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FinDEV 2014: ModoPayments Helps Builders Create Beautiful Buying Experiences

FinDEV 2014: ModoPayments Helps Builders Create Beautiful Buying Experiences
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Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, modoPAYMENTS
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ModoPayments showed how beautiful apps lead to beautiful mobile buying experiences.

How to Find Money & Love with Mobile Apps (OK, maybe more money than love)

Learn about the best-kept-secret in mobile payments APIs: Modo. Modo will show you in 6 minutes or less how to build a beautiful buying experience that entices consumers to spend money, and make you money, through exceptional economics. This is all with the cunning use of the mobile app of your dreams. Your love mileage may vary.
Presenter: Bruce Parker, CEO & Founder
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With Modo you can build beautiful buying experiences, with exceptional economics. Whether you are looking for more sales, transactions, or rockstar moments for your consumers, Modo can help. Using Modo’s handcrafted API, your mobile app gets to perform in-store purchases at tens of thousands of store locations. Modo powers the payments and you design the experience. Everyone is looking for something: personal, magical, and beautiful. So why not give it to them? Your app, plus our platform – more of what you want.
Twitter: @GETmodo

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FinDEVr 2014: BehavioSec’s Real-Time Security Solution Leverage the Unique Way Users Interact with Devices

FinDEVr 2014: BehavioSec’s Real-Time Security Solution Leverage the Unique Way Users Interact with Devices
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Categories: BehavioSec, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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BehavioSec demoed its behavioral biometric ID authentication system.

BehavioSec Offers the Most Mature ID System that Uses Behaviour Analytics

BehavioSec presents the latest in real-time security through the ability to monitor the way users interact with their device. By monitoring the environment and interactions such as typing rhythm or mouse patterns, our technology is able to recognize if someone other than the intended user is operating the device. If a security breach is detected, additional security measures can be carried out to prevent fraud and stop identity theft.
  • Robust proven technology with more than 10 million active users in 2014
  • Scalable with more than 500 million mobile transactions processed
  • High performance with more than 20 banks using the service
  • Available now for cloud or onsite deployment
Presenter: Neil Costigan, CEO & CTO and Josefine Ahl, Development Team Leader
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Leaders in frictionless behavioral user verification & authentication, BehavioSec examines how you interact with a website or mobile device to provide a frictionless layer in web fraud prevention.
Twitter: @Behaviosec

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FinDEVr 2014: CardFlight Brings Card-Present, POS Functionality to Mobile Apps

FinDEVr 2014: CardFlight Brings Card-Present, POS Functionality to Mobile Apps
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Categories: CardFlight, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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CardFlight showed developers how to add POS functionality into their mobile apps.

CardFlight SDK for Mobile Payments

The CardFlight SDK allows any mobile developer to build mobile point-of-sale functionality into his or her own mobile apps. CardFlight supplies three things:
  1. Encrypted mobile card readers that fit into the audio jack of any smartphone or tablet
  2. Easy-to-integrate software development kits for iOS and Android, complete with developer-friendly documentation and support
  3. A PCI level 1 compliant payment gateway that works with all major processors/merchant accounts.
This allows developers to easily process swiped credit card payments within their own apps without the complexity of typical payment integrations. By using the CardFlight SDK, developers can fully customize their user experience and keep control of their product, while being able to integrate payment data into their other back-end systems (CRM, inventory management, analytics, and reporting, etc.)
The CardFlight SDK and gateway is compatible with merchant accounts from leading processors, including Braintree, Chase Paymentech, Global Payments, First Data, Stripe, TSYS, and Vantiv.
Presenter: Elie Toubiana, VP Engineering & Derek Webster, CEO
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CardFlight is a leading provider of mobile POS technology and tools that make it easy for anyone to accept swiped (card present) payments in any mobile app with virtually any merchant account. They offer both iOS/Android mobile payment applications and software development kids (SDKs) that can be incorporated into custom applications. CardFlight’s platform also includes encrypted card readers and a payment gateway that supports over 20 different processors to provide clients with complete mobile payments and mobile POS (mPOS) solutions. CardFlight won the Electronic Transactions Association’s 2014 Technology Innovation Award.
Twitter: @CardFlight

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FinDEVr 2014: Intuit Shows How Developers Can Reach Small Business via its QuickBooks Online Platform

FinDEVr 2014: Intuit Shows How Developers Can Reach Small Business via its QuickBooks Online Platform
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Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Intuit
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Intuit Partner Platform encouraged developers to take advantage of its Intuit QuickBooks Online open platform.

