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FinDEVr Live: Coinalytics Helps Businesses Leverage the Blockchain for Actionable Intelligence

By David Penn Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: Coinalytics, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

coinalytics | blog.coinalytics.co | @coinalytics

Driven by the vision of decoding the world’s most powerful dataset, Coinalytics has developed an end-to-end intelligence platform, combining a variety of datasets and analytics to provide actionable insights and operational intelligence to the bitcoin industry. The path-breaking platform brings real-time machine learning and graph analytics capabilities to the blockchain.

Decoding the blockchain
The blockchain is the underlying ledger of bitcoin, where every transaction is recorded. Due to its decentralized and pseudonymous nature, understanding the data and deriving actionable insights in real time is no small challenge. We will cover a high-level overview of the Coinalytics platform and its architecture, taking a deep dive into the API. We explore some use-cases and applications for real-time blockchain intelligence.

Key takeaways:

Leveraging the blockchain for compliance and operational intelligence
Understanding the challenges of real-time blockchain analytics
Interacting with the Coinalytics platform

Presenters:

Bill Gleim, Tech Lead
LinkedIn | @billgleim | [email protected]

James Edwards, Principal Infrastructure Engineer

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FinDEVr Live: Token Introduces its End-to-End Secure Payments Ecosystem

By David Penn Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Token

token.io | @token_io

Token provides a new rail for instant, secure, and flexible payments. The Token Payment Platform is an end-to-end secure payment system accessible to developers, wherein all transactions are authorized using digital signatures. With Token, third-party developers easily add payments and identity to their websites and apps. There is no worrying about PCI compliance or protecting user information as Token is based on public-key cryptography rather than shared secrets such as usernames and passwords. Token is focused on delivering the best developer experience to be had, allowing developers to focus on their core mission.

The future of payments now
Learn how website and app developers improve conversion rates and customer experience with Token’s new payment rail. Gone are the troubles with payment cards and other antiquated payment methods. You’ll see how Token supports current payment models and how it creates opportunities for new and exciting business models. You’ll see how incredibly smooth user provisioning is, how easy it is to integrate with websites and apps, and what rock-solid security means. Basically, you’ll get to know the future of payments now.

Key takeaways:

How to increase conversion rates for websites and mobile apps
What a good customer experience really looks like
How security concerns will be a thing of the past

Presenter:

Bill York, VP Development
LinkedIn

York is Token’s VP of product where he is responsible for the execution of Token’s product strategy. He has 20+ years of experience in building great teams and products for both consumer and enterprise applications.

Prior to joining Token, York was VP of product and technology for Tile, and also held executive leadership positions at Reachable. He was a founder, CTO, and SVP for product development at Comergent, an enterprise e-commerce software company used by clients including Cisco, Intel, and DIRECTV.

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FinDEVr Live: Hyperwallet Presents its RESTful API and Embedded Payout Widget

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Hyperwallet

hyperwallet.com | @hyperwallet

Enhance your outbound payments experience and improve worker loyalty with Hyperwallet’s flexible payments platform. From online payment portals to unified APIs, Hyperwallet’s global payout network provides collaborative economy companies and their workers with a range of payments capabilities, integrated financial tools, tax-reporting solutions, and business support services. Our range of flexible worker-payment options includes local bank deposits, international wire transfers, branded prepaid and virtual cards, checks, cash pick-up services, and pay-to-existing-card capabilities. With offices in San Francisco and Vancouver, you can learn more about Hyperwallet at hyperwallet.com.

Paying the on-demand economy: moving from payment methods to a payment platform

Don’t just pay your workers; provide them with the tools they need to achieve freedom, independence, and control over their personal enterprises. Improve worker loyalty and morale on your platform with an integrated worker-payment platform. During this session, members of Hyperwallet’s product and development teams will be showcasing two new payout features: the company’s RESTful API and an embedded payout widget. Both features have been developed for easy integration, ensuring a simple end-user experience, secure connections to Hyperwallet’s global financial network, and direct access to a wide variety of worker-directed payout options.

Key takeaways:

The advantages of a single, integrated payments platform vs. the technological and
operational complexity of managing multiple payment methods
The power of payee choice: build lasting worker loyalty by offering quick, easy and convenient payout options
How Hyperwallet is bringing granular tracking to global payments, moving global payment distribution from “Batch and Hope” to “API and Certainty”

Presenters:

Bill Crowley, CPO
LinkedIn | [email protected] | 855-449-3737
Crowley is chief product officer at Hyperwallet, where he leads product and customer implementation teams in developing innovative global payment solutions. He is responsible for all aspects of the product lifecycle and solution delivery, including product conception, development, and launch.

