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Kiind showed how developers can use its platform to create personalized gift cards and custom rewards.
Making Gifting EasyWe’ll touch on Kiind’s API and where it is headed as well as our marketplace.
Presenter: Leif Baradoy, CEO & Founder
About:
Kiind helps businesses reward their employees and customers with gift cards. With Kiind, you can easily send personalized offers to multiple contacts, and Kiind’s technology allows you to defer when you pay for rewards and gifts, thereby saving you money.
Website: kiind.me
Blog: blog.kiind.me
Twitter: @kiind
FinDEVr 2014: Security Specialist Sekur Me Turns Smartphones into Digital Identifiers
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Sekur Me presented its approach to security that leverages smartphones as authentication devices.
Want to be secure: Eliminate passwords!If you don’t have a password, it cannot be stolen. See a live demo of a patented disruptive technology taking security to the next level, while making login safer and simpler. And see how it can be used to secure payments and reduce shopping cart abandonment for eCommerce and mCommerce.
Presenter: Jack Bicer, CEO
About:
Sekur.me eliminates user IDs and passwords securely by turning your phone into your digital identity. It also brings the convenience of Single-Click eCommerce purchases to smartphones, where tiny keyboards make it hard to type. Checkout and pay in 9 seconds.
Website: sekur.me
Twitter: @sekurme
FinDEVr 2014: GreenAddressIT Shows the Way Toward a More Secure Bitcoin Wallet
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GreenAddressIT showed how developers can make their bitcoin wallets more secure.
GreenAddress: Instant and Secure BitcoinThe presentation is introducing bitcoin’s multisignature features. These features allow users to radically improve the security of bitcoin wallets, as well as create new services like instant confirmation allowing for faster arbitration between exchanges.
Presenter: Lawrence Nahum, CEO & Founder
About:
GreenAddress is a leader in securing bit coins and providing instant clearing confirmations. It supports desktop, mobile, and web apps and offers a very featureful and secure wallet as well as APIs to enable third party developers.
Website: greenaddress.it
Blog: blog.greenaddress.it
Twitter: @greenaddress
FinDEVr 2014: PayStand Shows How its Multi-Payment Network Technology Helps Developers Build Commerce Apps
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PayStand introduces its multi-payment network to help build e-commerce applications.
Comparing the Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Payment TypesCard Networks (Visa/MasterCard/Amex), eCheck (ACH/Bank Network/Check21), and Digital Currency (Bitcoin/Ripple/Altcoins) all have unique advantages and disadvantages. Explore the different use cases of why each are valuable and learn how to use PayStand’s unique multi-payment network technology to build the next generation of commerce applications.
Presenter: Jeremy Almond, CEO
About:
PayStand is a next-generation payment solution enabling no fee transactions online. By offering payments as a service, PayStand is revolutionizing commerce. One low monthly subscription allows organizations to accept eCash (Bitcoin), eCheck, & credit cards through PayStand’s all-in-one solution.
Website: paystand.com
Blog: paystand.com/blog
Twitter: @paystand
FinDEVr 2014: CrowdCurity Provides White-Hat Hackers to Stress Test Your Website’s Security
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CrowdCurity demonstrated its white hat hacker service to promote better, more secure apps.
How to Invite Hacker to Your WebsiteToo many websites are being exploited, and we need to rethink web security. The best way to stay secure and ahead of the bad guys is to invite good white-hat hackers to test your security. We have made it easy to connect businesses to a crowd of security researchers.
Presenter: Jacob Hansen, CEO
About:
CrowdCurity is a web security marketplace. We connect businesses with security testers. We do bug bounty programs as-a-service. Bitcoin First.
Website: crowdcurity.com
Blog: blog.crowdcurity.com
Twitter: @crowdcurity
FinDEVr 2014: Trulioo Shows How its Global Gateway Provides Instant ID Verification
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Trulioo introduced its Global Gateway to speed ID verification.
Trulioo’s Global Gateway
Demonstrating how Trulioo’s Global Gateway verifies a consumer’s identity within a single, unique portal. We will input a person’s first name, last name, date of birth, and address to show how Trulioo verifies these attributes from our 130+ data sources.
Presenter: Anatoly Kvitnitsky, Director of Corporate Development
About:
Trulioo is a global ID verification conpany focused on building trust online, best privacy practices, and financial inclusion. As the pioneer in cyber identity verification, Trulioo’s new Global Gateway product enables businesses to perform instant ID Verification for 3 billion people in over 30 countries.
Website: trulioo.com
Blog: trulioo.com/blog
Twitter: @trulioo
FinDEVr 2014: The TxPUSH Initiative Introduces the Evented Financial Web to Deliver Real-time Financial Transaction Data
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The TxPUSH Initiative presented its technology for securing and improving the delivery of financial transaction data.
Aggregation 2.0 – TxPUSH and the Evented Financial WebTxPUSH technology is focused on aligning app user experience and FinTech industry players around the Evented Financial Web. The TxPUSH technology will improve the security model of the existing account aggregation ecosystem and promote the delivery of real-time financial transaction data to account holders in the apps they choose.
