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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Betterment, Envestnet, Featurespace, FutureAdvisor, iSignthis, Jumio, Kabbage, Trunomi, TSYS, Wealthfront, Xero, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

  • “Santander and Kabbage Partner to Bring Same-Day Funding to U.K. SMEs”
  • “iSignthis Facilitates Instant Bitcoin Purchases on Coinify”

On FinDEVr.com

Around the web

  • Trunomi announces partnership with InAuth, combining fraud protection with mobile customer onboarding and lifecycle management.
  • MyMoneyMobile selects real-time, ID scanning technology from Jumio.
  • Investment News looks at how Betterment and Wealthfront have added data aggregation, and considers Vanguard’s partnership with Envestnet|Yodlee.
  • InvestorDaily considers the pending release of BlackRock’s FutureAdvisor in Australia.
  • Featurespace selected as a finalist for the 2016 RedHerring Top 100 Europe Award.
  • Barlow names Xero TaxTouch most innovative at 2016 Banking Technology Awards.

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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Intuit Developer Group Drops Financial Data APIs, Partners with Finicity to Ease Transition

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Envestnet, Finicity, Intuit, Intuit Developer Group, Plaid, Yodlee

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Intuit Developer Group has decided to discontinue its Financial Services APIs (CAD), which provide financial account aggregation services to a number of third parties. Writing at Intuit’s developer page, Head of Financial Data Services Emily Silberstein explained that the service “no longer fits with our core growth strategy.”

“As of today (March 15, 2016), no new direct financial data API (CAD) developers will be allowed to move into production,” she wrote. The API will be maintained until November 15 to accommodate developers currently in production. Silberstein added that Intuit was partnering with Finicity which “will provide a façade API interface that translates Intuit-structured API calls into Finicity-structured API calls.”

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Pictured: Intuit Developer Group’s Head of Financial Data Services, Emily Silberstein, during her presentation at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco.

Over at Finicity, the company has already rolled out the welcome mat. Finicity assures newcomers that its APIs “have the same origins and Intuit’s” and that “our teams are doing all the hard work to make sure our new ‘Façade’ API is a true replica of Intuit’s API, so you don’t have to do another integration.” Developers can sign up to test drive the API at Finicity’s developer portal. The company is also offering two months of free service for developers who migrate to the Intuit façade API or Finicity’s API before July 15.

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Making its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2015 in San Jose, Finicity was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. A provider of API services for account aggregation, cash-flow verification, and account-ownership verification, Finicity is the maker of the TxPUSH API for Fintech Apps, which makes it easier for developers to use the Finicity API platform to receive account and transaction data instantly.

Intuit Developer Group demonstrated its Transactions and Identification APIs at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco last fall. In January, the company tapped Vinay Pai to be head of the developer team, and in February, the Group celebrated the 15th anniversary of the launch of the Intuit Developer Network and the release of the first QuickBooks API.

The decision by Intuit Developer Group leaves Finicity, Envestnet | Yodlee, and FinDEVr alum, Plaid, as the remaining few major firms providing financial account-aggregation services in the United States. Yodlee, acquired by Envestnet last August, released a simplified, more intuitive RESTful API architecture in February. The Redwood City, California-based company presented its financial data platform and rapid development kit at FinDEVr 2015.

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: BBVA, Bluefin Payment Systems, Entersekt, Envestnet, Modo Payments, PayPal, Simple, Xero, Yodlee

FinDEVrNY16-V2(wdate)We’re taking our FinDEVr developer showcase to New York on March 29 & 30, 2016. Register by Friday to save on early bird price and lock in your spot.

Developer news

  • American Banker: BBVA rehires a co-founder of Simple to build open APIs.

The latest from FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 presenters

  • Ingo Money partners with PayPal, adds instant check-splitting.
  • PayPal unveils carrier partnerships and NFC payment capability.
  • Modo Payments closes $2 million in funding.
  • PayPal unveils redesign of its Android and iOS mobile apps.
  • Envestnet | Yodlee teams up with South African API marketplace, Limitless.

