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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ArcBit, Avalara, Betterment, blooom, Credit Sesame, CSI globalVCard, Digital Insight, FIS, FutureAdvisor, Personal Capital, Prairie Cloudware, Q2, Quisk, SigFig, Taulia, Temenos, Trulioo, Trunomi, Trustev, Trustly, TSYS, Xignite

On Finovate.com

  • Check out this week’s “FinDEVr APIntelligence”
  • “Finovate Debuts: ArcBit Introduces its Secure, Easy-to-Use Bitcoin Wallet”
  • “FIS Closes SunGuard Acquisition to the Tune of $5.1 Billion”

Around the web

  • CSI globalVCard launches partnership program for banks for its electronic payments program.
  • SavingAdvice.com highlights how Personal Capital can help you gain control of your finances.
  • Credit Sesame features millennial-friendly robo-adviser investment-platforms: Betterment, FutureAdvisor, SigFig, Blooom.
  • Quisk selected as a 2015 Red Herring 100 Global Winner.
  • TSYS signs payments agreement with Atlanticus to continue support of loan-origination platform, Fortiva.
  • Digital Insight unveils Business Banking, an SaaS solution to enable FIs to offer personalized banking experiences to business customers.
  • Q2 opens new offices in Lincoln, Nebraska, to accommodate growth, acquisition of Centrix Solutions.
  • Xignite Market Data APIs now available on SoundHound’s Houndify sound recognition and search-technology platform.
  • Let’s Talk Payments features Trustev, Trulioo, and Trunomi in its look at “RegTech” startups in Europe and the U.S.
  • Temenos wins “Best Provider of Front-to-Back Wealth Suite Solutions” at Asian Private Banker’s Technology Awards 2015.
  • Avalara partners with open-source billing and payments platform, Kill Bill.
  • Silicon Prairie News interviews Daniel Carnes, CSO at Prairie Cloudware, on the future of cybersecurity.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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20 Alums Make the First Forbes Fintech 50

20 Alums Make the First Forbes Fintech 50
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Algomi, Betterment, Braintree, Chain.com, Credit Karma, HelloWallet, Kensho, LearnVest, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Plaid, Prosper, Quantopian, Ripple, Simple, TransferWise, TrueAccord, Uncategorized, Vouch, Wealthfront, Xignite

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There’s more to the Forbes Fintech 50 list than just an awesome logo featuring George Washington wearing wrap-around shades. Forbes compiled the list by soliciting information from 300 startups, then interviewing more than 150 CEOs, founders, and industry experts. To make the cut, companies were required to have operations in the U.S. and a viable product.*

Simply put, Forbes describes the companies on the list as “small firms destined to have a big impact on your financial future and possibly upend your portfolio.”

This year, 20 Finovate and FinDEVr alums made the cut:

Algomi

  • Founded: 2012
  • HQ: London
  • Funding: $30 million
  • Customers: 14 large banks and 140 buy-side firms
  • FinovateFall 2014 demo

Betterment

Braintree

Chain

Credit Karma

HelloWallet

  • Founded: 2009
  • HQ: Washington, D.C.
  • Exit: Purchased by Morningstar in 2014 for $52.5 million
  • FinovateFall 2015 demo

Kensho

LearnVest

  • Founded: 2009
  • HQ: New York City, New York
  • Exit: Purchased by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 for $250+ million
  • FinovateFall 2013 demo

Motif

Personal Capital

Plaid

Prosper

Quantopian

Ripple

Simple

TransferWise

TrueAccord

Vouch

Wealthfront

Xignite

*While the list excludes financial giants, Forbes included startups acquired by larger companies but operating independently.

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Arxan Technologies, Avoka, CenturyLink, Cloud Lending, Entersekt, FinDEVr APIntelligence, Hyperwallet, Kabbage, MasterCard, Nexmo, Nymi, Praesidio, Thinking Capital, TokBox, WorldPay, Xero, Xignite

FinDEVr2016-NY-(Stacked)V2Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to check out coverage from our recent developer conference in San Francisco. We’re taking the fintech developer tool showcase to New York on 29/30 March 2016. Stay tuned for details.

