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Half of Fast Company's 10 Most Innovative Financial Companies are Finovate Alums

Fast Company's list of the 10 most innovative financial companies includes five Finovate alums - FiLife, Intuit, Yodlee, Credit.com, and Simplifi. FiLife was not only #1 in finance, but also the only financial company to be ranked in the overall Top 50.

Finovate alumni commanded the top three positions, with Intuit and Yodlee following FiLife. Credit.com was #7 and Simplifi was #9 (full post here).

FiLife and Mint Top Finovate Alumni Traffic Chart

FiLife also has the highest website traffic among Finovate alums with more than 2.7 million visitors. Mint was second with 1.7 million. FiLife and Mint were also the fastest-growing alumni sites, gaining 2.6 million and 612,000 visitors respectively over the previous year.

And the zero-60 awards go to ThreatMetrix and Home-Account who both went from zero to nearly 200,000 unique visitors, a phenomenal amount of traffic for a financial company in their first year (full post here).

Firethorn App Provides Mobile Access to More Than 3,700 Financial Institutions

Firethorn has updated its mobile banking app to allow consumers to access accounts at more than 3,700 U.S. financial institutions. Expanding beyond its current list of integrated banking partners brings the company's app to a wider range of consumers.

Since its mobile app interfaces with existing online banking systems, Firethorn can provide consumers with mobile banking even when their bank doesn't support it. The app also gives users the ability to access account information from multiple institutions from within a single interface (full post here).

Jawalla Adds Skype and Twitter Alerts to its Online Banking Platform

Jwaala has added Twitter and (in what we believe to be a first) Skype alerting capabilities to its MoneyTracker BOB (Better Online Banking) platform. The addition gives Jwaala's clients the ability to offer consumer alerts through channels already familiar to their customers.

Alert systems are important to financial institutions because they provide personalized information to customers where and when they most need it. Expanding its alert capabilities helps Jwaala differentiate itself from competing platforms (full post here).