Social Money

  • Social Money announces partnership with H&R Block through CorePro

    Social Money announces partnership with H&R Block through CorePro

    WEST DES MOINES—On the heels of two large announcements about its CoreSaver product, Social Money now has another nationally recognized client: H&R Block.

  • 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…

  • Social Money launches CoreSaver targeted at community banks

    DES MOINES—Almost a year ago, Social Money launched a private beta of CorePro, its first open API product. The core processing system that helps businesses and developers integrate savings accounts into online and mobile platforms.

  • Social Money’s CorePro API used in app that could challenge Mint.com

    West Des Moines-based Social Money today announced that its CorePro product will be used by a company that TechCrunch says is out to “challenge Mint.com‘s dominance in personal financial management.” …

  • Social Money launches private beta of CorePro, its first open API product

    As Social Money approaches $5 billion in transactions, the company is celebrating another first: a product with an open API. Today the West Des Moines startup announced the launch of its latest product, CorePro, a core processing system that helps businesses and developers integrate savings accounts …

  • 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…

  • Social Money’s SmartyPig-like product debuts in India as iWish

    One week after a partnership announcement with a U.S. financial firm, West Des Moines-based Social Money makes headlines in India on another front: its social, goal-based savings platform went live today with the country’s largest private sector bank. ICICI Bank is using Social Money’s enterprise product …

  • Social Money reveals new product, deal with Bancorp

    Social Money today announced it’s preparing for the launch of a new product, CorePro, with a new partner, The Bancorp, Inc., the holding company behind a financial firm that offers banking services and products. CorePro is a savings account …

  • Social Money’s Ferrari discusses “The Pivot” at BIZ luncheon (Video)

    As SmartyPig approached its fifth birthday, company brass took a hard look at what the Des Moines-based startup had become. There was, without question, plenty to celebrate for the goal-based, social savings company. “We had this really great, kick-ass brand,” said Michael Ferrari, who co-founded the company in 2007. “We had global industry recognition. …

  • More sights and sounds of the Iowa Startup Fair in Des Moines (Video)

    The second Iowa Startup Fair concludes Tuesday with the Innovation Expo in Coralville. That daylong event will cap off an 11-day, statewide effort to connect Iowa’s startup community with the state’s broader business community. A big piece of that effort took place last Tuesday at StartupCity Des Moines and Dwolla headquarters. There, 33 startups …