Developer news

  • TechCrunch: Rakuten Launches $100 Million Global Fund for Fintech Startups.
  • GitHub is rolling out a redesign for code repositories.
  • New Relic Now Lets Developers Dive Deeper Into Their Analytics.

The latest from FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 presenters

  • Hyperwallet launches loyalty program for independent workers.
  • Arxan announces cyber security scholarship program.
  • Avoka introduces digital account opening from within Salesforce.
  • Kabbage to power Sage’s small business loan offering.
  • Market intelligence provider Ipreo selects Xignite to provide real-time and delayed equity prices to its Investor Relations platform, BD Corporate.
  • Nexmo announces partnership with Netherlands KLM.
  • CenturyLink adds former U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu to its board.
  • Banking CIO Outlook magazine features Praesidio.
  • TokBox’s new developer toolkit brings voice and video chat to Apple TV apps.
  • Thinking Capital earns Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Canada Awards.
  • Worldpay employees evaluate use of finger vein technology to authenticate payments at the POS without the need for a card.
  • Let’s Talk Payments interviews Brent Warrington, Hyperwallet CEO.

Alumni updates

  • Pymnts chats with Nymi founder and CEO, Karl Martin.
  • Deccan Herald features Cloud Lending Solutions.
  • Xero pilots program to allow users to file their GST returns.
  • MasterCard announces Ed McLaughlin as new chief information officer.
  • VentureBurn highlights Entersekt: SA’s fintech gem making it safe for millions to bank, shop online.

Stay up to date on daily developments by following FinDEVr on Twitter.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Avoka, Bitbond, Cachet Financial Solutions, Cloud Lending, Hyperwallet, Kabbage, Nexmo, Nymi, Ripple, Tuition.io, Xignite

On Finovate.com

  • “Tuition.io Raises $5 Million in Series A”
  • “Banking Technology Awards Recognize Finovate Alums”

Around the web

  • Bitbond launches bitcoin purchasing power index.
  • Hyperwallet Launches Loyalty Program for Independent Workers.
  • Pymnts chats with Nymi founder and CEO Karl Martin.
  • Avoka introduces digital account opening from within Salesforce.
  • Kabbage to power Sage’s small-business loan offering.
  • Market intelligence provider Ipreo selects Xignite to provide real-time, and delayed, equity prices to its investor-relations platform, BD Corporate.
  • Deccan Herald features Cloud Lending Solutions.
  • Nexmo announces partnership with Netherlands KLM.
  • The Paypers interviews Nilesh Dusane, Ripple VP of global sales and client relations.
  • PYMNTS.com talks about the future of the prepaid market with Larry Blaney, EVP of sales for Cachet Financial Solutions.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Arxan Technologies, Avoka, BehavioSec, Blockstack.io, Entersekt, FinDEVr APIntelligence, Praesidio, SimplyTapp, Tradier, Trulioo, Twilio, VISA, Xignite

FinDEVr2016-NY-(Stacked)V2Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to check out coverage from our recent developers conference in San Francisco. We’re taking the fintech developer tool showcase to New York on 29/30 March 2016. Stay tuned for details.

Developer news

  • “The Next Web: How to Design with Developers”

The latest from FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 presenters

  • Think Big Data mentions Praesidio as a startup using machine learning in its cyber-security solution.
  • “Xignite Surpasses 50 Billion API Calls in a Single Month”
  • VentureBeat: Twilio rolls out new feature set designed to help developers build messaging apps using its platform.
  • Arxan Technologies extends its app-security protection to Apple TV.
  • “Digital Asset Holdings Acquires Blockchain-as-a-Service Innovator, Blockstack.io“
  • Security solutions from Arxan Technologies now running on more than 500 million devices.

Alumni updates

  • Tradier teams up with Equities Lab to bring real-world trading experience to college students.
  • Google appoints Entersekt CTO Christiaan Brand as product manager for security and identity teams.
  • Pymnts looks at how SimplyTapp is addressing host card emulation.
  • Visa Inc. to Acquire Visa Europe.
  • Fierce Finance IT features BehavioSec.
  • Avoka partners with Trulioo to provide digital identification authentication to international banks.

