Cardlytics Launches Syndicated Audiences

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Consumer-purchase intelligence company Cardlytics launched Syndicated Audiences to help marketers identify and reach their target audience. This is the second product rollout in the Atlanta-based company’s Product Solutions suite, which we covered earlier this year.

The new tool draws purchasing data from $1.5 trillion in consumer credit, debit, ACH, and billpay spend to go beyond identifying consumers by demographic to identify how they spend.

Cardlytics CMO Dani Cushion describes the impetus behind the new offering:

Marketers want better tools to help them more precisely reach the right consumers. We believe past purchases are the best indicator of future purchases, and Cardlytics’ Syndicated Audiences uses our proprietary purchase intelligence to help marketers improve the targeting accuracy of their campaigns.

Syndicated Audiences will originally focus on category buyers such as casual dining customers, frequent travelers and specialty grocery shoppers. Combined with Cardlytics’ Custom Audiences product, marketers can use Syndicated Audiences to segment audiences based on complex criteria, for example, consumers who spend with a brand’s top three competitors.

According to Media Post, Syndicated Audiences has launched with its first demand-side platform partner, The Trade Desk, and more partnerships are in the works.

Cardlytics demoed its geolocation application at FinovateFall 2013.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “Cardlytics Launches Syndicated Audiences”

On FinDEVr.com

  • Chain Launches Open Source Blockchain Protocol.

Around the web

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  • Cointelegraph interviews Alexander Vityaz, founder of Corezoid and head of e-commerce at PrivatBank.
  • PayPal’s Venmo processed $3.2 billion in total payments volume in Q1 2016, an increase of 154% year-over-year.
  • Infosys Finacle teams up with Samsung SDS to give mobile banking customers better authentication technology.
  • A look at APIs in the robo-adviser industry by Bank Innovation underscores the role played by Xignite.
  • “Kasasa Wins Multiple Hermes Creative Awards”
  • Pendo Systems unveils version 3.1 of its data exploration, discovery, and analysis 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.

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Fiserv

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Fiserv

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

Fiserv delivers deep expertise and innovative solutions to help financial institutions, businesses, and consumers move and manage money faster and with greater ease than ever before.

Features:

  • End-to-end new customer account opening
  • Leverage the mobile device to simplify and streamline the account-opening process
  • Digital marketing offers to incentivize account opening

Why it’s great
By utilizing proven mobile banking and payments technologies from Fiserv, financial institutions can deliver a rich and compelling banking experience across digital and physical channels.

Presenters

Andrew Barnett, Senior Technical Consultant

David Carr, Innovation Manager

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Chip Shield

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Chip Shield

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

Chip Shield is a new product being launched at Finovate. We are working to expand the use of EMV chip technology and tokenization to protect consumers’ payments and identity in the online world.

Features:

  • EMV chips can eliminate online fraud by proving the card is present
  • Account takeover can be stopped by unlocking accounts with a chip card
  • EMV authentication simplifies account tokenization

Why it’s great
EMV chip technology is already in your wallet and provides a reliable way to electronically verify your identity. We enable online customers to protect their payments and identity using EMV security.ChipShieldPresenter1

Presenters

David Marsyla, CEO
Marsyla is CEO and founder of Chip Shield. Prior to founding Chip Shield, he was CTO and co-founder of DeviceAnywhere, which he sold to Keynote Systems in 2011.
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J C Ramey, VP Business Development ChipShieldPresenter2
Ramey leads business development for Chip Shield. Prior to that, he also worked at DeviceAnywhere as worldwide head of sales and business development.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Earnix

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Earnix

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

With Earnix Banking, bankers can leverage customer predictive analytics to align product and pricing decisions with corporate revenue, volume, and risk goals.

Features:

  • Predictive pricing analytics engine improves performance of lending and deposit portfolios
  • Offline workbench integrated with an online execution engine
  • Self–sufficiency; no “black box” element

Why it’s great
Improve customer lifetime value with data-driven product and pricing decisions while assuring you reach your corporate revenue, volume and risk goals.

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Aviv Cohen, VP Marketing
With a flair for innovation and creativity, Aviv Cohen has been leading product and marketing teams in global enterprise software organizations for the past 15 years.
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EarnixPresenter2Marc Trudeau, Principal Consultant, Banking 
Marc Trudeau has been helping banks optimize their customer experience and improve pricing strategies in leading roles with Earnix, Acxiom, CEB and Capital One.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Cyberfend

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Cyberfend

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

Cyberfend’s Bot Detection solution offers robust, real-time security for your web and mobile applications by defending against sophisticated attacks, fraudulent activity, stolen credential abuse and fake signups with near-zero false positives.

Why it’s great
Cyberfend’s bot detection is the most comprehensive bot/automation detection service available in the market today. We protect nearly a billion login and payment transactions every month.

Presenter: Sreenath Kurupati, Co-founder, CEO
Prior to founding Cyberfend, Sreenath Kurupati was the chief architect in Digital Home Group and the leader in computer vision technology at Intel. His education includes IIT-Kanpur and NCSU.

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Finovera

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Finovera

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

Finovera is the face of the new digital bill-management and -payment experience from a customer perspective. Designed for banks, Finovera brings simplicity, convenience and control to your customers.

Features:

  • User experience—double or triple customer engagement compared to bill pay
  • Offer credit/debit card bill pay for instant payment to increase customer loyalty
  • Generate interchange fee and reduce cost

Why it’s great
Innovative financial institutions can leverage Finovera to turn bill pay on its head and redefine the new bill-management experience by bringing simplicity, convenience and control to their customers.

