Finovate Debuts: Innofis Enhances the UX for Banks and Customers

Finovate Debuts: Innofis Enhances the UX for Banks and Customers

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Customers shouldn’t be the only ones enjoying a great user experience. That’s the driving factor behind Innofis, a company that furnishes a suite of digital banking tools providing a beautiful user experience for both bankers and their customers.

In 2012, the company saw an opportunity in offering digital banking services. The initial team, whose roots stem from banking, IT, and digital offerings, launched Innofis that same year. By the end of the year, they already had two customers, and they knew they were onto a great idea.

Company facts

  • Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain
  • Founded in 2012
  • Privately owned
  • 80+ employees
  • €6M in revenue
  • >3 million digital end customers (retail and corporate)

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The company’s back-end management tools make it simple for any bank employee to control banking campaigns across all channels. The company uses big data combined with contextual customer behavior to help banks extend relevant calls to action.

DMorenoWe caught up with the company’s CEO, David Moreno at FinovateEurope 2016 for an interview to learn more about Innofis.

Moreno, who has served as CEO of Innofis since 2012, started his career at a bank where he worked in retail and corporate banking, marketing, IT, and consulting. During his 11-year tenure, he saw and experienced many different functions of the bank.

Finovate: What problem does Innofis solve?
Moreno: Many banks are still in the process of either starting up their digital platform or looking for modules which complement their existing offer. Established banks are often struggling with legacy systems and little or no connection between the new digital channels and the more traditional ones. Innofis helps banks solve these issues by either implementing a complete digital platform or providing the missing parts with specific modules. Furthermore, banks face a challenge in keeping up with continuous market innovation, such as wearables, augmented reality and geolocation. Innofis keeps a tab on these developments and adds them to their digital service offering as they appear.

Finovate: Who are your primary customers?
Moreno: Our clients are banks. We are working with some of the world’s largest banks and have millions of their customers using our digital platforms.

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Innofis multi-channel interface

Finovate: How does Innofis solve the problem better?
Moreno: We do not necessarily propose a complete digital ‘reset’ for banks. We are mindful of the investments made and difficulty of infrastructure switching costs. Our modular approach is the ideal answer to this situation. We often actually reuse existing applications and provide an efficient combination between old and new.

Finovate: Tell us about your favorite implementation of your solution.
Moreno: We did recently have the opportunity to help a bank in the Middle East start from scratch and implement our entire range of digital channels (mobile, tablets, desktop, wearables) together with our administration platform that allows to manage completely the channels and the way they interact with their clients . It was great to see these go live and see customer usage rates jump up right away.

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Innofis administration dashboard

Finovate: What in your background gave you the confidence to tackle this challenge?
Moreno: I have many years of experience working in banks. I do not approach the constant financial innovation as a threat for banks, but rather an opportunity to adapt existing resources and provide better service for banking clients. I believe that my background, together with a strong technical team who made our platform a reality, have allowed us to position ourselves as a trusted advisor and provider for banks.

Finovate: What are some upcoming initiatives from Innofis that we can look forward to over the next few months?
Moreno: We continue working on some ground-breaking modules that complement our platform. At FinovateEurope, we showed our approach of focusing on the UX for the people inside the bank who actually have to work with the systems. And the response has been tremendous. We believe banks understand now that a good customer-facing UX is a must. The real challenge now is to provide products that can actually be used easily and efficiently by the banks.

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Finovate: Where do you see Innofis a year or two from now?
Moreno: We are on a road of international expansion. We are experiencing increasing demand from Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and others and we are planning to build out our organization in order to keep delivering the quality of implementation that customers have come to expect from us.


Innofis CEO David Moreno, along with David Falk, demoed the company’s Omnichannel Predictive Banking at FinovateEurope 2016 in London.

Expensify Leverages Uber Partnership to Create the Lazy Man’s Expense Report

Expensify Leverages Uber Partnership to Create the Lazy Man’s Expense Report

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As many startups seek to become the Uber of their field by creating easy and addictive user experiences, expense management startup Expensify has done just that by completely automating a portion of expense management.

The San Francisco-based company today announced it will power Uber’s new Auto-Expense feature. The new feature is part of Uber’s Business Profile selection that separates work rides from personal ones. Founder of Expensify and CEO David Barrett says, “Expensify is thrilled to partner with Uber on this awesome new feature to help our customers save time and money by making sure they never pay out of pocket for a business-related Uber ride again!”

