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A View From Backstage at FinDEVr San Francisco 2015

A View From Backstage at FinDEVr San Francisco 2015
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

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If you were at FinDEVr San Francisco last week, you experienced first-hand the high energy from 63 presenters and 500 attendees.

As MC, I watched the presentations from backstage and saw a different side of FinDEVr, one of nervous presenters and whispered, last-minute conversations.

You didn’t need to be backstage, however, to notice the trends that emerged at the event:

  • Building better financial services with APIs
  • Removing friction in payments
  • Leveraging data
  • Improving risk management

The 580 attendees—a crowd 40% larger than last year—had much to say about the showcase of APIs flashed around both auditoriums. Participation was high at the presenter networking stations, and many attendees published their thoughts online or through Twitter.

FinDEVr San Francisco in the press

Cripto Noticias
FinDEVr 2015, construyendo el futuro de la tecnología financiera (in Spanish)

GeekWire
Praesidio raises another $3.1M to help banks, credit unions with cybersecurity solution

Let’s Talk Payments
FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco Day 1

How Banks Are Joining Hands With FinTech Firms to Serve Customers

Interview With Konstantin Rabin, CMO of Kontomatik, Leading Provider of Banking API

Let’s Talk Payments at FinDEVr 2015: Day One Highlights

Let’s Talk Payments at FinDEVr 2015: Day Two Highlights

Money’s Edge
Coinalytics Unveils Blockchain Intelligence Tools at FinDEVr

Personal Capital Discusses Their Premier New (and Free!) Retirement Planning Tool

Nikvesti.com
ПриватБанк покажет мировым банкам в Сан-Франциско свою разработку Corezoid

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Hyperwallet’s new Freelance Payment API

 

FinDEVr San Francisco in the Twitterverse:

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DavidTweet2A big thanks to everyone who blogged, tweeted, and attended to make this event a success.

We’ll see you at FinDEVr New York, 29/30 March 2016.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Backbase, BizEquity, Doxo, Forte Payment Systems, Insuritas, Internet Biometric Security System, Internet Biometric Security Systems, Lending Club, Linkable Networks

On Finovate.com

  • “IBSSMail from IBSS Brings Multifactor, Biometric Authentication to Email”

Around the web

  • Hudson River Financial FCU ($51 million assets) hires Insuritas to launch insurance agency.
  • BizEquity partners with Entrepreneur to create a new valuation and performance center for its business community.
  • Intech Worldwide and Forte Payment Systems form partnership.
  • Linkable Networks launches a fully digital shopper-attribution solution to bridge digital and in-store.
  • Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte opens new Backbase U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche named to Bloomberg Markets 50 Most Influential list.
  • doxo wins 2015 Washington Excellence Award for Consumer Payments and Customer Service.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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FinDEVr Live: Advisor Software’s Wealth Management Cloud Platform Offers 100+ APIs

FinDEVr Live: Advisor Software’s Wealth Management Cloud Platform Offers 100+ APIs
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Advisor Software, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

AdvisorSoftwareHomepage

advisorsoftware.com | advisorsoftware.com/blog | @AdvisorSoftware

AdvisorSoftwareLogoAdvisor Software is the leading cloud platform for the investment advice industry. Our Wealth Management CloudTM platform offers an end-to-end suite of APIs and apps supporting every aspect of the wealth-management process, from client acquisition and financial planning to investment planning and portfolio construction, and extending to digital advice and portfolio rebalancing.

Advisor Software Wealth Management Cloud
Advisor Software is providing an overview of its Wealth Management Cloud platform, including the 100+ APIs that comprise its comprehensive solution for the fintech developer community. The company is demonstrating how its application components enable rapid prototyping and development of new wealth-management apps. Key topics will include the platform and its components, cloud deployment, APIs, and a demo of the key platform features.

