Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to register soon for the only event exclusively for fintech developers, FinDEVr 2015, 6/7 Oct in San Francisco.

Developer news

• “Mobile Monday: APIs to Power Thousands of Banking Apps”

• “UBS Launches Future of Finance Challenge with Fintech Startups”

The latest from upcoming FinDEVr 2015 presenters

• In Gartner’s latest report, Backbase scores twice in the top 5 for the B2C Informational and B2C Transactional use-cases.

• Inc. ranks Kabbage as 36 in list of 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in America.

• Envestnet acquires Yodlee for its Aggregation API and Instant Account Verification API for $590 million.

• “Coinalytics and Token Earn Finalist Spots in BBVA Open Talent Competition”

• CIO magazine features Wallaby Financial in a look at the end of passwords.

• Yodlee adds four companies to its International Acceleration Program.

Alumni updates

• Bluefin Payment Systems partners with EchoSat to protect point-of-sale systems from security breaches.

• WatersTechnology interviews Derek Corcoran, CEO of Avoka Technologies.

• nymi teams up with TD Bank and MasterCard to develop heartbeat-based, biometric authentication for contactless payments.

• “Xero Launches its New Android Touch App”

• LendUp deploys TaskRouter from Twilio to improve its call-center customer service.

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