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By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Cloud Lending, FinDEVr APIntelligence, Google Cloud Platform, Kabbage, Kontomatik, Mambu, MasterCard, OutsideIQ, PayPal, Prevoty, Solace Systems, Temenos, Venmo, VISA

FinDEVrSV16-withdateOur FinDEVr New York developer showcase was a success! FinDEVr Silicon Valley will be held October 18 & 19 in Santa Clara. Register today and save.

On FinDEVr.com

  • Venmo Enables Payments in Merchant Apps
  • Prevoty Wins 2016 Stratus Award for Best Small Company Cloud Security Service
  • Mexico’s Grupo Bursátil Deploys Messaging Tech from Solace Systems

The latest from FinDEVr New York 2016 presenters

  • A look at fintech in Berlin and London highlights Mambu.
  • Espresso Capital features Outside IQ’s creativity in raising capital.

Alumni updates

  • Kontomatik introduces Financial Health Indicator for smal-l and medium-sized lenders.
  • Kabbage turns to Marketo for new marketing solutions.
  • ITProPortal interviews Ben Robinson, chief strategy and marketing officer for Temenos.
  • Mastercard to Buy VocaLink for Up to $1.14 Billion After Masterpass Expansion to Retail
  • Cloud Lending Solutions adds new online modules to its Learning program.
  • Google Cloud Platform opens its first West Coast region.

Stay current on daily news from the fintech developer community! Follow FinDEVr on Twitter.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Buzz Points, Checkbook.io, Coinbase, Fiserv, Kantox, Kontomatik, Larky, Ledger, Quantopian, Venmo

On Finovate.com

  • Quantopian Receives Undisclosed Amount from Steve Cohen’s Point72

On FinDEVr.com

  • Venmo Enables Payments in Merchant Apps

Around the web

  • Kontomatik introduces Financial Health Indicator for small- and medium-sized lenders.
  • Venmo’s in-app payments technology emerges from beta.
  • Kantox processed $100 million in transactions in the six months since the debut of its API.
  • Kony launches MobileFabric, which features a model-driven approach to mobile app development using microservices.
  • American Banker’s Association features results from banks using Fiserv, Buzz Points and Larky for customer loyalty and rewards.

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: AutoGravity

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: AutoGravity
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: AutoGravity, FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9. Register today.

AutoGravity harnesses the power of the smartphone to give you direct control over how you finance your next car, empowering you with multiple financing offers in the palm of your hand.

AutoGravity:

  • Empowers car shoppers with multiple, personalized financing offers in minutes
  • Connects consumers directly with top lenders and dealerships
  • Offers industry-leading security and encryption standards

Why it’s great
With over a $1 trillion USD in loans outstanding, the auto financing industry yields an unparalleled opportunity for digital innovation. AutoGravity is uniquely positioned to realize this opportunity!AutoGravityPresenter1

Presenters

Serge Vartanov, Chief Marketing Officer
Vartanov leads the marketing, product, and design teams at AutoGravity to revolutionize financing and accelerate growth. A former consultant, he holds an MBA from Harvard and bachelors from U.C. Berkeley.
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Martin Prescher, Chief Technology Officer
Prescher leads the engineering team at AutoGravity in building digital products that change the world. As an astrophysicist (a.k.a. rocket scientist), he learned to handle ‘Big Data’ before the term existed.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Trulioo

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Trulioo
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek, Trulioo

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9. Register today.

Trulioo’s unique approach to identity verification leverages traditional and alternative data to verify customers around the globe, helping clients meet AML/KYC requirements and reduce risk and fraud.

Features:

  • 4 billion people, 50+ countries, 200+ data sources, 1 API
  • Custom rules settings to meet cross-border compliance obligations
  • Verification results displayed with full transparency per ID input

Why it’s great
The dynamic regulatory landscape introduces compliance challenges, which is why Trulioo built a solution from the ground up to address AML/KYC, allowing clients to set custom rules per jurisdiction.Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 10.21.42 AM

Presenter: Anatoly Kvitnitsky, Director of Corporate Development
With solid startup and corporate experience, Kvitnitsky (shown at right) leads strategic partnerships and data acquisition for Trulioo.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: ebankIT

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: ebankIT
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ebankIT, FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9. Register today.

ebankIT is an omnichannel banking software company providing innovative technologies that allow banking customers to control their finances and invest their savings easily on their favorite channels.