Blair Olynyk, Software Architect
LinkedIn | [email protected] | 855-449-3737
Olynyk has 12+ years of experience in the fintech industry where his technical expertise includes Java EE and various JavaScript frameworks. As software architect at Hyperwallet, he leads cross-functional teams in building products and solutions that simplify global payments.

Florian Krauthan, Software Developer

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FinDEVr Live: Thomson Reuters Showcases Eikon

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Thomson Reuters

thomsonreuters.com |@thomsonreuters

Thomson Reuters connects and powers the global financial community through our open and trusted news, data, analytics and insight, tools and applications, trading capabilities, and infrastructure and services—enabling discovery, liquidity and compliance. We help our customers uncover critical insights and market opportunities and connect to the largest network of financial professionals—enabling better decisions and more confident actions. We create efficiencies that drive profits with scalable infrastructure and services—enabling faster and smarter performance. Our trading applications and venues provide access to liquidity that connects customers and markets.

Enhancements to the open capabilities of Eikon

Thomson Reuters today announced enhancements to the open capabilities of its flagship financial desktop, Eikon, which will help foster innovation, boost productivity and enhance client servicing for financial institutions around the world. App Studio in Eikon allows third-party developers to create apps that display as native applications on the Eikon screen, distributing them directly and securely to Eikon users.

Key takeaways:

Unrivaled depth and breadth of content and analytics, various delivery options / routes
Eikon Application Platform / Partner Program / Professional Developer Community
Extensible open-source APIs

Presenter:

Jonathan Haruni – Director, Application Development Services, AMERS/ASIA
Haruni has enabled many successes for customers and partners alike, both as a software developer and consultant. He now leads a team of API/SDK development consultants dedicated to help customers and partners integrate with Reuters’ open platform. Previously, he developed market data networks and API abstraction libraries.

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FinDEVr Live: Praesidio and the Importance of Collecting Logs

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Praesidio

praesidio.com | praesidio.com/blog | @praesidioinc

Praesidio is a cloud-based cybersecurity company that was formed by bankers and security experts to solve the critical, real-world problems of breach detection, remediation, and governance insight that Financial Institutions (FI) grapple with today. Praesidio bridges the gap between governance and IT by linking your cybersecurity policies with the millions of system events where threats hide. It aggregates data across all cybersecurity tools to provide real-time management reporting that proves to your security team, board, auditors and regulators to ensure that your FI is actively managing and enforcing its policies.

log.error(“impossible”)

If you’re not collecting your logs, you’re not secure. Just like testing, centralized log management should be an essential part of modern software development. If you collect your application’s logs, you can debug faster, find problems missed by tests, monitor your systems, and find security problems. And you just might discover that the impossible happens all the time.

Key takeaways:

Centralized log management is essential.
You can’t know what is happening in your application if you are not monitoring log-data.
Security is a must-have and you must have logging in order to have security; therefore, logging is a must-have.

Presenter:

Sean Cassidy, CTO
@sean_a_cassidy | [email protected]
Cassidy is an engineer and leader who builds the right products the right way. At Limelight Networks, he built their video transcoding system and worked on Cisco’s ASA firewall. Sean holds a master’s degree from RIT in computer engineering and is the author of numerous open-source projects.

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FinDEVr Live: Capital One Enables Continuous Integration and Delivery for Developers in Regulated Environments

By David Penn Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: Capital One, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

capitalone.com | @CapitalOne

Capital One Financial Corporation is a financial holding company—subsidiaries include Capital One, N.A. and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A.—with $208.8 billion in deposits and $310.5 billion in total assets as of June 30, 2015. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients through a variety of channels. Capital One, N.A. has branches located primarily in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “COF” and is included in the S&P 100 index.

Continuous integration and delivery in a regulated environment
Financial institutions are required to comply with numerous regulations. Considering they are responsible for other people’s money, they should. While regulations are often seen as limiting the ability for a company to move quickly, this does not have to be the case. In this talk you will hear that it is possible to continuously integrate and deliver in a regulated environment, ways it can be done, and the lessons learned from an organization that is already making huge strikes in this area.

Key takeaways:

Continuous integration and delivery are possible in regulated environments
Things to consider if you are regulated and want to make the move to CI/CD
Challenges to be faced internally and with regulators on your journey

Presenter: Gill Haus, Capital One’s Managing VP, Digital Innovation, Retail and Direct Bank
LinkedIn | @oronhaus

Haus is responsible for building and sustaining an innovative technology organization while fostering a culture of excellence in software engineering and digital product development.

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FinDEVr Live: Enterprise Engineering Shows its Data Aggregation & Management Software

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: Enterprise Engineering, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

joineei.com | @JoinEEI

Since 1995, Enterprise Engineering (EEI) has provided strategic technology services such as enterprise data management, data architecture and governance, big data, business intelligence and systems integration. Our software products are proven and trusted by the world’s largest wealth managers (front ending assets under management well in excess of $7 trillion dollars). Therefore, EEI can provide deep expertise and insight delivered through services and software solutions. EEI focuses on the total picture to ensure that all aspects – people, process and technology – are addressed in a holistic manner.

