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FinDEVr Preview: ScriptRock

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

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateFinDEVr Previews highlight companies that will present their latest developer tools, platforms, and integrations at FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco on 6/7 October. Pick up your ticket before Friday, 11 September, and save $100 on an early bird ticket!

ScriptRock provides complete visibility into the configuration state of any IT environment. Any stakeholder—from admin to dev-ops to CIO—can use this information to quickly ensure consistency and compliance, identify misconfigurations, and painlessly scan an entire IT infrastructure for potential vulnerabilities.

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Why it’s a must-see

In an era where IT security and stability are critical in finserv, having visibility and validating what you’ve got are key to success. Previously, this task was laborious, tedious, difficult, and sometimes impossible. We’ve built a platform which handles all of it with ease, allowing you to deploy faster and safer than ever before.

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FinDEVr Preview: Backbase

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

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateFinDEVr Previews highlight the companies that will present their latest developer tools, platforms, and integrations at FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco on 6/7 October. Pick up your ticket before Friday, 11 September and save $100 on an early-bird ticket!

Backbase will be talking about its Digital Banking Platform and its Open Banking Marketplace. Fueled by a strong open-API strategy, Backbase’s platform gives FIs the ultimate freedom and flexibility to work with any core or third-party vendor to create a best-of-breed digital banking offering for clients.

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Why it’s a must-see

For banks: Get an open platform that is truly able to deliver a superior customer experience while providing the FI full control to manage and maintain. There’s no vendor lock-in.

For fintech companies: The option to work with many banks via the Open Banking Marketplace and making their services available within a robust platform.

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Trunomi Raises $3 Million to Solve KYC Challenges

Trunomi Raises $3 Million to Solve KYC Challenges
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Funding, Trunomi

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Trunomi, a startup that uses consent-based data-sharing to streamline customer-verification for banks, announced a $3 million raise today.

Saturn Partners led the round. Fenway Summer, Persistent Ventures, and SenaHill Partners also participated. This lineup of investors also contributed to Trunomi’s $2.3 million Angel round in 2014, bringing its total funding to $5.3 million.

Trunomi, which launched about a year ago, plans to use the funds to progress its technology.

Here’s the company’s live debut of TruMobile at FinovateEurope this year:

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: InComm, Taulia, Tradeshift, Trulioo

Around the web

  • Tech Vibes features Trulioo in its look at fintech in Vancouver.
  • Taulia receives SAP-certified integration with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform.
  • Internet Retailer examines Tradeshift’s growth.
  • Mobile Payments Today: InComm’s drive to bring open-loop prepaid to mobile wallets.

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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Banking Suite Provider Urban FT Acquires Wipit

Banking Suite Provider Urban FT Acquires Wipit
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Urban FT, Wipit

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Urban FT, a startup that offers card issuers a digital banking suite that includes cards, a mobile app, and web interface, wants to give small card issuers a leg up on the competition.

WipitHomepageToday, the company has taken a step in achieving that goal by acquiring digital wallet solutions company, Wipit.

Urban FT states that the Wipit acquisition will help provide a more comprehensive solution-set. The New York-based company is especially keen to tap into Wipit’s telco partnerships with Boost Mobile, Sprint, and Pinsight Media.

To leverage the Wipit team’s experience, Urban FT has hired the California-based company’s key employees.

Urban FT will present its latest offering at FinovateFall in New York in two weeks. Tickets are still available, but going fast.

Wipit last demoed at FinovateSpring 2014 in San Jose where it showed off its Boost Mobile Wallet.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: AnalytixInsight, Avalara, Clarify, Flint Mobile, FutureAdvisor, Klarna, Moven, Nous.net, ShopKeep POS, SnoopWall, Spreedly, StockViews, The Beast Apps, Trulioo, Urban FT, Wallaby Financial, Wipit, Xignite, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

  • “Banking Suite Provider Urban FT Acquires Wipit” Come see Urban FT at FinovateFall September 16 & 17.

Around the web

  • Niklas Adalberth steps down as Klarna’s deputy CEO.
  • ShopKeep to offer discounts to members of the MasterCard Easy Savings program.
  • Yodlee partners with Salesforce to offer advisers a comprehensive view of their clients’ financial accounts. Come see Yodlee’s presentation at FinDEVr, 6/7 October.
  • Monex to incorporate corporate-actions data from Markit. See Markit at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco.
  • Bank Innovation takes note of the Moven approach to displaying transaction histories.
  • Tech Vibes features Trulioo in a look at Vancouver, British Columbia, as a home for fintech innovation. See Trulioo at FinovateFall 2015 in New York.
  • Investment News looks for the next robo-adviser acquisition in the wake of BlackRock’s deal with FutureAdvisor.
  • Waters Technology highlights Nous, StockViews, AnalytixInsight, and Xignite in a review of how innovators are using market data. See Xignite at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco.
  • Flint enhances Android app to include immediate electronic receipts via SMS.

