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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Accusoft, Aerospike, Avalara, Coinbase, Green Key Technologies, Jumio, Larky, Ledger, Misys, NYMBUS, On Deck Capital, Payoneer, SuiteBox, Top Image Systems, VIX Verify, VoicePIN, Zopa

On Finovate.com

  • “Ledger Launches Blockchain Open Ledger Operating System”
  • “Finovate Debuts: VoicePIN Offers an Easy Biometric Login Solution”
  • “Finovate Debuts: SuiteBox Introduces its Virtual Meeting Rooms for Financial Professionals”

On FinDEVr.com

  • Avalara teams up with WooCommerce to help online merchants manage sales taxes.

Around the web

  • OnDeck partners with Innovate Finance to debut Transatlantic Policy Working Group.
  • LandlordReferencing.co.uk to use Netverify from Jumio to comply with the U.K.’s new Right to Rent law.
  • The United Bank of Egypt upgrades to latest Misys core banking solutions as part of major modernization of retail, SME, and corporate businesses.
  • Top Image Systems launches next generation, automated accounts payable solution, eFLOW AP.
  • Zopa’s new lender products are live.
  • Golden West CU processes 15 new applications for insurance products in first 30 days of deploying Larky.
  • Coinbase introduces stop orders on Coinbase exchange.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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Finovate Alums Are Top Tech Startup Fundraisers in Four States

Finovate Alums Are Top Tech Startup Fundraisers in Four States
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Avalara, CashStar, edo Interactive, Funding, Fundings, Kabbage

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An interesting infographic from CB Insights reveals four Finovate/FinDEVr alums to be the most well-funded tech startups in their respective states.

“Using CB Insights data, we analyzed the most well-funded startups by state, based on disclosed equity funding,” read the CB Insights blog accompanying the map. The survey did not include debt funding and companies that had to have raised at least $5 million. The survey also excluded Alaska or Hawaii, which had no qualifying startups.

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For more on funding for Finovate alums, check out our funding year-in-review, Finovate Alums Raise More than $3 Billion in 2015.

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Avalara, FinDEVr APIntelligence, Markit, Mitek, Nexmo, On Deck Capital, Thinking Capital, Tradier

FinDEVrNY16-V2(wdate)We’re taking our FinDEVr developer showcase to New York on March 29 & 30, 2016. Register today and save $200 through Friday.

The latest from FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 presenters:

  • Thinking Capital to power new “Staples Business Loans” program for small businesses in Canada.
  • Markit lands three new customers for its KY3P (Know Your Third Party) platform.
  • LandedCost from Avalara helps SMEs navigate international taxes, tariffs, and fees.
  • American Banker: OnDeck Capital adds former E-Trade exec to board.
  • Mitek partners with Harland Clarke to improve RDC security.

Alumni Updates:

  • Online trading platform Investfly integrates with the Tradier brokerage API.

Stay current on daily news from the fintech developer community! Follow FinDEVr on Twitter.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ArcBit, Avalara, Betterment, blooom, Credit Sesame, CSI globalVCard, Digital Insight, FIS, FutureAdvisor, Personal Capital, Prairie Cloudware, Q2, Quisk, SigFig, Taulia, Temenos, Trulioo, Trunomi, Trustev, Trustly, TSYS, Xignite

On Finovate.com

  • Check out this week’s “FinDEVr APIntelligence”
  • “Finovate Debuts: ArcBit Introduces its Secure, Easy-to-Use Bitcoin Wallet”
  • “FIS Closes SunGuard Acquisition to the Tune of $5.1 Billion”

