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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on July 1, 2016
Categories: BaseVenture, CREALOGIX, Entersekt, IBM, Jumio, Temenos, Urban FT, Xpenditure

On Finovate.com

Finovate Debuts: BaseVenture’s Command Center for Fund Managers & Administrators

Temenos to Power Wealth Management Solution for Standard Chartered

CREALOGIX Adds Authentication Technology from South African FinDEVr alum, Entersekt

Get Your VAT Back: Xpenditure to Help Reclaim International VAT Refunds

Around the web

Swiss financial services firm bob Finance to deploy Netverify from Jumio.

IBM partners with Credit Mutuel Arkea on blockchain KYC project.

Urban FT joins the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI).

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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BizFi Lands $20 Million from Metropolitan Equity

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on June 30, 2016
Categories: Bizfi, Funding

Who said alt-lenders are going out of style. Small business financing provider BizFi garnered some funding of its own today. Metropolitan Equity Partners, which has been a backer of the New York-based company since 2013, funded BizFi with $20 million this week.

Combined with the company’s December 2015 round of $65 million, this brings its total capital to $85 million. BizFi will use the round to bolster its small business financing products, offer funding faster, and boost marketing to small-to-medium sized businesses.

Launched in 2005, BizFi offers a host of funding options, including equipment financing, invoice financing, SBA loans, and more. At FinovateFall 2015, BizFi showed its aggregation engine that supplies 35 online and offline partners, including OnDeck, Kabbage, and Bluevine, with a white-labeled, co-branded funding solution.

In April, Stephen Sheinbaum, the company’s founder, was featured on CNBC’s Squawk Box. During the segment Sheinbaum says, “I think you’re going to see the major banks and the community banks leverage our technology and our ability to make decisions in fractions of seconds, as opposed to the weeks and months it takes now.” BizFi’s marketplace and funding technologies have furnished $1.7 billion in financing to more than 30,000 small businesses.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on June 30, 2016
Categories: Bizfi, Digital Insight, IBM, Insuritas, Markit, ProfitStars, Quovo, Top Image Systems

On Finovate.com

BizFi Lands $20 Million from Metropolitan Equity

On FinDEVr.com

Quovo Teams Up with Totum Wealth to Improve Client Account Aggregation for Wealth Managers

Around the web

Markit chooses corporate events data from Wall Street Horizon for its research, analysis, and news interface, Markit Hub.

IBM joins The Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world’s leading trade association for the digital asset and blockchain industry.

Jack Henry & Associates introduces the ProfitStars Financial Performance suite.

Mid-sized European medical device maker agrees to deploy eFLOW AP from Top Image Systems.

Digital Insight teams up with PSCU to launch Card Management Services for Digital Banking.

Alliance Credit Union ($395 million ) selects Insuritas to open and manage its turnkey insurance agency.

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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From CEO to Deputy Mayor, Xendpay’s Rajesh Agrawal Heads to City Hall

By David Penn Posted on June 29, 2016
Categories: Xendpay

The new mayor of London isn’t just pro-business. He’s pro-fintech, as well.

To help his city manage the financial ramifications of the vote this week for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, has appointed Xendpay founder and CEO Rajesh Agrawal as deputy mayor.

“I know that Rajesh is the best person for the job of protecting jobs and growth in London as we deal with the fallout of the referendum,” Khan said. The mayor credited Agrawal’s experience in creating “multi-million pound businesses from scratch” as giving the fintech entrepreneur insight into the challenges businesses face in the United Kingdom.

Xendpay founder and CEO Rajesh Agrawal demonstrated his online money-transfer technology at FinovateEurope 2013 in London.

Agrawal, who in 2012 founded international money-transfer specialist Xendpay and served as Khan’s business adviser during the mayoral campaign, added that the sense of welcome he experienced as an immigrant to the UK must be maintained even as the country’s relationship with Europe changes. “(I) found a city that welcomed me with open arms and didn’t make me feel like a stranger,” Agrawal said. “This openness to talent and enterprise must not change as a result of the referendum.”