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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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Ldger

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

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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!

LdgerLogoLdger offers a user-driven marketplace within a credit-structured finance platform to power data-rich modeling, automated transaction execution, inventory discovery and aggregation.

Features:

  • Dynamic, real-time structuring and modeling
  • Normalized deal structures
  • Inventory discovery and aggregation

Why it’s great

Ldger extends the innovation associated with marketplace-lending post-origination, facilitating efficient and transparent access for multilateral participants to sophisticated capital markets.

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Miles Cowan, CEO, Founder
Cowan leverages his prior experience as a tech-centric securities and M&A attorney to craft technology-driven solutions to structural and process deficiencies in today’s financial infrastructure.
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LdgerPresenter2Hyung Kim, Co-founder, Financial Markets
Kim has more than 20 years’ experience in NYC’s finance industry-trading and risk-managing of structured derivatives at Credit Suisse, Barclays and JPMorgan Chase.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Tranwall

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

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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!

TranwallLogo Tranwall helps banks give secure transaction control to their customers.

Features:

  • Rules-based transaction authorization: peace of mind and fraud prevention
  • Change authorization parameters: real-time interaction with customers
  • Design your own card program: e.g., prepaid, business

Why it’s great
Tranwall will change the way card authorizations will be handled. Customers will now be able to control the authorization settings of their own cards.

TranwallPresenter1Presenters

Gerard van de Par, Director
Van de Par has a sound background at technology and international banks. He heads up the commercial operations within Tranwall with a focus on Europe and the United States.
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TranwallPresenter2Diederik Bruggink, Business Development Manager
Bruggink is an internationally renowned cards-and-payment expert. He is acting as business development manager for Tranwall and brings a broad network with him.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Bleu

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Bleu
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Bleu, 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!

BleuLogoBleu facilitates mobile transactions utilizing Bluetooth low-energy beacons. Bleu has developed a proprietary mobile point-of-sale and consumer application.

Features:

  • Supports any payment type
  • Can process a transaction up to 250 feet away from the terminal
  • Uses Bluetooth low-energy beacons

Why it’s great
This first-time-ever revolutionary solution moves payment over Bluetooth supported on any iOS or android device.

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Sesie Bonsi, President and CEO
Graduate of Pepperdine School of Law and founder of Bleu, Bonsi is dedicated to using his background and knowledge in the areas of mobile payment and infrastructure to transform financial technology.
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BleuPresenter2Brett Howell, Senior VP Business Development
A graduate of Auburn University, Howell has more than 10 years’ experience in multiple business environments from a small-family business to a multinational corporation.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Urban FT

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

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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!

UrbanFTLogoUrban FT (UFT) delivers an enterprise-grade platform to both financial and non-financial issuers to give their customers industry-leading digital banking products.

Features:

  • Comprehensive financial tools, local discovery, and social features
  • Increased revenue through featured ad space and targeted deals
  • Powerful management tools for custom branding and functionality

Why it’s great

The UFT platform drives customer loyalty through profound digital experiences that combine the social and financial life of the customer into a meaningful lifestyle product.

UrbanFTPresenter1Presenters

Kasey Kaplan, Chief Operating Officer
Kaplan oversees all company operations at Urban FT. He has a strong passion for product, technology, and innovation.
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UrbanFTPresenter2Mark Kilpatrick, Chief Product and Brand Officer
Kilpatrick oversees all design, UI, and UX initiatives. He applies his creative and design background to technology and product development.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: D3 Banking

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: D3 Banking
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: D3 Banking, 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!

D3BankingLogoD3 Banking provides data-driven digital banking solutions designed to meet the needs of consumers and small businesses by delivering innovative services and a consistent UX to any digital device.

Features:

D3 Small Business Banking allows financial institutions to provide services tailored to small businesses, including auto-categorization, intelligent reporting and innovative money-movement services.

Why it’s great

D3 Small Business Banking’s innovative services and digital analytics allow financial institutions to deliver services to their small business, which means the difference between success and failure.

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Michael Carter, CMO
Carter has worked in fintech for more than 30 years. He has worked with startups, early stage and public companies in the U.S. and abroad.
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D3BankingPresenter2Andy Holdt, Director, Sales Support
Holdt has more than 15 years’ experience in financial services, including retail bank and payment card marketing as well as product, portfolio and client-relationship management.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: IDmission

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

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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!

IDMissionLogoIDmission utilizes a cloud-based platform that enables identity-initiated customer onboarding and engagement for financial services companies.

Features:

  • Fully configurable application-builder for creating unique customer-engagement experiences
  • Built using HTML5 for device-agnostic support
  • Know your customer (KYC) services, including biometrics

Why it’s great

IDmission solutions allow you to grow and change with the world around you. We haven’t built a product; it’s a platform that will help you solve problems now and into the future.

Presenters

Ashim Banerjee, CEO
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Sandeep Gandhi, CTO
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