FinDEVr 2014: StockTwits Helps Traders Invest in the Social Era

FinDEVr 2014: StockTwits Helps Traders Invest in the Social Era
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Stocktwits
This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.
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StockTwits discussed the best way for investors to compete in the social era:

Investing in a Social, Local and Mobile World

We are in a mobile boom that has connected people who also happen to be investors. The markets have always been giant mood rings, but the periods of quiet and volatility are more intense. We’re discussing the best ways to use StockTwits to invest in the social era.
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Presenter: Howard Lindzon, Chairman
About:
StockTwits is a social network and publishing platform for investors and traders. We created the $ prefix for stocks (e.g. $MSFT). Follow @StockTwits and go to stocktwits.com for real-time ideas and stock conversations.
Twitter: @stocktwits

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FinDEV 2014: ModoPayments Helps Builders Create Beautiful Buying Experiences

FinDEV 2014: ModoPayments Helps Builders Create Beautiful Buying Experiences
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, modoPAYMENTS
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This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

ModoPayments showed how beautiful apps lead to beautiful mobile buying experiences.

How to Find Money & Love with Mobile Apps (OK, maybe more money than love)

Learn about the best-kept-secret in mobile payments APIs: Modo. Modo will show you in 6 minutes or less how to build a beautiful buying experience that entices consumers to spend money, and make you money, through exceptional economics. This is all with the cunning use of the mobile app of your dreams. Your love mileage may vary.
Presenter: Bruce Parker, CEO & Founder
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About:
With Modo you can build beautiful buying experiences, with exceptional economics. Whether you are looking for more sales, transactions, or rockstar moments for your consumers, Modo can help. Using Modo’s handcrafted API, your mobile app gets to perform in-store purchases at tens of thousands of store locations. Modo powers the payments and you design the experience. Everyone is looking for something: personal, magical, and beautiful. So why not give it to them? Your app, plus our platform – more of what you want.
Twitter: @GETmodo

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FinDEVr 2014: The Mifos X Platform Serves those Who Lack Access to Financial Services

FinDEVr 2014: The Mifos X Platform Serves those Who Lack Access to Financial Services
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Mifos Initiative
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This post is a part of FinDEVr’s live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.
Mifos presented how developers can use its not-for-profit platform for global financial inclusion:
Mifos X, Open Technology Platform Unlocking New Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid
There is a massive opportunity to serve the 2.5 billion individuals who lack access to financial services (the unbanked). Discover how you can build and scale mobile and cloud-based solutions on top of the open Mifos X platform for financial inclusion which is led by a global community backed by Silicon Valley.
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Presenter: Vishwas Babu, Chief Community Engineer
About: The Mifos Initiative is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that guides the development of the Mifos X solution for financial inclusion, an API-driven open-source platform with a suite of configurable cloud apps. Our community speeds the elimination of poverty by scaling financial services to the 2.5B unbanked.
Website: mifos.org
Twitter: @mifos

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FinDEVr 2014: Cloud Lending is Taking Enterprise Lending Software to the Cloud

FinDEVr 2014: Cloud Lending is Taking Enterprise Lending Software to the Cloud
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Cloud Lending, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.
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Cloud Lending showed how it helps financial institutions move the back office to the cloud:

Cloud Lending – Enterprise Lending Software

Cloud Lending products enable financial institutions to achieve scale and flexibility by moving the core back office to the cloud. Why did we choose Salesforce? The results that have been achieved by our customers using applications built on the Force.com platform – three-digit growth every quarter.
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Presenter: Darpan Saini, Co-Founder & CTO
About:
Cloud Lending is an enterprise cloud lending solution provider. Our agile solutions are designed to empower lending businesses to simplify business processes, stay compliant and be future ready.
Twitter: @cloudlending 

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FinDEVr 2014: BehavioSec’s Real-Time Security Solution Leverage the Unique Way Users Interact with Devices

FinDEVr 2014: BehavioSec’s Real-Time Security Solution Leverage the Unique Way Users Interact with Devices
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: BehavioSec, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

BehavioSec demoed its behavioral biometric ID authentication system.