Xendpay’s online money-transfer service allows people to send money either to bank accounts, or to the company’s partnering network of cash-collection points. Geared toward international travelers of all kinds—from tourists to students to migrant workers, and available in English, Spanish, German, French, and Polish—Xendpay offers both cash-to-cash as well as more traditional card-to-bank transfers. All payments are covered by the FSA authorization of RationalFX, the foreign-exchange services firm Agrawal founded in 2005.

Agrawal demonstrated the Xendpay platform at FinovateEurope 2013. Earlier this year, the company announced that its money-transfer service was available in Tanzania and Burkina Faso.

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Fenergo Adds Enhanced Rules, Remediation to its CRS Compliance Solution

By David Penn Posted on June 29, 2016
Categories: Fenergo

Client Lifecycle Management solution provider Fenergo is boosting the capabilities of its Tax Compliance suite. The enhanced version of the company’s CRS Compliance Solution is geared toward improving tax-regulation compliance through improvements to the Three Rs: Rules, Remediation, and Reporting.

“Where FATCA was the game changer in tax compliance, the Common Reporting Standard promises to go way beyond FATCA’s remit to ensure global-wide tax compliance,” said Laura Glynn, Fenergo’s global manager for regulatory affairs. This challenge has guided the improvements made to Fenergo’s technology, providing a rules-based process to identify and conduct due diligence on reportable clients and accounts. This process also includes the data-capture and -classification requirements for both CRS and FATCA.

Fenergo CEO Marc Murphy demonstrated Deal Manager at FinovateEurope 2012 in London.

Glynn highlighted the complexity of the issue for financial institutions in areas such as Asia in particular, which often have to meet the compliance standards of more than 40 different regional regulators. It is also especially relevant for Fenergo, which announced an expansion to Singapore in February. “This is a huge operational undertaking forcing financial institutions to be able to manage each of the rules from every jurisdiction,” Glynn said. Fenergo has not only upgraded its Regulatory Rules Engine, but also enhanced the functionality of its Remediation Master Case Management and Workflow. The streamlined simplification and improved visibility will make it easier for financial professionals to track remediation cases and subcases. The company says that the platform is already being implemented with clients.

Read more about Fenergo’s work on remediation and reporting in the company’s white paper.

Recent headlines for Fenergo include the company’s move into the Middle East market in May, opening an office in Abu Dhabi. ICBC Standard Bank choose Fenergo’s client lifecycle management platform in April. And Kikko Securities America announced in March that it would deploy the company’s AML, KYC, FATCA technology.

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Fenergo demonstrated its Deal Manager solution at FinovateSpring 2012. Fenergo has raised more than $80 million in funding; its most recent is a $75 million private equity infusion in July 2015 from Insight Venture Partners. The company was recognized in the European Fintech 100 in April 2016, the same month that FinTechCity featured Fenergo in its FinTech50 2016 list of the hottest fintechs in Europe.

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Kreditech Launches Online POS Financing Solution

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on June 29, 2016
Categories: Kreditech

Consumer financing company Kreditech announced a new business line today. In an effort to empower underbanked individuals, the company launched a new POS financing solution called Monedo Now. It gives online shoppers more payment flexibility with instant financing of up to $5,550 (€5,000) for up to 36 months at rates comparable to local banks.

The first partner to go live with the solution is PayU Global, a payment services provider who recently launched a beta test with one of its merchant clients. Kreditech plans to expand the service. Alexander Graubner-Müller, CEO and co-founder said, “We are already in talks with further clients in the e-commerce, travel and other online sectors and look forward to providing our innovative technology as an online payment method in the checkout process.”

Kreditech’s Sebastian Diemer and Alexander Graubner-Müller, presenters at FinovateSpring 2014.

Monedo Now uses Kreditech’s credit-scoring technology which underwrites risk on thin-file credit clients. At FinovateSpring 2014, the company showed off its algorithm that provides a risk score of the customer by studying their financial situation at the time of their application without pulling in historical data. Kreditech uses 20,000 data points, updated every minute, to offer 24/7 access to credit decisioning for anyone in 35 seconds.

