FinovateAsia Sneak Peek: GIEOM Business Solutions

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateAsia 2016, FinovateAsia 2016 Sneak Peek, GIEOM Business Solutions
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateAsia on 8 November 2016 in Hong Kong. Pick up your ticket today and save your spot. GIEOM Business Solutions will demonstrate its "Google Map for Banks" that interconnects all organizational elements, now enhanced with cognitive capability. Features: Lower operational risks Improved operational efficiency Enhanced customer service Why it's great Artificial intelligence to enhance, not replace, human capability Presenters John Santhosh, CEO Santhosh is the dreamer, the innovator who always sees the future and relentlessly tries to make GIEOM bigger, better and more intelligent every single day. LinkedIn   Bhavana Mallesh, Director of Product Engineering Mallesh works with new domains and technologies and builds teams to deliver intelligent solutions that make organizations run more efficiently with less. LinkedIn

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FinovateAsia Sneak Peek: Peakford

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateAsia 2016, FinovateAsia 2016 Sneak Peek, Peakford
  A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateAsia in Hong Kong on 8 November 2016. Pick up your ticket today and save your spot. ExbiData from Peakford is a platform to help realtors, buyers, sellers, and investors predict the real estate market and make smart property-investment decisions using charts, analysis tools, and social networking. Features: Charts, analysis tools, maps generate real estate insights Community tools help members build reputation in fast-track mode Subscription-based fee structure Why it's great ExbiData is the first real estate platform to integrate analytical tools, varieties of charts, customizable maps, and community in order to generate insights and facilitate more confident decision-making. Presenter Jason Mok, CEO Mok has more than 13 years of strategic management in the information-technology industry. His professional qualities are proven by having won technology awards and received funding. LinkedIn

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Euronovate, GIEOM Business Solutions, Modo Payments, Peakford, Realty Mogul, Roostify, WorldPay
On Finovate.com Check out our latest set of FinovateAsia Sneak Peeks featuring: GIEOM Business Solutions Euronovate Peakford Around the web RealtyMogul.com surpasses $50 million milestone in distributing returns and principal to investors. Roostify teams up with Equifax to ease and accelerate mortgage-decision processing. FinDEVr alum Worldpay launches new, omnichannel payment platform, Worldpay Total. Modo Payments to provide Bank of America Merrill Lynch with access to its COIN Operated Digital Payments Hub as part of new strategic relationship. 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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FinDEVr Silicon Valley: Celebrating the Best of the Builders

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: 1787fp, Alloy, IBM, Lleida.net, MX, OCR Labs, WiseBanyan
After watching two days of live presentations from fintech innovators from around the world, the attendees at FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2016 have made plain their preferences. So many presenters received enthusiastic praise for the way they are solving problems and developing tools/APIs to make payments more efficient, security more effective, and financial data more accessible. Although all companies impressed the audience, still a few emerged as clear favorites. So without further ado, let's take a look at them (all chosen by audience vote, except the press/analyst favorite): Crowd favorite, day one: MX for its heartfelt message on how it gets the necessary work done, both in fintech and in life Crowd favorite, day two: OCR Labs for its innovations in optical character recognition (OCR) and facial recognition (FR) technology and their application on web and mobile platforms. Press/analyst favorite: 1787fp for its mobile app that helps consumers track and manage…

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Welcome to Day 2 of FinDEVr Silicon Valley

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2016 Silicon Valley
We had a blast yesterday at FinDEVr Silicon Valley here in Santa Clara! We saw dozens of presentations showing off cutting edge fintech and we're ready for more. Today's registration opens at 9:00 a.m. continental breakfast, so grab a coffee and prepare for the day. If still you need a ticket, day-2 tickets are available at the registration desk or online. Both tracks of presentations begin at 10:00 a.m. Here's today's lineup: Time The Attic The Garage 10:05 Totum Wealth OCR Labs 10:25 Aerospike PwC 10:40 Coffee Break Coffee Break 11:10 BBVA Blend 11:30 ACI Worldwide Lleida.net 11:50 Exeria Smartwave 12:05 Lunch Lunch 1:00 WiseBanyan DefenseStorm 1:20 Sindeo Tango Card 1:40 Finaeos Wisdom Design Associates 2:00 Castle ABBYY 2:15 Coffee Break Coffee Break 2:45 Wootrader BankGuard 3:05 Digital Business Art Marqeta The final networking session with open bar and appetizers will begin after the last demo and will go until…

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: AdviceRobo, Azimo, EVRY, FIS, Narrative Science, Smartwave, Symbiont, Thinking Capital, TickSmith
On Finovate.com Welcome to Day 2 of FinDEVr Silicon Valley FinDEVr Silicon Valley: Celebrating the Best of the Builders Around the web FinDEVr alum Thinking Capital launches Lucy, an AI-powered chatbot for small business borrowers. Narrative Science forges strategic partnership with Deloitte to promote broader adoption of advanced NLG technology. AdviceRobo launches Seedrs crowdfunding campaign as part of U.K. growth plan. CME Group to deploy TickVault from TickSmith to improve access to historical data. New mobile app from Azimo enables money transfers via Siri, among other enhancements. FIS introduces unified mobile payments solution, BuyWay. FinDEVr alum Symbiont unveils SDK for Assembly, a distributed ledger for use in institutional finance. EVRY licenses G&D Convego CloudPay from Giesecke & Devrient to offer NFC, HCE mobile payments. FinDEVr newcomer Smartwave announces its first banking client, Societe Generale Serbia. This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can…

