May 11th, 2010 by Alex Coté
We’ve had a great morning here at FinovateSpring 2010 and the feedback from the blogging and Twitter community has been equally positive. Here is a sampling of posts from Twitter in the last few hours: leimer – Wikinvest, fiserv and cortera most impressive in opening round of finovate. Visa guys like robots. /via @cxasia mobileslate [...]
May 11th, 2010 by Alex Coté
Today we officially launch Cortera Circles™ – our latest effort to fix an industry that is in need of some new thinking and bring the best of the social web to the world of commercial credit. We have not been shy about our belief that the B2B credit information space is in desperate need of [...]
May 10th, 2010 by Alex Coté
We just wrapped up rehearsals this afternoon at FinovateSpring in San Francisco. You can feel the energy and passion from the demoing companies dedicated to shaking up the commercial and consumer finance space. We have lots to share over the next several days so check back here and on our FinovateSpring page for continuous coverage [...]
May 5th, 2010 by Alex Coté
Over the last couple of weeks there have been a number of media outlets from the Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg BusinessWeek to Clark Howard at CNN all covering the same topic: Freelancers struggling to get paid. Clark Howard’s blog post yesterday hit the point home: “I think there should be a website where independent [...]
April 19th, 2010 by Alex Coté
Cortera has been tapped as one of a select group of financial technology innovators that will present at the upcoming FinovateSpring 2010 conference in San Francisco on May 11, 2010. Finovate Events (www.finovate.com) take place each spring in San Francisco and each fall in New York and are uniquely known for their fast-paced environment, and [...]
March 29th, 2010 by Alex Coté
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had several conversations with credit pros in a variety of industries. And one of the running themes I’ve heard is a general lack of enthusiasm over the current state of business credit reports. “They are all the same”, “they are expensive for what you get” and “the information is [...]
March 17th, 2010 by Alex Coté
I’ve been on the road the last several weeks attending a combination of user groups and industry events in the US and in the UK. And what is striking is how credit professionals react so similarly across countries and industries when it comes to their frustrations with the current state of business information. For example, [...]
March 16th, 2010 by Alex Coté
It’s already been a busy week. We launched a completely redesigned corporate website while also updating our community website to make it even more easy to use and valuable for customers and visitors, alike. Both represent the latest steps in our mission to fundamentally change a space that, frankly, is way overdue for a fresh [...]
March 15th, 2010 by Alex Coté
You’ve probably noticed that we have a new website here at Cortera. We embarked on the new site with a simple goal in mind: provide a fluid, integrated experience across our corporate website and our business credit community – tying in the company profiles and the valuable credit information contributed everyday by thousands of business [...]
November 12th, 2009 by Alex Coté
When we launched the Cortera Credit Exchange our primary goal (it still is) was to drastically augment the amount of information available on private companies by expanding the information sharing between credit grantors of all forms. I’m happy to report that we are seeing that exact behavior every day. Another intriguing trend is one that [...]
