I am live blogging Finovate2009 from NYC. AFTERNOON SESSION #2 BillShrink - Peter Pham, CEO and Samir Kothari, VP Help consumer save money on credit cards, cellphones and gas; now launching savings products Interactive tools to help eliminate nuisance fees...
Resuming my live blogging of Finovate2009 from NYC in a few minutes. AFTERNOON SESSION #1 Yodlee -Peter Hazelhurst, SVP Products New Yodlee dashboard highlighting capabilities that used to be hard to get to Web 2.o interface based on widgets New UI indicates good and...
I am live blogging Finovate2009 from NYC. MORNING SESSION #2 Outright.com - Kevin Reeth, CEO Online tools for tracking small businesses and self-employed people for records like business expenses Imports and classifies expenses from credit card statements Integrates...
I am live blogging Finovate2009 from NYC. MORNING SESSION #1 BrightScope - Ryan Alfred, President Mission: Help Americans retire in dignity Website provides additional information on existing employer 401k plans Provides ratings and does comparisons on plan...
I am attending Finovate 2009 in NYC today - a whirlwind of financial innovation. Each company has seven minutes to demo their latest and greatest technology; no PowerPoint allowed! I'll do my best to keep up and give you real-time updates on the presentations....
I'm in Baltimore attending the NACHA Council mega-meeting. This morning Aneesh Chopra, the Federal Government's CTO (officially, director of technology for the President's Office of Science and Technology) was the Keynote Speaker. He took a few minutes to warm up, but...
Over at TechCrunch, Sarah Lacy laments the that too few of the start-ups on stage at this week's TechCrunch50 were chasing audacious, world-changing ideas: I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the...
A little shameless Glenbrook promotion, forgive us. Today our partner Allen Weinberg spoke at the San Francisco Treasury Management Association (the local AFP) monthly lunch about emerging payments: PayPal, Amazon, Google Checkout, and many, many more start-ups...
Last Thursday evening I attended a superb mobile payment panel organized by mPayConnect and co-hosted by the Wharton and Harvard MBA alumni associations at the Wharton West campus in San Francisco. The evening’s topic was From Afghanistan to Silicon Valley: Mobile...
My colleague Carol Coye Benson and I are attending the Association of Financial Professionals Annual Conference in San Francisco October 4-7. If you are planning to attend and interested in getting together to talk B2B payments (or any other payment topic) let us...