Alumni updates

  • Bluefin Payment Systems and Worldnet partner for PCI-Validated P2PE on the Worldnet Payment Platform.
  • Xero teams up with Google; bringing gmail and Google Apps for Work to its platform.
  • FirstBank to deploy multi-factor authentication technology, Transakt, from Entersekt.

Stay current on daily news from the fintech developer community! Follow FinDEVr on Twitter.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: BioCatch, BRIDGEi2i, Envestnet, eToro, InforcePRO, Linkable Networks, Modo Payments, PayActiv, PayPal, PaySwag, Yodlee, Zopa

On Finovate.com

  • Zopa launches three new loan products: Classic, Access, and Plus, expanding ability to lend to higher risk borrowers.
  • Envestnet | Yodlee teams up with South African API marketplace, Limitless.
  • “PayActiv raises $9 million in Series A”
  • “Modo Payments closes $2 Million in Funding”

Around the web

  • BioCatch announces real time detection of Remote Access and RAT-in-the-Mobile (RitM) malware.
  • PayPal unveils redesign of its Android and iOS mobile apps.
  • eToro partners with Sberbank to bring its social trading network to Russian investors.
  • News America Marketing and Linkable Networks announce partnership deal.
  • Nasscom Product Community blog features Bridgei2i.
  • InforcePRO adopts DTCC’s IR&S Solution to link with Carrier Partners.

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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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Arroweye Solutions, Big Data Scoring, CREALOGIX, Envestnet, Expensify, FreeAgent, Jack Henry, Mint, Nexmo, QuickBooks, Shoeboxed, Xero, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

  • “SuiteBox Wins Mobile Category of KPMG Fintech Innovation Challenge” (See SuiteBox at FinovateEurope 2016 in London next month.)

Around the web

  • Financial reporter profiles Big Data Scoring, founded in Scandanavia and headquartered in the United Kingdom.
  • Envestnet | Yodlee to bring account aggregation and PFM tools to Australian Superannuation Fund, QSuper.
  • Creative Boom lists Xero, FreeAgent, Expensify, QuickBooks, Mint, and Shoeboxed in its roundup of must-have apps for freelancers.
  • ACI Worldwide launches UP Retail Payments, combining technologies to produce an end-to-end enterprise payments solution.
  • Bank Innovation features Dave Foss, new CEO for Jack Henry & Associates.
  • CREALOGIX forges digital banking partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Join CREALOGIX in London for FinovateEurope next month.
  • PaymentEye interviews Arroweye Solutions CEO Render Dahiya on how EMV migration will impact issuers.

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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2015: A Year in Finovate Alumni Mergers and Acquisitions

2015: A Year in Finovate Alumni Mergers and Acquisitions
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Akimbo Financial, Aurora Financial Systems, Authentify, Blockstack.io, eMoney Advisor, Finicity, FIS, Funding, Fundings, FutureAdvisor, GoNow, Guide Financial, Kofax, Kontomatik, Kreditech, LearnVest, Mergers & Acquisitions, Q2, ReadyForZero, Red Zebra, Social Money, Stratos, Toopher, Urban FT, Wipit, Yodlee

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2015 was another big year for mergers and acquisitions in the fintech industry. And whether they were the acquirer or the acquired, Finovate alums were very much a part of the M&A action.

Because terms of many deals were undisclosed, it is difficult to get a precise number on how much money was spent acquiring some of fintech’s most promising startups this year. But looking just at those acquisitions for which figures were available, we can see that 2015 was a banner year in M&A (more than $7 billion) — and that’s just counting alums.

So from the $5 billion deal between FIS and Sungard to the “alum-acquires-alum” mergers of September 2015, let’s take a closer look at some of the major unions of the year that featured Finovate alums.

