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BioCatch Appoints Eyal Goldwerger as CEO

BioCatch Appoints Eyal Goldwerger as CEO
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: BioCatch

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BioCatchCEO2016Behavioral biometrics threat-detection company BioCatch has selected Eyal Goldwerger to take the place of Benny Rosenbaum as CEO. The new appointment, the company states, is to guide BioCatch through a time of “significant growth” now that the company has signed several of the world’s largest banks as clients.

Goldwerger comes to the Israel-based company with experience as CEO of TargetSpot and XMPie, both of which have been successfully acquired. He is currently a chairman on the board of Ufora, an open-source software company, and serves as a board member of Galil Software, an R&D and Q&A outsourcing company.

BioCatch’s behavioral analytics helps prevent fraud by tracking how users interact with web and mobile applications. Throughout a client’s session, BioCatch posts what it calls Invisible Challenges that authenticate without interfering with the user experience.

At the close of 2015, the company reported that its behavioral biometrics authentication is monitoring more than 1 billion transactions per month to protect more than 33 million banking customers around the globe.

Founded in 2011, BioCatch debuted Invisible Challenges at FinovateFall 2014.

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

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Categories: Avoka, EdgeVerve Systems, Envestnet, Evo Snap*, FICO, FinDEVr APIntelligence, Green Key Technologies, Hyperwallet, Markit, MasterCard, Nexmo, PayPal, Xero

FinDEVrSV16-LogoV2(wdate)Our FinDEVr New York developer showcase last week was a success! FinDEVr Silicon Valley will be held October 18 & 19 in Santa Clara. Register today and save.

On FinDEVr.com

  • “EVO and Verifone Partner to Make EMV Payments Feasible at Restaurants”
  • “GreenKey Unveils New CEO and May Launch of Instant Messenger Aggregator”
  • “FICO Launches Score Simulator; Adds New CIO Claus Moldt”

The latest from FinDEVr New York 2015 presenters

  • Celent recognizes EdgeVerve Systems as one of two model bank vendors for 2016.
  • “Finovate Debuts: Nexmo Brings Seamless Multi-Factor Authentication to Mobile Banking Apps”
  • Hyperwallet to help expert freelancers on OnFrontiers network get paid.
  • Markit to power Thornburg Investment Management’s enterprise data-management solution.
  • Beyond Bank wins Celent’s model bank award for 2016, courtesy of its customer-engagement platform from Avoka.
  • “PayPal Marks Rollout of PayPal Credit in the U.K. with Interest-Free Financing”

Alumni updates

  • MasterCard unveils new remittance service in Bangladesh with partners, Western Union, bKash, and BRAC bank.
  • Xero and Waddle team up to combine cloud accounting with invoice financing.
  • “Finovate Debuts: Envestnet “Advisor Now” Offers Robo-Tools for Wealth Management”

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: ACI Worldwide, Atsora, BioCatch, CUneXus Solutions, EdgeVerve Systems, Evo Snap*, Fenergo, Fiserv, Infosys, Jack Henry, Larky, Temenos, TickSmith, Virtual StrongBox, Zooz

On Finovate.com

  • “BioCatch Appoints Eyal Goldwerger as CEO”
  • Check out this week’s FinDEVr APIntelligence.
  • “CUneXus to Power Digital FCU’s Mobile Lending Platform”— Come see a live demo from CUneXus at FinovateSpring next month.
  • “Where Are They Now: FinovateSpring Alums Raise More Than $326 Million in a Year”

On FinDEVr.com

  • “EVO and Verifone Partner to Make EMV Payments Feasible at Restaurants”

Around the web

  • Celent recognizes EdgeVerve Systems as one of two model bank vendors for 2016.
  • Virtual StrongBox granted third patent which allows users to select, view and store private documents on mobile devices.
  • Larky powers the GoLocal rewards app from St. Helens Community Credit Union.
  • Polish startup Atsora wins global Emirates NBD Group FinTech Challenge 2016.
  • National Bank of Canada deploys TickVault big-data platform from TickSmith.
  • ICBC Standard Bank chooses client lifecycle management platform from Fenergo.
  • Infosys Finacle announces its first core banking platform client in Myanmar: Asia Green Development Bank.
  • Fiserv teams up with Cisco to help banks improve customer engagement and internal collaboration via improved communications technology.
  • Jack Henry sells its deposit-automation business to Battery Ventures, a U.S./Israeli venture capital firm.
  • ACI Worldwide hires new SVP for business development, Hannes van Rensburg.
  • Temenos’ T24 core banking system goes live at Bermuda Commercial Bank.
  • Zooz integrates eCommerce, CRM, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other payment solutions from Nodus Technologies into its platform.

