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FinDEVr 2014: Finicity Launches Financial Aggregation API

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

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

Finicity launched its Financial Aggregation API:

Aggregation Reloaded

Forged and hardened in consumer PFM over the past 13 years, Finicity is publicly launching its Financial Aggregation API service with unparalleled FI uptime, broad FI coverage, 24/7 developer support, and exciting new endpoint features that will elevate your UX.

Presenter: Nicholas Thomas, President & Co-Founder

About:

Founded in 1999, Finicity is a privately held fintech industry pioneer. Leading the charge to the Evented Financial Web, Finicity enables fintech developers to build real-time apps through its RESTful Aggregation API and the Finicity API Platform.

Website: finicity.com

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FinDEVr 2014: Bluefin’s Point-to-Point Encryption Reduces PCI Compliance Headaches

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 30, 2014
Categories: Bluefin Payment Systems, FinovateFall 2014

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

Bluefin Payment Systems showed how its Point-to-Point Encryption Solution helps PCI compliance issues:

Bluefin, Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE)

Bluefin is the first validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) Solution listed by the PCI Security Standards Council, North America. P2PE can reduce the scope of card data environment and related PCI requirements. Your software doesn’t need to be PCI Compliant if card data is encrypted using P2PE.

Presenters: Ruston Miles, Chief of Product Innovation and Tim Barnett, Chief of Technology

About: Bluefin Payment Systems is a leading FinTech company focused on processing, integrating, and securing payments. Bluefin offers P2PE, tokenization, mobile payment SDK’s, payment gateways, merchant accounts, PCI Compliance, transparent redirect, recurring billing, and branded online merchant account enrollment.

Website: bluefin.com

Blog: bluefin.com/category/bluefin-news

Twitter: @BluefinPayments

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FinDEVr 2014: Paradigm4’s SciDB Helps Developers Answer Hard Questions with Fast Answers

By David Penn Posted on September 30, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Paradigm4

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

Paradigm4 demonstrates how its SciDB makes it easier for builders to do big things with Big Data.

Crypto-Currency and Massive Network Analysis

We’ll begin with a graphical overview of a crypto-currency financial network, discuss the key issues and challenges around massive network analysis and then demonstrate our solution using SciDB via the RStudio user interface.

Presenter: Bryan Lewis, Chief Data Scientist

About:

Paradigm4 develops and supports SciDB: the open source, analytic DBMS; programmable from R & Python. SciDB is designed from the ground up to support more facile data management for Big and Diverse Data, and to do faster and bigger math. Hard questions. Fast answers. Open source.

Website: paradigm4.com

Twitter: @paradigm4

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FinDEVr 2014: StockTwits Helps Traders Invest in the Social Era

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

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

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.

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.

Website: stocktwits.com | howardlindzon.com

Twitter: @stocktwits

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FinDEV 2014: ModoPayments Helps Builders Create Beautiful Buying Experiences

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

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

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.

Website: modopayments.com

Twitter: @GETmodo

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

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 30, 2014
Categories: Mifos Initiative

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.

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

Blog: mifos.org/blog

Twitter: @mifos

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

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

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

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.

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.

Website: cloudlendinginc.com

Blog: cloudlendinginc.com/lending-blog

Twitter: @cloudlending

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

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

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

About:

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.

Website: behaviosec.com

Twitter: @Behaviosec

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

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

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:

Encrypted mobile card readers that fit into the audio jack of any smartphone or tablet

Easy-to-integrate software development kits for iOS and Android, complete with developer-friendly documentation and support

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

About:

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.

Website: getcardflight.com

Twitter: @CardFlight

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

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

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

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

Website: developer.intuit.com

Blog: developer.intuit.com/blog

Twitter: @ippdev

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

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

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

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

About:

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.

Website: eshtaholdings.com

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

By David Penn Posted on September 30, 2014
Categories: Evo Snap*, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014

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

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)

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

Blog: evosnap.com/blog

Twitter: @CanYouSnap

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