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If you’re a Finovate alum whose merger we’ve missed or acquisition we’ve overlooked, let us know. Send us an email at research@finovate.com.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: DoubleNet Pay, Flybits, ID Analytics, Nutmeg, PayActiv, Payfone, Thinking Capital, Yodlee, Zooz

On Finovate.com

  • “Thinking Capital and Flybits earn Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Canada Awards”
  • “ID Analytics, Payfone Win at 2015 Fierce Innovation Awards”

Around the web

  • American Banker features PayActiv in a look at budgeting apps.
  • Let’s Talk Payments presents a roundup of wealth managers turned robo-advisers, including Nutmeg.
  • Yodlee features how DoubleNet Pay enables automatic bill pay and financial health for employees.

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: Authy, BehavioSec, Entersekt, Fidor Bank, FinDEVr, FinDEVr APIntelligence, Markit, MX, Nexmo, PayPal, Thomson Reuters, Trulioo, Xero, Yodlee

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

  • Harvard Business Review: The Changing Economics of App Development.

The latest from FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 presenters

  • Aberdeen Asset Management selects Markit to value hard-to-price assets for positions with limited market data.
  • Developer reviews Authy’s two-factor authentication.
  • PayPal among the companies highlighted in Inc.’s look back at Money20/20.
  • Thomson Reuters unveils its new desktop platform, grouping all of its FX transaction venues into one single point of access.
  • Business Insider lists BehavioSec and Fidor as “companies we wish were big the U.S.”
  • Silicon Slopes Podcast hosts Ryan Caldwell, MX CEO, as he discusses how to improve online banking.
  • Thomson Reuters unveils latest version of its tax-technology platform, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE.
  • Yodlee’s Ynext unveils new incubator class.
  • Business Insider names BehavioSec among the 12 hottest Nordic fintech startups.

Alumni updates

  • “Trulioo Selected as Runner-up for Startup Canada Award for Innovation”
  • Xero reaches 600,000 subscribers in 180 countries.
  • VentureBurn features Entersekt CEO Schalk Nolte.

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

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Yodlee’s Ynext Unveils New Incubator Class

Yodlee’s Ynext Unveils New Incubator Class
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: DRAFT, Fidor Bank, Hedgeable, Roostify, Yodlee

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Ynext, the incubator program from Yodlee, announced its latest class. Featured among the eight startups is FinovateFall 2015 alum Hedgeable, the first private bank for millennials.

General manager of Ynext and chief strategy and development officer for Yodlee, Joe Polverari said his team was “blown away by the quality and diversity” of this year’s cohort, and that being involved with “such an impressive group of entrepreneurs so focused on innovation is what we love.”

Along with Hedgeable, the upcoming class includes:

As participants in the incubator, the startups will get 12 months’ access to Yodlee’s platform, a development team to help with API integration, mentorships from industry professionals, and activities in boot camps in the Silicon Valley area. Directing the class will be former Rutberg & Company vice president, Jeff Cain. Mohr Davidow Ventures, Canvas Venture Fund, Zendesk, RBS, Canaan Partners, Purch, and 1185 Design will provide mentors for the program.

Ynext is no stranger to Finovate alums. A trio of alums—Fidor US, DRAFT and Roostify—graduated from Ynext’s incubator class in May. Since then, Fidor has expanded to the U.K.; DRAFT made the finals of the BBVA Open Talent Competition; and Roostify raised more than $7 million in Series A funding and joined Wells Fargo’s accelerator.

Hedgeable was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York. Co-founders Michael Kane and Matthew Kane demoed NEXT, their wealth-management platform, at FinovateFall 2015.

Yodlee was acquired by Envestnet for more than $660 million, less than a year after going public. Based out of Redwood City, California, and founded in 1999, Yodlee is an alum of both Finovate and FinDEVr. Anil Arora is CEO.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: BehavioSec, Currency Cloud, eToro, Fiserv, Hedgeable, Klarna, Meniga, MX, Narrative Science, SayPay, ShopKeep POS, Sliced Investing, Thomson Reuters, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

  • “Finovate Debuts: Sliced Investing Provides Advisers with Access to Alternative Investments”
  • “Narrative Science Introduces Anti-money Laundering Solution, Quill for AML“
  • “Yodlee’s Ynext Unveils New Incubator Class”

