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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on May 4, 2016
Categories: BBVA Compass, Bluefin Payment Systems, Green Key Technologies, IBM, mCASH, Ripple

On Finovate.com

“Brett King and the Disruptions of the Augmented Age“

“mCASH Pivots to AUKA, Launches Mobile Payments Services Across Europe”

Check out this week’s FinDEVr APIntelligence.

“A Topological Look at Next Week’s FinovateSpring Presenters”

Around the web

IBM launches quantum computing as a cloud service. See IBM demo next week at FinovateSpring.

CGI Group adds Ripple Connect to its Intelligent Gateway at Payments.

Bluefin Payment Systems integrates Visa Data Secure Platform into its portfolio.

BBVA Compass cardholders gain access to Android Pay and Samsung Pay.

“GreenKey Appoints Richard Garnier Chief Revenue Officer”

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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Last Call for FinovateSpring 2016 Tickets

By Erika Sanchez Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: Finovate Marketing, FinovateSpring 2016

FinovateSpring 2016 is right around the corner. Pick up your ticket before it’s too late! We’ve got an impressive roster ready to show off their latest & greatest and you won’t want to miss it.

We recently released the full presenter list last month. Below, you can check out the amazing companies who will be hitting the stage next week (and read more about them in our “Sneak Peek” blog post series):

Our two-day show will be packed with live demos of new fintech innovations, as well as great opportunities for high-quality networking with our largest west coast audience to date. Here’s the final schedule:

Visit our registration page today and we’ll see you in San Jose next week!

FinovateSpring 2016 is sponsored by The Bancorp, Accenture, Association for Financial Technology, Cyberport/InvestHK, FT Partners, Greater Zurich Area/Swiss Business Hub, Hudson Cook, KPMG, and Leverage PR.

FinovateSpring 2016 is partnered with Acuity Market Intelligence, Aite Group, American Bankers Association, Bank Innovators Council, BankersHub, Bankless Times, BayPay Forum, Bitcoin Magazine, bobsguide, Breaking Banks, Byte Academy, California Bankers Association, Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, Cointelegraph, Digital Currency Council, EbankingNews, FemTechLeaders, Filene Research Institute, The Fintech Times, IDC Financial Insights, Javelin, Juniper Research, Korea FinTech Forum, Mercator Advisory Group, Payments & Cards Network, The Paypers,PitchBook, Plug and Play, SME Finance Forum, and Western Independent Bankers.

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Zooz Raises $24 Million in its Largest Funding

By David Penn Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: Funding, Fundings, Zooz

In a round led by Target Global Ventures, Israeli payments technology innovator Zooz just raised $24 million in new capital. The investment takes the company’s total funding to more than $40 million and will enable Zooz to accelerate growth, build and develop new products, and expand in both existing and new markets.

In thanking both new and current investors, Zooz CEO Oren Levy said that the growing interest on the part of merchants is playing a key role in driving adoption of new payment technologies. “Retailers now understand the need for smart payment platforms that can help them expand into new markets quickly and cost-effectively,” he said, “and that is where we excel.”

Pictured (left to right): Peter Donarski, senior executive, First Data, and Noam Inbar, VP business development at Zooz, demonstrated Zooz Transforming Checkout at FinovateFall 2013.

Saying that Zooz is in the right place at the right time to take advantage of the growth in the global payments market, Target Global Ventures’ general partner Shmuel Chafets praised the way the Zooz platform “optimizes and simplifies the payments process, meeting a crucial industry need that will only increase.” The round also featured participation from new investors Fang Fund, iAngels, and Kreos Capital, as well as existing investors Blumberg Capital, lool ventures, Rhodium, Claltech, XSeed Capital, and CampOne Ventures, as well as angel investor Eilon Tirosh.

Since the company’s last funding round in the summer of 2014, Zooz added offices in London, Berlin, and San Francisco and increased headcount by 50%. In April, Zooz integrated eCommerce, CRM, ERP and other technologies from Nodus Technologies into its platform, one month after announcing support for Android Pay. The company added Chester Ritchie, formerly of Worldpay, as its new EVP of sales and development in February. Ritchie spoke about Zooz’s payment technology in a company profile for The Green Sheet in April.