In the Uber app settings, users connect their business profile with Expensify. From there, Uber business travel receipts are automatically emailed to Expensify for reimbursement.

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Expensify first partnered with ride-sharing service Uber in 2014 to automatically send an Uber driver to the airport when a user’s flight arrives. The company describes this capability, called SmartRides, as “the VIP travel experience for everyone.”

Last month Expensify launched a London office to fuel further European expansion. All new European-based users who sign up for Expensify before the end of May will be able to use the service for free until the end of the year.

Forbes named Expensify one of the Hottest Startups of 2015, and Fast Company has listed it as a Top 10 Most Innovative Company in 2015. At FinovateSpring 2013, the company’s CEO and founder David Barrett debuted Expensify Invoices.

Finovate Debuts: Designed for Women, Spiff Introduces its Social Savings Service

Finovate Debuts: Designed for Women, Spiff Introduces its Social Savings Service

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Spiff is a straightforward concept: a “simple and fun” savings service designed with women in mind. Founder and CEO Carl Wessmann credits the women in his life for helping him understand the importance of savings, and he’s returned the favor with a new technology that, as he explains it, “helps connect money with what it can accomplish” for users and their loved ones.

Spiff is poised to take advantage of the disconnect between the rising economic power of women and the fact that women are still a disproportionately small portion of the world’s savers and investors.

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Spiff CMO Kristin Juland Møller and CEO Carl Wessmann demonstrated their technology at FinovateEurope 2016 in London.

“Our key demographic, women between 25 and 35, play an essential part in our mission to reduce wealth inequality,” said Spiff CMO Kristin Juland Møller. Noting that 1 in 4 millennial women are “already parents,” she pointed out that “by providing them with inspiration and savings tools they need, we will not only empower millions with good saving habits, but also empower future generations as they pass on their saving habits to their children.”

Spiff_image_0In Spiff’s Finovate debut, Møller showed three of Spiff’s key features:

  • Setting up a savings plan for oneself
  • Setting up a savings plan for a dependent
  • Sharing that savings plan with a relative, such as an aunt or grandparent

Møller presented the Spiff Dashboard, where she was able to choose between different types of savings plans (options included themes such as “Your Future,” “Your Kids,” and “Rainy Day”). The Savings Plan can be personalized with an image, as well as a description of the specific savings goal for the plan.

The user then chooses the amount of monthly savings to be automatically drawn from a connected account and set aside into either a savings account or a pre-selected investment fund. Choose a day of the month for the transaction and, after confirming the information, the savings plan is set.

“Saving is a family affair,” Møller said, showing next how a child’s savings plan built with Spiff could easily be shared with grandparents or other relatives via social media. “It’s something parents do for their kids, and grandparents do for their grandkids,” she said.

The stats

  • Founded in January 2015
  • Headquartered in Oslo, Norway
  • Carl Wessmann is CEO and founder
  • Raised $500,000 from investors in five countries

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We sat down for a quick conversation with Møller during rehearsal day at FinovateEurope, and followed up with a few questions about Spiff, its focus on helping empower women financially, and what to look forward to from the company in 2016.

Finovate: What problem does Spiff solve?

Kristin Juland Møller: Spiff is a saving service, designed with women in mind. We want to empower women with smarter finance tools for saving, so we created a simple, social and fun savings app. Spiff connects money to what it can accomplish, for you and your loved ones. In simple, straightforward language. 

Finovate: Who are your primary customers?

Møller: Women 25-35.

Spiff-PR-Dashboard-iPhoneFinovate: How does Spiff solve the problem better?

Møller: You need to build products that people love, not products that will only make you more profit. That means that you need to design products for key demographics, and we choose to focus on a key demographic that has been widely neglected from banks for the past hundred years. It’s time we shake it up. 

Finovate: Tell us about your favorite implementation of Spiff.

Møller: Saving is a family affair. Grandparents save for their grandkids, parents for their kids, friends save for trips together, and young couples save for their first home. Spiff is a social savings app that allows you to share saving plans, give savings as a gift, and reinvent the charm of saving together. We cheer you on, and celebrate when you reach your goals!

Finovate: What in your background gave you the confidence to tackle this challenge? 

Møller: Our founders are strongly influenced by Nordic values, equality, and the universal notion that women and men are worth the same. Our one founder Calle has written a Facebook Note on why this is important in his life. Keyword: Women https://www.facebook.com/notes/carl-nicolai-wessmann/the-women-of-my-life/10153213470391190

Strong and independent women around us have taught us the value of kindness, fairness and empathy—and the importance of saving. Spiff is built on these values. 

