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Alumni News– November 11, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 11, 2014
Categories: Cachet Financial Solutions, Coinbase, Hoyos Labs, Linkable Networks, TradeHero, Xero

Linkable Networks Raises $8 Million for Card Linked Offers Platform.

AsiaOne Business features TradeHero.

Coinbase integrates with Openfolio to create transparency in who is investing in Bitcoin.

Cachet Financial Solutions Launches Enhanced Select Business Solution.

Xero announces new dashboard.

NY Times features Hoyos Labs.

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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Alumni News– October 31, 2014

By David Penn Posted on October 31, 2014
Categories: App Annie, Avoka, Coinbase, EverSafe, EXCESS RETURN, Jack Henry, Malauzai Software, Rippleshot, Stocktwits, The Currency Cloud, Tradier, Vantiv

Rippleshot wins Up and Comer honors at Chicago Innovation Awards.

Check out our profile of EverSafe.

Vantiv announces agreement to provide merchant services to MUFG Union Bank.

Symitar division of Jack Henry introduces Malauzai-powered Episys Anywhere.

Breaking Banks interviews Derek Corcoran, Founder of Avoka.

App Annie releases new app, VPN Defender, published by Smart Sense.

Currency Cloud partners with XE.com to deliver money transfer solution for business.

Excess Return launches new Ideas Center and Screener modules in partnership with Keytrade Bank

Coinbase introduces Multisig Vault to enable companies to control their private keys on Coinbase.

Benzinga interviews Howard Lindzon on what’s next for StockTwits.

Quantcha enhances stock options search engine with integrated trading from Tradier.

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Alumni News– October 29, 2014

By David Penn Posted on October 29, 2014
Categories: Coinbase, CurrencyFair, Flint Mobile, Forte Payment Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Knox, MasterCard, Segmint, vaamo

Small Business Computing features Flint Mobile in its short list of small business financial apps.

MasterCard announces launch of MasterPass in Taiwan.

Segmint raises $9 million in new funding.

xconomy profiles CurrencyFair.

Vaamo raises $3.2 Million, Launches Out of Private Beta.

Coinbase adds multi-signature tech to its Vault for high net worth Bitcoin holders.

Vogogo partners with Knox Payments to enable its future US clients to accept payment from any US bank account.

Dataconomy interviews Forte CEO, Jeff Thorness.

Google Cloud Platform announces Beta For Local SSD.

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Alumni News– October 21, 2014

By David Penn Posted on October 21, 2014
Categories: Coinbase, Encap, Fiserv, Jumio, MaxMyInterest

TechCrunch: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong talks about the future of Bitcoin at Disrupt London.

Jumio launches BAM Checkout: a credit card and ID scanning app for mobile merchants.

Encap Security integrates Apple Touch ID into its Smarter Authentication platform.

Fiserv adds document-to-document comparison functionality to the Comparalytics module of its LoanComplete solution.

Finovate Debuts: MaxMyInterest from Six Trees Capital.

Firebase joins Google Cloud platform to make it easier to build mobile apps.

Tradier appoints former E*TRADE President & COO Jarrett Lilien to its Board.

Dubai Financial Market signs memorandum of understanding with Kony to develop a series of “Smart Borse” applications.

The Financial Brand: How PayPal’s Venmo is winning the battle for social payments.

Check out Finovate Debuts: BioCatch.

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Alumni News– October 20, 2014

By David Penn Posted on October 20, 2014
Categories: Capital Access Network, Coinbase, Compass Plus, ID Analytics, ID.me, InComm, Klarna, Lending Club, Nopsec, Nous.net, The Currency Cloud, Zighra

Nous raises $600k to help drive its SparkProfit stock market prediction platform.

Lending Club selects the NYSE for its IPO.

Currency Cloud releases Connect API 2.0.

ID.me announces acquisition of Perkla.

InComm partners with CardCash to integrate its online gift card exchange at InComm’s retail partners nationwide.

Compass Plus completes its TranzAxis integration with Klarna.

Invest Ottawa features Zighra.

ID Analytics names Scott Carter Chief Operating Officer.

Check out Finovate Debuts: NopSec.

CAN Capital closes its first capital markets asset-backed notes offering.

Coinbase now available in 6 additional languages.