Stay up-to-date on daily developments by following FinDEVr on Twitter.

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Xignite Surpasses 50 Billion API Calls in a Single Month

Xignite Surpasses 50 Billion API Calls in a Single Month
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Xignite

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So, how did you spend the summer?

Xignite announced today that it reached more than 50 billion API call-requests in July. The high mark broke the company’s previous records and affirms Xignite’s place among the major API cloud data-providers worldwide.

Xignite CEO and founder Stephane Dubois credits a tripling in API call volumes over the past year-and-a-half to the fact that both startups and larger FIs have become much more comfortable working with the cloud. “In the past, APIs have been downplayed and relegated as a solution to power small websites and applications,” Dubois said. “But now, the financial services industry realizes that good APIs backed by strong, open designs and native cloud architecture, like Xignite, can tackle the most mission-critical of applications.”

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Xignite developer Anand Viswanathan talked about streaming financial data and future API delivery technologies at FinDEVr San Francisco 2015.

Xignite leverages the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to process millions of API requests per hour. Matt Wood, general manager for product strategy at Amazon Web Services, pointed to the get-to-market speed of AWS, as well as the way the platform helps cut costs and enables FIs to “be more agile” as reasons why Xignite uses the technology.

Xignite drives financial apps for more than 1,000 companies in 55 countries. It maintains a collection of more than 1,000 market-data APIs drawing from more than 150 sources. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Xignite launched its #FintechRevoluton API Ecosystem initiative in September, featuring more than 20 technology firms and accelerators. In October, OTC Markets Group announced that it would add Xignite as a provider of real-time Level 1 market data. And in June, Xignite announced that it would help four of its fellow Finovate alums—Betterment, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, and SigFig—bring their technologies the Apple Watch.

Xignite developer, Anand Viswanathan last month discussed the future of streaming financial data at FinDEVr San Francisco 2015. Xignite also participated in FinovateFall 2015 in September, demonstrating its Cloud Streaming technology.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: AcceptEmail, Arxan Technologies, Ayasdi, Coinbase, Comarch, DriveWealth, Fastacash, Feedzai, Fiserv, Gro Solutions, Heckyl Technologies, HelloWallet, Mitek, SocietyOne, Uncategorized, VISA, Xignite

On Finovate.com

  • “Xignite Surpasses 50 Billion API Calls in a Single Month”
  • “Feedzai Unveils its New Antifraud Solution, Data Science Studio”

Around the web

  • Comarch supports insurance sales and after-sales service by automating sales force at UNIQA Poland.
  • Let’s Talk Payments talks about Photo Verify with Sarah Clark, Mitek VP of product.
  • AcceptEmail and Kansys team up to provide email billing and payment options to telecoms via OCPay.
  • Fiserv and Early Warning partner to enable real-time bill pay and deposit services for U.S. FIs (financial institutions).
  • Corporate One partners with Gro Solutions to expand credit unions’ digital platforms.
  • Mitek launches mobile multicheck-capture for Commercial Mobile Deposit.
  • USAA and Coinbase partner to bring bitcoin to USAA members.
  • The Daily Telegraph features SocietyOne.
  • Euronext launches sentiment analysis partnership with Heckyl Technologies.
  • GEICO employees get access to HelloWallet, helping them manage their 401(k).
  • Visa Inc. to Acquire Visa Europe.
  • DriveWealth teams up with CQG, Direct FX to launch new, multi-asset trading platform.
  • FX Street calls Ayasdi “the next evolution in science.”
  • Arxan Technologies extends its app-security protection to Apple TV.
  • Mobile World Magazine looks at Fastacash and its new partnership with Xpress Money Services.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

 

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FinDEVr Live: Xignite Presents its Newest Financial Market Data API Technologies for Developers

FinDEVr Live: Xignite Presents its Newest Financial Market Data API Technologies for Developers
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Xignite

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xignite.com | resources.xignite.com/h | @xignite

Xignite_FinDEVr2015_logoNamed one of the 10 coolest brands in banking, Xignite, Inc. provides cloud-based financial market-data APIs to help emerging companies and established enterprises deliver real-time and reference market data to their digital assets, such as websites and apps. Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media, and software companies from disruptive fintech firms, such as Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, StockTwits Streamdata.io, Wealthfront, and Yodlee, to leading financial institutions, exchanges and market data vendors including Nasdaq, SIX Financial Information, and BMO.