Around the web

  • Thomson Reuters unveils latest version of its tax technology platform, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE.
  • Re/code looks at ShopKeep POS’s growth and newly hired COO, Michael DeSimone.
  • Currency Cloud partners with API-driven Fidor Bank to provide new SEPA Direct Debit functionality.
  • Hedgeable to take part in Yodlee’s Ynext Launchpad.
  • Business Insider lists eToro, BehavioSec, Klarna, and Fidor, as “companies we wish were big the U.S.”
  • Silicon Slopes Podcast hosts Ryan Caldwell, MX CEO, as he discusses how to improve online banking.
  • RTN Federal Credit Union re-ups with Fiserv’s XP2 account-processing platform.
  • Meniga to power Santander’s PFM.

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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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: blooom, Diebold, Prairie Cloudware, SimplyTapp, Trulioo, TSYS, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

  • Finovate Alums earn top honors at U.K.’s Emerging Payments Awards.

Around the web

  • NPR’s Morning Edition features Greg Smith, president of Blooom, in a segment on robo-advisory.
  • Diebold and SimplyTapp team up to introduce a white-label mobile wallet.
  • Trulioo now provides real-time ID-verification coverage in India.
  • INTECH licenses Digital Payments Guardian from Prairie Cloudware.
  • Yodlee integrates with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud.
  • TSYS and Ingenico partner on new solution to simplify EMV certification.

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: Yodlee Interactive and its Rapid Development Kit

FinDEVr Live: Yodlee Interactive and its Rapid Development Kit
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Yodlee

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interactive.yodlee.com | blog.yodleeinteractive.com | @YIDeveloper

YODLEE_logo_FINAL_RGBYodlee Interactive is focused on making the Yodlee platform available everywhere value can be created by entrepreneurs, partners, and developers to build digital financial apps and services. As the architects of a new digital ecosystem, Yodlee Interactive optimizes the wisdom of the financial technology crowd to create, catalyze, and distribute innovations faster through an open and secure data API. Used by hundreds of companies, both small and large, Yodlee Interactive is the horsepower behind today’s coolest and most personalized digital experiences. Yodlee is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, visit yodleeinteractive.com.

Drive financial innovation faster with Yodlee financial data platform and Rapid Development Kit (RDK)
Yodlee Rapid Development Kit (RDK) is the easiest and fastest way to build financial innovation with Yodlee and third-party-developed micro-components and services. Connect and engage your customers on any digital channel with Yodlee’s most powerful financial data and Yodlee RDK. Yodlee RDK helps fintech developers with faster life cycle development by taking advantage of reusable micro components that can be easily integrated into their app on any digital channel. Using standard web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS and web components, it can seamlessly integrate into any technology stack.

Key takeaways:

  • How to innovate faster with visual drag-and-drop toolkit
  • Increase developer productivity by writing less code and focusing on your core competency

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Presenters
Elizabeth Gunderson, Senior Manager, Customer Success, Yodlee Interactive
LinkedIn | @elizabethgundy | egunderson@yodlee.com | 650-980-3742
Gunderson, an accomplished senior manager on the Yodlee Interactive Customer Success team, has been with Yodlee for five years. She has an extensive background in tech, sales, and customer relationships and has helped YI grow its API offering to its rapidly growing customer base. Elizabeth is responsible for a number of YI tier-one customers, managing the relationships from a business level and helping to grow customer solutions from start to success.

Deven Maru, Senior Product Manager—Mobile Platform, Yodlee Interactive
LinkedIn | @devenma | dmaru@yodlee.com | 650-980-3628
Maru is the senior product manager of mobile platform at Yodlee. As part of the Yodlee platform team, he is responsible for Yodlee FastLink mobile platform. With more than 15 years’ experience in enterprise software, consumer internet, financial services and technology, Maru drives vision and delivery of Yodlee FastLink, mobile platform and new innovation initiatives to make it easier than ever to manage finances and interact with Yodlee platform.

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