Features:

  • Allows banks to extend their customers’ networks
  • Provides seamless access to financial products and services
  • Works for every device and wearable technology

Why it’s great
Omnichannel and social banking provides a consistent experience across channels, providing customers with seamless access to financial products and services more efficiently, faster and easier.ebankITPresenter1

Presenters

Diana Winstanley, Business Developer
Winstanley is ebankIT’s business developer with several years’ experience showcasing all the latest technological innovations to financial institutions throughout the globe.
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Luis Corte-Real, Sales Manager42877409_luis_corte-real
Corte-Real is ebankIT’s sales manager; he has worked within the IT Industry for several years and coordinated several projects in consultancy, business analysis and sales.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Modo

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Modo
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2016, FinovateFall 2016 Sneak Peek, Modo Payments

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FF2016-Logo-wdate-largeA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500+ fintech professionals on September 8 & 9. Register today.

The Modo Digital Payments Hub is an awesome way to design and manage the full lifecycle of digital payment transactions across the global payments ecosystem. Oh, and it’s COIN operated.

Features:

Modo Digital Payments Hub components:

  • Payments system connectors
  • Payments transactions
  • Credentials vault
  • Digital experiences

Why it’s great
Modo’s patented COIN delivers value from any source to any destination, without requiring partners to modify their systems.ModoPresenter1

Presenters

Bruce Parker, CEO of Modo
Parker is a self-declared #paymentsgeek, and has created new products, built partnerships, and shaped strategy that has moved the payments industry. In some cases, to tears.
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Aaron Wilkinson, Chief Architect of ModoModopresenter2
Wilkinson has a decade and a half of experience in Software Engineering starting with a foundation of real-time embedded software for high-end military vehicles and branching out to many other fields, ranging from user interfaces to software architecture to web services.
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Avadian CU Chooses Jwaala’s Ignite Plaform for Online and Mobile Banking

Avadian CU Chooses Jwaala’s Ignite Plaform for Online and Mobile Banking
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Categories: Jwaala

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Birmingham, Alabama’s Avadian Credit Union is the latest FI to deploy Jwaala’s digital banking platform, Ignite.

“We got the contract hammered out in less than 30 days, and three days after the contract was signed, Jwaala had a server built and ready for us to start working with,” said Alpesh Patel, Avadian AVP of information technology. “We were under the gun with our current system’s end of life looming, but Jwaala really came through for us.”

Avadian CU not only had to beat the deadline of its sun-setting home-banking platform, but also recover from an attempt to work with a different vendor in 2014. A lack of progress after several months led Avadian to look for alternatives, which is when Jwaala stepped in. Moreover, Jwaala’s Ignite platform will replace both of Avadian’s online and mobile banking systems, another plus as far as the credit union is concerned. “Running a single solution for both online and mobile will streamline the back-office administration process,” Patel says. “(This) will also create a more consistent member experience.”

With more than 65,000 members, 17 branches, and more than $600 million in assets, Avadian CU is one of the largest credit unions in Alabama. Last fall, Avadian again earned a 5-star Superior rating from bank- and credit union-rating company BauerFinancial, which signified the credit union as among the best in the nation in terms of capital, loan quality, and profitability. Avadia CU was launched in 1934 as Alabama Telco Credit Union.

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Jwaala demonstrated its MoneyTracker BOB at FinovateSpring 2009 and is one of the 20 “charter presenters” at the very first Finovate conference. The company celebrated signing its 100th credit union client, Palisades FCU ($150 million in assets) last year and now includes more than 120 credit unions among its clients.

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WePay Launches in the U.K.

WePay Launches in the U.K.
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: WePay

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Payments-as-a-service company WePay is launching outside of the U.S. and Canada. Today the Palo Alto, California-based company expanded to the U.K.

That means that WePay clients such as GoFundMe, FreshBooks, and Constant Contact can now serve U.K. clients using WePay’s white-labeled, integrated service with fraud protection and compliance offerings. WePay CEO Bill Clerico said the launch facilitates what has “traditionally been a frustrating process for companies that offer payments.” Clerico adds, “By partnering with WePay, platforms can now integrate once and immediately offer the same level of payments service on both sides of the Atlantic, safely and seamlessly.”