Key takeaways:

  • Advisor Software’s journey into the world of APIs and cloud
  • How to build a new Robo Advisor quickly using plug-and-play application components
  • Other wealth-management application-development activity using our APIs and upcoming
    releases

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Presenters:

Archana Rao, VP Engineering
LinkedIn | arao@advisorsoftware.com
Archana Rao drives the engineering strategy and technical innovation at Advisor Software. With 15+ years of engineering experience, Archana has led development of various new products and platforms and cultivated global technical talent. Prior to Advisor Software, Archana was with Robert Bosch Healthcare, architecting and building their telemedicine platform. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science.

Kevin Kraus, VP Product
LinkedIn | kkraus@advisorsoftware.com
Kevin Kraus leads product development for Advisor Software. Prior to Advisor Software, Kevin spent 20+ years at Charles Schwab, including 15 years in various tech-product-management positions. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Providence College and an MBA from Dominican University.

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FinDEVr Live: Worldpay Demonstrates its Securenet API

FinDEVr Live: Worldpay Demonstrates its Securenet API
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, WorldPay

WorldPayHomepage

worldpay.us

WorldPaylogoWorldpay US provides leading payments processing services across multiple verticals including grocery, petroleum, retail, restaurant, ecommerce and small business. Utilizing traditional point-of-sale technologies to mobile devices, customers can accept payments anytime, anywhere. From transaction-capturing and -processing to merchant-acquiring, Worldpay provides insightful expertise, seamless delivery and valued relationships. We’re defining the way we work at Worldpay. Through innovation and investment, the Worldpay brand supports our desire to strengthen our focus on our customers and provide the most secure and reliable processing platform in the industry. Visit us at Worldpay.com.

“Add secure payments to any website, app or mobile device with the single Worldpay Securenet API”

Key takeaways:

  • Enhanced payments-data allows developers to create awesome user experiences
  • Various layers of the payments ecosystem
  • Electronic payments REST interface

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Presenters:
Chester Ritchie, SVP, Head of Strategy
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Ritchie created an award-winning Retail STAR point-of-sale software and the top-selling payment-processing software called X-Charge. During his tenure with an ISO, he built the company into a powerhouse through sales initiatives that resulted in a share-price appreciation of 1,850%.

Abe Gandara, Senior Sales Engineer (not pictured)
LinkedIn | abe.gandara@securenet.com
Gandara has 8+ years of experience across several different verticals and industries. He is versatile as a product and solution expert. Gandara is primarily focused on assisting partners and merchants with providing strategic solutions based on current needs, as well as offering a vision for their future.

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FinDEVr Live: Authy Shows Two-factor Authentication in 20 Minutes

FinDEVr Live: Authy Shows Two-factor Authentication in 20 Minutes
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Authy, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

AuthyHomepage

authy.com | @Authy

AuthyFor security-aware companies, Authy Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) provides a proven fast-to-implement, highly scalable, and reliable alternative to passwords. Offering an intuitive user experience and a powerful API for developers, Twilio’s Authy 2FA is used by more than 10,000 websites and apps serving millions of new economy and fintech consumers the way they like their apps: single touch with self service. Our cloud-access solutions are beloved by our users and promise to bring 2FA to all apps and users.

Authy 2FA in 20 minutes
In this session, we’ll share some of the pitfalls of 2FA projects and how Authy and Twilio tackle these issues. We’ll show you with live coding that no special security know-how is required to add SMS/Voice, SoftToken and Push-style 2FA to your project with as few as three lines of code using either REST, or a library for your favorite language. The Authy REST API takes care of the tedious details like key management, secure data structuring, intelligent SMS routing, client components, push notifications, and user self-service for phone number or device changes.

Key takeaways:

  • Possible key reasons to switch to non-password Authy instead of building in-house
  • 2-factor authentication options offered by Authy can be done using their code or our language
  • How quickly Authy can be added to our apps and users

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Presenter:

Dan Killmer, Lead Solutions Architect
dkillmer@twilio.com | 917-426-4857
Dan Killmer is a technical presales professional with 25 years of experience building customer confidence by demonstrating, architecting and proving technology solutions, encompassing a large spectrum of technologies.