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Purna Pareek, Founder and CEO
SVP/GM at Fiserv, founded AdviceAmerica, a leader in Wealth Management solutions, acquired by Fiserv. Founded Apptivity, acquired by Progress Software, Architect at Informix/IBM.
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Amanda Zepeda, Marketing Manager

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Payment Data Systems/ Akimbo

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Payment Data Systems/ Akimbo

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

Payment Data Systems/ Akimbo is launching Akimbo Gift—Send a virtual Gift MasterCard in real-time by email or text that can be used online and with mobile wallets like Apple Pay.

Features:

  • Virtual MasterCard delivered by email or text for use online or with mobile wallets
  • Great for gifts, rewards and promotions
  • Upgrade to reloadable account for more features

Why it’s great
Deliver gifts, rewards and promotions instantly with a virtual Gift MasterCard delivered by email or text that can be used online and with mobile wallets.

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Presenter: Houston Frost, SVP, Prepaid Products
Houston co-founded Akimbo in 2010, which sold to Payment Data Systems in 2014. He worked at JPMorgan from 2007 to 2009 and earned a PhD at Northwestern University.
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SuiteBox Wins “Best Technology” at Melbourne Showcase; Dunbar Advances to CEO

SuiteBox Wins “Best Technology” at Melbourne Showcase; Dunbar Advances to CEO

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Just a month after naming Ian Dunbar as its new CEO, Australian virtual workspace innovator SuiteBox has won “Best Technology” at the Melbourne Showcase.

Marc Evans, co-founder of Showcase, sponsor Afiniation, and a judge at the event, praised SuiteBox as a “clean and simple solution that shows how technology can continue to innovate and improve how we connect with our clients.”

Afiniation is a network dedicated to supporting fintech innovation in the Australasia region. Thirty companies participated in this year’s showcase in Melbourne, held earlier this month. Finovate and FinDEVr alum Yodlee is among the event’s sponsors.

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Also taking home top honors from the showcase were:

  • Best in Show: Macrovue
  • Best New Entrant: Billsumo
  • Best Disruptor: XTB

The Melbourne Showcase isn’t the first time SuiteBox had been in the winner’s circle this year. The company won the Global 2016 Mobile category of the KPMG Fintech Innovation Challenge in February, ahead of its FinovateEurope debut.

Also making headlines for the company is Ian Dunbar’s move from country manager to CEO of SuiteBox. Co-founder and CEO Richard Mannell will stay on with SuiteBox as the company’s new COO. Talking about the leadership change, Dunbar said it reflected “the positioning of SuiteBox as a global provider of solutions to the financial services industry.”

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, SuiteBox demonstrated its technology at FinovateEurope 2013. The company’s technology is used by more than 250 financial services companies in Australia and New Zealand. And while Australia represents most of SuiteBox’s growth, Dunbar sees room for “rapid expansion” in the country, as well as pursuing new markets. Read more about SuiteBox’s virtual meeting rooms for financial professionals.

Boku to Power Carrier Billing for Spotify in Germany and Italy

Boku to Power Carrier Billing for Spotify in Germany and Italy

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San Francisco-based Boku has formed a partnership with Spotify to facilitate carrier billing in Germany and Italy for the music-streaming company. The agreement includes every major carrier in Germany and one of the leading Italian MNOs.

The two companies have already teamed up in the United Kingdom, and this is the first extension of that partnership. The recent geographical expansion now offers 90 million mobile subscribers across Europe the ability to pay for Spotify Premium subscriptions using only their mobile phone number.

In a press release announcing the expansion, Boku CEO Jon Prideaux spoke of the success Boku has had thus far in Europe:

In the U.K., the default payment method for new Spotify users has changed from credit card to carrier billing … . These new carrier agreements across Europe not only speak to the global appeal of Spotify’s streaming music service, but also the growing appeal of carrier billing for Europeans as a payment method that can now be implemented as a stored payment method in the exact same manner as a credit card.

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Boku’s Checkout offers customers the option of paying via carrier billing at the online point-of-sale (see example above). The company works with 300+ mobile operators in 60+ countries and demoed its mobile payment service at FinovateEurope 2011 in London.

Kony Appoints Former IBM CTO as its New CTO

Kony Appoints Former IBM CTO as its New CTO

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Mobile app specialist Kony announced yesterday it has brought on Bill Bodin as CTO.

Prior to his new appointment, Bodin worked for nine years as CTO for IBM’s Mobile Computing CIO group. Throughout his 27-year career at IBM, Bodin served as a programmer, a senior technical staff member, and was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor at the company.

Bodin holds many patents and is the creator of multiple technical developments at IBM:

  • Creator and thought leader for IBM Catalyst, a mobile development accelerator framework
  • Led in the developemnt of WhirlWind, IBM’s first Enterprise Mobile App Store
  • Led in the creation of n.Fluent, IBM’s text-translation service
  • Led as chief architecht for Media Library

In a press release, Dave Shirk, Kony’s president of products, strategy and marketing, describes Bodin as “an extremely well-respected technology visionary leader with an incredible reputation and depth of knowledge and expertise in the enterprise mobility space.”

Kony’s solutions enables banks to design and develop and visualize device-agnostic applications deployed across multiple channels. Earlier this month, the Florida-based company partnered with Cognizant, which will integrate Kony’s mobile app design capabilities into its offerings. In July of 2015, Kony released the newest version of MobileFabric 6.5 which enables developers to use any open framework to build applications.

At FinovateFall 2011, Kony debuted its commercial banking suite.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “Kony Appoints Former IBM CTO as its New CTO”
  • “Boku to Power Carrier Billing for Spotify in Germany and Italy”

Around the web

  • IBM announces a new set of blockchain services running on IBM Cloud and Docker.
  • PYMNTS interviews Hyperwallet CEO Brent Warrington.
  • Forbes features how Student Loan Genius is revolutionizing the student loan industry.

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.