Presenter: Nick Thomas, President & Co-Founder
About:
TxPUSH is a global industry group tasked with overseeing the development of TxPUSH technology. The group is dedicated to making real-time financial account events available to any third party app while improving login credential security.
Website: txpush.org
FinDEVr 2014: Knox Revolutionizes Payments with its New Approach to ACH
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Knox Payments demoed its technology that leverages ACH rails to make transactions cheaper for merchants.
ACH That Doesn’t Suck: No Account and Routing Numbers NeededDeveloping ACH processing the traditional way is horrible. Your users don’t know their account and routing numbers and you don’t know if they actually have the money. Knox has solved these problems with the ease of just logging into your online banking, making ACH cheaper, safer, and easier.
Presenter: Tommy Nicholas, Co-Founder
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Knox allows people to make ACH payments using only their online banking login information, providing the cheapest, safest, and easiest way to accept payments.
Website: knoxpayments.com
Blog: blog.knoxpayments.com
Twitter: @knoxpayments
FinDEVr 2014: Blockchain’s APIs Help Developers Build a Bitcoin Business in Minutes
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Blockchain introduces its widely-relied upon APIs to help developers build their own bitcoin-related apps.
Blockchain: The Core API for Bitcoin DevelopmentBlockchain’s APIs power most of the Bitcoin companies in the ecosystem. Utilizing our APIs, you can start a Bitcoin business in minutes. From wallet creation to transaction verification, Blockchain’s APIs have you covered.
Presenting: Dan Held, Lead Product Manager
About:
Blockchain is the world’s most popular web-based Bitcoin wallet and the most highly trafficked Bitcoin website. Blockchain is the de facto search engine for the Bitcoin economy. Blockchain has over 2 million wallets and our footprint continues to grow quickly.
Website: blockchain.com
Blog: blog.blockchain.com
Twitter: @blockchain
FinDEVr San Francisco 2014: Award Winners
Q. What’s better than being one of the more than 400 industry professionals attending the very first FinDEVr conference this week?
A. Being one of the four companies to walk away with one of the very first FinDEVr awards, that’s what!
Four companies were selected as favorites by attendees here on Day 1 of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014. Attendees were challenged to choose between entertaining and informative presentations, exciting new technologies, and fascinating innovations that push the envelope of what is possible when commerce and science, technology and finance come together.
Remember that FinDEVr continues tomorrow on Wednesday with a full, multi-track day of workshops, presentations, and networking. We’ll build on the momentum from Day One to bring you the latest in SDKs and APIs, tools and platforms, that are already paving the way to the fintech innovations of tomorrow. Visit our registration page today to grab a spot.
So without further ado, here are the favorite first-day presentations in alphabetical order:
Avoka for its engagement platform that enables omni-channel account opening in 60 seconds.
BehavioSec for its mature identification system that uses behaviour analytics to provide real-time security.
PayPal & Braintree for its construction of new breeds of payment platforms, API standards, and identity systems.
Yodlee for its Interactive APIs that provide authorized access to real-time data for customer accounts.
Notes on methodology:
1. Only audience members NOT associated with demoing companies were eligible to vote. Finovate employees did not vote.
2. Attendees were encouraged to note their favorites. At the end of the last demo, they chose their three favorites.
3. The exact written instructions given to attendees: “Please rate (the companies) on the basis of demo quality and potential impact of the innovation demoed.”
4. The four companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were awarded trophies.
FinDEVr 2014: Concur Helps Developers Build for the Trillion-Dollar Business Travel Market
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Concur demonstrated how developers can use its technology to create new solutions for the business travel expenses market.
Numbers, They Don’t Lie …Concur processes more than $55 billion dollars in annual T&E spend for its 25 million customers. In this presentation, Mithun Dhar will walk through and give us insight into this spend and tell developers why it’s a great opportunity to tap into this lucrative market.
Presenter: Mithun Dhar, Director, Evangelism & Strategic Marketing
About:
Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions trusted by over 25,000 clients around the globe, with over 25 million users. The Concur Platform allows developers to develop and market innovative solutions to the lucrative $1.12 trillion business travel market.
Website: concur.com
Blog: concur.com/blog
Twitter: @Concur
FinDEVr 2014: Paradigm4’s SciDB Helps Developers Answer Hard Questions with Fast Answers
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Paradigm4 demonstrates how its SciDB makes it easier for builders to do big things with Big Data.
Crypto-Currency and Massive Network AnalysisWe’ll begin with a graphical overview of a crypto-currency financial network, discuss the key issues and challenges around massive network analysis and then demonstrate our solution using SciDB via the RStudio user interface.
Presenter: Bryan Lewis, Chief Data Scientist
About:
Paradigm4 develops and supports SciDB: the open source, analytic DBMS; programmable from R & Python. SciDB is designed from the ground up to support more facile data management for Big and Diverse Data, and to do faster and bigger math. Hard questions. Fast answers. Open source.
Website: paradigm4.com
Twitter: @paradigm4