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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Adobe, BlockCypher, Boku, Coinbase, Evo Snap*, Expensify, EyeVerify, Finicity, Hyperwallet, InComm, itBit, Kabbage, Kony, Lleida.net, PayPal, Personal Capital, Qapital, ThetaRay, Thinking Capital

On Finovate.com

  • “What’s Trending at FinovateFall?”

Around the web

  • PayPal’s new PayPal.me gives users a customized URL to request money.
  • BigRentz and Kabbage partner to offer equipment-rental financing.
  • Forbes: “PayPal’s Small Business Lending ‘Accelerating‘ On The Way To $1 Billion”
  • EVO Payments purchases Citigroup’s merchant-acquiring business in Mexico.
  • ThetaRay launches its new credit-risk model for online lenders. See ThetaRay at FinovateFall 2015 in September.
  • Boku sells its pay-by-call business to DaoPay.
  • YA partners with InComm to enhance client program delivery.
  • Expensify now enables users to import Items from QuickBooks Online and use them in place of categories for expenses on policies.
  • Kony opens new company headquarters in Austin, Texas.
  • Adobe’s mobile marketing platform is combining Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target, to help app developers and marketers better understand, attract, and retain users. Come see Adobe’s live demo at FinovateFall.
  • itBit adds former NYDFS general counsel Danny Alter as chief compliance officer and general counsel.
  • First Internet Bank unveils Eyeprint ID authentication from EyeVerify for its mobile banking app.

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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FinDEVr Preview: BlockCypher

FinDEVr Preview: BlockCypher
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: BlockCypher, FinDEVr 2015 Preview

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateToday begins our FinDEVr Preview blog series. On 6/7 October in San Francisco, 60 companies will present their latest developer tools, tips, and integrations. Register today and don’t miss out.

With BlockCypher’s presentation, you’ll see how bitcoin and block chains enable programmable money. From simple scripts to complex contracts, code can automate the transfer of value, making it traceable as distributed, and cryptographically secure. Dedicated block chains and smart contracts can automate trading with fast settlement as well as encode complex derivatives.

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Why it’s a must-see
Want to learn how block chains can fundamentally impact finance and Wall Street? How about rebuilding a bank in two days without keeping funds in custody? Want a sneak peek at what block chains and peer-to-peer distributed consensus can do? This session will put you on the right track and create a spark for you to build the next big finance thing.

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FinDEVr Preview: Finicity

FinDEVr Preview: Finicity
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Categories: FinDEVr 2015 Preview, Finicity

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateToday begins our FinDEVr Preview blog series. On 6/7 October in San Francisco, 60 companies will present their latest developer tools, tips, and integrations. Register today and don’t miss out.

Finicity, a fintech aggregator with 14 years of experience and 16,000+ developed data sources, will demonstrate real-time data delivery via the new TxPUSH API.

The instant availability of financial transaction and account data unlocks fintech innovation and improves security.

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Why it’s a must-see
The TxPUSH standard pushes transactions as they happen, enabling real-time data delivery and improved security via OAuth.

With TxPUSH, account holders will no longer have to “pull” or download transactions from multiple financial institutions. Transactions will be “pushed” in real time to financial event hubs or directly to subscriber apps.

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FinDEVr Preview: Thinking Capital

FinDEVr Preview: Thinking Capital
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015 Preview, Thinking Capital

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateToday begins our FinDEVr Preview blog series. On 6/7 October in San Francisco, 60 companies will present their latest developer tools, tips, and integrations. Register today and don’t miss out.

To Build or Not to Build: This Q&A session with Pat Forgione, Thinking Capital’s CTO, and CSO Anthony Lipschitz will delve into how a leading fintech organization uses SAS software to create a proprietary platform that facilitates underwriting, decision making, compliance and more.

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Why it’s a must-see
This presentation will highlight how fintech developers can use technology to create unique competencies in finance, and help them make the decision of building, outsourcing or customizing tech solutions.

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FinDEVr Preview: Hyperwallet

FinDEVr Preview: Hyperwallet
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015 Preview, Hyperwallet

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateToday begins our FinDEVr Preview blog series. On 6/7 October 2015 in San Francisco, 60 companies will present their latest developer tools, tips, and integrations. Register today and don’t miss out.

Hyperwallet is the leading outbound payment provider to the independent worker and freelancer economy.

The San Francisco-based company will showcase its REST API that allows technology companies to access turnkey global payout options while maintaining control of the user experience, making it easy for your users around the world to be paid.

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Why it’s a must-see
Attendees will leave this session understanding the importance of a payout platform vs. a payout method. They will see how building into Hyperwallet’s outbound-payments technology will quickly, easily and securely unlock a new world of payout flexibility for independent workers on your platform.

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FinDEVr Preview: Lleida.net

FinDEVr Preview: Lleida.net
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015 Preview, Lleida.net

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateToday begins our FinDEVr Preview blog series. On 6/7 October 2015 in San Francisco, 60 companies will present their latest developer tools, tips, and integrations. Register today and don’t miss out.

Lleida.net’s Connectaclick is a customized solution for electronic contracting. Customers can get the deal done immediately, without delays, reaching the balance between legal certainty and conversion by using registered SMS or registered email. Lleida.net, as a telecom operator, acts as a trusted third party.

LleidanetHomepageWhy it’s a must-see
Being a tailor-made solution, Connectaclick combines registered SMS/email; email/phone number; and identification validation. As a customer data-validation service, the solution becomes more competitive and prevents fraud. Connectaclick lets you close deals anywhere, anytime.