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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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: IBM

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: IBM
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, IBM

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FS2016-wdateA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on May 10 & 11. Register today.

IBM’s Client Insight for Wealth Management is bringing ground-breaking, pre-built cognitive and advanced analytics solutions to the wealth management industry.

Features:

  • Create dynamic client segmentations based on a client’s behavioral profile
  • Determine and predict client attrition and life events
  • Identify product opportunities

Why it’s great
IBM Client Insight for Wealth Management is bringing the future of cognitive and advanced analytics to the wealth management industry.

IBMPresenter1Presenters

Rob Stanich, IBM Global Wealth Management Offering Manager
Stanich brings extensive experience in financial markets and wealth management, having worked nearly two decades on Wall Street and with IBM.
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IBMPresenter2Alex Baghdjian, Senior Offering Associate | Financial Markets and Wealth Management, IBM
Baghdjian is a senior offering associate for financial markets and wealth management. He focuses on creating IBM’s newest cognitive and analytics solutions for the financial services industry.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Flybits

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Flybits
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Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Flybits

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FS2016-wdateA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on May 10 & 11. Register today.

Flybits will announce the release of new context sources that enable financial enterprises to further personalize mobile experiences for their customers, without coding.

Flybits’ Experience Studio enables developers and marketers to create and change mobile experiences on the fly, using any and all context sources, such as calendar, language, age, gender, and weather.

Why it’s great
Using Flybits is the easiest way for app developers and mobile marketers to go beyond location and enhance their apps to deliver and manage rich, personalized mobile experiences.

FlybitsPresenter1Presenters

Jerry Rudisin, Chief Executive Officer
Rudisin joined Flybits with 30 years of executive experience at enterprise-software companies, including Schooner, Agitar, and NightFire. Jerry earned an MS in Computer Science from UCLA.
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FlybitsPresenter2Hossein Rahnama, Founder & Chief Product Officer
Rahnama is a recognized figure in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from Ryerson University, and is a visiting scholar at the Human Dynamics group at MIT Media Lab.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: WealthForge

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: WealthForge
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Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, WealthForge

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FS2016-wdateA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on May 10 & 11. Register today.

WealthForge is powering the next generation of private capital markets. The WealthForge Network connects issuers and intermediaries to syndicate opportunities and improves the ability to raise capital.

Features:

  • Post an offering to the Network Showcase
  • Enlist a selling syndicate to distribute your offering via Dynamic Tombstones
  • Track all investments brought in through the Network with the Issuer Dashboard

Why it’s great
We believe that empowering market participants to work together further breaks down the barriers in private capital markets and WealthforgePresenter1improves transparency and efficiency, allowing more capital to be raised.

Presenters

Mat Dellorso, Co-founder
With his passion for innovation and financial technology, Delores drives forward WealthForge’s vision. He leads company strategy and invigorates growth by being a frequent speaker on private capital markets.
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WealthforgePresenter2Arthur Weissman, Head of Sales
Weissman oversees sales and business development at WealthForge. He previously served as a co-founder of Market76, an industry-leading, financial advising technology-platform.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Fintonic

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Fintonic
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Fintonic

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Fintonic is a mobile-centric consumer-banking platform. Customers sync their existing banking relations into Fintonic and benefit from pre-approved loans, improved credit profile and superior tools.

Features:

  • Superior user experience
  • 1,000+ high-quality financial data points per user
  • Industry-leading, advanced analytics

Why it’s great
Fintonic combines a one-stop shop for financial information and control with a fully integrated scoring and loan-contracting process in a unique mobile experience.

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Sergio Chalbaud, CEO & Founder
Chalbaud has 15+ years of experience in the financial sector, holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and is a CFA (certified financial analyst) and an FRM (financial risk manager). Prior to Fintonic he founded IDEON, a technology and consulting firm.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: CallVU

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: CallVU
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: CallVU, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek

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FS2016-wdateA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on May 10 & 11. Register today.

CallVU provides its Mobile Digital Engagement Platform that combines rich digital, interactive media and voice into a new customer journey to deliver an engaging and collaborative customer experience.

Features include:

  • Bring digital to callers and non digital customers
  • Reuse existing digital assets for new engagements
  • Advance to a collaborative environment with your customers

Why it’s great
The win-win solution provides a better customer experience through enhanced engagement. Existing assets can be used to increase revenues and thereby reduce costs to the bank.t is a win-win solution, provides better customer experience, engagement and revenues while utilizing existing assets and reducing costs to the bank.

Presenters
Ori Faran, Founder and CEO
CallVUPresenter1LinkedInCallVUPresenter2Amitai Ratzon, VP, Global Sales
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TransCard to Provide Payroll Solutions for U.S. Xpress Employees

TransCard to Provide Payroll Solutions for U.S. Xpress Employees
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: TransCard

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Cloud payment solutions company TransCard announced this week it will power payroll solutions for trucking-and-logistics company, U.S. Xpress.