Around the web

  • CSI globalVCard launches partnership program for banks for its electronic payments program.
  • SavingAdvice.com highlights how Personal Capital can help you gain control of your finances.
  • Credit Sesame features millennial-friendly robo-adviser investment-platforms: Betterment, FutureAdvisor, SigFig, Blooom.
  • Quisk selected as a 2015 Red Herring 100 Global Winner.
  • TSYS signs payments agreement with Atlanticus to continue support of loan-origination platform, Fortiva.
  • Digital Insight unveils Business Banking, an SaaS solution to enable FIs to offer personalized banking experiences to business customers.
  • Q2 opens new offices in Lincoln, Nebraska, to accommodate growth, acquisition of Centrix Solutions.
  • Xignite Market Data APIs now available on SoundHound’s Houndify sound recognition and search-technology platform.
  • Let’s Talk Payments features Trustev, Trulioo, and Trunomi in its look at “RegTech” startups in Europe and the U.S.
  • Temenos wins “Best Provider of Front-to-Back Wealth Suite Solutions” at Asian Private Banker’s Technology Awards 2015.
  • Avalara partners with open-source billing and payments platform, Kill Bill.
  • Silicon Prairie News interviews Daniel Carnes, CSO at Prairie Cloudware, on the future of cybersecurity.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

FinDEVr APIntelligence
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Arxan Technologies, Avalara, CardFlight, Cloud Lending, Kontomatik, MX, On Deck Capital, SnoopWall, Thomson Reuters, Tradier, WorldPay

FinDEVr2016-NY-(Stacked)V2Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to check out coverage from our recent developers conference in San Francisco. We’re taking the fintech developer tool showcase to New York, 29/30 March 2016. Stay tuned for details.

Developer news

  • Dev Bootcamp and Metis partner with Skills Fund to broaden access to web developer and data-science programs.
  • TechCrunch’s This Week On Bullish: Maturity In The Payments Space.

The latest from FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 presenters

  • Let’s Talk Payments interviews CMO Konstantin Rabin, of Kontomatik.
  • BAI Retail Delivery conference attendees select MX as Innovation Showcase Award winner.
  • Thomson Reuters and Samsung to collaborate on mobile security, intelligent IT for the enterprise.
  • Avalara announces sales-tax-accuracy guarantee.
  • “Worldpay Goes Public; Shares Rally on Trading Debut”
  • Silicon Review lists SnoopWall as 1 of 20 fastest-growing security companies.
  • Arxan now secures applications running on 500+ million devices.
  • OnDeck again expands its partnership with the Association for Enterprise Opportunity to support access to capital for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
  • Banking Technology features multiple FinDEVr alums on Readers Choice Awards.

Alumni updates

  • Cloud Lending Solutions announces underwriting and origination upgrades.
  • CardFlight and Cayan team up to provide EMV-ready mPOS solutions.
  • The Hindu features Cloud Lending Solutions’ co-founder Snehal Fulzele.
  • Global AutoTrading integrates with Tradier to extend brokerage services.

It’s easy to stay current on daily developments by following FinDEVr on Twitter.

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Finovate Alumni News

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Categories: Arxan Technologies, Avalara, BizEquity, blooom, eMoney Advisor, Kontomatik, LOYAL3, Misys, MX, Roostify, Tradeshift, Tradier

On Finovate.com

  • “Mortgagetech on the Move as Roostify Closes Series A Round Led by USAA”
  • “Blooom Announces $4 Million Series A Round Led by QED Investors”

Around the web

  • BizEquity announces strategic partnership with eMoney Advisor.
  • Vietnam Public Joint Stock Commercial Bank (PVcomBank) deploys digital banking platform from Misys.
  • Let’s Talk Payments interviews Konstantin Rabin, Kontomatik CMO.
  • BAI Retail Delivery conference attendees select MX as the Innovation Showcase Award winner.
  • Global AutoTrading integrates with Tradier to extend brokerage services.
  • Avalara announces sales-tax accuracy guarantee.
  • LOYAL3 Securities will act as co-manager for Square’s IPO.
  • Customers of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV rollout will automatically have free access to Tradeshift’s e-invoicing solution.
  • Arxan now secures applications running on 500+ million devices.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

 

 

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: App Annie, Avalara, Cachet Financial Solutions, Credit Karma, Currency Cloud, Expensify, Hip Money, Hip Pocket, MX, Praesidio, Ripple, Thomson Reuters, Twilio, Wealthfront, WorldPay, Xero

On Finovate.com

  • “Hip Pocket Introduces its New PFM Solution, Hip Money“
  • “FinDEVr Newcomer Praesidio Rakes in $3 Million Investment”