Hoverboards, driverless cars and streaming financial data – the future is now!
Attend this session to learn about the newest financial market data API technologies on the horizon. Attendees might even get a sneak peek at some unannounced Xignite products. Xignite’s key engineering team members will be joined on stage by several Xignite clients for a lively discussion of the future of API delivery.

Key takeaways:

  • Future API delivery technologies
  • Real-world application-discussion with robo-adviser and stock-trading app vendors
  • Sneak peak at unannounced technology

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Presenters:

Anand Viswanathan, Developer
LinkedIn | @anand_seph | aviswanathan@xignite.com

Viswanathan spearheads developer efforts at Xignite and is the creator of Xignite Labs. Prior to Xignite he held developer positions at Viagogo, Media Interface, and Network Design Lab, The Ladders and Michigan State University, where he also taught advanced programming. He is fluent in Hindi and Tamil.

Al Chang, CTO (not pictured)
LinkedIn | @xignite_al | achang@xignite.com

Chang is a fintech-industry technology expert. He has led engineering and professional services organizations in high-growth software companies, including Google, Oracle, Advent Software, and TenFold Corporation. Chang holds both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and a bachelor’s of science in biology from MIT.

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The #FintechRevolution Will Be API’d

The #FintechRevolution Will Be API’d
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Advisor Software, planwise, PsychSignal, QuantConnect, Stocktwits, Streamdata.io, TipRanks, Tradier, Xignite, Yodlee

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An open Fintech ecosystem for developers could be imminent, at least if Xignite has anything to say about it.

Fresh off its FinovateFall 2015 appearance, the financial market-data provider to many of fintech’s most innovative companies is spearheading a new initiative, the #FintechRevolution API Ecosystem. The goal of #FintechRevolution—a partnership involving more than 20 other technology companies and accelerators—is to make it easier for developers to get their hands on the APIs and tools they need in order to bring their innovations to life.

Stephane Dubois, CEO and founder of Xignite, says the initiative “consolidates the best-of-the-best in the fintech API ecosystem. It will now be easier for firms, large and small, to start and grow financial services and fintech companies just by leveraging the APIs in the ecosystem.”

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From left: Xignite CEO Stephane Dubois, founder, and Anand Vidwanathan, developer, demonstrated Xignite Cloudstreaming at FinovateFall 2015.

Xignite divided the API contributions from the founding members into workflow, analytics and data categories. And, as Finance Magnates reports, a special emphasis should be placed on what it calls “non-traditional” APIs, the ones embracing inclusion of social and sentiment data alongside more-familiar financial data. This social data includes everything from the portfolio-management APIs of Advisor Software to the trader-mood-data APIs of PsychSignal.

The APIs from all of the founding members of the API ecosystem are listed in an integrated, Xignite-powered API catalog for easy access. All APIs have been vetted, and sales-and-support teams from all Ecosystem members are knowledgeable and ready to field questions from developers.

See the full list of founding members of the #Fintech Revolution below. The names of those companies that are also Finovate and/or FinDEVr alums are in bold.

Other founding members include incubators, Draper University in Silicon Valley, Fintech Sandbox in Boston, Level39 in London, and ValueStream in New York City.

Speaking of the initiative and its importance to startups and enterprises alike, ValueStream founding partner Greg Neufeld says, “We wouldn’t be investing our time, relationships and capital if we didn’t believe that the transformative changes happening today are merely the tip of the iceberg.” Neufeld is calling for innovators in fintech to work together to “build a better and stronger moat for the future.”

