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FinDEVr 2014: Trulioo Shows How its Global Gateway Provides Instant ID Verification

By David Penn Posted on October 1, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Trulioo

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Trulioo introduced its Global Gateway to speed ID verification.

Trulioo’s Global Gateway

Demonstrating how Trulioo’s Global Gateway verifies a consumer’s identity within a single, unique portal. We will input a person’s first name, last name, date of birth, and address to show how Trulioo verifies these attributes from our 130+ data sources.

Presenter: Anatoly Kvitnitsky, Director of Corporate Development

About:

Trulioo is a global ID verification conpany focused on building trust online, best privacy practices, and financial inclusion. As the pioneer in cyber identity verification, Trulioo’s new Global Gateway product enables businesses to perform instant ID Verification for 3 billion people in over 30 countries.

Website: trulioo.com

Blog: trulioo.com/blog

Twitter: @trulioo

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FinDEVr 2014: The TxPUSH Initiative Introduces the Evented Financial Web to Deliver Real-time Financial Transaction Data

By David Penn Posted on October 1, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, TxPUSH

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

The TxPUSH Initiative presented its technology for securing and improving the delivery of financial transaction data.

Aggregation 2.0 – TxPUSH and the Evented Financial Web

TxPUSH technology is focused on aligning app user experience and FinTech industry players around the Evented Financial Web. The TxPUSH technology will improve the security model of the existing account aggregation ecosystem and promote the delivery of real-time financial transaction data to account holders in the apps they choose.

Presenter: Nick Thomas, President & Co-Founder

About:

TxPUSH is a global industry group tasked with overseeing the development of TxPUSH technology. The group is dedicated to making real-time financial account events available to any third party app while improving login credential security.

Website: txpush.org

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FinDEVr 2014: Knox Revolutionizes Payments with its New Approach to ACH

By David Penn Posted on October 1, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Knox

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Knox Payments demoed its technology that leverages ACH rails to make transactions cheaper for merchants.

ACH That Doesn’t Suck: No Account and Routing Numbers Needed

Developing ACH processing the traditional way is horrible. Your users don’t know their account and routing numbers and you don’t know if they actually have the money. Knox has solved these problems with the ease of just logging into your online banking, making ACH cheaper, safer, and easier.

Presenter: Tommy Nicholas, Co-Founder

About:

Knox allows people to make ACH payments using only their online banking login information, providing the cheapest, safest, and easiest way to accept payments.

Website: knoxpayments.com

Blog: blog.knoxpayments.com

Twitter: @knoxpayments

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FinDEVr 2014: Plaid Demonstrates How its API Works with the Financial Infrastructure

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 1, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Plaid

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Plaid showed how its API works for the infrastructure:

Plaid: API for Financial Infrastructure

Learn all about Plaid, the problems we’re solving, and the companies we power.

Presenter: William Hockey and Zach Perret

About:

Plaid powers financial technology applications. Using our API, developers can leverage the data and infrastructure of user bank accounts in a fast and secure manner.

Website: plaid.com

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FinDEVr 2014: Entersect Addresses Out of Band Authentication

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 1, 2014
Categories: Entersekt, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Entersekt looked at out-of-band authentication on mobile devices:

Securing Mobile Applications Through Transport lLayer Diversity

Mobile security is becoming increasingly important as more functionality is shifting to these devices. But how do we ensure the integrity of the phone and the server we’re connecting to? This is a common problem and has been addressed by recommending out-of-band authentication schemes.

Presenter: Christiaan Brand, CTO

About:

An innovator in transaction authentication and mobile app security. Our one-of-a-kind approach harnesses the power of electronic certificate technology with the convenience of mobile phones providing financial institutions and their customers with full protection from online and mobile banking fraud.

Website: entersekt.com

Twitter: @entersekt

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FinDEVr 2014: Blockchain’s APIs Help Developers Build a Bitcoin Business in Minutes

By David Penn Posted on October 1, 2014
Categories: Blockchain, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Blockchain introduces its widely-relied upon APIs to help developers build their own bitcoin-related apps.

Blockchain: The Core API for Bitcoin Development

Blockchain’s APIs power most of the Bitcoin companies in the ecosystem. Utilizing our APIs, you can start a Bitcoin business in minutes. From wallet creation to transaction verification, Blockchain’s APIs have you covered.

Presenting: Dan Held, Lead Product Manager

About:

Blockchain is the world’s most popular web-based Bitcoin wallet and the most highly trafficked Bitcoin website. Blockchain is the de facto search engine for the Bitcoin economy. Blockchain has over 2 million wallets and our footprint continues to grow quickly.

Website: blockchain.com

Blog: blog.blockchain.com

Twitter: @blockchain

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FinDEVr 2014: Google Cloud Platform Outsources its Own Big Data Secret

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 1, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Google Cloud Platform

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Google Cloud Platform shared its Big Data secrets:

Big Data on Google

Google has been the most innovative Big Data company in the World, having paved the way for highly distributed parallelized workflows. Technologies like Hadoop, Flume, Dremel, and HBase were made possible by Google’s research and development efforts. Now Google is outsourcing its own Big Data secret.

Presenter: Tino Tereshko

About:

Google Cloud Platform enables developers to build, test and deploy applications on Google’s highly scalable and reliable infrastructure. This suite of services allows developers to choose from computing, storage and application services for web, mobile and backend solutions.