Around the web

  • Cachet Financial Solutions to deploy its Select Mobile Money platform with a global payment solutions provider seeking U.S. expansion.
  • Currency Cloud launches its Payment Engine Two API to enable faster payments and greater scalability.
  • D+H Global PayPlus teams up with Ripple, integrating its payment-services hub with Ripple’s distributed-ledger technology.
  • Thomson Reuters announces content update to its Checkpoint Catalyst FASB reporting solution.
  • Ahead of its impending IPO, Worldpay firms up IPO price range.
  • Self Lender names MX as one of three startups “absolutely crushing it” in fintech.
  • Wealthfront lists App Annie, Avalara, Credit Karma, and Twilio on its list of career-launching companies.
  • Expensify launches new integration features for Xero.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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FinDEVr Live: Avalara Helps Developers Navigate the Wacky World of Sales Tax

FinDEVr Live: Avalara Helps Developers Navigate the Wacky World of Sales Tax
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Avalara, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

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Avalara_FinDEVr2015_logoSales tax is complicated, but Avalara makes it easy. Since 2004, our dedicated team of revolutionaries has worked day and night to help businesses of all sizes achieve compliance by providing a fast, easy, and accurate way to manage transactional taxes. Avalara’s API dynamically delivers instantaneous sales-tax decisions based on precise geo-location in more than 12,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S. Avalara’s API offers the ability to automatically assign hundreds of thousands of taxability rules and the latest jurisdiction—boundaries within your desired accounting, shopping cart, or point-of-sales system—to deliver the right rate and tax calculation.

The wacky world of sales tax
Transactional sales tax is not the easiest thing for an organization to tackle. With million of addresses, thousands of taxability rules and taxing jurisdictions involved, it can be a daunting task. We’ll take a whimsical look at some of the more interesting and bizarre sales-tax cases, look at the technology that Avalara has built to solve this problem, and take a deeper dive into the APIs that are available for developers.

Key takeaways:

  • Complexity of transactional tax explained
  • How APIs solve this problem for developers
  • Weird and wacky sales-tax scenarios

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Presenter:

Loke Uei Tan, Senior Manager, Developer Relations
LinkedIn | @lokeuei | lokeuei@avalara.com

Tan has been working in the evangelism capacity for a decade at Microsoft and most recently leads the developer team at Avalara, a cloud-based sales-tax-automation service. He brings with him an extensive knowledge in building and running a successful evangelism program in any modern organization.

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Aerospike, American Express, Authy, Avalara, Braintree, Fidor Bank, FinDEVr APIntelligence, Hyperwallet, Interxion, MX, On Deck Capital, PayPal, Personal Capital, Thomson Reuters, Twilio, Xero

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateAre you building new financial technology? Be sure to register soon for the only event exclusive for fintech developers, FinDEVr 2015, 6/7 October (just a few days away!) in San Francisco.

Developer news

  • “Thomson Reuters considers how APIs are changing the fintech narrative”

The latest from upcoming FinDEVr 2015 presenters

  • FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 Presenters All Mapped Out.
  • PayPal unveils its chip-card reader in the U.S.
  • Hyperwallet counts down to next week’s FinDEVr developer conference.
  • Munich-based Fidor Bank Launches in the U.K.
  • OnDeck partners with Association for Enterprise Opportunity to facilitate up to $10 million in small-business loans.
  • Aerospike releases version 3.6 of its NoSQL operational database.
  • TechCrunch: Klarna adds American Express as a partner.
  • Emerging Payments Awards selects Hyperwallet as a finalist for the Best Corporate/Government Payments Program award for 2015.
  • Braintree and PayPal reflect on their two-year anniversary.
  • CNET features Personal Capital in a look at investment in robo-advisers.
  • Kaspersky’s blog mentions Twilio’s Authy as a way to protect your ID on a smartphone.
  • Avalara announces the availability of a benefits program exclusively for U.S. QuickBooks ProAdvisors® and their clients.
  • Celent advises banks to be more like Fidor Bank in order to remain relevant.
  • The Neutral Internet Exchange NL-ix will use Interxion Cloud Connect to connect to Microsoft Azure as a part of its new cloud connectivity services.
  • MX Lands $4 Million from CheckFree Founder Pete Kight.