Kreditech plans further integrations with companies using its Credit-as-a-Service API which offers support for financing more than just physical goods at the POS. The company will support financing for online services and travel purchases as well as direct integrations with online wallets, prepaid cards and bank offerings.

In March, Kreditech closed a $103 million Series C funding round from contributors such as World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation, Blumberg Capital, and Peter Thiel. That round boosted the company’s total funding to $151 million.

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on June 29, 2016
Categories: Avalara, Cloud Lending, Fidor Bank, FinDEVr APIntelligence, On Deck Capital, OutsideIQ, Xero

FinDEVrSV16-LogoV2(wdate) Our 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

Avalara Adds New Stripe Integration, Earns Dual Honors at American Business Awards

Apply Now to Present at FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2016!

The latest from FinDEVr New York 2016 presenters

Canadian Government Selects OutsideIQ to Bring DDIQ to Brazil and London

Wired UK profiles Fidor, “the fintech bank run by its customers.”

OnDeck launches Accountant Advisor Program to help accountants arrange financing for their small business clients.

Alumni updates

Major update to Xero’s online invoicing technology to help businesses avoid phishing scams.

Fintech profile interviews Snehal Fulzele, Cloud Lending CEO.

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

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GBG Group Agrees to Acquire IDScan Biometrics

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on June 29, 2016
Categories: IDscan Biometrics, Mergers & Acquisitions

It was a fast turnaround for FinovateEurope 2016 Best of Show winner IDScan Biometrics, a document authentication and facial recognition company. The London-based company today announced it is being acquired by identity intelligence company GB Group.

The companies anticipate the deal will close for $50 million (£37 million), with another $10.7 million (£8 million) contingent on reaching revenue and EBITDA targets 18 months after close. The deal is expected to add to GBG Group’s earnings per share in the first 12 months after the acquisition.

CEO Tamlyn Thompson and Dr. Zaher Zaidan, CFO, demoed IDScan Biometrics’ facial recognition algorithm.

IDScan offers a digital onboarding suite that reduces manual data entry and offers KYC and facial recognition tools for automation, speed, and efficiency. The company’s document-scan offering uses artificial intelligence and a digital library containing thousands of documents. At FinovateEurope 2016, the company demonstrated how its facial recognition algorithm tests a user’s face against the image on their ID.

IDScan brings more than 1,000 global clients to the table, including American Express, Barclays, and Gatwick Airport. GBG CEO Richard Law said, “GBG has followed IDscan Biometrics over the years and we have seen this business grow strongly, winning significant enterprise customers.”

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on June 29, 2016
Categories: ACI Worldwide, blooom, Envestnet, Fenergo, HelloWallet, ID Analytics, IDscan Biometrics, Kreditech, LikeFolio, ThetaRay, Xendpay

On Finovate.com

GBG Group Agrees to Acquire IDScan Biometrics

Check out this week’s FinDEVr APIntelligence.

Kreditech Launches Online POS Financing Solution

Fenergo Adds Enhanced Rules, Remediation to its CRS Compliance Solution

From CEO to Deputy Mayor, Xendpay’s Rajesh Agrawal Heads to City Hall

Around the web

The Paypers interviews ACI Worldwide’s Craig Saks, group president of strategic products.

The Media Line’s column on CyberWeek 2016 at Tel Aviv University features ThetaRay.

PYMNTS.com chats with Jeff Hampton, TSYS director of product marketing.

Greg Smith, Blooom president; Aaron David Bauer, Envestnet Executive MD; and Andy Swan of LikeFolio earn spots on Investment News’ 40 Under 40 list.

Matt Fellowes resigns as chief innovation officer at Morningstar—which bought HelloWallet in 2014—to build retirement software.

ID Analytics secures patent for systematic detection of fraud rings.

Fenergo enhances CRS compliance solution with enhanced rules and remediation.

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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IBM Opens Bluemix Garage in New York City

By David Penn Posted on June 28, 2016
Categories: IBM

In opening its latest Bluemix Garage in New York City, IBM continues to put money where developers, software designers and others are. The New York City location will be IBM’s sixth, with garages currently in operation in San Francisco, Toronto, London, Nice, and Tokyo. IBM is partnering with Galvanize, who will host the New York garage on its new New York campus. Other locations are said to be in the works for the second half of 2016.