Finovate: What are some upcoming initiatives from Spiff that we can look forward to over the next few months?

Møller: Testing has begun. And the early signs are that people love it. We are launching in Norway this year. Expansion will follow. We welcome everyone to join the Spiffy waitlist (www.getspiff.no), and be one of the first to try Spiff. We will also be part of one of the world’s best accelerators, TINC, in Silicon Valley.

Finovate: Where do you see Spiff a year or two from now?  

Møller: We will have empowered one million women with smarter savings. 


Check out Spiff’s demo video from FinovateEurope 2016.

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “Expensify Leverages Uber Partnership to Create the Lazy Man’s Expense Report”
  • “Finovate Debuts: Innofis Enhances the UX for Banks and Customers”
  • “Prosper Appoints USAA Exec as New CFO”

On FinDEVr.com

  • “PayStand to Power New Online Payments Service from ONE UP”

Around the web

  • Luxoft integrates P2P payment technology with connected, self-driving car.
  • Thomson Reuters teams up with Hong Kong-based accelerator, SuperCharger.
  • Misys unveils Standardized Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) module for FusionRisk.
  • PYMNTS interviews Richard Stegall, CEO and Co-founder of Urban FT.
  • NPR highlights Blooom for helping manage student-loan debt.
  • The New York Times features Narrative Science in a look at artificial intelligence.

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.

Save $200 When You Register for FinovateSpring By This Friday!

Save $200 When You Register for FinovateSpring By This Friday!

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This Friday is the final day of Very Early-Bird ticket sales for FinovateSpring 2016. To take advantage of these early discounts and save $200 off the regular price, be sure to register before the end of the week.

Our spring conference returns to San Jose on May 10 & 11 for two days of live fintech demonstrations and high-caliber networking. The show will take place at City National Civic. Find out more about the venue and local hotels on the event’s website.

Based on the strong ticket sales we’ve seen, we expect this year’s event to blow past last year’s record-setting audience of nearly 1,400. Plus, with the impressive applications we’ve received from companies eager to present, this show promises to be one you won’t want to miss (stay tuned in the coming weeks for the presenter announcement!). If you’d like a refresher of what you can expect to see on stage, check out last year’s demo videos in our video archives.

And remember, tickets are fully refundable through March 25, so there’s no risk in securing these savings and your spot today.  We hope to see you in Silicon Valley this May!


FinovateSpring 2016 is sponsored by The BancorpAssociation for Financial TechnologyHudson Cook, and Leverage PR.

FinovateSpring 2016 is partnered with Acuity Market IntelligenceAite Group, American Bankers AssociationBank Innovators CouncilBankersHubBankless TimesBayPay Forumbobsguide, Breaking BanksCalifornia Bankers AssociationCanadian Trade Commissioner ServiceCelentThe CointelegraphDigital Currency CouncilEbankingNewsFilene Research InstituteIDC Financial InsightsJavelinKorea FinTech ForumMercator Advisory GroupPayments & Cards NetworkThe PaypersPitchBookSME Finance Forum, and Western Independent Bankers.

Cloud Lending Solutions Launches Asset Leasing Product

Cloud Lending Solutions Launches Asset Leasing Product

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California-based Cloud Lending Solutions today added to its six lending-management products by launching CL Lease which integrates into lessors’ own leasing platforms to provide an automated view of the full life of the lease on a single record.

Cloud Lending highlights four main benefits of the new tool:

  • Set up payment schedules or other monthly charges
  • Automate billing and flexibly recalculate changes
  • Manage a lease after contract maturity
  • Work with delinquent accounts to improve collections

CL Lease is available on Salesforce’s marketplace, Force.com. It can either be integrated into an existing origination platform, or work with Cloud Lending’s in-house platforms, CL Originate and CL Collections.

At FinovateSpring 2015, Cloud Lending’s co-founder and CEO Snehal Fulzele debuted CL Exchange, a platform where online loan marketplaces and lenders exchange loan applications to find the best match for their portfolio.

In a presentation at FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, the company’s CTO & Co-founder, Darpan Saini gave a presentation on how banks can take advantage of Cloud Lending’s multiple offerings.

FinDEVr New York 2016 is coming up on March 29 & 30. Register today to save your seat.

Finagraph Picks Up Investment from Moody’s

Finagraph Picks Up Investment from Moody’s

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The small business intelligence and analytics platform Finagraph has earned an investment from Moody’s, giving the rating service and research firm a minority stake in the Seattle-area company.