Alumni updates

  • Xero surpasses milestone of 100,000 subscribers in the U.K.

Stay up to date on daily developments by following FinDEVr on Twitter.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Authy, Avalara, BillGuard, Fidor Bank, Five Degrees, Heckyl Technologies, Insuritas, Interxion, iSignthis, Lending Club, Market Prophit, Nexmo, Prosper, PsychSignal, TickerTags, TSYS, Twilio, Xignite

On Finovate.com

  • Commentary: “”Prosper Signals Move into PFM with $30 Million Acquisition of BillGuard“
  • Thanks to Xignite, the #FintechRevolution Will Be API’d”

Around the web

  • Lending Club adds Indiana, Kansas, and Nebraska, expanding its services to 36 states.
  • Premier Bank in Bangladesh extends payments agreement with TSYS, upgrading to PRIME4.
  • iSignthis to provide KYC services to Danish payment processor and card acquirer, Clearhaus, beginning in early 2016.
  • LeasePlan Bank implements Matrix digital banking platform from Five Degrees.
  • Peoples Bank & Trust hires Insuritas to launch turnkey insurance agency.
  • Kaspersky’s blog mentions Twilio’s Authy as a way to protect your ID on a smartphone.
  • Avalara announces the availability of a benefits program exclusively for U.S. QuickBooks ProAdvisors® and their clients.
  • Celent advises banks to be more like Fidor Bank in order to remain relevant.
  • The Neutral Internet Exchange NL-ix will use Interxion Cloud Connect to connect to Microsoft Azure as a part of its new cloud connectivity services.
  • TABB Research features Heckyl Technologies, Market Prophit, PsychSignal, and TickerTags in its new report on “social alpha 2.0.”
  • Nexmo teams up with mobile operator, H3G, to bring its SMS-based user-authentication technology to Sweden and Denmark. See Nexmo at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco next month.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: AnalytixInsight, Avalara, Clarify, Flint Mobile, FutureAdvisor, Klarna, Moven, Nous.net, ShopKeep POS, SnoopWall, Spreedly, StockViews, The Beast Apps, Trulioo, Urban FT, Wallaby Financial, Wipit, Xignite, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

  • “Banking Suite Provider Urban FT Acquires Wipit” Come see Urban FT at FinovateFall September 16 & 17.

Around the web

  • Niklas Adalberth steps down as Klarna’s deputy CEO.
  • ShopKeep to offer discounts to members of the MasterCard Easy Savings program.
  • Yodlee partners with Salesforce to offer advisers a comprehensive view of their clients’ financial accounts. Come see Yodlee’s presentation at FinDEVr, 6/7 October.
  • Monex to incorporate corporate-actions data from Markit. See Markit at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco.
  • Bank Innovation takes note of the Moven approach to displaying transaction histories.
  • Tech Vibes features Trulioo in a look at Vancouver, British Columbia, as a home for fintech innovation. See Trulioo at FinovateFall 2015 in New York.
  • Investment News looks for the next robo-adviser acquisition in the wake of BlackRock’s deal with FutureAdvisor.
  • Waters Technology highlights Nous, StockViews, AnalytixInsight, and Xignite in a review of how innovators are using market data. See Xignite at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco.
  • Flint enhances Android app to include immediate electronic receipts via SMS.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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FinDEVr Preview: Avalara

FinDEVr Preview: Avalara
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Avalara, FinDEVr 2015 Preview

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateFinDEVr Previews highlight the companies that will present their latest developer tools, platforms, and integrations at FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco on 6/7 October.

FinDEVr is the premier event for fintech developers. To save your spot, visit our registration page today and take advantage of early-bird savings!

Avalara helps businesses negotiate the “weird and wacky world of sales tax.”

Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. is handled unlike any other place on the planet? There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of tax-ability rule-combinations. This makes it hard for businesses to ensure compliance and thereby avoid the assessor’s wrath.

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Why it’s a must-see
This presentation will highlight the complexity, showcase some of the bizarre taxing cases, and demonstrate how this difficult problem can be solved through a robust technology stack.

Developers will learn how they can resolve their customer’s pain-points with a simple-to-use REST API.

Check out more of today’s FinDEVr Previews:

 

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