The Small Business Opportunity
The importance of small business to the global economy can’t be denied. With 600 million small businesses worldwide, the opportunity to drive their success is huge. Reach millions of small businesses by developing for Intuit QuickBooks Online, an open platform for developers that taps into the power of QuickBooks and the cloud. With partners from Square to American Express to Vend, QuickBooks Online allows Intuit and its ecosystem to simplify the business of life for millions of small businesses.
Presenter: Avi Golan VP & GM, Intuit Partner Platform
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The Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) is an open platform that enables developers to integrate with rich financial and transactional data through REST-based APIs and offers unparalleled reach to millions of small business through Intuit Apps.com
Twitter: @ippdev

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FinDEVr 2014: Eshta Shows the Versatility of its Multi-Purpose Financial Services Platform, Eshtapay

FinDEVr 2014: Eshta Shows the Versatility of its Multi-Purpose Financial Services Platform, Eshtapay
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Categories: Eshtapay, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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Eshta showed the versatility of its platform, which runs everything from ATMs to service marketplaces.

Eshtapay: The Financial Swiss-Army Knife
Estapay is directly operated in Ukraine and Egypt and also used online from Dubai to France to power self-service payment kiosks, service vending machines, service marketplaces, and ATMs. With less than 6 months time to market for deployment, Eshtapay exhibits remarkable versatility and efficiency.
Presenter: Catalin Braescu, CEO
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Eshta develops and operates Eshtapay as a financial platform that can act as an online payment system, e-wallet, escrow system, and self-service payment terminal back-end. Eshtapay (due to its very flexible architecture) is a Swiss-Army knife for the online banked and unbanked alike.

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FinDEVr2014: EVO Snap* Shows Developers How to Build Custom Loyalty Programs from a Single API

FinDEVr2014: EVO Snap* Shows Developers How to Build Custom Loyalty Programs from a Single API
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Categories: Evo Snap*, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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EVO Snap* launched EVO Snap* Connect, showing how easy it is to build customized loyalty programs with its technology that  combines payment data and marketing.

DIY Offers and Rewards – Closing the Digital Loyalty Loop
Activate and deepen relationships with customers by linking consumer data with payment and marketing services to create customized loyalty programs, card-linked offers and real-time rewards at point-of-sale.
Presenters: Peter Osberg (SVP) & Darren Adelgren (VP, Product & Customer Care)
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EVO Snap* is one-stop shop for application integration, merchant underwriting and international payment processing. Our developer platform provides single-integration access to omni-channel payment processing and value-added services through one API – making it easy for developers to support merchants.
Website: evosnap.com
Twitter: @CanYouSnap

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FinDEVr 2014: MasterCard Helps Developers Build Better Apps for Business and Beyond

FinDEVr 2014: MasterCard Helps Developers Build Better Apps for Business and Beyond
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Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, MasterCard Developer Zone
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MasterCard showed how developers can take advantage of its resources to build better and more capable apps.

Open for Business and Beyond – MasterCard Developer Zone

Come and discover how MasterCard has become a technology company and is sharing its resources with developers.
Presenters: Mario Shiliashki, SVP, US Emerging Payments Lead
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MasterCard (NYSE: MA), www.mastercard.com, is a technology company in the global payments industry. We operate the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. MasterCard’s products and solutions make everyday commerce activities easier, more secure, and more efficient for everyone.
Twitter: @MasterCardDev

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FinDEVr 2014: Visa Tools and Technology to Help Build the Future of Commerce

FinDEVr 2014: Visa Tools and Technology to Help Build the Future of Commerce
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Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, VISA
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Visa is showing developers how to connect their e-commerce solutions to Visa’s payments network through open payment APIs and SDKs. 

The Future of Commerce

Learn how Visa is supporting the creation of new, innovative commerce solutions by enabling developers, mobile network operators, device and platform operators to easily connect to Visa’s network through new open payment APIs and SDKs.

Presenters: Alan Johnson (Sr. Director, Digital Developed Markets) & M. Tad Tilahun (VP, Product Development)

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Visa provides a broad array of tools, services, and resources to help developers create seamless, multi-channel payment solutions.
If you’re not attending FinDEVr, see the Visa Developers blog for technical articles on some of the new Visa technology showcased at the event, including two recent articles: Getting Started with Visa Checkout and Getting Started with the Visa Checkout SDK for Android.
Twitter: @VisaDeveloper

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FinDEVr 2014: Avoka Presents Transact 4.1 to Provide Omni-Channel Account Opening

FinDEVr 2014: Avoka Presents Transact 4.1 to Provide Omni-Channel Account Opening
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Categories: Avoka, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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Avoka presented its platform that eases and accelerates customer onboarding.