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Alumni News– October 14, 2014

By David Penn Posted on October 14, 2014
Categories: Arxan Technologies, Backbase, Coinbase, Deluxe, edo Interactive, Fiserv, Forte Payment Systems, Holvi, Malauzai Software, MasterCard, Prosper, Taulia, Xignite

Finovate Debuts: Malauzai Software.

Cross County Savings Bank to deploy DNA account processing platform from Fiserv.

Apps from MasterCard and Deluxe earn spots in PaymentsSource’s “8 Wallet Apps That Go Beyond Payments.”

Arxan and Xamarin extend Mobile Application Protection to developers.

Coinbase hires former Sr. adviser to Homeland Security & Gov’tl Affairs Committee, John Collins, to head gov’t affairs.

Equities.com interviews Prosper.com’s Ron Suber regarding CFGE, Peer-to-Peer Lending and Working with Big Banks.

RBS partners with Taulia to offer dynamic discounting with e-Invoicing to corporate customers.

Backbase named a visionary in the Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals 2014.

Holvi accounts now use International Bank Account Numbers (IBANs).

Forte Payment Systems announces new partnership with The Master’s Touch, LLC to power eNoticesOnline bill presentment service.

Visa Europe partners with edo to make its performance marketing platform available to 500 million European bankcards.

Xignite teams up with FactSet to provide fundamental market data from the cloud.

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Coinbase Unveils its Open Source Bitcoin API, Toshi

By David Penn Posted on September 18, 2014
Categories: Coinbase

What is Toshi? And how might it put smiles on the faces of developers working to build Bitcoin-related web apps?

Toshi is the result of Coinbase’s exploration into building web applications using Bitcoin Core. A full Bitcoin node, Toshi gives developers access to raw blockchain data, and is 100% compatible with Bitcoin Core. The open source API is written in Ruby and is backed by PostgreSQL.

As explained on the Coinbase Blog, the problem with Bitcoin Core is that while it works well as a reference implementation, Bitcoin Core has its limitations. Specifically, developer struggled to query blockchain data through SQL databases, as well as when trying to scale projects toward the million-user mark over multiple (as in dozens) of servers.

So what can developers do with Toshi?

Read information about blocks, transactions, and addresses
Broadcast new transactions
Receive height and confirmation time stats on the block chain

Coinbase makes a point to say that Toshi is still a v0.1 release, and that developers can expect updates and enhancements to the API in the coming months. More information on Toshi is available here.

Coinbase recently announced that it was now available to European customers in 14 countries. In August, the company acquired blockchain explorer, Blockr.io. And in July, Coinbase launched Coinbase Vault to make it easier for bitcoin owners to securely store their digital currency.

A few Coinbase metrics:

14 countries fully supported
1.6 million consumer wallets
36,000 merchants
6,000 developer apps

Headquartered in San Francisco, Coinbase was founded in July 2012. Brian Armstrong is CEO and co-founded the company with Fred Ehrsam, who serves as President. The company demoed its technology as part of the FinovateSpring 2014 conference in San Jose. See a video of the company in action here.

And if you’re a developer, software architect, or engineer, then visit our FinDEVr page for more information about our upcoming event designed specifically for builders.

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Alumni News– September 18, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 18, 2014
Categories: Billhighway, Coinbase, Lighter Capital, MasterCard, MiiCard, Mint.com, Monitise, Ping Identity

Lighter Capital increases capital base to $17 million & completes 50th loan.

Mint launches on iOS 8 with Touch ID.

miiCard participates in NSTIC Pilot for State of North Carolina eID Program.

Billhighway wins 2014 “Metropolitan Detroit Best & Brightest Company to Work For”.

Ping Identity raises $35 million in round led by KKR.

MasterCard announces launch of SimplifyCommerce in Ireland.

Monitise and BlackBerry launch BBM Money service for Indonesia consumers using Android, iOS, or BlackBerry smartphones.

Coinbase unveils its open source, bitcoin API, Toshi.

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Alumni News– September 15, 2014

By David Penn Posted on September 15, 2014
Categories: Allied Payment Network, Betterment, Braintree, Coinbase, Feedzai, HelloWallet, Kalixa, Lending Club, Monitise, Moven, ProfitStars, Rippleshot, SocietyOne

Moven CEO Brett King says Apple Pay anticipates the end of physical bank cards.

United Way Worldwide now accepts bitcoin courtesy of Coinbase.