Website: cloud.google.com

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FinDEVr San Francisco 2014: Award Winners

By David Penn Posted on September 30, 2014
Categories: Avoka, BehavioSec, Braintree, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, PayPal, Yodlee

Q. What’s better than being one of the more than 400 industry professionals attending the very first FinDEVr conference this week?

A. Being one of the four companies to walk away with one of the very first FinDEVr awards, that’s what!

Four companies were selected as favorites by attendees here on Day 1 of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014. Attendees were challenged to choose between entertaining and informative presentations, exciting new technologies, and fascinating innovations that push the envelope of what is possible when commerce and science, technology and finance come together.

Remember that FinDEVr continues tomorrow on Wednesday with a full, multi-track day of workshops, presentations, and networking. We’ll build on the momentum from Day One to bring you the latest in SDKs and APIs, tools and platforms, that are already paving the way to the fintech innovations of tomorrow. Visit our registration page today to grab a spot.

So without further ado, here are the favorite first-day presentations in alphabetical order:

Avoka for its engagement platform that enables omni-channel account opening in 60 seconds.

BehavioSec for its mature identification system that uses behaviour analytics to provide real-time security.

PayPal & Braintree for its construction of new breeds of payment platforms, API standards, and identity systems.

Yodlee for its Interactive APIs that provide authorized access to real-time data for customer accounts.

Notes on methodology:

1. Only audience members NOT associated with demoing companies were eligible to vote. Finovate employees did not vote.

2. Attendees were encouraged to note their favorites. At the end of the last demo, they chose their three favorites.

3. The exact written instructions given to attendees: “Please rate (the companies) on the basis of demo quality and potential impact of the innovation demoed.”

4. The four companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were awarded trophies.

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FinDEVr 2014: Concur Helps Developers Build for the Trillion-Dollar Business Travel Market

By David Penn Posted on September 30, 2014
Categories: Concur, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Concur demonstrated how developers can use its technology to create new solutions for the business travel expenses market.

Numbers, They Don’t Lie …

Concur processes more than $55 billion dollars in annual T&E spend for its 25 million customers. In this presentation, Mithun Dhar will walk through and give us insight into this spend and tell developers why it’s a great opportunity to tap into this lucrative market.

Presenter: Mithun Dhar, Director, Evangelism & Strategic Marketing

About:

Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions trusted by over 25,000 clients around the globe, with over 25 million users. The Concur Platform allows developers to develop and market innovative solutions to the lucrative $1.12 trillion business travel market.

Website: concur.com

Blog: concur.com/blog

Twitter: @Concur

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FinDEVr 2014: Personal Capital’s Data Aggregation Helps Model a User’s Complete Financial Life

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 30, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Personal Capital

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Personal Capital showed how its data aggregation can model and report a user’s financial life:

The Art of Data Aggregation

This presentation is for developers and engineers who build applications on top of data gathered from multiple sources. The objective of our data aggregation platform is to model (and report) a user’s complete financial life.

We share the three key architectural principles that have made this platform possible:

Owning the aggregated data to improve quality
Synthesizing data and developing machine learning intelligence to obtain unique insights
Developing APIs that hide data complexities to drive efficient UI development

Presenters: Fritz Robbins, CTO and Ehsan Lavassani, VP Engineering

About:

Personal Capital helps people live better financial lives with technology-enabled advisory services as well as free financial software and educational content. Their award-winning apps enable you to effortlessly view your entire financial life in one place. Personal Capital brings to everyone wealth management that previously only the wealthiest could afford.

Website: personalcapital.com

Blog: techblog.personalcapital.com

Twitter: @personalcapital

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FinDEVr 2014: Tradier Helps Developers Work Smarter, Not Harder

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 30, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Tradier

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

Tradier shows how it can help you build a financial market app:

An API Like Never Before – Do What Matters and the Rest Is Already Done

Have you ever tried to build a financial market app? It is painful and just about impossible. Too many data, trading, platform and process barriers. Tradier has done all that heavy lifting for you. An API that abstracts the pain and delivers the gain.

Presenter: Craig Russell, SVP Product & Chief Evangelist

About:

Tradier is a financial services cloud provider that offers a groundbreaking solution to serve platform providers, developers and investors. The Tradier solution features an innovative set of fully hosted APIs, modules and “out of the box” tools that are leveraged by a growing list of providers.

Website: tradier.com

Blog: blog.tradier.com

Twitter: @tradier

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FinDEVr 2014: PayNearMe Shows How It’s Possible to Pay Using Cash Online

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 30, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, PayNearMe

This post is part of our live coverage of FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.

PayNearMe showed how it has digitized cash:

Bringing Cash Payments into the 21st Century

PayNearMe secrets unveiled. Why do we even bother with innovating cash? How we developed a system to digitize cash? And how modern development techniques laid the foundation for PayNearMe to become the fastest growing electronic cash transaction network?

Presenter: Kurt Thams, CTO

About:

PayNearMe enables consumers to pay rent, repay loans, buy tickets, make online purchases, and do much more with cash. Consumers can make cash payments in their own neighborhood in less than 60 seconds through PayNearMe’s network of 17,000 authorized payment locations including 7-Eleven®, Family Dollar®, and ACE Cash Express® stores.

Website: paynearme.com

Blog: blog.paynearme.com

Twitter: @PayNearMe

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