Author: Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz)

You’re Coming to FinovateFall… See Who Else Will be There

You’re Coming to FinovateFall… See Who Else Will be There
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2016

TitlesWC2Think you’re ready for FinovateFall? You have your ticket, you made flight and hotel reservations, scoped out the after-parties, and you’ve even read up on the presenting companies and combed through their Sneak Peek.

So why not get a jump-start on networking, as well? Our presenter title word-cloud gives you a hint of who you’ll be rubbing shoulders with next week in New York. The Finovate mobile app—powered by Bizzabo—is a great way to make the most of your Finovate experience and connect with other registered attendees before the conference begins.

Here’s how to do it:

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  • Join the community

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From there you can search for and message other attendees, set up your calendar, learn about the presenters, and more.

Have questions? Check out the FAQ section on our website or email fall@finovate.com.

See you in New York!

FinovateFall 2016 is sponsored by The Bancorp, AARP, Financial Technology Partners, Grant Thornton, Hudson Cook, KPMG, and Leverage PR.

FinovateFall 2016 is partnered with Acuity Market Intelligence, Aite Group, American Bankers Association, BankersHub, Bankless Times, BayPay Forum, Bitcoin Magazine, Breaking Banks,Byte Academy, California Bankers Association, Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, CB Insights, Celent, Coin Telegraph, Crowdfund Beat, Digital Currency Council,Digital.NYC, EbankingNews, FemTechLeaders, Fintech Finance, The Fintech Times, Harrington Starr, Holland Fintech, IDC Financial Insights, Innovate Finance, Javelin, Juniper Research, Korea FinTech Forum, Mapa Research, Mercator Advisory Group, Next Money, NYPAY, Ovum, Payments & Cards Network, The Paypers, PitchBook, Plug and Play, SME Finance Forum, Swiss Finance + Technology Association, and Western Independent Bankers.

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Jumio Raises $15 Million from its New Owner, Centana Growth Partners

Jumio Raises $15 Million from its New Owner, Centana Growth Partners
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Funding, Jumio

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Credentials-management company Jumio pulled in $15 million this week. The funding comes from Millennium Technology Value Partners and Centana Growth Partners, the private equity firm that purchased Jumio for $850,000 in May of this year after Jumio declared bankruptcy two months prior.

The funding brings Jumio’s total raised to almost $52 million. The company expects the funding will “extend its leadership position in the digital ID verification space, aggressively expand its sales and marketing efforts, and accelerate product development and international expansion.” The Palo Alto-based company offers three solutions that speed the online checkout process:

  • Fastfill, an ID-scanning app that automatically fills in information on forms
  • BAM Checkout, which integrates credit card and driver-license scanning into mobile checkout in order to eliminate friction
  • Netverify, which remotely scans documents to verify a consumer’s identity.

Jumio experienced a record-breaking second quarter this year. The company saw 65% growth in recurring YOY revenue, experienced a more than 50% increase in deals YOY, and closed more deals than any other time in its six-year history. Since launching in 2010 Jumio has facilitated 30 million transactions. Additionally, the company’s customer base has continued to expand.

In July of this year, Spanish crypto-currency company Krypto Commerce tapped Jumio for its AML and KYC services. At FinovateEurope 2015, the company won Best of Show for demoing how NetVerify simplifies the account-opening process.

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Bluefin Payment Systems, Currency Cloud, Entersekt, FinDEVr APIntelligence, Intuit, Kabbage, Quisk, Temenos, Venmo, VISA, Xero

FinDEVrSV16-withdateOur FinDEVr New York developer showcase was a success! FinDEVr Silicon Valley will be held 18/19 October in Santa Clara. Early bird tickets expire soon so register today to save your spot!

The latest from FinDEVr New York 2016 presenters

  • Fintech Trending: Look Who’s Chasing Venmo, Student Loan Servicing Falls Short

Alumni updates

  • Currency Cloud partners with Arkea Banking Services to provide faster payments and better reconciliation. Join Currency Cloud in New York next week for FinovateFall 2016.
  • Uber and Visa team up on local offers.
  • Bluefin Payment Systems unveils PAX devices for PCI-validated, point-to-point encryption (P2PE).
  • Backbase Partners with Entersekt to Deliver Authentication Technology
  • Intuit unveils personalized app recommendations for QuickBooks Online.
  • Quisk rolls out mobile money platform at National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited.
  • Entersekt brings its Transakt technology to the Middle East in collaboration with IST Networks.
  • Temenos to provide core banking solutions for Microcred, international microfinance specialist.
  • Crowdfund Insider interviews Rob Frohwein, Kabbage CEO and co-founder.
  • Xero named most-loved accounting software for second year in a row.