Monitise releases fiscal year 2014 financial results; announces new strategic partnership with Santander.

Business Spectator looks at how Apple, Google, Lending Club, and SocietyOne are part of “banking’s double disruption.”

Allied Payment Network announces integration of FlexPay with PicturePay.

Feedzai teams up with Azul Systems to speed its real-time data analysis.

The Washington Post features Betterment and HelloWallet.

Millicom and Kalixa partner to offer payment acceptance services for businesses and consumers in Africa and Latin America.

ProfitStars introduces Gladiator Hosted Network Solutions to enable FIs to move their IT infrastructures to the cloud.

Rippleshot, Braintree highlighted in Chicago Tribune column as examples of local contributors to the commerce infrastructure.

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Alumni News– September 11, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 11, 2014
Categories: Braintree, Check Point, Coinbase, Darwinex, Dealstruck, Kalixa, Lendio, Oink, Top Image Systems, Xero

Archer Daniels Midland deploys Tradeshift’s Collaborative Workflow system.

Coinbase opens its doors to European customers in 13 countries.

Dealstruck and Lendio partner to provide capital to Jidan Cleaning.

Oink releases v 2.0 of its app to improve mobile shopping experience and allow users to favorite retailers.

LightCyber partners with Check Point Software to provide breach detection and response.

Stitch Labs features Xero on its list of four apps for multichannel sellers this holiday season.

Forex Magnates takes a look at the latest upgrades to Darwinex’s trading platform.

Kalixa partners with Millicom to launch new payments service venture in Latin America and Africa.

Top Image Systems announces new subsidiary TIS Australia.

PYMNTS: Braintree CEO Bill Ready talks about ApplePay with MPD CEO Karen Webster.

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Alumni News– August 18, 2014

By David Penn Posted on August 18, 2014
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Betterment, Cardlytics, Coinbase, Expensify, Klarna, Personal Capital, Ripple, Silanis Technology, SumUp, Xero

Silanis Technology releases e-signature solutions for Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. See Silanis at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.

Michael Grillo of ACI Worldwide talks about the role of mobile devices in fighting payments fraud.

Klarna announces appointment of Jon Kamaluddin to its Board of Directors.

SumUp earns double-digit million dollar investment led by Life.SREDA

Xero’s Customer Experience team wins Bronze Stevie Award in 2014 International Business Award. Check out Xero’s presentation at FinDEVr in San Francisco this October.

TechCrunch: Coinbase acquires blockchain explorer, Blockr.io.

Silicon Angle: Why Cardlytics ditched sample data for its real-time analytics tactics.

Forbes features Personal Capital.

EE Times reviews the similarities and differences between Ripple and bitcoin.

Forbes column on “the other sharing economy” profiles Expensify.

Investors.com checks in with Betterment on strategies for meeting retirement financial challenges.

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Alumni News– August 13, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on August 13, 2014
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Coinbase, Diebiold, FutureAdvisor, Holvi, Leaf, Lending Club, LendUp, Pandai, peerTransfer, planwise, ReadyForZero, Silanis Technology, SmartAsset, TrueLink Financial, TrustEgg, WePay, Xero, ZenPayroll

Netbanker features 2012- 2013 fintech graduates from Y Combinator: TrueLink Financial, Coinbase, and LendUp.

Netbanker features 2009- 2012 fintech graduates from Y Combinator: ZenPayroll, SmartAsset, TrustEgg, FutureAdvisor, ReadyForZero, and WePay.

American Banker considers how Diebold is leading the way on the branch of the future.

peerTransfer surpasses 500 clients, while processing over $1 billion in international payments.

Heartland Payment Systems buys out remaining shareholders of tablet software and hardware startup, Leaf.

ACI Worldwide announces completion of ReD acquisition.

Lending Club mentioned in HBR Blog’s look at how new lending technology can help small businesses.

Silanis Technology partners with loan management software specialist Calyx Software. See Silanis at FinovateFall 2014 in September.

planwise teams up with Informa Research Services to launch plug-and-play search tool of real estate agents and brokerages.

Holvi unveils plans to open in 19 European countries.

NextAdvisor column in HuffPo highlights LendUp as alternative loan option for the underbanked.

Pandai announces joint cooperation with China and Hollard to leverage their experience in the loan insurance market.

Xero and Square partner to sync Square transactions and give a business a view of their finances. See Xero present at FinDEVr.

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