To bolster business development efforts in the new region, WePay has opened a new office in London. The company has also opened an office in Providence, Rhode Island, to support extended customer-support hours.

WePay said Brexit was not a concern for the launch, saying that the developments “do not have bearing on WePay’s commitment or ability to support platform payments in the U.K.” The company added that, for North American platforms looking to launch internationally, the U.K. is a good destination. Along with the ease of the shared language, the country is the world’s third largest ecommerce market, claiming the world’s highest per capita ecommerce spend.

Founded in 2009, WePay launched its Veda Risk API at FinovateSpring 2014. In 2015, the company was named to the Inc. 500 list as the 62nd fastest-growing private company in the U.S. In May 2016, WePay launched a white-label mobile card reader.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: AutoGravity, CustomerXPs, defi Solutions, ebankIT, Entrust Datacard, Jwaala, Kabbage, Luxoft, Mambu, Modo Payments, Nomis Solutions, Prosper, SigFig, Stockpile, Trulioo, WePay

On Finovate.com

  • Avadian CU Chooses Jwaala’s Ignite Platform for Online and Mobile Banking

Around the web

  • Prosper sets up the Prosper Capital Consumer Credit Fund to invest in loans originated on its platform.
  • Kris Finsoftware and CustomerXPs Launch Clari5 for banks in AsiaPacific.
  • Excelian, Luxoft and Calypso Technology Sign New Partnership
  • Entrust Datacard teams up with Harman to safeguard IoT data.
  • Kabbage turns to Marketo for new marketing solutions.
  • Nomis Solutions upgrades its Deal Manager platform to give retail bankers greater insight into real-time sales and competitive data.
  • A look at fintech in Berlin and London highlights Mambu.
  • defiSOLUTIONS announces new partnership with eOriginal, a digital transaction specialist.
  • Investor’s Business Daily profiles Stockpile.
  • American Banker names SigFig as leader in robo-advisory revolution.

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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A Look at the First Week of Nasdaq’s Fintech Index

A Look at the First Week of Nasdaq’s Fintech Index
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, American Express, Blackhawk Network, Envestnet, Equifax, Fair Isaac FICO, Fidelity National Information Services, Fiserv, Green Dot, Jack Henry, Lending Club, Markit, MasterCard, PayPal, Thomson Reuters, Vantiv, VISA

While many of you were busy catching Pikachu last week, you may have missed that Nasdaq, in collaboration with KBW, launched an index to track financial technology. Officially named KBW Nasdaq Financial Technology Index (KFTX), the fund tracks 49 fintech companies, including 17 Finovate and FinDEVr alums.

On Monday, 18 July, the index opened at 1,000 points and closed at almost 1,014 points on Friday, 22 July.

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Finovate and FinDEVr alums listed in the index include:

According to Nasdaq’s press release, the companies in the index “represent roughly one-fifth (18%) of the investable domestic financial universe and nearly 4% of the investable domestic equity universe to account for approximately $785 billion in total market cap.”

It’s worth noting that the index, which will be rebalanced quarterly, does not consider activity from private companies, startups, or banks. Large, public companies may not be as sprightly as two guys in a garage, but they create their fair share of cutting-edge products and services. When creating the index, KBW and Nasdaq adhered to three guidelines:

  1. The companies mainly sell financial services
  2. Not primarily brick-and-mortar operated
  3. Income is generated from fees, rather than interest

Other companies in the index include (each company in the index is weighted equally):

Alliance Data Systems Corp. (ADS); Bankrate Inc. (RATE); Black Knight Financial Services Inc. (BKFS); BofI Holding Inc. (BOFI); Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (BR); Cardtronics Inc. (CATM); CBOE Holdings Inc. (CBOE); CME Group Inc. (CME); CoreLogic Inc. (CLGX); Dun & Bradstreet Corp. (DNB); Euronet Worldwide Inc. (EEFT); EverBank Financial Corp. (EVER); EVERTEC Inc. (EVTC); FactSet Research Systems Inc. (FDS); First Data Corp. (FDC); FleetCor Technologies Inc. (FLT); Global Payments Inc. (GPN); Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE); MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (MKTX); Moody’s Corp. (MCO); MSCI Inc. (MSCI); Nasdaq Inc. (NDAQ); S&P Global Inc. (SPGI); SEI Investments Co. (SEIC); Square Inc. (SQ); SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc. (SSNC); Total System Services (TSS); The Western Union Co. (WU); VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY); Verisk Analytics Inc. (VRSK); Virtu Financial Inc. (VIRT); and WEX Inc. (WEX).