According to Mark Almeida, President of Moody’s Analytics, the investment is based on the company’s desire to help FIs that lend to SMEs. Almeida explained:

“Finagraph’s technology and insight into small business financials enable us to accelerate our efforts to transform the way lenders interact with small businesses, helping bankers make better, faster lending decisions for the growing SME market.”

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CEO James Walter (left) and VP of Sales Corey Ross demonstrated their platform at FinovateSpring 2013 in San Francisco (a.k.a. BBC Easy).

Known as BBC Easy when it demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2013, Finagraph provides business owners with tools that help them see trends in working capital, find hidden cash, and monitor risk indicators such as declining cash or a rising expenses vs revenues ratio.

Finagraph’s Financial Dashboard plays well with accounting systems such as Xero and QuickBooks and, as of mid-February, is now available for free. Finagraph also offers financial skills training through its Finagraph Academy, and courtesy of its new relationship with Moody’s, Finagraph will provide business credit scores based on Moody’s Analytics Risk Quality or MARQ.

Finagraph was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The amount of Moody’s investment was not disclosed. The company will gain a seat on Finagraph’s board of directors are part of the deal.

BizEquity, Malauzai Take Top Honors at Bank Director’s FinXTech Awards

BizEquity, Malauzai Take Top Honors at Bank Director’s FinXTech Awards

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In fintech, to innovate is human. But to implement is divine.

That’s the takeaway from the FinXTech Awards, which recognized five fintech innovators not just for the technology they’ve created, but for the partnerships with banks to put their technology in the hands of customers.

Two of the five award winners at this year’s event are Finovate alums. BizEquity earned recognition for its work with Metro Bank, and Malauzai Software won its award through its work with Somerset Trust Company.

BizEquity“Part of our mission from the start has been to collaborate with financial services partners to strengthen their offering and facilitate their expansion,” BizEquity CEO Michael Carter said. “Increasingly we are seeing partnerships between banks and fintech companies as both realize the mutual benefit of such collaborations, we are excited to be at the forefront of this development.”

Malauzai logoMalauzai CPO Robb Gaynor similarly praised the benefits of bank/fintech partnerships: “We’re proud to work with innovative partners such as Somerset Trust, as these collaborative efforts between banks and fintech companies deliver numerous benefits to the overall industry.”

Additionally, three Finovate alums earned recognition as finalists.

  • Ignite Sales with Central Bancompany
  • StrategyCorps with First Financial Bank
  • Zopa with Metro Bank (U.K.)

The FinXTech Awards are sponsored by Bank Director, an information resource for directors and officers at FIs. The Awards were part of Bank Director’s annual FinTech Day held at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square on March 1.

Biz Equity demoed its BizEquity One U.K. solution at FinovateEurope 2015. Malauzai’s most recent Finovate appearance was at FinovateSpring 2015 where the company presented its Virtual Banking Experience technology.

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FinDEVrNY16-V2(wdate)We’re taking our FinDEVr developer showcase to New York on March 29 & 30, 2016. Register today.

Developer news

  • Emirates NBD Group and the Open Bank Project launch a global competition for fintech startups.

The latest from upcoming FinDEVr New York 2015 presenters:a

  • Markit to deploy smart automation technology from WorkFusion.
  • Nerdwallet profiles robo-advisor Betterment.

Alumni updates

  • Spreedly secures $3 million financing round.

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

Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • “BizEquity, Malauzai Take Top Honors at Bank Director’s FinXTech Awards”
  • Check out this week’s FinDEVr APIntelligence.
  • “Finagraph Picks Up Investment from Moody’s”
  • “Cloud Lending Solutions Launches Asset Leasing Product”

Around the web

  • Vietnam’s Techcombank to support treasury, capital markets operations with FusionCapital from Misys.
  • Top Image Systems partners with TerraQuest to bring content processing to British government agency.
  • American Banker uses data from Pindrop Security to examine call center fraud.
  • Sparkroom wins Gold LeadsCouncil LEADER Award for Most Valuable Tech, and the Silver Award for Best Marketing Agency in Education.
  • Luxoft integrates P2P payment technology to enable IoT Solutions in Rinspeed’s Autonomous Driving Car.
  • Air Europa adds SafetyPay as a payment method.

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: 31 Companies Raise $560 Million Week Ending Feb 26

money_keyAnyone saying funding to the fintech sector is slowing, isn’t looking at the same data we are. For the eighth straight week, more than 20 fintech companies raised new rounds.

