Seven Finovate alums have received awards recognizing their innovations in the banking and finance industry, and we'd like to take a moment to congratulate each of them.
Bank Technology News "Innovators of the Year"
Bank Technology News recently released it's ninth annual list of Innovators. This year, of the 20 honored, four are recent Finovate alums: Intuit, Backbase, Segmint and CashEdge. For more information see the American Banker Article. Segmint was honored for its pioneering work helping banks get better at one-on-one marketing, Backbase for online banking widgets, Intuit for online banking and tax-preparation, and CashEdge for its new POPmoney P2P payment service.
The coveted "Webby"
The "Webby" award, established in 1996, has been called by the New York Times,the highest honor that the Internet has to offer. Honorees are selected in nearly seventy categories. Following are this year's winners in the financial services categories:
Banking/Bill Payment: moneyStrands won the Webby in Wonga took home the People's Choice award for the category.
Financial Services: Mint.com won both the Webby and "People's Choice"
For more about the Webby Award, see http://www.webbyawards.com/.
Finovate demo video links:
Backbase--Backbase's Finovate debut was the Spring 2010 show (video coming soon).
CashEdge--The POPmoney demo video from Finovate2009 is online here.
Intuit--View the company's Finovate video demo (fall 2009) online here.
Mint--You can see its first demo video here.
MoneyStrands--View its video demo from Finovate 2009 online here.
Segmint-- Segmint first demonstrated its services at FinovateSpring 2010 and the video can be seen online here.
Wonga--Wonga's Finovate debut was the FinovateStartup2009 conference. Video is not available.
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