Alumni News– December 2, 2014

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgCompass Plus TranzAxis now supports Futurex hardware security modules.
  • Coinbase introduces USD Wallets, enabling users to store U.S. dollar balances.
  • TradeKing unveils new features for its new LIVE platform.
  • Forbes column on disruption in traditional money exchange features Azimo, TransferWise, and CurrencyFair.
  • CrowdFlower announces support for eight new languages and enhanced support for another four.
  • CEO and co-founder of Trustev Pat Phelan wins MSL Cork Business Person of the Year award.
  • Linqto, Crowd Curity, Xignite, and CUneXus win Future of Money & Technology Summit Startup Showcase.
  • TickSmith adds Amazon Web Services version of its financial big data platforms.
  • The New Daily features SocietyOne as a premium P2P lending option.
  • The Chicago Tribune considers Lending Club’s impending IPO.
  • Google Cloud Platform now PCI compliant, enabling developers to hold, process, and exchange credit card information.
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.

TickSmith Seeks to Disrupt Financial Data Management Using Big Data Platforms

TickSmith Seeks to Disrupt Financial Data Management Using Big Data Platforms
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.
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TickSmith debuted TickVault and FIXVault:

“TickSmith is presenting its TickVault and FIXVault financial big data platforms. TickSmith’s platforms provide specific solutions to participants in the brokerage and trading ecosystem, from exchanges to financial institutions, vendors, and regulators. Offered as cloud services and managed platforms, these solutions are disrupting financial data management practices and providing new opportunities to exploit financial data. 
TickSmith’s customers and partners use these platforms as data distribution portals, add ons to trading networks, management and analytics tools, and in compliance applications.”
Presenting: Francis Wenzel, CEO and David Côté, CIO
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Product Launch: August 2013
Metrics: Over a Petabyte of financial data under management
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Founded: November 2012
Website: ticksmith.com 
Twitter: @TickSmith

FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 5

FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 5

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After resting up over the weekend, we hope you’re ready to take a look at six more companies that will demo their newest fintech creation in New York City at FinovateFall this September 23 and 24.

Over the course of the past few weeks, we’ve seen:

Don’t miss out; get your ticket here to be a part of the action.



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Business Centric Services Group (BCSG) is a cloud- services brokerage offering business apps for small businesses via FIs with a platform reaching over 4 million SMBs worldwide.
Features:
    • Modularized platform that allows FIs to tailor their offering
    • 24×7 support for SMBs on all apps
    • Client support: from proposition design, to go-to-market strategy, to ongoing delivery
Why it’s great:
Its platform will continue to evolve with the market. Whatever it does, it will always start with the small business need.
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Presenters:

1) John Davis, Managing Director
Prior to BCSG Davis spent 10 years at Barclays where he was Marketing and Product Director for Barclays Business, and also Managing Director of Clearlybusiness.
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2) Andrew Garney, Commercial Manager

Before joining BCSG Garney held various technical and project delivery roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services and De La Rue.

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Diebold’s evolution of Relationship Banking lowers the costs of self-service channels in the branch, combined with a seamless extension of tablet-based Sales, Servicing and Account Opening
Features:
    • Advanced teller transactions moved to self-service terminals
    • Personalized Account Opening, Sales & Service via Tablet
    • Shared customer history and product promotion across channels
Why it’s great:

Diebold furnishes the ability to effectively identify, engage, service and anticipate the needs of customers across your self-service and assisted channels will differentiate your brand.
Presenters:
1) Shelly Ewing, New Business and Solution Incubation for Diebold  
2) Chris Siemasko, SVP Product Solutions for Zenmonics  

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Larky delivers engagement and loyalty through a unique platform that provides point-of-sale discounts at local and national merchants and magically reminds users of offers at the right time and place.

Features:

  • Location-triggered alerts when a discount is near
  • Tracks 2,000+ memberships. Users never miss an offer they deserve (including yours!)
  • White-labeled platform seamlessly ties in with your brand
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Presenter:

Andrew Bank, Co-Founder
Successful start-up entrepreneur with substantial experience identifying and developing products, services, and business relationships with high ROI. Passion for creating compelling new solutions.

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MaxMyInterest by Six Trees Capital LLC is an intelligent cash-management solution that helps investors earn up to 0.80% more on FDIC-insured bank deposits, rebalancing funds automatically as rates change.

Features:

    • Earn up to 0.80% more on cash without changing your checking account
    • Get the best interest rates, automatically, even as rates change
    • Fund
      s move to and from checking as needed
Why it’s great: 
Max brings efficiency and transparency to the $12 trillion market for cash, making it easy for investors to securely and effortlessly increase the yield on the cash portion of their portfolios.
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Presenters:

1) Gary Zimmerman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Zimmerman is an investor and entrepreneur, focused on financial technology. Prior to founding MaxMyInterest, he was an investment banker at Citigroup. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics.
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2) Richard Wu, Director of Engineering

Wu leads the technology development team and is an expert in interface design. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in Computer Engineering.  

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Sonavation empowers trust through ultrasound technology by creating more secure environments in which to access sensitive financial data, conduct non-cash transactions and offer peace of mind.

Features:
    • Impenetrable security using ultrasound technology and cloud-based Identity-as-a-service infrastructure
    • Protection of sensitive banking information
    • ATM, credit and debit card protection
Why it’s great:
Sonavation is on a mission to replace passwords and PINs with highly secure biometric solutions, leveraging the power of ultrasound to deliver piece of mind.
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Presenter:

Bob Stewart, Chief Operating Officer
Stewart is the Chief Operating Officer at Sonavation, currently focused on delivering the convergence of physical and cyber security.

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TickSmith has built the first commercial Big Data platform for financial data.

Features:
    • Powerful and scalable Big Data technology and analytics
    • Management of all types of financial data
    • Solve compliance, reporting, analytics and distribution problems on huge data sets
Why it’s great:
TickSmith provides out-of-the-box, previously unavailable possibilities to exploit financial big data.
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Presenters:

1) Francis Wenzel, CEO
Seasoned financial data and technology executive and entrepreneur with 28 years of experience.
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2) David David Côté, CIO

Entrepreneur, consultant and IT Architect with 17 years of experience developing, architecting, deploying and running technology solutions and infrastructure for banks, travel and IT companies.
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Check back this Thursday to see another six companies that will demo at FinovateFall 2014.