Galvanize co-founder and CEO Jim Deters said that locating the Bluemix Garage in New York City, within the Galvanize community, “allows our strong network of developers and startups to leverage the power of the cloud and the expertise of IBM to competitively innovate products and apps in the growing fintech and blockchain spaces.” Galvanize runs a network for developers, coders, and technology entrepreneurs, and has more than 1,800 members across seven campuses.

Pictured (left to right): IBM’s Alex Baghdjian, senior offering associate, financial markets & wealth management, and Rob Stanich, global wealth management offering manager, demonstrated Client Insight for Wealth Management.

IBM’s cloud-development platform, Bluemix, has more than 140 tools and technologies for developing solutions leveraging big data, mobile, analytics, Watson, IoT, and more. With more than 120,000 applications launched from the platform every month, the open standards-based platform is one of largest public cloud deployments in the world. Within its Bluemix Garages, IBM is especially interested in blockchain-related projects such as those pursued by the Mizuho Financial Group, which is working with the IBM Bluemix Garage in Tokyo to develop settlement technology using the blockchain. Prashant Bhuyan, CEO of Alpha Modus, an investment technology firm, credited Bluemix for helping his company launch “transformational apps that leverage cognitive analytics with unbelievable time and efficiency.”

Founded in 1911, IBM made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2016, demonstrating its Client Insight for Wealth Management technology. IBM’s cloud technologies have been in New York since 2014, when IBM Cloud was deployed to power Digital.NYC—an online hub that connects more than 8,000 startups within New York City’s startup and technology community.

If you’re into fintech development, then be sure to put our upcoming developer’s conference, FinDEVr 2016 Silicon Valley, on your calendar. Join us October 18 and 19 for two days of the latest in fintech APIs, case studies, integrations, and more.

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Canadian Government Selects OutsideIQ to Bring DDIQ to Brazil and London

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on June 28, 2016
Categories: OutsideIQ

Toronto-based OutsideIQ has been selected by the Canadian government to showcase their products on two Canadian fintech trade missions, one to Brazil and the other to London.

The company will meet with local financial institutions and others in the fintech industry. OutsideIQ’s CEO Dan Adamson said that the missions will enable the company “to collaborate with other fintech leaders and find partners that will adopt and implement [its] solutions.”

OutsideIQ will showcase its DDIQ platform which it debuted at FinovateSpring 2016. The product is already being used at “top, global financial institutions” to mitigate risk by generating profiles of individuals and companies. The technology uses artificial intelligence to imitate human judgement and offer auditable reports for regulators.

Dan Adamson, CEO and founder of OutsideIQ, demoed the DDIQ API at FinDEVr New York 2016.

Earlier this month OutsideIQ formed a distribution partnership with Alacra, a KYC and reference data management platform. At FinDEVr New York 2016, company CEO and founder Dan Adamson showed how developers can use OutsideIQ’s API.

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Lending Club Appoints Scott Sanborn as CEO

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on June 28, 2016
Categories: Lending Club

Even if you’re not a fintech fanatic, you likely know that in early May, Lending Club’s CEO resigned amid accusations of loan-documentation errors. At the time CMO Scott Sanborn and director Hans Morris stepped in as acting co-CEOs. Today the company announced the official appointment of Sanborn (pictured) as CEO and Morris as board chairman.

This bit of stability was enough to send the San Francisco-based company’s shares up 6% this morning after having tumbled 61% since the start of this year; however, with the good news, comes a flip side. Lending Club cut 179 jobs—12% of its workforce—as a reaction to lower loan volumes in the second quarter and in recognition that “fully restoring investor confidence may take time.” The company expects loan volumes for the second quarter of this year to be one-third less than its first quarter volume of $2.75 billion.

Lending Club will spend $9 million this quarter on investor incentives and $20 million on the ripple effects of job cuts—severance pay and employee-retention efforts—and advisory relationships. The company holds its annual meeting later today.

Founded in 2006, Lending Club demoed at FinovateSpring 2009 and at the inaugural Finovate in 2007.

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