Two months into the new year, the total raised is $5.3 billion, more than double the $2.4 billion invested during the same period last year. And more telling, the number of deals is up 82% (198 vs. 109 in 2015).

The 31 companies funded this week set a new weekly record surpassing the old mark set 4 weeks ago. A total of $557 million was raised with $400 million headed to a single company, health insurance newcomer Oscar. The overall total included $28 million in debt.

Four Finovate and FinDEVr alums raised new cash:

Here are the fintech deals by size from 20 Feb to 26 Feb 2016:

Oscar
Health insurance provider
Latest round: $400 million Private Equity
Total raised: $727.5 million
HQ: New York City
Tags: Consumer, employers, human resources, employee benefits, healthcare, insurance
Source: Crunchbase

Namely
HR, benefits, and payroll platform
Latest round: $30 million
Total raised: $107.8 million
HQ: New York City
Tags: SMB, human resources, employees, benefits, insurance
Source: Crunchbase

MoneyMe
Australian alt-lender to consumers
Latest round: $21.7 million Debt
Total raised: $22.4 million (including $21.7 million debt)
HQ: Australia
Tags: Consumer, loans, lending, underwriting
Source: Crunchbase

Signifyd
Fraud protection for e-commerce
Latest round: $20 million Series B
Total raised: $31 million
HQ: San Jose, California
Tags: Enterprise, security, fraud protection, risk management, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

AppCard
Loyalty card platform
Latest round: $20 million Series B
Total raised: $26.5 million
HQ: New York City
Tags: SMB, loyalty, rewards, payments, point of sale, merchants, POS
Source: Crunchbase

RealtyShares
Online marketplace for real estate investing
Latest round: $20 million Series B
Total raised: $31.9 million
HQ: San Francisco, California
Tags: Consumer, investing, real estate, wealth management
Source: Crunchbase

Borrowell
Alt-lender for Canadian consumers
Latest round: $6.4 million Debt
Total raised: $11.8 million (including $6.4 million debt)
HQ: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tags: Consumer, lending, loans, underwriting, Equitable Bank (investor)
Source: Crunchbase

Real
Digital real estate broker
Latest round: $6 million
Total raised: $7.5 million
HQ: Houston, Texas
Tags: Consumer, agents, home selling, brokers, CRM, real estate
Source: Crunchbase

Juspay
Mobile & online payments in India
Latest round: $5.8 million
Total raised: $5.8 million
HQ: Kormangala, India
Tags: SMB, payments, mobile, POS, merchants
Source: Crunchbase

CREXi
Commercial real estate platform
Latest round: $4.3 million Seed
Total raised: $4.3 million
HQ: Venice, California
Tags: Enterprise, SMB, commercial real estate, CRM, deal flow, mortgage
Source: FT Partners

Captain401
401(k) platform for small businesses
Latest round: $3.5 million Seed
Total raised: $3.6 million
HQ: San Francisco, California
Tags: SMB, retirement planning, 401(k), savings, investing, deposits, Y Combinator
Source: Crunchbase

Vanare
Wealth management platform for advisors
Latest round: $3.5 million Series
Total raised: $6.85 million
HQ: New York City
Tags: Advisors, B2B2C, investing, wealth management, CRM, trading
Source: Crunchbase

Spreedly
Credit card vault to work with multiple payment gateways
Latest round: $3 million Series
Total raised: $5.5 million
HQ: Durham, North Carolina
Tags: SMB, merchants, developers, credit/debit cards, payments, API, security, ecommerce, Finovate alum, FinDEVr alum
Source: Finovate

FinLocker
Loan application & document sharing service
Latest round: $2.25 million
Total raised: $2.25 million
HQ: Missouri City, Missouri
Tags: Enterprise, B2B2C, lending, loan applications, document processing, originations, mortgages
Source: Crunchbase

Mintos
P2p lending marketplace
Latest round: $2.2 million Seed
Total raised: $2.2 million
HQ: Riga, Latvia
Tags: Consumer, SMB, lending, loans, underwriting, investing
Source: Crunchbase

Hepster
Digital insurance distributer
Latest round: $2 million Seed
Total raised: $2 million
HQ: Cape Town, South Africa
Tags: SMB, merchants, point of sale, POS, insurance
Source: Crunchbase

Finomial
Funds management platform
Latest round: $1.64 million
Total raised: $5.05 million
HQ: New York City
Tags: Enterprise, mutual funds, alternative investments, CRM, investor relations
Source: Crunchbase