Neufeld says the entire industry of financial services is being “reinvented from the ground up,” and added: “We’re excited to be a part of this movement.”

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateIf you are a developer, software architect, engineer, or CTO looking to hear from and network with some of the biggest builders in financial technology, then join us 6/7 October for FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco. Save your spot and we’ll see you in the city by the bay!

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Authy, Avalara, BillGuard, Fidor Bank, Five Degrees, Heckyl Technologies, Insuritas, Interxion, iSignthis, Lending Club, Market Prophit, Nexmo, Prosper, PsychSignal, TickerTags, TSYS, Twilio, Xignite

On Finovate.com

  • Commentary: “”Prosper Signals Move into PFM with $30 Million Acquisition of BillGuard“
  • Thanks to Xignite, the #FintechRevolution Will Be API’d”

Around the web

  • Lending Club adds Indiana, Kansas, and Nebraska, expanding its services to 36 states.
  • Premier Bank in Bangladesh extends payments agreement with TSYS, upgrading to PRIME4.
  • iSignthis to provide KYC services to Danish payment processor and card acquirer, Clearhaus, beginning in early 2016.
  • LeasePlan Bank implements Matrix digital banking platform from Five Degrees.
  • Peoples Bank & Trust hires Insuritas to launch turnkey insurance agency.
  • Kaspersky’s blog mentions Twilio’s Authy as a way to protect your ID on a smartphone.
  • Avalara announces the availability of a benefits program exclusively for U.S. QuickBooks ProAdvisors® and their clients.
  • Celent advises banks to be more like Fidor Bank in order to remain relevant.
  • The Neutral Internet Exchange NL-ix will use Interxion Cloud Connect to connect to Microsoft Azure as a part of its new cloud connectivity services.
  • TABB Research features Heckyl Technologies, Market Prophit, PsychSignal, and TickerTags in its new report on “social alpha 2.0.”
  • Nexmo teams up with mobile operator, H3G, to bring its SMS-based user-authentication technology to Sweden and Denmark. See Nexmo at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco next month.

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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Xignite Unveils CloudStreaming to Stream Any Data to Any Device with Zero Footprint

Xignite Unveils CloudStreaming to Stream Any Data to Any Device with Zero Footprint
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Xignite

XigniteThis post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Financial market data specialist, Xignite is our next presenter of the morning.

Xignite CloudStreaming is a zero-footprint streaming solution that enables implementing the next generation of innovative financial applications. Traditional streaming services require co-locations, physical servers, dedicated lines, scalable production infrastructure, and complexities around ingesting a full data-feed such as proprietary legacy protocols and replay-and-recovery logic. With Xignite CloudStreaming, you can stream to any device just the data that you want through a simple HTTP GET call.

Presenters: Stephane Dubois, CEO and founder; Anand Vidwanathan, developer

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Product Launch: September 2015
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: San Mateo, California
Founded: 2006
Website: xignite.com
Twitter: @xignite

 

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Aurora Financial Systems, BankGuard, BehavioSec, Cachet Financial Solutions, Currency Cloud, DoubleNet Pay, Evo Snap*, Fidor Bank, Finicity, Interxion, Konto X, Mitek, SafetyPay, Temenos, Vantiv, Xignite

On Finovate.com

  • “Finicity Acquires Aurora Financial Systems”

Around the web

  • Temenos and Accenture team up to help Nordea replace its core banking system.
  • Vantiv named as merchant services solution provider for Rabobank.
  • Let’s Talk Payments interviews Currency Cloud CEO Mike Laven. Join Currency Cloud in October for FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco.
  • Cachet Financial Solutions unveils its Select Mobile Money turnkey payroll program for corporate clients.
  • Checkout.com adds SafetyPay to its list of payment options for merchants in the Latin American market.
  • BankNXT encourages banks to follow the lead of Fidor Bank when it comes to “community and openness.” Join Fidor Bank in San Francisco for FinDEVr 2015.
  • Human Resource Executive Online highlights DoubleNet Pay in a look at financial wellness programs in the workplace.

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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