Omni-Channel & Social Account Opening in 60 Seconds

Avoka will demonstrate omni-channel account opening through our engagement platform demonstrating:
  • Responsive & adaptive design
  • Cross-over between channels
  • Pre-fill from social profiles
  • ElectID verification
  • Separation of information capture from core systems to facilitate early cross-sell
Presenters: Derek Corcoran (Chief Experience Officer) & Howard Treisman (CTO)
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Avoka is a leading customer experience management company specializing in multi-channel customer transactions. Avoka powers customer engagement applications for banking and insurance organizations worldwide, capturing and delivering business-critical transactions into back-office systems.
Website: avoka.com
Twitter: @avokatech

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FinDEVr 2014: Financial Apps Shows How its Relevancy Engine Helps Developers Deploy Big Data

FinDEVr 2014: Financial Apps Shows How its Relevancy Engine Helps Developers Deploy Big Data
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Categories: Financial Apps, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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Financial Apps showed how its technology helps developers make the most out of financial data.

Driving the Data to Action
Detailed financial data is the “Big Data” we all want to work with. In this presentation, Financial Apps is showing how its Platform and Relevancy Engine enables developers to access, consume, and integrate consumer financial data within their solutions.
Presenters: Bob Sullivan (President) & Bill Kennedy (Chief Scientist)
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Financial Apps provides a suite of development tools and API access for financial account and transactional data. Our solutions help to quickly build the next generation FinApp. The Financial Apps Relevancy Engine helps make data actionable, providing a comprehensive solution for Fintech development.
Twitter: @financial_apps

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FinDEVr 2014: Forte Payment Systems Helps Developers Enable Payments into Their Applications

FinDEVr 2014: Forte Payment Systems Helps Developers Enable Payments into Their Applications
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Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Forte Payment Systems
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Forte Payment Systems presented its RESTful APIs to help developers add payments to their apps.

Professional Payments Made Easy: Developer to Developer
Enable payments into your application with Forte’s full range of enterprise-class services. Our modern and professional RESTful APIs have been implemented to simplify integrations, yet keep power and flexibility for developers to build massively scalable and distributed payment-enabled solutions.
Presenter: Jeff Thorness (CEO, Founder & President)
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Forte Payment Systems empowers developers to build secure and innovative electronic payment solutions for all platforms whether online, at a physical POS or on the road. Able to provide the modern, robust, and powerful options that large companies demand, along with the ease of use, simplicity, and affordability for the smallest of operations, Forte redefines the notion of flexibility and scalability.
Website: forte.net
Twitter: @fortepayments

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FinDEVr San Francisco 2014: Helping Developers Do What Developers Do Best

FinDEVr San Francisco 2014: Helping Developers Do What Developers Do Best
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Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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Innovators from Avoka to Yodlee are taking the stage to practice their presentations here on rehearsal day at FinDEVr San Francisco 2014. 

And if you are a fan of fintech innovation, it’s hard to imagine being in a better place over the next two days than at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF for this first event for fintech developers.

After all, the fact of the matter is that when it comes to innovative financial technology, if they build it, there’s a good chance they’ll be here.
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And we are hoping you will be too. We’ve got two days of presentations and demonstrations, workshops and dedicated, high-quality networking sessions – all geared toward helping the growing community of fintech developers do what they do best.
That means not just building the kinds of technologies that make commerce, investment, and saving easier, safer, and more efficient. It also means helping developers forge the kind of key relationships with industry professionals that will help plot the course of fintech innovation for years to come.
So with that in mind, here are a few last minute details to help you make the most of your FinDEVr experience this week.
Where?
1675 Owens Street, Suite 251
San Francisco, California 94143-3008
When?
Day One – Tuesday, September 30
Registration begins at 8:00am. Light Breakfast available until 9:00am.
Presentations begin at 9:00am.
Day One will feature a single-track schedule of presentations and networking opportunities.
Day Two – Wednesday, October 1
Registration begins at 8:00am. Light Breakfast available until 8:30am.
Workshops begin promptly at 8:30am.
Day Two will feature a multi-track schedule of workshops and presentations.
See a full agenda at our website, or via our mobile, social media app.
How?
Of course, the best way to enjoy FinDEVr is to be here at the Mission Bay Conference Center in person. Tickets are still available  for one or both days of the event. Register today to save your spot.
And once you’ve registered, download our Bizzabo app, login with your registration e-mail and you’re ready to go.
If you can’t make it to the conference, then you can follow the action on our Live Blog at Finovate.com, and on our Twitter feed @FinDEVr. If you’re interested in joining the conversation, be sure to use #FinDEVr.
Questions? 
Email us at [email protected].

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