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SecureKey Raises $20 Million in New Funding

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Funding, Fundings, SecureKey
Q. If you are Toronto-based identity and authentication specialist, SecureKey Technologies, what's a nine-letter word for Canadian FIs commited to improving online security? A. Investors. SecureKey announced this week that it picked up $20.6 million ($27 million CAD) in new capital from BMO Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, CIBC, Desjardins, Royal Bank of Canada, and TD. The investment brings SecureKey's total funding to $89 million and serves as growth capital to support the introduction of SecureKey's digital identity network. Greg Wolfond, SecureKey founder and chairman, said the support from "Canada's largest financial institutions" would help his firm "develop and deliver a national ecosystem that puts consumers first." Rizwan Khalfan, EVP and chief digital officer for TD, echoed this point and credited SecureKey for leading the way in making it easier for customers to manage their digital assets, as well as for the company's willingness to work with and…

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FinovateAsia Sneak Peek: Moneytree

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateAsia 2016, Moneytree
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateAsia on 8 November 2016 in Hong Kong. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot. Drop-in Moneytree's mobile SDK to easily connect its MT LINK aggregation platform to third-party products and services. Once exclusive to Mizuho Bank’s Direct app, the SDK will be widely available in November. Features: Brings a powerful data-aggregation platform to everyone Easily integrates with new or existing services Becomes the core of a user-centric data-portability platform for consumers and business Why it's great Moneytree's MT LINK platform brings efficient, cost-effective data portability to the masses. With MT LINK, consumers and business can easily choose the data they provide to platform partners. Presenters Mark Makdad, Head of Platform A graduate of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Makdad's professional career began in Japan over a decade ago. Before co-founding Moneytree, he was the head of IT contract staffing at…

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FinovateAsia Sneak Peek: Lleida.net

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateAsia 2016, FinovateAsia 2016 Sneak Peek, Lleida.net
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateAsia on 8 November 2016 in Hong Kong. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot. Lleida.net is an electronic communications operator providing registered and certified communications as the vehicle for easy, fast, secure evidence for any electronic document. Features: Reliable evidence for e-documents (contracts, notifications…) compatible with all kinds of esignatures Easy-to-use, seamless integration Digitally signed certificate provided in a durable medium Why it's great The Lleida.net telecom operator, thanks to its seamless registered and certified communications service for any electronic document, provides digitally signed evidence of any communication and its contents. Presenters Manuel Gallo, Chief Operations Officer EMEA Gallo studied engineering and computer science and holds an executive MBA from Babson College. He specializes in “Go-to-Market” strategies with telecomm operators and services. LinkedIn Viviana Company, Business Executive EMEA & Customer Service Company has extended experience supporting sales efforts of…

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FinovateAsia Sneak Peek: Gradatim IT Ventures India

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateAsia 2016, FinovateAsia 2016 Sneak Peek, Gradatim IT Ventures India
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateAsia on 8 November 2016 in Hong Kong. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot. Gradatim IT Ventures India will show its Rapid Deployment Insurance and Banking Systems: Cloud up, OnDemand, Analytics Driven. They are flexible, standard systems that manage all core processes. Features: Create dynamic consumer segmentations Set up and launch products Set up channels Manage the entire insurance or banking life cycle Why it's great Gradatim IT Ventures India will demo the Gradatim MFInsure OnDemand Insurance System, a solution that delivers rapid deployment capability to set up, launch and manage retail and mass-consumer insurance products. Presenters Prakash Viswanathan, CEO and Founder Prakash is a serial entrepreneur who is successful in identifying business opportunities, building companies. LinkedIn Siva Kumar, Head, Product Engineering With a background in enterprise and cloud development and strategy, and having worked across many countries, Kumar…

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Forte Payment Systems, Gradatim IT Ventures India, Kony, Lleida.net, Misys, Moneytree, Roostify, SecureKey, Xero
On Finovate.com Check out our latest FinovateAsia Sneak Peeks featuring: MoneyTree Lleida.net Gradatim IT Ventures India SecureKey Raises $20 Million in New Funding Around the web Roostify teams up with Optimal Blue to improve the online experience for borrowers. Partners FCU to deploy Kony Mobility Platform. Forte Payment Systems to serve as the single premier gateway provider for Acryness Inc. Portugal's Banco CTT chooses FusionBanking Essence from Misys. International payments provider, OFX, integrates with cloud accounting-software innovator, Xero. 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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Welcome to Day 1 of FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2016

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2016 Silicon Valley
We're back! After taking FinDEVr on the road for a very successful inaugural New York show this spring, our fintech developers conference has returned to the Left Coast for two days of APIs, SDKs, and enough case studies, integrations, and code to choke a Python (see what I did there?). If you haven't picked up your tickets yet, there's still time to swing by our registration page and save your spot. FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2016 begins Tuesday morning with registration at 9:00 a.m. and the first pair of presentations starting at 10:05 a.m. Our dual-track event continues into the afternoon, with the final pair of presentations beginning at 3:25 p.m., followed by an hour-long networking session with open bar and appetizers lasting until 4:30 p.m. For more information, check our event agenda and schedule. So what else do you need to know about getting your FinDEVr experience off to a…

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