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Raanana, Israel, Zooz demonstrated its Transforming Checkout solution at FinovateFall 2013.

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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: NIIT Technologies

By David Penn Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, NIIT Technologies

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

NIIT Technologies introduces its High Value Targeting Engine, an application of Digital Foresight, that can help grow your business by identifying emerging opportunity and risk using collective, open source intelligence.

Features:

Links people, places, events, wealth, networks
Identifies opportunities and risks associated to life events
Understands which factors and stimuli are correlated with customer behavior

Why it’s great
Digital Foresight can deliver contextually relevant experiences across the customer life cycle by integrating our System of Insight with the System of Engagement platforms.

Presenters:

Ashley Luke, Director, Data Science
Luke is responsible for innovations in data science as part of the Digital Foresight practice. He leads projects on customer analytics and business intelligence.
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James De Cicco, Head of Sales, Banking and Financial Services
De Cicco has 25+ years of experience in the financial services space covering a number of leadership roles. Prior to joining NIIT Tech, he was general manager and Head of Americas for GoldenSource.
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Gaurav Mistry, Manager, Business Development, Banking and Financial Services
Mistry has 7+ years of experience in banking/financial service/product sales and is responsible for business development for banking and financial vertical at NIIT Technologies.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Mitek

By David Penn Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Mitek

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

Mitek, a global leader in mobile capture and identity-verification software-solutions will be demoing an omnichannel approach to mobile ID verification including multiple factors of authentication.

Features:

Omnichannel capabilities for seamless digital onboarding or ID verification
Additional factors of authentication for added security
Exceptional user experience

Why it’s so great
Our innovation will allow FIs to bridge the digital divide across their online channels to onboard more customers, more securely.

Presenters

Sarah Clark, General Manager – Identity, Mitek Systems
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Steve Craig, Director, Products and Experience at Mitek
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: NuData Security

By David Penn Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, NuData Security

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

NuDetect from NuData Security verifies users online through real-time behavioral analytics, identifying good users from bad across web, mobile, and app environments.

Features:

Verify legitimate known users and provide them with a good experience
Identify higher risk activities like automated, anomalous, and fraudulent behavior
Leverage extensive behavioral network

Why it’s great
Last year, NuData analyzed more than 38 billion behaviors, building deep intelligence around billions of profiles. NuDetect is trusted by some of the largest banks and financial institutions in the world.

Presenters

Ryan Wilk, VP of Customer Success
Wilk has 10+ years of experience managing trust and safety teams for companies such as StubHub and Universal Orlando. He is responsible for ensuring the success of every NuData customer.
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Robert Capps, VP of Business Development
Capps is a recognized technologist, thought leader, and adviser with 20+ years of experience in the design, management, and protection of complex information systems to counter cyber risks.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: ThreatMetrix

By David Penn Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, ThreatMetrix

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

ThreatMetrix, the Digital Identity Company, is the market-leading cloud solution for authenticating digital personas and transactions on the Internet.

Features:

Digital Identity Graph is a global, anonymized, real-time risk system that separates good customers from fraudulent users for financial institutions.

Why it’s great
The ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Graph is a game-changing new technology in the risk-based authentication and cybersecurity area.

Presenters

Andreas Baumhof, Chief Technology Officer
As the technology lead for ThreatMetrix, Baumhof is also an internationally renowned cybersecurity expert with deep experience in encryption, PKI, malware, and phishing.
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Dean Weinert, Director of Mobile Products
Weinert is a noted industry expert in issues relating to online fraud, cybercrime and information security. He has worked for ThreatMetrix for eight years as director of mobile products.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Auvenir

By David Penn Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: Auvenir, FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek

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

The passionate team behind Auvenir is driven to significantly increase trust and confidence in capital markets with a learning, adaptive platform for excellence in assurance, due diligence, and auditing.

Features:

Intuitive and adaptive user experience
Convergence of exponential technology on cloud-based platform
Empowers auditors and other risk assessors with a complete and clear picture of complex businesses

Why it’s great
An intuitive, web-based platform, designed to scale using converging technologies to provide sophisticated machine assistance to client, auditor, and other risk assessors.