“I want access to my own data and I want it now!”
EEI will be presenting its Trusted Network Platform, which is our advanced data aggregation and management software. The Trusted Network consists of both a core engine and an API. This technology drives innovation across industries, enabling clients to offer leading products and services to the market along with gaining insight from the information available. The initial industry focus is wealth management given EEI’s extensive knowledge in this area and the leverage that consolidated data can provide to wealth managers.

Key takeaways:

EEI’s platform provides connectivity and acquisition of data through a direct connection to data sources.
EEI’s platform is trustworthy; it addresses risk, accuracy, consistency and timeliness issues and does not utilize screen scraping.
The Trusted Network provides a secure platform that harnesses the power of many sources of data to be combined into the power of one consistent source of data.

Presenters:

Jack Cassaro, SVP, Software Products
LinkedIn | [email protected]
Cassaro, a leader in several key financial services technology consortiums, has spent his entire career in fintech. Jack brings extensive experience to EEI. His leadership and innovative approach have driven significant growth in EEI’s data aggregation and intelligence solutions.

Arthur Wasson, SVP, Global Treasury Management, Square 1 Bank
LinkedIn | [email protected]
Wasson leads Square 1’s global treasury management products and services, including deposits, treasury services, credit cards, foreign exchange and letters of credit. He is an innovative leader with a successful background in strategic planning, product management and business development.

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FinDEVr Live: Quisk Explains How it Built a Digital Payments SaaS Platform

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Quisk

quisk.co | quisk.co/about/blog | @QuiskPay

Quisk, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based startup that partners with financial institutions and other organizations to enable anyone to use their money without needing cash or cards. Quisk provides a digital services and transaction-processing platform for integrated mobile payments and digital marketing and loyalty programs. Deploying cloud-based technology, the Quisk digital cash solution not only works with any mobile phone number on any type of mobile phone, but also can leverage existing point-of-sale (POS) infrastructure. The Quisk team is comprised of technology and payments-industry veterans from CyberSource, Visa, Apple, and HP. Quisk is the next step in the evolution of money.

Quisk digital services platform
We are sharing some of the key learning Quisk has gained from building a next-generation digital payments/FinTech SaaS platform from scratch. While there are some common design themes and architectural patterns employed to build enterprise-grade SaaS platforms, there are also very specific demands on fintech startups that focus on selling to banks and other financial institutions. Quisk’s SaaS platform interfaces with multiple entities, end-user consumers, issuing banks, merchants, acquirers, processors, etc., with each entity having its own unique requirements and expectations. We are describing how we have built and delivered a holistic platform that satisfied these diverse customer needs.

Key takeaways:

Architecture models for B2B2C-oriented fintech SaaS platforms
Security considerations in cloud-based fintech platforms
Performance and scalability considerations in next-generation fintech platforms

Presenter: Praveen Amancherla, CTO
LinkedIn | [email protected] | 408-462-6951
As Quisk’s CTO, Praveen Amancherla is responsible for technology and product development. He brings 15+ years of experience in designing highly available, massively scalable and secure software products and platforms. Amancherla earned a master’s degree in computer science from Michigan State University.

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FinDEVr Live: A New API from Intuit Developer Group Gives Builders Access to End-user Authenticated Financial Data

By David Penn Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Intuit, Intuit Developer Group

developer.intuit.com | developer.intuit.com/blog | @Intuitdev

Intuit Developer offers you a vast, ready-to-tap opportunity to generate app revenues and grow your business. Our goal is to help you get your app built, published, and adopted as quickly as possible using best-in-class tools, high-quality APIs, industry-leading security practices and dedicated support.

Intuit’s financial data APIs
Intuit’s Financial Data APIs provide developers with access to end-user authenticated financial data:

Transactions API provides access to financial account information from 20,000 financial institutions.

Identification API provides bank account and routing numbers and personal information on the bank owner to verify identity and reduce friction in setting up an ACH.

Key takeaways:

Forget your checkbook or micro-deposits, get the information you need to set up an ACH in seconds with your bank account username and password
Access end-user authenticated data from more than 20,000 financial institutions
Leverage the same technology that fuels Mint, QuickBooks, and Quicken, and join the thousands of developers who are part of the Intuit developer community.

Presenters:

Emily Silberstein, Head of Financial Data APIs (CAD)
LinkedIn |@ersilberstein

Silberstein manages Intuit’s Financial Data Services business for third-party developers. Prior to Intuit, Silberstein was a fintech entrepreneur, launching and running the Asia business for an alternative data credit scoring startup. Silberstein holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and is originally from Iowa.