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FinDEVr Live: Using BankGuard’s SuperMatrix Security System Attacks

FinDEVr Live: Using BankGuard’s SuperMatrix Security System Attacks
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: BankGuard, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

bkguard.com/en | facebook.com/fujii.haruhiko

BankguardLogoBankGuard presented its SuperMatrix Security System.

BankGuardHomepage

SuperMatrix developed the SuperMatrix Security System that is easily printable on the back of cash cards or specific cards as our first launching product. Critically effective as a next-generation security system for an illegal access, transaction-authentication, man-in-the-middle attack. Extremely low cost of one fifth compared to a conventional security system like One – Time – Password.

Key takeaways:

  • 2FA (2 Factor Authentication)
  • Man-in-the-middle security
  • Phishing attacks foiled

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Presenter:

Haruhiko Fujii, CEO
fujii@bkguard.com | +81 90 1439 6745

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FinDEVr Live: Currency Cloud Takes a Look into the Creation of its API

FinDEVr Live: Currency Cloud Takes a Look into the Creation of its API
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Currency Cloud, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

CurrencyCloudHomepage
currencycloud.com | currencycloud.com/blog | @currency_cloud

Currency cloud_logo_RGB_leftDevelop and automate your product with the Currency Cloud Payment Engine. Benefit from real-time wholesale rates and a fast, secure payment network that can be tailored to your business using our next generation API.

Currency Cloud API Rebuild by the Currency Cloud tech team is giving the audience an insider’s perspective on how they rebuilt the company’s market-leading API. They will cover the trade-offs between conventions, customer feedback and usability that take the creation of an API from textbook to real life. They are also talking through the innovative processes that they employed to ensure that the new API was exceptionally easy-to-use from the outset.

Key takeaways:

  • Trade-offs between reality and theory when building an API
  • Real world ‘drinking your own champagne’
  • Exposing your APIs in an open-source environment

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Presenters:

Rachel Nienaber, VP Engineering
LinkedIn | rachel.nienaber@currencycloud.com | +44 20 3597 4884
Nienaber is responsible for the ongoing development of Currency Cloud technology and support for client needs. Fluent in Ruby and Java, her knowledge of ever-evolving standards, passion for technology, and experience in scaling products makes her a critical asset for Currency Cloud in today’s global economy.

Liam McAndrew, Development Manager
LinkedIn | @liam_mcandrew | liam.mcandrew@currencycloud.com | +44 77 1912 9392
McAndrew is development manager at Currency Cloud. Having been with the company since its inception, he has played a key role in building the technology that is currently transacting over $10 billion a year. He is fascinated by the emergence of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.

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FinDEVr Live: Hyperwallet Presents its RESTful API and Embedded Payout Widget

FinDEVr Live: Hyperwallet Presents its RESTful API and Embedded Payout Widget
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Hyperwallet

Hyperwallethomepage
hyperwallet.com | @hyperwallet

HyperwalletLogoEnhance your outbound payments experience and improve worker loyalty with Hyperwallet’s flexible payments platform. From online payment portals to unified APIs, Hyperwallet’s global payout network provides collaborative economy companies and their workers with a range of payments capabilities, integrated financial tools, tax-reporting solutions, and business support services. Our range of flexible worker-payment options includes local bank deposits, international wire transfers, branded prepaid and virtual cards, checks, cash pick-up services, and pay-to-existing-card capabilities. With offices in San Francisco and Vancouver, you can learn more about Hyperwallet at hyperwallet.com.

Paying the on-demand economy: moving from payment methods to a payment platform

Don’t just pay your workers; provide them with the tools they need to achieve freedom, independence, and control over their personal enterprises. Improve worker loyalty and morale on your platform with an integrated worker-payment platform. During this session, members of Hyperwallet’s product and development teams will be showcasing two new payout features: the company’s RESTful API and an embedded payout widget. Both features have been developed for easy integration, ensuring a simple end-user experience, secure connections to Hyperwallet’s global financial network, and direct access to a wide variety of worker-directed payout options.

