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  • Social Money teams up with TMG to offer prepaid card options

    Social Money teams up with TMG to offer prepaid card options

    DES MOINES—It’s been a busy week for Social Money. Earlier this week, the financial services technology company announced CoreSaver, an end-to-end digital banking solution for credit unions and community banks. Now the West Des Moines-based company has announced a partnership with The Members Group (TMG), a Des Moines-based financial services company that provides payments processing…

  • With OneClick, SmartyPig creates a “saving cart” across the web

    Extending the reach of its goal-based online saving bank, SmartyPig today will introduce OneClick, a feature that lets users start saving for a product on any ecommerce website. Whether it’s saving for a television on Amazon or a treadmill on Walmart.com, SmartyPig no longer requires its users to return to its website to start a…

  • Do what you do best

    (Guest post by Michael Ferrari.) Sure the idea was mine, but to bring my idea to life, I needed help. This may or may not hold true for everyone starting a company. And more power to you, if you can design, build and launch your product on your own. Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint.com, once…

  • Bank in India to use GoalSaver, the white label SmartyPig

    Less than one month after revealing its India office, Social Money today announced an international alliance with ICICI Bank in India. “We are thrilled to be working with one of the world’s leading financial services …

  • Prairie Moves: VoterTide Alerts, SmartyPig, AgLocal and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Prairie Moves: Handmark, The Foundary, NotifyWorks and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Social Money Systems opens office in India, expects more in U.S. & abroad

    Social Money Systems, the recently introduced new parent company of SmartyPig, today announced the opening of an office in Chandigarh, India. The office, which is the company’s first outside its West Des Moines headquarters, will hold four employees, Social Money co-founder Mike Ferrari said last week. The news comes on the heels of Social Money’s…

  • PrairieCast Video: Dwolla raises $5 million, SmartyPig shifts

    Not one but two Mikes joined us this week on PrairieCast. Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines and Mike Ferrari, co-founder of SmartyPig (now Social Money Systems) both sit in to discuss the big news that broke early on show day, Dwolla’s $5M Series B raise, as well as the…

  • Prairie Moves: Jim Duval, Matthew Kirk, HelloQR and more

    Published Tuesday and Thursday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…

  • SmartyPig unveils GoalSaver, a social savings platform for banks

    SmartyPig, an online social savings platform, today announced a pair of big changes. The Des Moines-based company will go by a new name, Social Money Systems. It also will offer a new product, GoalSaver, which is a customizable, social savings, transaction-focused platform for banks that utilizes a bank’s brand and regulatory and compliance systems to…