Welcome to FinovateEurope 2016: Day 2

Welcome to FinovateEurope 2016: Day 2

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Are you ready for day two of FinovateEurope 2016?

Our first conference of the year began Tuesday with 40 demonstrations of the latest in fintech innovation. Day two begins Wednesday morning with registration opening at 8:00 AM and the first demo starting at 8:45 AM.

Here is the lineup for Wednesday. Be sure to follow us on Twitter for our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2016.

Demo session 5: 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Demo session 6: 10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.

Demo session 7: 1:00 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.

Be sure to follow us on Twitter for our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2016.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com:

  • Welcome to FinovateEurope 2016, Day Two.
  • FinovateEurope 2016 Best of Show Winners Announced.

Around the web:

  • Betterment and Wealthfront featured in Bloomberg column on the disruptive power of roboadvisors.
  • Reduced costs for Nutmeg yield lower fees for investors using the platform.
  • Markit acquires systems-integration technology from JP Morgan.
  • VISA launches Consumer Transaction Controls for card-issuing FIs.
  • PYMNTS.com takes a look at Expensify and its expansion into Europe.

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.

 

Xignite Raises $20 Million in New Partnership with Tokyo’s QUICK Corporation

Xignite Raises $20 Million in New Partnership with Tokyo’s QUICK Corporation

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Go east, young provider of cloud-based market data solutions.

A $20.5 million Series C investment led by Tokyo’s QUICK Corporation has boosted Xignite’s total funding to more than $37 million, and signaled the company’s intention to expand into the Asian market.

Pointing to the “hyper-growth” in Asia and calling the region “the world’s largest fintech frontier,” QUICK president and CEO Noboru Yoshioka said the partnership between his company and Xignite will yield a “unique opportunity to capture growth in this market.” Xignite CEO and founder Stephane Dubois, whose company is demonstrating its latest technologies at FinovateEurope this week, referred to both the flexibility and the openness of his company’s solution as key to providing financial services customers with the data they need.

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Pictured: Stephane Dubois, Xignite CEO and founder, demonstrated Xignite Cloud Streaming at FinovateFall 2015 in New York.

“Financial institutions can no longer afford to operate rigid and proprietary data infrastructures,” Dubois said in a statement. “These legacy institutions must innovate and simultaneously cut costs if they want to survive and thrive in this new paradigm.”

Also participating in the funding round were Altos Ventures, Startup Capital Ventures, and StarVest Partners.

The investment will enable Xignite to increase its sales, marketing, and production capacities in order to keep up with the company’s growth. As part of the deal, QUICK managing director, Atsuyuki Nakajima will join Xignite’s board of directors. QUICK Corporation is a part of the Nikkei Group, and is the largest financial information provider in Japan.

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Xignite demonstrated its Cloud Streaming technology at FinovateFall 2015. The company’s solution is scalable, based on open standards, and has “zero footprint” for clients. Helping power some of fintech’s most innovative companies, e.g., Betterment and Currency Cloud, Xignite has more than 1,000 customers in fields ranging from investing and trading to wealth management. Xignite grew its bookings by more than 50% in 2015, serving more than 455 billion API calls.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com:

  • Xignite Raises $20 Million in New Partnership with Tokyo’s QUICK Corporation.

Around the web:

  • Tandem, a British banking startup launched by Azimo co-founder Ricky Knox, selects the Agility platform from Fiserv.
  • Barclays and Xero forge strategic partnership.
  • Indiana’s Old National Bank completes online and mobile-banking transition to Digital Insight.
  • Let’s Talk Payments features Ayasdi, Context Relevant, and WorkFusion in a roundup of startups helping companies innovate with artificial intelligence.

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.

 

 

Finovate Alumni News

Around the web:

  • ACI Worldwide helps deliver Domino’s secure, seamless payment experience during SuperBowl Sunday.
  • Britain’s One Financial Markets announces partnership with Swipestox to enable mobile trading. See Swipestox at FinovateEurope 2016.
  • Let’s Talk Payments features Sureify and BankBazaar in a look at insurancetech startups.
  • Wipro wins five-year, IT infrastructure transformation contract with Sweden’s ASSA ABLOY Group.
  • Trade Bank of Iraq forges strategic partnership with Misys.
  • CR2 unveils new logo, new corporate identity.
  • The Telegraph highlights Yoyo, Nutmeg, and True Potential in a column on calculating risk with facial scans.

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.

 

Advisor Software Launches Robo-advisor Platform, ASI Digital Advisor

Advisor Software Launches Robo-advisor Platform, ASI Digital Advisor

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Advisor Software this week introduced its white-label, robo-advisor platform, ASI Digital Advisor. The technology, announced at the TD Ameritrade National LINC conference in Florida, makes it easier for wealth managers and financial advisors to begin providing their clients with automated digital investment advice.

“By building our application in a modular fashion using APIs,” said company VP of Product Management Kevin Kraus, “we were able to develop a digital advice solution that is the most flexible and scalable on the market today.”

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Pictured: Advisor Software VP of Product Management Kevin Kraus and VP of Engineering Archana Rao demonstrating their Wealth Management Cloud at FinDEVr San Francisco 2015.