Presenters

Pete Myers, CEO
Myers is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience building and transforming small and medium-sized businesses into successful enterprises.
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Jon Felske, CTO
Felske has 16+ years of experience in developing technology and working at the cutting edge of R&D in the telecom industry and startup world.
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Eziah Syed, Adviser
Syed has 20+ years experience in innovation, new products, new ventures, and white space growth opportunities with a particular focus and emphasis on technology products.
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Fiserv and INETCO Team Up to Enhance ATM Management

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: Fiserv, INETCO Systems

Financial services giant Fiserv and transaction monitoring and analytics provider INETCO announced a partnership today that will benefit both parties.

Wisconsin-based Fiserv will act as a reseller for INETCO’s Insight and Analytics solutions, offering the products to ATM and self-service operators. INETCO, in turn, will integrate its real-time transaction data and analytics content into Fiserv’s Device Manager monitoring solution.

Incorporating INETCO’s data analytics into Fiserv’s Device Manager solution will help ATM network managers increase the availability of devices and number of successful transactions by improving fault management, service management and troubleshooting. Additionally, the alerts offer managers visibility into transaction activity and the availability of currency across their network.

INETCO’s Marc Borbas, VP product marketing, and CFO Dallas Pretty debuted INETCO Analytics at FinovateSpring 2015. Last month BECU won the 2016 Celent Model Bank award in part for its INETCO-powered transaction-data streaming and transaction-analytics capabilities.

Fiserv showed off Mobiliti Enterprise at FinovateFall 2015 in New York and will debut its latest set of tools next week at FinovateSpring in San Jose. There’s still time to register—but hurry, there’s not much time left.

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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: CRMNEXT

By David Penn Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: CRMNEXT, FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek

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

A magic quadrant leader, CRMNEXT is making its North American debut. CRMNEXT is the unified platform changing the landscape for customer engagement, removing barriers between human and digital channels for the world’s largest banks.

Features:

The only complete omnichannel, financial services, customer-engagement solution
Powerfully unifies customer interactions
Simplifies and automates processes and enables universal bankers

Why it’s great
Proven with 250,000 bankers and serving 150+ million customers, CRMNEXT redefines the role of CRM in orchestrating engagement growth, profitability, and time-to-market for innovation delivery.

Presenters

Joe Salesky, CEO, North America
A Finovate pioneer, Salesky was CEO and founder of ClairMail, the breakthrough platform for mobile banking/payments. He’s 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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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on May 3, 2016
Categories: Auvenir, Backbase, CAN Capital, CRMNEXT, Fiserv, INETCO Systems, Mitek, NIIT Technologies, NuData Security, Plaid, Qumram, Tactile Finance, ThreatMetrix, wipro, Zooz

On Finovate.com

Check out our latest FinovateSpring Sneak Peeks featuring:
- NuData Security
- ThreatMetrix
- Auvenir
- CRMNEXT
- Mitek
- NIIT Technologies

“Zooz Raises $24 Million in its Largest Funding”

“Fiserv and INETCO Team Up to Enhance ATM Management”

On FinDEVr.com

“What’s in a Name? Plaid Earns “Cool Vendor” Status from Gartner”

Around the web

U.K.’s oldest bank, C. Hoare & Co, goes digital with Backbase.

“Crowdfund Insider: CAN Capital Forms Agreement with Entrepreneur to Provide SME Loans”

Huffington Post names Tactile Finance on its list of 15 women-led startups to watch in 2016.

Qumram opens offices in London and San Francisco. See Qumram at FinovateSpring in San Jose next week.

Core banking solutions from Wipro to power Paytm’s new payments bank.

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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Fintech Fundings: 17 Companies Raise $4.8 Billion Week Ending April 22

By Jim Bruene Posted on May 2, 2016
Categories: Funding

Due to the massive $4.5 billion funding at Alipay’s Ant Financial, we just set the one-week record for fintech venture funding with $4.79 billion (of which $125 million was debt). However, for the first time this year, there were fewer than 20 deals during the week. But with 39 deals last week and 17 this week, it could hardly be called a slowdown.

