FinovateEurope 2015 – Yoyo

How they describe themselves: Yoyo is a mobile platform that seamlessly blends payments, loyalty, and discovery – done right. Our mission is to build an intuitive platform that creates better relationships between retailers and consumers. We are winning the UK University space. Yoyo is currently live at 10 major UK Universities and has a presence at corporate head offices and the high street. Yoyo recently signed an agreement with Tony Fernandes’s Tune Group in Asia – the first step of our international expansion.

How they describe their product/innovation: Yoyo integrates into the retailer’s till system and uses a unique QR code for each transaction, which is scanned at the point of sale. For consumers, it’s a quick and easy way to pay and get rewarded. For retailers, Yoyo provides a set of tools, which enable them to better target their customers with relevant rewards, offers, and incentives.

We recently launched V3 of the Yoyo app and we are constantly introducing new product features, with social gifting, digitalised receipts, and card to mobile being the most recent additions.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts:

Press: Valma Tikkakoski, Marketing & Communications Manager, [email protected], 07475277778
Sales: Rodney Bain, Bus. Dev. Manager, [email protected]
Les Jeal, Bus. Dev. Manager, [email protected]

FinovateEurope 2015 – WS Integration

How they describe themselves: WSI creates market-leading software products for the back and middle office functions of investment banks, securities services, insurance companies and other financial institutions.

WSI’s products improve the processing and management of trading data, giving operations teams improved control over transactional data management, increasing STP levels, and enabling our clients to be more responsive to changing regulatory and business needs.

Our client list includes many Tier 1 institutions including HSBC, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and BNY Mellon.

How they describe their product/innovation: Xceptor v4.0 is the next generation of our platform product and is a significant step forward in terms of usability and functionality.

Responding to client requests, we have improved many core pieces of the product, such as data input methods, administration pages and analytics/reporting. These changes increase the efficiency of setting up and maintaining new processes, adding further flexibility to the use of Xceptor within back and middle office operations.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Press: Kevin Josling, Head of Strategy & Marketing, [email protected], +44 2034273110
Sales: [email protected], +44 2034273108

FinovateEurope 2015 – Xignite

How they describe themselves: The pioneer for REST-based, cloud market data APIs, Xignite is the data provider of choice for leading fintech innovators including Wealthfront, StockTwits, Robinhood, Motif Investing, and Yodlee. Xignite’s APIs cover every asset class, market, and data type available and are the ideal solution for integrating data into fintech mobile apps, websites, and retail or institutional platforms.

How they describe their product/innovation: Xignite FactSet Fundamentals is the first REST-based API to provide accurate and trusted historical financials, fundamentals, earnings and more across more than 170 global exchanges. Users can retrieve financial statement data for quarterly, semi-annual, annual, and restated filings for companies across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. In addition, users can retrieve daily-calculated fundamentals, based on FactSet financial statement data, from P/E ratios and market caps, to 60-month betas and 200-day moving averages and more.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), partnerships with fintech and financial services companies

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Press: Kerry Langstaff, VP Marketing, [email protected]
Sales: [email protected]

FinovateEurope 2015 – Xsolla

How they describe themselves: Xsolla is the company behind one of the most advanced billing platforms for online gaming. Game developers are a technologically advanced and very demanding customer. High expectations of gaming companies encouraged Xsolla to create the most advanced payment system on the e-commerce market.

Xsolla has extensive relationships with payment providers like PayPal and Amazon, and services AAA game companies like Valve, Nexon, Crytek, Changyou etc.

How they describe their product/innovation: Xsolla is demoing its white-label customizable billing platform for banks.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts:

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Aiman Seksembaeva, Bus. Dev., [email protected]

FinovateEurope 2015 – VATBox

How they describe themselves: VATBox provides the first, truly automated VAT recovery solution that maximizes foreign and domestic VAT recovery while enabling transparency across all business entities. Most financial processes are already automated; the VAT reclaim process should be as well.

Moving from a manual process to automated technology means that companies no longer have to squander considerable time and resources, can avoid human error, and reduce risk significantly.

Our customers, who represent brand leaders in the areas of technology, pharma, IT, consumer goods, and manufacturing, trust VATBox to bring them maximum VAT returns with complete visibility, compliance, and control of VAT spend.

How they describe their product/innovation: VATBox is demoing a first-of-its-kind, cloud-based, truly automated solution. The automated VAT recovery solution and dashboard enable customers to build one global process that tracks and manages VAT spend with ease.

Automation guarantees reduced risk, simplicity, and ease of use by eliminating human error and reducing the inefficiencies of manual processes. But, automation and transparency isn’t only about the money, it’s about data integrity. Qualified and validated data delivers visibility, control, and compliance.

VATBox empowers companies like Teva, PPG, and Broadcom by maximizing returns while enabling transparency. Deployment is simple; all it takes is a few simple steps.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), and through other Fintech companies and platforms

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Isaac Saft, Co-Founder & CEO, [email protected], (o) +972-77-6266028,
(m) +972-54-3036370, (UK) +44 (0)20 3608 2891
Press & Sales: Meira Primes, CMO, [email protected], +972 58 459 6769, +1 (617) 459-6769

FinovateEurope 2015 – Vipera

How they describe themselves: Vipera Plc (AIM:VIP) is a cutting edge Mobile Financial Services and Digital Customer Engagement Solutions provider, serving financial institutions worldwide with differentiated mobile banking, card management, and customer engagement capabilities based around its proprietary multi-purpose platform, Motif. Headquartered in London and Milan, Vipera supports millions of end user financial applications for its top tier bank customers worldwide.