ASI Digital Advisor gives wealth managers the ability to generate model portfolios, build risk- and goal-based portfolios, and automate processes such as client onboarding and rebalancing, all with a responsive design to a state-of-the-art user experience.

Chairman and CEO of Advisor Software Andrew Rudd said that the new technology was a standard-setter in terms of “usability, scalability, and flexibility in the digital advice space.”

“Competitive platforms often ask advisors to make too many compromises,” Rudd said. “With our solution, advisors can easily modernize the user experience for their clients without having to alter the way they do business.”

Advisor Software’s new solution arrives just a few weeks after the company announced major hires for the position of Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Sales. David Cooper, a former senior executive at Fiserv and Greendot, will take the helm as CTO, and Tom Flint, co-founder of Tiburon Wealth Management, will become Advisor Software’s next VP of Sales.

Founded in June 1995 and headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Advisor Software demonstrated its Wealth Management Cloud platform at FinovateFall 2015. In its FinDEVr debut a month later, Advisor Software showed how the more than 100 APIs on its platform help developers build and deploy a wide variety of wealth management apps.

Finovate Alumni News

Around the web:

  • Blackhawk Network acquires NimbleCommerce, a digital commerce platform and network.
  • Wipro wins seven-year, IT-infrastructure contract with international insurer RSA.
  • Visa unveils its new Visa Developer Program, giving developers API-based access to many of Visa’s payment technologies.

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.

German P2P Bitcoin Lending Innovator Bitbond Launches its API

German P2P Bitcoin Lending Innovator Bitbond Launches its API

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Lending and borrowing money using bitcoin just got a lot easier.

P2P bitcoin lending platform, Bitbond, has released its API for investors and developers. Quoted at Usebitcoins.info, company CEO and founder Radoslav Albrecht said the API “reflects Bitbond’s desire to make the lives of investors on our platform as easy as possible.”

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Pictured (left to right): Bitbond co-founders Robert Nasiadek (CTO) and Radoslav Albrecht (CEO) demonstrating Bitbond AutoInvest.

Available with complete documentation, the Bitbond API gives investors and developers the ability to “customise and automate” the entire loan process, while providing ready access to Bitbond’s entire loan history data. “This allows investors to analyze data and to craft individual investment strategies based on it,” Albrecht explained. “We are sure that developers and investors alike will get terrific value from the Bitbond API.”

A few Bitbond statistics:

  • More than 23,000 active users in more than 120 countries
  • More than 1,1000 loans originated for a loan volume of more than $340,000
  • Loans available up to $10,000 at rates beginning at 7.7%
  • Terms range from six weeks to five years

Recent headlines for Bitbond include the launch of its bitcoin purchasing power index in November, and the beginning of its bitcoin affiliate program in September. Last summer, Bitbond was recognized as a “rising fintech startup” by Coin Telegraph.

Founded in January 2013 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Bitbond demonstrated its AutoInvest feature at FinovateEurope 2015. The company has raised more than $940,000 in funding; its most recent investment was an angel round led by Point Nine Capital in May 2015.


For more developer-friendly news, be sure to visit our sister blog, FinDEVr.com. And remember that Very Early Bird discounts to FinDEVr New York 2016 end this Friday.

Finovate Alumni News

Around the web:

  • Nomis Solutions introduces new version of its Dynamic Pricing solution with behavioral attribute pricing and active recalibration.
  • ReBusiness Online looks at Bazaarvoice and its move into new offices in Austin.
  • Bank Innovation: Dwolla updates its API to facilitate better ACH transactions.
  • Business Insider quotes itBit CEO Chad Cascarilla on banks and the blockchain.

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.

 

Finovate Alums Are Top Tech Startup Fundraisers in Four States

Finovate Alums Are Top Tech Startup Fundraisers in Four States

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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.

Avalara_FinDEVr2015_logoAvalara (Washington State)

CashStar_Grayscale_Logo_No_TagCashStar (Maine)

edo_Interactive_logoedo Interactive (Tennessee)

 

Kabbage_logoKabbage (Georgia)

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

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com:

  • A Cartographer’s Guide to FinovateEurope.

Around the web:

  • 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, including fellow alum, Luxoft.
  • VentureBeat looks at Expensify and its plans for European expansion.
  • Currency One launches Valuto in Europe. See the live demo at FinovateEurope next week in London.
  • American Banker: OnDeck Capital adds former E-Trade exec to board.
  • Insuritas to power insurance solution for Bank of England and Bank of England Mortgage.

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.

 

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com:

  • BlackRock’s FutureAdvisor Collaborating with RBC Wealth Management.

Around the web:

  • LHV, Estonia’s largest domestic bank, integrates with the TransferWise API.
  • Quorum Federal Credit Union implements automated workflow solution from Jack Henry & Associates’ Symitar division.
  • FIS launches ATM TestBench, providing banks with automated testing for their physical ATMs.
  • Online trading platform Investfly integrates with the Tradier brokerage API.
  • Malauzai surpasses 1 million SmartApp downloads.
  • Product Review publishes positive assessment of Cortera Pulse.
  • Kasasa launches in-branch-sales Tool Builder with optional identity protection.

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.