As a part of the agreement, the 7,000 employees of U.S. Xpress will have access to virtual payment accounts through TransCard’s online funds disbursement platform Paynuver. The partnership will help U.S. Xpress remain compliant while offering its employees a choice on how they receive their wages.

Paynuver is a self-service portal that allows companies to manage a paperless payroll solution that lets employees choose how to receive payment. Options include ACH, check, or disbursement onto a prepaid card. TransCard rolled out the platform nationally in February, so the acquisition of 7,000 new customer accounts is a large growth spike for the company.

TransCard President Greg Bloh comments on the new alliance: “With this strategic [partnership], thousands of truck drivers and transportation workers will now be provided much-needed choice and convenience when receiving their payroll.” Bloh added that the deal would “further position the company for growth” as it “continue[s] to revolutionize the traditional payment model.”

TransCard will present its newest solution at FinovateSpring next month. Register today to be among the first to watch the live demo.

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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Advisor Software

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Advisor Software
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Advisor Software, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek

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FS2016-wdateA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on May 10 & 11. Register today.

Advisor Software (ASI) is a cloud provider of wealth-management apps and APIs, and is a strategic partner of Salesforce. The company has multiple patents in the area of goal-based investing.

Features:

  • Streamlined acquisition process to easily acquire, onboard, and advise clients
  • Operational efficiency to automate portfolio management and account maintenance
  • Modern UI to digitize your customer experience

Why it’s great
ASI’s apps for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud put CRM at the center of adviser practice-management, enabling financial advisers to be truly efficient and customer-centric through scalable onboarding and investing.

AdvisorSoftwarePresenter1Presenters

Kevin Kraus, VP, Product
Kraus is responsible for product management at Advisor Software. Previously he spent 20+ years at Charles Schwab in various client and product management roles.
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AdvisorSoftwarePresenter2Tom Flint, VP, Sales
Flint is responsible for sales at Advisor Software. He has 20+ years of fintech sales experience at firms that include Addepar, Box, Advent, Schwab, and Salesforce.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: brandCrowder

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: brandCrowder
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: brandCrowder, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek

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FS2016-wdateA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on May 10 & 11. Register today.

brandCrowder’s equity crowdfunding platform offers syndication services and portfolio functionality. Crowdfunding-curated franchise deals match franchisees and investors with the right franchise opportunity.

Features:

  • Equity crowdfunding-compliance and -offering platform
  • Functionality to build your own portfolio
  • Syndication services

Why it’s great
brandCrowder has coded the ability to shift compliance and regulatory work onto CFA and RIA primary agents that advise on all accounts.

brandCrowderPresenter1Presenters

Robert Armiak, CEO, brandCrowder
Armiak, former treasurer of Alliance Data [NYSE:ADS], was named in 2010’s 100 Most Influential People in Finance.
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BrandCrowderPresenter2Francois Nabwangu, Co-founder, brandCrowder
Nabwangu is an experienced business development and franchise compliance executive, and formerly CBDO with the Viridian Group.
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Guardian Analytics Launches “Omni-Channel Fraud Prevention”

Guardian Analytics Launches “Omni-Channel Fraud Prevention”
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Guardian Analytics

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Fraud-prevention company Guardian Analytics has launched its Omni-Channel Fraud Prevention solution that uses behavioral analytics and machine learning to prevent fraud across multiple channels.

The solution will be delivered in phases, the first of which is Omni-Channel Visual Analytics, which offers banks insight into customer fraud risk and behavior and a view of criminal activity. Subsequent phases include:

  • Enterprise API
    An API for banks to capture data about customer behavior and context for all banking transactions
  • Integrated Risk Database
    Storage for risk, account, and intelligence data that banks can use to enhance risk scoring and investigations
  • Omni-Channel Risk Scoring
    Advanced behavioral analytics that calculate risk scores for each customer

Capital Bank is piloting the new release. Zahid Afzal, Capital Bank’s chief technology and operations executive, says the omnichannel solutions “provide us with even better defenses and more visibility into our customers and their fraud-risk levels, which are central to our ability to expand our offerings and to deliver the faster, lower friction experience our customers demand.”

The California-based company is making the solution available through its early adopter program. Subscription pricing for larger banks starts at $50,000 per year.

Guardian Analytics complements its behavioral analytics using behavior-based anomaly detection. The company studies fraudsters’ strategies and dynamically adapts to the threats by bolstering its solution to prevent attacks at its 400+ financial institution customers.

Guardian Analytics debuted FraudXCHANGE at FinovateFall 2012.

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