Based on a vote of attendees – bankers, investors, industry experts, financial company executives from companies large and small – the best of show awards went to:

• BancVue (Kasasa) – national checking/savings account brand
  for community banks and credit unions
  
• Credit.com – report card with letter grades to help users
  make sense of the underlying data
• Digital Insight (Intuit) – integration of tax preparation
  with online banking
• Silver Tail Systems – real-time security monitoring
  to shut down fraud attempts immediately
• Yodlee – new FinApp store modeled after Apple’s
  iPhone App Store

Links to the rest of my live coverage of Finovate2009 are here:

• Intro
• Morning Demo Session 1
• Morning Demo Session 2
• Afternoon Demo Session 1
• Afternoon Demo Session 2

There was extensive blog and Twitter coverage of Finovate2009. Here are the highlights:

• Twitter transcript (compiled by Jim Bruene)
• Bank Innovation.net: Finovate Presenters Focus on Savings
• TechCrunch: Financial Startups Demo Their Dashboards at Finovate
• WSJ Digits blog: Finovate: The Quest for User-Friendly Cellphone Banking
• Visible Banking: links to Twitter coverage and lots of pictures
• Fincision: Finovate2009 – live blog
• Fitlife: Take It to the Bank
• SpendonLife.com: Hot Financial Trends: Finovate2009
• MoneyUnder30: Ten Financial Companies to Watch from Finovate 2009
• #Finovate at Twitter

[Editor’s note: If you’ve seen a particularly good write-up let us know in the comments and we’ll add it to the list.]