Last week after Finovate, I met with BillShrink’s Director of Marketing, Jenny Michalski to talk about BillShrink. We talked about how BillShrink may make consumers more brand agnostic especially when it comes to mobile phone service. However, people will tend to hold on to their American Express card even if there credit cards with better […]

 
Billeo is a site that makes it easy for you to pay bills and manage online passwords. At Finovate, Billeo.com announced their offer assistant which is a tool that shows what retailers have offers. This is similar to RetailMeNot but may be better since you find the offers via a Google search instead of going […]

While I was in grade school, I learned about money via Junior Achievement. In 2009, Skill Life has developed a game/web portal called Cents City. aims to teach kids about money with a fun interactive site where they can earn points and collect in a passport which can be used later for actual products.

CEO Aaron Patzer’s surprising big news is that Mint.com is now on the Yahoo homepage.  I think everyone was expecting Patzer to mention Intuit’s acquisition of Mint, but it’s probably too soon to comment on it yet.  I used to watch stocks on Yahoo Finance years ago before Google, so now may be a good […]

On Deck Capital provides small businesses with loans. Analyzing cash flow, credit and transaction data is how On Deck decides what businesses to can qualify for a loan. The loan application is online and a loan can be approved quickly.  On Deck offers short-term loans and they often to lend to businesses who have a […]

POPMoney  is a new product from CashEdge. You can send money via your online banking to another person via email, mobile number or bank account. For me and anyone else who uses PayPal to pay people or get payment, this sounds great.
I am really excited about POPMoney. It could be a great replacement to using […]

Kapitall is a web platform for investing. Graphical interface makes it interesting and the display looks very user friendly. one of the founders expressed that he wanted the site to resemble a game. Kapitall is partnering with TD Ameritrade. Beta will open on September 30.

I caught the end of Home Account presentation. They want to be the Kayak.com of home lending.
CEO Amy Butte presented TILE Financial.  Amy was formerly the CFO of the New York Stock Exchange. Tile is a financial dashboard for young people. It looks similar to Mint.com. Donations to charities are featured. The goal is to […]

Tonight I mixed and mingled with many of the attendees and presenters of Finovate 2009. Finovate is like TechCrunch 50 for banking and investing and finance-related start-ups. I will be at the conference tomorrow for most of the day except for the hours I will be doing bookkeeping.
It was good to see Jon and Michael […]