FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: NIIT Technologies

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: NIIT Technologies

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FS2016-wdateA 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:

NIIT_Technologies_AshleyLukeAshley 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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NIIT_Technologies_JimDeCiccoJames 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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NIIT_Technologies_GauravMistryGaurav 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

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Mitek

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FS2016-wdateA 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

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: NuData Security

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FS2016-wdateA 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

NuData_RyanWilkRyan 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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NuData_RobertCappsRobert 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

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: ThreatMetrix

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FS2016-wdateA 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

ThreatMetrix_AndreasBaumhofAndreas 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 ProductsThreatMetrix_DeanWeinert
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

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Auvenir

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FS2016-wdateA 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

Auvenir_PeteMyersPete 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, CTOAuvenir_JonFelske
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

Fiserv and INETCO Team Up to Enhance ATM Management

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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.

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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.

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: CRMNEXT

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: CRMNEXT

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FS2016-wdateA 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

CRMNEXT_JoeSaleskyJoe 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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CRMNEXT_EdPonteEd 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

On Finovate.com

  • “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.

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

money_scrabbleDue 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

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

  • ReadWrite features Tyfone’s launch of a new challenge at MIT focused on Internet of Things (IoT) security.
  • “Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche Receives Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award”
  • 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