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

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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Swych

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Swych
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek, Swych

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9, 2016. Register today.

Swych’s patent-pending mobile gifting platform enables users to send “Swychable” gifts from their mobile device or social chat bot that can be instantly redeemed for electronic gift cards.

Features:

  • Integrated gifting chat bots
  • Easily buy, send, manage, and exchange gift cards from your mobile device
  • Conversational commerce platform with easy-t0-implement APIs

Why it’s great
The innovative Swych mobile gifting digital platform elegantly modernizes, digitizes, and simplifies gifting on the mobile device and within a user’s social networks.

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Deepak Jain, CEO, Co-founder
Jain is a strategic leader with over a decade of experience launching and transforming early-stage startups. He specializes in bringing innovative technologies to market and holds more than 55 patents.
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Sabella is a serial entrepreneur, investor, inventor, and author. He has started and invested in many companies and invented a few patents-pending products along the way.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Aspire Financial Technologies

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Aspire Financial Technologies
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Aspire, FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9, 2016. Register today.

Aspire was created in 2015 with a vision of re-imagining the technology infrastructure in the alternative and asset-backed lending markets. Aspire will demo the Aspire Gateway platform.

Features:

  • Networking tools for better access to market participants
  • Data management and analytics tools to provide standardized data reviews
  • Integrated loan processing, reporting and analytics tools

Why it’s great
Aspire Gateway breaks down the barriers separating alternative lending originators and investors, enabling better communication, enhanced visibility, and reduced reporting latency between participants.

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David Fry, Co-founder and CEO
Fry is a former head of global markets for DB Canada with more than 20 years of experience in credit and fixed income in senior leadership roles with large global banks and HFs in London, NY, and Toronto.
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Lecker has more than 25 years in the ABL industry in a variety of IT, finance, and operations roles. His experience includes senior management roles at AT&T Capital, Associates Fleet Services, and GE Capital.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Sindeo

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Sindeo
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek, Sindeo

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9, 2016. Register today.

Sindeo’s self-driven rate quote and prequalification tool provides consumers with a quick, straightforward and streamlined start to the home financing process.

  •  In less than 10 minutes, consumers can:
    • check rates across Sindeo’s network of lenders and loan programs
    • get free credit scores
    • generate a prequalification letter

Why it’s great 
Sindeo offers a better mortgage experience by providing access to an extensive mortgage marketplace and a streamlined digital loan experience.Screen Shot 2016-08-30 at 12.43.08 PM

Presenters

Ori Zohar, Co-founder
With a background in entrepreneurship and marketing, Zohar joined forces with co-founder Nick Stamos to create Sindeo, a consumer-friendly alternative to home financing.
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Aimeelene Gaspar, Vice President of Product Management
An experienced leader in FinTech product development, Gaspar is involved with every aspect of the Sindeo product life cycle, from concept to design to launch.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: ProActive

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: ProActive
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek, ProActive FinTech

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9, 2016. Register today.

ProActive’s patented budgeting technology requires a user to choose a category before the purchase. Users benefit from the control of a cash-like experience, digitally.

Features:

  • Creates the safest account on the planet with no risk of fraud
  • Empowers real change in spending behavior
  • Highest user engagement in the industry

Why it’s great
Online budgeting software has failed to influence real change in users’ spending behavior. ProActive is the first to offer a behavior-first budgeting/banking platform.

Presenters

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Ryan Clark, Founder and CEO
Clark has 10 years as a personal finance advisor and has ranked in the top 10% of advisors nationwide. After authoring his own book, he remained frustrated with failing budgeting systems.
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Screen Shot 2016-08-26 at 4.28.08 PMRoss Jardine, Adviser and Investor
Jardine is “America’s Money Mentor” and cofounder of INVESTools acquired by TD Ameritrade. He is a world speaker, has created programs for Nightingale-Connant, Success Magazine, and is the author of four personal finance books.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: CRMNEXT

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: CRMNEXT
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: CRMNEXT, FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9, 2016. Register today.

CRMNEXT is the only true omnichannel customer-engagement platform redefining the role of CRM as the transformation, automation, and innovation platform for financial services.

Features:

  • Delivers seamless omnichannel financial services customer-engagement
  • Powerfully automates and orchestrates customer interactions
  • Grows NPS, referrals, and conversions for every product and channel

Why it’s great
Half a billion customers and half a million bankers have proven what CRM should do NEXT: Make every customer interaction more efficient and create more opportunities for customer engagement and success.42877403_salesky

Presenters

Joe Salesky, CEO
A Finovate pioneer, Salesky was formerly the founder and CEO of ClairMail, the breakthrough platform for mobile banking and payments. He has led serial visionary successes in software and financial services for 30 years.
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Ed Ponte, VP Sales Consulting
Ponte has 20+ years of experience directly supporting the sales efforts of consumer-oriented digital channels solutions, security, and infrastructure products in the financial services market.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Kore

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Kore
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek, Kore

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9, 2016. Register today.

