing that its back-end core system was in need of an expensive overhaul in 2014, SBS decided that a partnership strategy would be the best approach and began conversations with NYMBUS in 2015. Also in March, NYMBUS was featured in Let’s Talk Payments as part of a look at innovative banking software companies.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 3, 2016

As many startups seek to become the Uber of their field by creating easy and addictive user experiences, expense management startup Expensify has done just that by completely automating a portion of expense management. In the Uber app settings, users connect their business profile with Expensify.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 26, 2016

According to Ryan Caldwell, MX Founder and CEO, landing MacDonald is a big win for the Utah-based company: “Don brings the rare combination of a seasoned and proven marketing leader with the passion and drive of a true innovator. The company last demoed at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.

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CB Insights

MARCH 8, 2018

customers since 2014. These startups “challenge” the traditional incumbent business model by charging customers transparent low fees, providing faster services, and delivering a better user experience through always-available digital interfaces.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

After two days of live demonstrations of some of the most novel innovations in fintech, our FinovateEurope audience has made its voice heard as to which technologies represent the Best of Show. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

Friendster shut down five years later in 2009 , owing its lack of success to technology challenges that made the user experience slow and cumbersome in the face of a more powerful and focused Facebook challenger that launched two years after they did.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Nexmo is the global cloud communications platform leader providing innovative communication APIs and SDKs for voice, text, messaging and phone verification services. Nexmo was recognized by analyst firm Gartner as a 2014 Cool Vendor in Communication Service and by Roaming Consulting Company as a Tier 1 A2P SMS Messaging Vendor in 2015.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 14, 2016

May 2015 demo: MoneyAmigo debuted its new platform that brings financial services to the underbanked and underserved, delivering traditional banking products in an innovative way. Founded: 2014. May 2015: Won “Top Innovation, Best User Experience” in Citi Mobile Challenge. Funding: $300,000. Demo video ).

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 18, 2015

The company provides payments services with flexibility and user experience control that platforms seek. John Canfield demoing WePay’s Veda Risk API at FinovateSpring 2014. You’ll also see us putting energy towards more innovation, including more risk protection innovation, and new features and functions customers seek.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 19, 2016

On the other hand, however, too much friction quickly turns user experiences into user ordeals. Recognized as a 2014 Cool Vendor in Communication Services by Gartner. Awasthi has been with Nexmo since 2014, and was previously a Program Manager at Microsoft. Works with more than 100 vendors around the world.

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FICO

MARCH 6, 2020

In 2014, I joined Tonbeller as Head of Sales & Channel Operations and became Management Board member shortly thereafter. Our partnership with Visma Connect is aimed at helping all kinds of payment providers meet rising regulatory demands with less effort and expense, by using the innovations we are bringing to our compliance solutions.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Allowing users to “cut” by referring other users was an innovative idea, and it worked. Mint had a more internal mechanism for showing that value — an algorithm that took a user’s financial information and sorted and categorized it upon first use of the product. The more people you refer, the faster you move up.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Finicity , a fintech aggregator with 14 years of experience and 16,000+ developed data sources, will demonstrate real-time data delivery via the new TxPUSH API. The instant availability of financial transaction and account data unlocks fintech innovation and improves security.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2016

These 10 companies range from payments innovators and security specialists to alt-lending platforms and mobile banking app builders – and even include a pair of alums that have earned multiple Best of Show awards. Founded in 2014. The rest of the FinTechForward 20 is listed below. Currency cloud ( FF16 ). Founded in 2012.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The innovation touted 10 years ago, that has garnered billions of dollars of venture capital (VC) funding, hasn’t turned out to be the “internet of money” as advertised. I’ve been writing about bitcoin, blockchain and the smoke and mirrors of their promise to change our financial system since 2014. Innovation By Any Other Name.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2014 Second Update (9/24/2014). 2014 First Update (6/3/2014). Original 50 Startup Failure Post-Mortems (1/20/2014). Background: Pearl was founded in 2014 by three ex-Apple iPod engineers, and hired dozens of other ex-Apple employees. Users May Withdraw Stored Bitcoin until July. Product: BTCJam.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

in 3 Rounds from 4 Investors, Most Recent Funding, M Series C on December 8, 2014. How can you preserve the digital user experience? debut with its innovative e-form management system, the eximee™ Platform, eximee.com , at the September FinovateFall 2016 conference in New York. Who is the target market? Biometrics?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Facebook’s $22B acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014 was (and still is) the largest private acquisition of a VC-backed company ever. The previous year, King’s 2014 IPO was hotly anticipated. Within two years, it had 97 million active daily users. Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC). Lending Club. Stemcentrx.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The bed-in-a-box startup Casper launched in 2014 with five co-founders and one fundamental observation about the mattress industry: that buying a mattress is an “awful consumer experience.” In 2014, the New York Times published a 2200-word piece about the “Kafkaesque” process of trying to buy a mattress. By 2014, it hit $150M.

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