BehavioSec Offers the Most Mature ID System that Uses Behaviour Analytics

BehavioSec presents the latest in real-time security through the ability to monitor the way users interact with their device. By monitoring the environment and interactions such as typing rhythm or mouse patterns, our technology is able to recognize if someone other than the intended user is operating the device. If a security breach is detected, additional security measures can be carried out to prevent fraud and stop identity theft.
  • Robust proven technology with more than 10 million active users in 2014
  • Scalable with more than 500 million mobile transactions processed
  • High performance with more than 20 banks using the service
  • Available now for cloud or onsite deployment
Presenter: Neil Costigan, CEO & CTO and Josefine Ahl, Development Team Leader
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Leaders in frictionless behavioral user verification & authentication, BehavioSec examines how you interact with a website or mobile device to provide a frictionless layer in web fraud prevention.
Twitter: @Behaviosec

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FinDEVr 2014: CardFlight Brings Card-Present, POS Functionality to Mobile Apps

FinDEVr 2014: CardFlight Brings Card-Present, POS Functionality to Mobile Apps
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: CardFlight, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

CardFlight showed developers how to add POS functionality into their mobile apps.

CardFlight SDK for Mobile Payments

The CardFlight SDK allows any mobile developer to build mobile point-of-sale functionality into his or her own mobile apps. CardFlight supplies three things:
  1. Encrypted mobile card readers that fit into the audio jack of any smartphone or tablet
  2. Easy-to-integrate software development kits for iOS and Android, complete with developer-friendly documentation and support
  3. A PCI level 1 compliant payment gateway that works with all major processors/merchant accounts.
This allows developers to easily process swiped credit card payments within their own apps without the complexity of typical payment integrations. By using the CardFlight SDK, developers can fully customize their user experience and keep control of their product, while being able to integrate payment data into their other back-end systems (CRM, inventory management, analytics, and reporting, etc.)
The CardFlight SDK and gateway is compatible with merchant accounts from leading processors, including Braintree, Chase Paymentech, Global Payments, First Data, Stripe, TSYS, and Vantiv.
Presenter: Elie Toubiana, VP Engineering & Derek Webster, CEO
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CardFlight is a leading provider of mobile POS technology and tools that make it easy for anyone to accept swiped (card present) payments in any mobile app with virtually any merchant account. They offer both iOS/Android mobile payment applications and software development kids (SDKs) that can be incorporated into custom applications. CardFlight’s platform also includes encrypted card readers and a payment gateway that supports over 20 different processors to provide clients with complete mobile payments and mobile POS (mPOS) solutions. CardFlight won the Electronic Transactions Association’s 2014 Technology Innovation Award.
Twitter: @CardFlight

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FinDEVr 2014: Intuit Shows How Developers Can Reach Small Business via its QuickBooks Online Platform

FinDEVr 2014: Intuit Shows How Developers Can Reach Small Business via its QuickBooks Online Platform
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Intuit
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This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Intuit Partner Platform encouraged developers to take advantage of its Intuit QuickBooks Online open platform.

The Small Business Opportunity
The importance of small business to the global economy can’t be denied. With 600 million small businesses worldwide, the opportunity to drive their success is huge. Reach millions of small businesses by developing for Intuit QuickBooks Online, an open platform for developers that taps into the power of QuickBooks and the cloud. With partners from Square to American Express to Vend, QuickBooks Online allows Intuit and its ecosystem to simplify the business of life for millions of small businesses.
Presenter: Avi Golan VP & GM, Intuit Partner Platform
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About:
The Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) is an open platform that enables developers to integrate with rich financial and transactional data through REST-based APIs and offers unparalleled reach to millions of small business through Intuit Apps.com
Twitter: @ippdev

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FinDEVr 2014: Eshta Shows the Versatility of its Multi-Purpose Financial Services Platform, Eshtapay

FinDEVr 2014: Eshta Shows the Versatility of its Multi-Purpose Financial Services Platform, Eshtapay
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Eshtapay, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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Eshta showed the versatility of its platform, which runs everything from ATMs to service marketplaces.