Key takeaways:

  • The advantages of a single, integrated payments platform vs. the technological and
    operational complexity of managing multiple payment methods
  • The power of payee choice: build lasting worker loyalty by offering quick, easy and convenient payout options
  • How Hyperwallet is bringing granular tracking to global payments, moving global payment distribution from “Batch and Hope” to “API and Certainty”

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Presenters:

Bill Crowley, CPO
LinkedIn | bcrowley@hyperwallet.com | 855-449-3737
Crowley is chief product officer at Hyperwallet, where he leads product and customer implementation teams in developing innovative global payment solutions. He is responsible for all aspects of the product lifecycle and solution delivery, including product conception, development, and launch.

Blair Olynyk, Software Architect
LinkedIn | bolynyk@hyperwallet.com | 855-449-3737
Olynyk has 12+ years of experience in the fintech industry where his technical expertise includes Java EE and various JavaScript frameworks. As software architect at Hyperwallet, he leads cross-functional teams in building products and solutions that simplify global payments.

Florian Krauthan, Software Developer

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FinDEVr Live: Thomson Reuters Showcases Eikon

FinDEVr Live: Thomson Reuters Showcases Eikon
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Thomson Reuters

ThomsonReutersHomepage

thomsonreuters.com |@thomsonreuters

ThomsonReutersLogoThomson Reuters connects and powers the global financial community through our open and trusted news, data, analytics and insight, tools and applications, trading capabilities, and infrastructure and services—enabling discovery, liquidity and compliance. We help our customers uncover critical insights and market opportunities and connect to the largest network of financial professionals—enabling better decisions and more confident actions. We create efficiencies that drive profits with scalable infrastructure and services—enabling faster and smarter performance. Our trading applications and venues provide access to liquidity that connects customers and markets.

Enhancements to the open capabilities of Eikon

Thomson Reuters today announced enhancements to the open capabilities of its flagship financial desktop, Eikon, which will help foster innovation, boost productivity and enhance client servicing for financial institutions around the world. App Studio in Eikon allows third-party developers to create apps that display as native applications on the Eikon screen, distributing them directly and securely to Eikon users.

Key takeaways:

  • Unrivaled depth and breadth of content and analytics, various delivery options / routes
  • Eikon Application Platform / Partner Program / Professional Developer Community
  • Extensible open-source APIs

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Presenter:

Jonathan Haruni – Director, Application Development Services, AMERS/ASIA
Haruni has enabled many successes for customers and partners alike, both as a software developer and consultant. He now leads a team of API/SDK development consultants dedicated to help customers and partners integrate with Reuters’ open platform. Previously, he developed market data networks and API abstraction libraries.

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FinDEVr Live: Praesidio and the Importance of Collecting Logs

FinDEVr Live: Praesidio and the Importance of Collecting Logs
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Praesidio

PraesidioHomepage

praesidio.com | praesidio.com/blog | @praesidioinc

PraesidioLogoPraesidio is a cloud-based cybersecurity company that was formed by bankers and security experts to solve the critical, real-world problems of breach detection, remediation, and governance insight that Financial Institutions (FI) grapple with today. Praesidio bridges the gap between governance and IT by linking your cybersecurity policies with the millions of system events where threats hide. It aggregates data across all cybersecurity tools to provide real-time management reporting that proves to your security team, board, auditors and regulators to ensure that your FI is actively managing and enforcing its policies.

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If you’re not collecting your logs, you’re not secure. Just like testing, centralized log management should be an essential part of modern software development. If you collect your application’s logs, you can debug faster, find problems missed by tests, monitor your systems, and find security problems. And you just might discover that the impossible happens all the time.

Key takeaways:

  • Centralized log management is essential.
  • You can’t know what is happening in your application if you are not monitoring log-data.
  • Security is a must-have and you must have logging in order to have security; therefore, logging is a must-have.

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Presenter:

Sean Cassidy, CTO
@sean_a_cassidy | sean@praesidio.com
Cassidy is an engineer and leader who builds the right products the right way. At Limelight Networks, he built their video transcoding system and worked on Cisco’s ASA firewall. Sean holds a master’s degree from RIT in computer engineering and is the author of numerous open-source projects.