Ribbet.me
Blockchain-based rewards platform
Latest round: $1.5 million Seed
Total raised: $1.5 million
HQ: New York City
Tags: Consumer, SMB, blockchain, bitcoin, rewards, smart contracts
Source: Crunchbase

Kwanji
Money transfer price comparisons 
Latest round: $700,000 Equity crowdfunding
Total raised: $1.9 million
HQ: London, England, U.K.
Tags: SMB, payments, investing, remittances, FX, discovery, lead gen
Source: Crunchbase

MOVO (MovoCash)
Mobile banking & payments platform
Latest round: $700,000
Total raised: $700,000
HQ: Palo Alto, California
Tags: Consumer, B2B2C, mobile, P2P payments, person-to-person
Source: FT Partners

Kard
Credit card rewards optimization 
Latest round: $600,000 Seed
Total raised: $600,000
HQ: New York City
Tags: Consumer, loyalty, payments, rewards, PFM, personal finance, credit/debit cards, spending
Source: Crunchbase

OpenGamma
Improving capital efficiency for derivatives trading
Latest round: $500,000 Debt
Total raised: $23.2 million (includes $2.75 million debt)
HQ: London, England, U.K.
Tags: Enterprise, risk management, trading, investing, compliance
Source: Crunchbase

Obsidian Solutions
Investment management portal
Latest round: $500,000 Seed
Total raised: $516,000
HQ: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tags: Enterprise, advisors, investment management, CRM, investor relations
Source: Crunchbase

Trusted Knight
Data security for financial institutions
Latest round: Undisclosed Series B
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: Annapolis, Maryland
Tags: Enterprise, security, fraud protection, risk management, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Finagraph
Financial data and BI for small businesses
Latest round: Not disclosed
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: Mercer Island, Washington
Tags: SMB, business intelligence, analytics, data analysis, accounting, Moody’s (investor), Finovate alum
Source: FT Partners

DevCharge
Facilitating payments to machines
Latest round: Undisclosed Seed
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: Brno, Czech Republic
Tags: SMB, IoT, developers, payments
Source: Crunchbase

Finance Buddha
Loan-comparison site
Latest round: Not disclosed
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: Bangalore, India
Tags: Consumer, SMB, price comparison, loans
Source: FT Partners

Jurnal.id
Online accounting service
Latest round: Undisclosed
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: Jakarta, Indonesia
Tags: SMB, accounting, bookkeeping, billing, invoicing, receivables, payables
Source: Crunchbase

LoanZen
Receivables financing for small business
Latest round: Undisclosed Seed
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: Bangalore, India
Tags: SMB, lending, commercial loans, factoring, receivables financing, trade finance, underwriting
Source: Crunchbase

Peloton
Rich media and communications provider to financial institutions
Latest round: Not disclosed
Total raised: $2 million (prior to latest round)
HQ: Chicago, Illinois
Tags: Enterprise, document management, marketing, communications, media, R.R. Donnelley (investor)
Source: FT Partners

PinClick
Indian real estate platform
Latest round: Undisclosed Seed
Total raised: Unknown
HQ: Bangalore, India
Tags: Consumer, real estate, property search, mortgage, lead gen
Source: Crunchbase

ThreatMetrix Launches Digital Identity Graph

ThreatMetrix Launches Digital Identity Graph

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This week, cybercrime-prevention company ThreatMetrix launched Digital Identity Graph, a new tool to help businesses positively identify their customers.

The Digital Identity Graph maps associations among people, devices, phone numbers, account credentials, home addresses, and businesses they associate with. The resulting map defines digital, global relationships without compromising privacy. On top of the Digital Identity Graph, the company layers machine learning and behavioral analytics across 2 billion monthly transactions serving 4,000 customers around the globe.

The resulting graph enables ThreatMetrix to skip traditional authentication requirements, many of which include static information that fraudsters already have access to. The Digital Identity Graph not only places information in context, but also can identify a cyber attack in real time.

The data set required for the Digital Identity Graph is massive, and the San Francisco-based company is referring to the new tool as a “data science and engineering achievement with multiple, far-reaching applications.” CMO Armen Najarian states that “establishing authentication in today’s global and digital economy is incredibly complex…. our achievements mapping the Digital Identity Graph will pave the way for broad industry adoption and aid in solving unique authentication challenges confronting the public and private sectors.”

ThreatMetrix launched Fraud Prevention 2.0 at FinovateSpring 2009.