Eshtapay: The Financial Swiss-Army Knife
Estapay is directly operated in Ukraine and Egypt and also used online from Dubai to France to power self-service payment kiosks, service vending machines, service marketplaces, and ATMs. With less than 6 months time to market for deployment, Eshtapay exhibits remarkable versatility and efficiency.
Presenter: Catalin Braescu, CEO
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Eshta develops and operates Eshtapay as a financial platform that can act as an online payment system, e-wallet, escrow system, and self-service payment terminal back-end. Eshtapay (due to its very flexible architecture) is a Swiss-Army knife for the online banked and unbanked alike.

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FinDEVr2014: EVO Snap* Shows Developers How to Build Custom Loyalty Programs from a Single API

FinDEVr2014: EVO Snap* Shows Developers How to Build Custom Loyalty Programs from a Single API
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Evo Snap*, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014
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EVO Snap* launched EVO Snap* Connect, showing how easy it is to build customized loyalty programs with its technology that  combines payment data and marketing.

DIY Offers and Rewards – Closing the Digital Loyalty Loop
Activate and deepen relationships with customers by linking consumer data with payment and marketing services to create customized loyalty programs, card-linked offers and real-time rewards at point-of-sale.
Presenters: Peter Osberg (SVP) & Darren Adelgren (VP, Product & Customer Care)
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About: 
EVO Snap* is one-stop shop for application integration, merchant underwriting and international payment processing. Our developer platform provides single-integration access to omni-channel payment processing and value-added services through one API – making it easy for developers to support merchants.
Website: evosnap.com
Twitter: @CanYouSnap

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FinDEVr 2014: Xignite Shows How Its APIs Can Help Businesses Succeed

FinDEVr 2014: Xignite Shows How Its APIs Can Help Businesses Succeed
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Xignite
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Then, Xignite presented its market data APIs.

Kick-Start Your FinTech Business with Xignite Market Data APIs
Xignite powers hundreds of breakthrough FinTech apps and platforms – touching millions of investors & finance professionals each day. Learn how Xignite can help you kick-start your FinTech business, fuel your growth, and power your success with our easy-to-integrate financial data APIs.
Presenter: Stephane DuBois (CEO & Founder) and Anand Viswanathan (Software Engineer)
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About:
Xignite is the pioneer of cloud-based market data APIs & the data provider for leading FinTech innovators Betterment, FutureAdvisor, JemStep, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, SigFig, Stocktwits, The Currency Cloud, Wealthfront, Yodlee and more. From end-of-day stock quotes to spot rates on currencies, our APIs cover every asset class, market and data type available and are ideal for integrating data into FinTech mobile apps, websites, and platforms. 
Website: xignite.com
Twitter: @xignite

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FinDEVr 2014: PayPal Looks at How Wearables are Changing the Payments Landscape

FinDEVr 2014: PayPal Looks at How Wearables are Changing the Payments Landscape
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Braintree, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, PayPal
This post is a part of FinDEVr’s live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.
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Next, PayPal’s presentation focused on how wearables are changing the mobile payment space: 

The Future of Payment Identity

PayPal explored how new identification techniques around wearables, biometrics, and mobile are vastly changing the payment space.

Presenter: Justin Woo, Developer Evangelist

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About: The PayPal / Braintree Developer program is the face of technology innovation for the companies. Using an open source technology stack foundation, we are constructing new breeds of payment platforms, API standards, and identity systems to support the next generation of disruptive technology.

Twitter: @PayPalDev

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FinDEVr 2014: MasterCard Helps Developers Build Better Apps for Business and Beyond

FinDEVr 2014: MasterCard Helps Developers Build Better Apps for Business and Beyond
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, MasterCard Developer Zone
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MasterCard showed how developers can take advantage of its resources to build better and more capable apps.

Open for Business and Beyond – MasterCard Developer Zone

Come and discover how MasterCard has become a technology company and is sharing its resources with developers.
Presenters: Mario Shiliashki, SVP, US Emerging Payments Lead
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About:
MasterCard (NYSE: MA), www.mastercard.com, is a technology company in the global payments industry. We operate the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. MasterCard’s products and solutions make everyday commerce activities easier, more secure, and more efficient for everyone.
Twitter: @MasterCardDev

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