Kore serves business leaders in some of the world’s largest enterprises to help bring customer service to life through its bots platform and, most recently, its out-of-the-box Banking Bot Solution.

Features:

  • Turn insights into right-fit, right-time offers for cross-sale
  • 24/7 ‘virtual assistants’ answer and triage requests for lower service costs
  • Legacy systems and workflows elevated for greater ROI

Why it’s great
Bots engage with your customers and use the information to update systems, perform tasks, trigger complex workflows across internal systems and staff, and provide results for ongoing improvement.

Presenters

Amit Aghara, Global Head of Solution Management
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David Schreffler, Executive Vice President of Sales
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Xentral Station

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Xentral Station
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek, Xentral Station

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on 8/9 September 2016. Register today.

Xentral Station offers trade financing for big and small vendors receiving cash in 24 hours.

Features:

  • Plug-and-play cloud solution for banks and vendors for cash in 24 hours
  • Independent global transaction platform
  • Integrated with any supply chain, accounting and bank application

Why it’s great
Making partners rich without doing anything.Screen Shot 2016-08-26 at 5.19.41 PM

Presenters

Vilayat William, Strategic Alliance Partner
William is a serial entrepreneur and is building his third cloud-company with global partners.
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Screen Shot 2016-08-26 at 5.19.55 PMEmily Reijnierse, Community Strategist
Reijnierse writes, “I don’t believe one can be the best in everything. Believe in a connected world where clients could select and combine the best business software of various providers.”
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Strands

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Strands
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek, Strands

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on 8/9 September 2016. Register today.

Strands is the fintech partner for banks, leveraging 10+ years of expertise in big data and machine learning. The company will be presenting Strands BFM, a comprehensive white-label solution designed for SME Banking.

Features:

  • Smarter business decision-making based on contextual and personalized insights
  • Real-time access to all financial accounts powered by Strands Meta-Aggregation engine
  • Flexibility for all SMEs

Why it’s great
SMEs get a simple, intuitive and stunning data visualization of their finances for an unparalleled user experience. Banks get a smart, white-label tool to empower their most lucrative segment.Screen Shot 2016-08-29 at 4.11.10 PM

Presenters

Cesar Richardson, VP Sales, Strands Americas
Richardson has 15+ years of experience identifying business opportunities, building companies and generating revenue growth in investment banking (Bloomberg LP), online travel, and educational tech companies.
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Sharif Penniman, Director of Sales, North America
With a background in enterprise mobile development and strategy, and having lived abroad in Europe 15 years, Penniman has a passion for everything mobile, specifically for financial institutions.
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Backbase Partners with Entersekt to Deliver Authentication Technology

Backbase Partners with Entersekt to Deliver Authentication Technology
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Backbase, Entersekt

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Digital banking company Backbase and mobile security solutions provider Entersekt have today teamed up in an effort to deliver a frictionless customer experience with cutting-edge authentication technology.

Through the partnership, Backbase will offer Entersekt’s payment-authentication solutions in the Backbase Open Banking Marketplace. This enables Backbase clients to select an authentication solution that works with their Backbase-powered offering. In a press release, the companies note that the integration has already proven successful, and works with multiple implementations, including Swisscard in Switzerland.

Entersekt’s SVP of Partners and Alliances Dewald Nolte said, “With this partnership, we believe we can help banks fast-track their future by enabling digital services that would be considered too risky or unfeasible using a channel other than the branch.”

Backbase CEO and co-founder Jouk Pleiter said that partnerships such as these help Backbase “speed up innovation and deliver to [its] customers the best that’s available in the fast-moving fintech field.” The Amsterdam-based company has been offering digital banking solutions since it was founded in 2003. Backbase last presented at FinovateEurope 2016 where it showed off the wealth management edition of its digital banking platform. The company will debut its newest offering next week at FinovateFall 2016 in New York. Tickets are still available; register soon to secure your spot.

Entersekt, a FinDEVr alum, was founded in 2008. The company’s CTO Christiaan Brand gave a presentation titled Securing Mobile Applications Through Transport Layer Diversity at FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2014. Earlier this year in June, the company partnered with Finovate alum CREALOGIX to secure the company’s online and mobile offerings. Tickets for the upcoming FinDEVr Silicon Valley conference are now available. Check out the agenda and the recently revealed list of presenters.

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