Jarred Keneally (not pictured), Head of Developer Relations Engineering
LinkedIn | @JarredKeneally

Keneally is a developer relations leader and has been with Intuit for 15 years. He has a background in software engineering and a degree in computer engineering from Northeastern University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and children.

Chase Ellsworth, Software Engineer, Earnest

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FinDEVr Live: Crysp Offers APIs that Authenticate Users with Context

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: Crysp, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

crysp.com

Crysp helps leverage sensors built into mobile devices to invisibly authenticate users. Crysp provides APIs that enable real-time verification of users’ context and how they enter their credentials, such as their touch pressure and size, typing rhythm, swipe velocity, etc. Developers of mobile applications can use Crysp APIs to strengthen or replace passwords in their authentication flow, as well as to streamline the process for account recovery.

Smart authentication for mobile banking and payments
The presentation will describe ways to leverage sensors in mobile devices to authenticate users and detect fraud. It will outline practical solutions to increase the security of existing passwords and PINs, simplify the password reset process and eventually eliminate passwords. The presentation will include demos, case studies and a step-by-step tutorial for integrating Crysp SDKs with mobile apps.

Key takeaways:

How sensors built into mobile devices can be used to improve security
Which options will reduce reliance on passwords and eventually eliminate them
How existing account-recovery methods can be improved

Presenters:
Anand Desai, CEO

Kumar Viswanath, CTO (not pictured)

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FinDEVr Live: Lleida.net Gives Companies a Communication Record for Compliance

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Lleida.net

lleida.net/en/ | @lleidanet_en

Lleida.net is the leading international operator in the market of registering electronic communications, SMS solutions and data validation. As a trusted third party, eCommunications are provided with an added legal value. Lleida.net services bring efficacy, certainty and cost effectiveness to their customers’ processes. Public administrations, SMEs and large companies are among their customers. Some of Lleida.net services are:

Registered email and registered SMS
Registered invoices
Registered electronic contracts
Connectaclick (eContracting solutions)
Stamphoto (take photos and certify them)
Stamp ID Lleida.net (ID and passport validation)
Data validation
Text messaging

Who’s guilty? Registered eCommunications: the evidence for developers, the durable media for consumers
New distance selling rules, particularly in the EU, stand for evolution rather than revolution. You need to prove to the parties involved both the offer and its reply in a durable media ready for inspection by a third party. But if already certified by an independent third party, then we will know who the culprits are. To prove who’s guilty of the sales, Lleida.net Telecom operator and trusted third party, has developed “registered electronic communications,” to help companies proving each step of their communications and issuing a legal certificate. We provide the ultimate evidence companies need.

Key takeaways:

Registered eCommunications, the pocket knife of legal evidence.
Registered eCommunications and their legal certainty drive innovation for businesses.
How to create legal evidence in ecommerce.

Presenters:
Jordi Ramon, CTO

Daniel Parada, R&D Technician

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FinDEVr Live: Build, Test, and Deploy in the Cloud with The Beast Apps

By David Penn Posted on October 7, 2015
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, The Beast Apps

thebeastapps.com

The Beast Apps offers an application distribution as a service (ADaaS) as a utility in a pay-as-you-go business model where vendors can build-test-deploy their commercial apps in the cloud within hours and days, as opposed to weeks and months. The Beast Apps ADaaS has attracted some really big financial institutions, such as exchanges; inter-dealer brokers (IDBs); electronic communication networks (ECNs); analytics vendors; market data vendors, etc., to leverage the platform and build their Eco System/App Store, significantly reducing time to market and costs, gaining unprecedented business intelligence, significantly enhancing revenue potential, and helping vendors and customers as well, bringing value to the entire ecosystem.

Build-test-deploy in the cloud, now
Today anyone can build a website and publish it within minutes or hours that can be instantly accessed by anyone in the world, anywhere. Apple/Android developers can download an SDK and build and distribute applications with much ease as well. The Beast SDK brings the same ease of building and distributing complex, cloud-based applications in AWS within hours and days. The Beast Apps will demonstrate how you can use its build-test-deploy system to distribute your applications through the cloud, now. The Beast Apps’ ADaaS removes app-distribution challenges, letting you focus on your ‘secret sauce,’ thereby improving the velocity of innovation.

Key takeaways:

Build-test-deploy apps in AWS cloud within minutes, hours, days
Build your ecosystem, improve velocity of innovation
Innovation-collaborative technology

Presenter: Ashok Mittal, President
LinkedIn | [email protected]

Mittal has more than 30 years of IT experience, the last 20+ years creating a secure, robust, 24×7 application-distribution architecture, including the Beast ADaaS, with a primary focus on helping distribute pre-trade, trade, and post-trade applications in the financial industry.

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