The total number of deals YTD stands at 419, nearly double last year’s 223. Total dollars raised YTD is now $13.6 billion, 2.5x the $5.5 billion raised during the same period a year ago.

Here are the fintech deals by size from 16 April to 22 April 2016:

Ant Financial
Online payment services division of Alipay
Latest round: $4.5 billion Series B
Total raised: $4.5 billion
HQ: Hangzhou, China
Tags: Consumer, merchants, SMB, payments, mobile, funds transfer, P2P, peer-to-peer
Source: Crunchbase

SocietyOne
P2P lending platform
Latest round: $125 million, $25 million Series C and $100 million Debt
Total raised: $158.5 million including $100 million Debt
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Tags: Consumer, lending, credit, underwriting, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer loan marketplace, Finovate alum
Source: Crunchbase

Kueski
Alt-lender in Mexico
Latest round: $35 million ($10 million Series A, $25 million debt)
Total raised: $40.1 million
HQ: Guadalajara, Mexico
Tags: Consumer, lending, credit, underwriting, payday loans
Source: Crunchbase, Press Release

Forter
Ecommerce payments fraud technology
Latest round: $32 million Series C
Total raised: $50 million
HQ: San Francisco, California
Tags: SMB, payments, merchants, fraud, security
Source: Crunchbase

Acorns
Small-dollar investments provider
Latest round: $30 million Series D
Total raised: $61.96 million
HQ: Newport Beach, California
Tags: Consumer, savings account, desposits, investing, millenials, payments, mobile, Paypal (investor)
Source: Crunchbase

Transactis (OfferIQ)
BillerIQ bill presentment and payment solution
Latest round: $30 million Series E
Total raised: $66.7 million
HQ: New York City
Tags: Enterprise, payments, billpay, invocing, billing, white-label
Source: Crunchbase

Tuliu.com
Land purchase and sales management platform
Latest round: $23 million Series B
Total raised: $23 million
HQ: China
Tags: Real estate, mortgage, land purchase, discovery
Source: Crunchbase

Platform Black (GLI Finance)
Invoice finance marketplace lender
Latest round: $7.2 million
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
Tags: SMB, lending, credit, underwriting, trade finance, factoring, accounts receivables, invoice financing, investing
Source: PYMNTS.com, Startups.co.uk

Castle
Rental payment and management platform
Latest round: $2 million Seed
Total raised: $2 million
HQ: San Francisco, California
Tags: SMB, landlords, commercial real estate, merchants, payments, Y Combinator (investor)
Source: Crunchbase

ClassWallet
Payment and procurement plaftform for the education market
Latest round: $1.5 million
Total raised: $4.04 million
HQ: Miami, Florida
Tags: Governmet, education, payments, billing, invoicing, expense reimbursement, purchasing
Source: Crunchbase

BrickVest
Online real estate investment platform
Latest round: $1.44 million
Total raised: $2.44 million
HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
Tags: Consumer, investing, credit, commercial real estate, mortgage
Source: Crunchbase

Modalku
Small business marketplace lender
Latest round: $1.2 million Seed
Total raised: $1.2 million
HQ: Jakarta, Indonesia
Tags: Consumer, lending, credit, underwriting, merchants, acquiring, purchase finance
Source: Crunchbase

Tricount
Group expense manager
Latest round: $560,000 Seed
Total raised: $560,000
HQ: Brussels, Belgium
Tags: Consumer, payments, personal finance, budgeting, PFM, millenials
Source: FT Partners

CodiPark
Payment and access solutions for off-street parking
Latest round: $500,000 Seed
Total raised: $780,000
HQ: New York City
Tags: Consumer, SMB, merchants, acquiring, payments
Source: FT Partners

Konfio
Online micro-business loans
Latest round: Undisclosed Series A
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: Mexico City
Tags: SMB, small business, lending, credit, underwriting
Source: Crunchbase

MCX Stock Exchange
Commodity exchange in India
Latest round: Not disclosed
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: San Francisco, California
Tags: Enterprise, investing, futures, commodities, trading
Source: FT Partners

Rapid Ratings
Ratings service for public and private company financial health
Latest round: Not disclosed
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: New York City
Tags: Enterprise, investors, advisors, investing, information services, analytics
Source: FT Partners

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