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FinDEVr Live: Enterprise Engineering Shows its Data Aggregation & Management Software

FinDEVr Live: Enterprise Engineering Shows its Data Aggregation & Management Software
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Enterprise Engineering, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

EnterpriseEngineering
joineei.com | @JoinEEI

EEILogoSince 1995, Enterprise Engineering (EEI) has provided strategic technology services such as enterprise data management, data architecture and governance, big data, business intelligence and systems integration. Our software products are proven and trusted by the world’s largest wealth managers (front ending assets under management well in excess of $7 trillion dollars). Therefore, EEI can provide deep expertise and insight delivered through services and software solutions. EEI focuses on the total picture to ensure that all aspects – people, process and technology – are addressed in a holistic manner.

“I want access to my own data and I want it now!”
EEI will be presenting its Trusted Network Platform, which is our advanced data aggregation and management software. The Trusted Network consists of both a core engine and an API. This technology drives innovation across industries, enabling clients to offer leading products and services to the market along with gaining insight from the information available. The initial industry focus is wealth management given EEI’s extensive knowledge in this area and the leverage that consolidated data can provide to wealth managers.

Key takeaways:

  • EEI’s platform provides connectivity and acquisition of data through a direct connection to data sources.
  • EEI’s platform is trustworthy; it addresses risk, accuracy, consistency and timeliness issues and does not utilize screen scraping.
  • The Trusted Network provides a secure platform that harnesses the power of many sources of data to be combined into the power of one consistent source of data.

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Presenters:

Jack Cassaro, SVP, Software Products
LinkedIn | jack@joineei.com
Cassaro, a leader in several key financial services technology consortiums, has spent his entire career in fintech. Jack brings extensive experience to EEI. His leadership and innovative approach have driven significant growth in EEI’s data aggregation and intelligence solutions.

Arthur Wasson, SVP, Global Treasury Management, Square 1 Bank
LinkedIn | awasson@square1bank.com
Wasson leads Square 1’s global treasury management products and services, including deposits, treasury services, credit cards, foreign exchange and letters of credit. He is an innovative leader with a successful background in strategic planning, product management and business development.

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FinDEVr Live: Quisk Explains How it Built a Digital Payments SaaS Platform

FinDEVr Live: Quisk Explains How it Built a Digital Payments SaaS Platform
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Quisk

QuiskHomepage

quisk.co | quisk.co/about/blog | @QuiskPay

QuiskLogoQuisk, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based startup that partners with financial institutions and other organizations to enable anyone to use their money without needing cash or cards. Quisk provides a digital services and transaction-processing platform for integrated mobile payments and digital marketing and loyalty programs. Deploying cloud-based technology, the Quisk digital cash solution not only works with any mobile phone number on any type of mobile phone, but also can leverage existing point-of-sale (POS) infrastructure. The Quisk team is comprised of technology and payments-industry veterans from CyberSource, Visa, Apple, and HP. Quisk is the next step in the evolution of money.

Quisk digital services platform
We are sharing some of the key learning Quisk has gained from building a next-generation digital payments/FinTech SaaS platform from scratch. While there are some common design themes and architectural patterns employed to build enterprise-grade SaaS platforms, there are also very specific demands on fintech startups that focus on selling to banks and other financial institutions. Quisk’s SaaS platform interfaces with multiple entities, end-user consumers, issuing banks, merchants, acquirers, processors, etc., with each entity having its own unique requirements and expectations. We are describing how we have built and delivered a holistic platform that satisfied these diverse customer needs.

Key takeaways:

  • Architecture models for B2B2C-oriented fintech SaaS platforms
  • Security considerations in cloud-based fintech platforms
  • Performance and scalability considerations in next-generation fintech platforms

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Presenter: Praveen Amancherla, CTO
LinkedIn | pamancherla@quisk.co | 408-462-6951
As Quisk’s CTO, Praveen Amancherla is responsible for technology and product development. He brings 15+ years of experience in designing highly available, massively scalable and secure software products and platforms. Amancherla earned a master’s degree in computer science from Michigan State University.

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