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Peter Thiel Takes $3.5 Million Stake in Curated Investing Platform, nextmarkets

Peter Thiel Takes $3.5 Million Stake in Curated Investing Platform, nextmarkets
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: nextmarkets

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You may or may not agree with his politics, but his taste in investments is hard to beat.

At least that’s our take on Peter Thiel’s latest $3.5 million investment in Cologne, Germany’s nextmarkets GmbH. The stake reportedly is part of a larger “seven-figure sum” the company is raising in its current investment round, which features participation from FinLab and EXTOREL.

Already looking forward to seeing nextmarkets put the capital to use growing the business, Stefan Schutze, CEO of FinLab, praised both the company’s platform and its ability to get “such strong and well-known partners” to invest in nextmarkets’ vision of democratizing the financial markets. Dominic Heyden, co-founder and CTO of FinLab, said, “After nearly two years in development, we can now offer the world’s most innovative platform that intelligently combines e-learning with trading.”

Manuel and Dominic Heyden, who in 2008 co-founded another Finovate alum, the social trading app ayondo, (and sold it for a significant profit in 2014), have leveraged their experience combining trading and technology to create nextmarkets. The platform gives average traders and investors everyday, real-time access to the strategies used by professionals. The trading coaches on the platform also provide risk-management advice for investors who follow their trades and investments. nextmarkets calls its approach “curated investing and it applies to equity trading, FX trading, as well as other markets.

Speaking of the investment, Heyden was effusive in his praise of both his company’s new investors as well as the funding’s potential to drive nextmarkets’ growth. “We see it as a clear endorsement of both our concept and business model as well as our long-term vision,” Manuel Heyden said. “(We are) very proud that we were able to win over experienced investors.”

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cologne, Germany, nextmarkets demonstrated its web and iOS app at FinovateEurope 2015.

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With Dashlane’s Spaces for Mobile, Passwords Connect the Professional and the Personal

With Dashlane’s Spaces for Mobile, Passwords Connect the Professional and the Personal
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Dashlane

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Spaces for mobile is Dashlane’s latest solution to help employees in the BYOD (bring-your-own-device) era. Based on the desktop version launched in June, the technology gives employees using Android, iPhone, and iPad devices safe and easy access to both their professional and personal Spaces within the platform.

“Password management blurs the line between home and work,” Dashlane CEO Emmanuel Schalit said. “If an employee practices safe password habits at home, that same mindset will carry over into his or her workplace.” Spaces for mobile will allow users to toggle between personal and professional spaces from the same mobile device, as well as to transfer items back and forth between spaces.

New personalization, help, and onboarding guides have been added. The solution also features an enterprise control which allows an employer to quickly restrict access to professional spaces without interfering with personal space on the platform. The Dashlane blog underscored this feature when Malaika Nicholas, community manager, wrote that the controls enabled “business owners, company executives, and IT administrators … to oversee the password health and security of their entire organization and every employee through the centralized admin console, while still maintaining employees’ privacy.”

Dashlane’s identity- and access-management solutions are used by both consumers and businesses to securely manage passwords, credit card data and other sensitive information. The company uses advanced encryption and local storage to serve more than 5 million users, with more than 6,000 companies subscribing to its enterprise service, Dashlane Business.

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York City, Dashlane demonstrated its core technology at FinovateEurope 2013. In June, the company unveiled its redesigned iPhone and iPad solutions, the same month Mashable featured the technology in its list of “7 can’t miss apps.” Dashlane attracted a $22.5 million investment in May in a round led by new strategic partner TransUnion that took its total funding to more than $53 million. Former Fab.com executive David Lapter joined the company as CFO this spring.

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