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FinDEVr Preview: Personal Capital

FinDEVr Preview: Personal Capital
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015 Preview, Personal Capital

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateToday begins our FinDEVr Preview blog series. On 6/7 October in San Francisco, 60 companies will present their latest developer tools, tips, and integrations. Register today and don’t miss out.

Personal Capital will present the inner workings of a truly data-driven retirement planner based on users’ aggregated data and enhanced by machine learning. Each personalized plan is refreshed as the market or user’s spending or saving behaviors change and is served up on a UI that turns sophisticated algorithms and complex data into intuitive and actionable planning.

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Why it’s a must-see:
Personal Capital’s AWS infrastructure supercharges a data-driven retirement planner that employs machine-learning techniques to better forecast growth of a user’s portfolio and estimate her retirement spending. The company’s connected ecosystem allows a user and her dedicated advisors to collaborate on the same data and retirement plan.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Coinbase, Holvi, Klarna, Narrative Science, PayPal, Prosper, Thinking Capital, TSYS

On Finovate.com

  • “Narrative Science Enhances Quill Engage for Google Analytics”
  • “Klarna makes U.S. Debut with New Overstock.com Partnership”

Around the web

  • Thinking Capital announces back-to-school contest for SMBs.
  • Holvi launches Supercharge, a secure and fast way to move money.
  • Pymnts: PayPal could see a 40% jump to $46/share if recent investments pay off.
  • Vogogo is now live with bitcoin-exchange, Coinbase.
  • Prosper taps Parker Barrile as new chief product officer.
  • TSYS to process credit and debit card portfolios from Metro Bank as part of new payments agreement.

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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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Seeing the FinovateFall Crowd of Attendees

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Seeing the FinovateFall Crowd of Attendees
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015

FFNetworkingIMGIf you’ve been keeping up with the blog, you’ve seen enough Sneak Peek posts to know that FinovateFall is just around the corner.

In fact, in just two weeks, on 16/17 September, we’ll open up the networking hall in the New York Hilton Midtown (register here). There, you’ll make new connections and see familiar faces, all while getting an inside look at what’s new in financial technology.

Who else can you expect to see there? Check out a word-cloud of titles from the more than 1,000 people who have already registered:

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At all Finovate conferences, we generally see a high number of CEOs and VPs who attend, and this year is no different. We are, however, seeing more developers than in years past, a sure sign that organizations are adapting to current trends.

FinovateFall is sponsored by The Bancorp, CapitalSource, Envestment, Financial Technology Partners, Hudson Cook, KPMG, and Zions SBIC.

FinovateFall is partners with Aite, American Bankers Association, Bank Innovators Council,BankersHub, bobsguide, Breaking Banks, California Bankers Association, Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, CoinTelegraph, Crowdfund Beat, Ebanking News, Hotwire, IDC Financial Insights, Javelin,Let’s Talk Payments, Mapa Research, Mercator Advisory Group, MergerMarket, The New Economy, NYPAY, The Paypers, SME Finance Forum, and World Finance.

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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Flybits

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Flybits
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, Flybits

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The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

FlybitsLogoFlybits is the first context-as-a-service software platform. Develop better mobile apps, sooner, and for less. Get agile as you tailor your customer engagement strategy.

Features:

  • Flybits-enabled existing apps in 15 minutes
  • Location support is hardware agnostic
  • Non-developers can easily change app content and behavior

Why it’s great
The Flybits context-as-a-service platform has all the infrastructure needed to make your apps context-aware, so you can deliver fresh and personalized mobile experiences.

Presenters: Hossein Rahnama, Chief Product Officer, Founder; Jerry Rudisin, CEO

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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: CellTrust

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: CellTrust
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: CellTrust, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek

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The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

CellTrustWEBlogoCellTrust SecureLine delivers a complete bring your own device (BYOD) solution with secure SMS and voice to empower the mobile workforce with communications that can be secured, traced and archived.

Features of SecureLine:

  • Keep personal and business communications separate with dual persona technology
  • Boost collaboration, increase response times and productivity
  • Archive mobile communications in support of compliance

Why it’s great
Don’t wait for your next security breach or compliance fine. Protect and transform your enterprise through secure and archived mobile communications with CellTrust SecureLine.

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Brian Panicko, SVP, Global Sales Strategy Panicko is responsible for leading CellTrust’s sales and business acquisition. Under Brian’s leadership since 2007, CellTrust’s customer base has exceeded 1,000 global organizations.
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CellTrustPresenter2Dragan Marceta, Director, Sales Engineering Marceta leads CellTrust’s technical support and sales engineering teams focusing on security and mobile device communication compliance.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Xignite

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Xignite
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, Xignite

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The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Be sure to pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference, and we’ll see you in New York!

xigniteLogoNamed one of the ten coolest brands in banking, Xignite provides cloud-based financial data APIs to help fintech innovators deliver real-time and reference market data to their digital assets.

What it is

Xignite CloudStreaming is a zero-footprint streaming solution that enables implementation of the next generation of innovative financial applications.

Why it’s great
Xignite CloudStreaming lets you stream financial data to any device through a simple HTTP GET call.

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Stephane Dubois, CEO, Founder
Recently named to Institutional Investor’s Tech-50 list of financial visionaries and innovators, Stephane Dubois is a well-known thought leader and has been called “the godfather of fintech.”
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Anand Viswanathan, Developer
Anand spearheads developer efforts at Xignite and is the creator of Xignite Labs. Prior to Xignite, he held positions at Viagogo, Media Interface and Network Design Lab. He speaks Hindi and Tamil.
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