How they describe their product/innovation: Vipera Card Control is a cutting edge mobile banking app allowing a bank’s customers to control cash and card expenses with real time alerts on transactions, card locking for fraud management, auto-learning expenses categorisation logic, budget settings and alerts, as well as a loyalty engagement functionality.

Product distribution strategy: B2B2C, through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed

Contacts:

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Richard Garnier, CMO

FinovateEurope 2015 – Wipro

How they describe themselves: Wipro is a global information technology, consulting, and outsourcing company with 154,297 employees serving clients in 175+ cities across 6 continents. The company posted revenues of $7.3B for the financial year ending March 31, 2014.

Wipro helps customers do business better by leveraging our industry wide experience, deep technology expertise, comprehensive portfolio of services, and vertically aligned business model.

Our 55+ dedicated emerging technologies ‘Centers of Excellence’ enable us to harness the latest technology for delivering business capability to our clients. Wipro is globally recognized for its innovative approach towards delivering business value and its commitment to sustainability.

How they describe their product/innovation: Wipro ngGenie™ myAdvisor truly provides the “Next Generation Banking Experience” for customers. The Wipro ngGenie™ myAdvisor can have an interactive conversation with you in natural language using voice and gestures. Wipro ngGenie™ myAdvisor learns from your spend patterns, banking transactions, retail transactions, and your social transactions and provide personalized assistance. It is able to adapt to the user, understand context, and provide the right kind of assistance. It learns from the user’s actions and is able to predict user action as well as provide timely help. Wipro ngGenie™ myAdvisor covers a broad range of functionalities across branch, call center, and web, and provides “omni-channel” experience.

Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Nitin Narkhede, GM Emerging Technologies & Innovation,
[email protected], +1 408 685 3944
Mukund Kalmanker, GM, [email protected], +1 732 331 6313
Press: Vipin Chandran Nair, Head of Communications, +919845014036

FinDEVr 2014 – Xignite

FinDEVr 2014 – Xignite

Xignite is the pioneer of cloud-based market data APIs & the data provider for leading FinTech innovators Betterment, FutureAdvisor, JemStep, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, SigFig, Stocktwits, The Currency Cloud, Wealthfront, Yodlee and more. From end-of-day stock quotes to spot rates on currencies, our APIs cover every asset class, market and data type available and are ideal for integrating data into FinTech mobile apps, websites, and platforms.

Presentation

Kick-Start Your FinTech Business with Xignite Market Data APIs
Xignite powers hundreds of breakthrough FinTech apps and platforms – touching millions of investors & finance professionals each day. Learn how Xignite can help you kick-start your FinTech business, fuel your growth, and power your success with our easy-to-integrate financial data APIs.

Workshop

Power Your FinTech Apps with Xignite Market Data Cloud APIs
See how easy Xignite makes it to add virtually any type of financial market data into your app and why the top FinTech start-ups are Xignite customers. Get first-hand experience calling Xignite REST APIs for pricing, reference, and historical market data. Novices and experts are welcome; Xignite experts will be on hand to answer any questions and explain basic concepts (i.e. how to call a REST API) and share best practices (i.e. using our open-source SDKs).

FinDEVr 2014 – Xero

FinDEVr 2014 – Xero

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use online accounting software for small businesses and their advisors. The company has over 300,000 paying customers in more than 100 countries around the world. Xero ranks No. 1 by Forbes as the World’s Most Innovative Growth Company.

Presentation

Building an API-Driven Ecosystem for Small Business
Small business is at the heart of every economy. Simple efficiency gains, like eliminating data entry or getting paid twice as fast, can make or break a business. At Xero we’ve created an open, extensible platform upon which hundreds of developers have created tools and joined our mission to make small businesses all over the world succeed.

Workshop

Building an API driven Ecosystem for Small Business
In this session, hear how Xero has successfully grown its marketplace to over 300 integrated applications, structured our developer partner program, and built our open API as well as the key lessons we’ve learned along the way.

FinDEVr 2014 – Visa

FinDEVr 2014 – Visa

The Visa Developers program provides a broad array of tools, services and resources from both Visa and its subsidiary brands to help developers create seamless, multi-channel payment solutions.

Presentation

The Future of Commerce
Learn how Visa is supporting the creation of new, innovative commerce solutions by enabling developers, mobile network operators, device and platform operators to easily connect to Visa’s network through new open payment APIs and SDKs.

Workshops

Visa Checkout API-less Web Integration
Implement your own instance of Visa Checkout on a website and get started with the Sandbox, adding requirement elements to a cart page, receiving/decrypting a payload, and updating with a pixel. Learn how simple it is to implement Visa Checkout on a website without making a single API call.

Visa Checkout Android SDK Integration
Add Visa Checkout support to your app using our Android SDK. Learn how easy it is to configure your app for Visa Checkout, as well get a payload and perform an update via our API.

Apple Pay Integration with Authorize.Net & CyberSource
Add Apple Pay to your app using our iOS SDK. Plus, see the steps to configuring your account for Apple Pay as we build a sample application and also talk about our underlying API support for Apple Pay.

FinDEVr 2014 – Yodlee

FinDEVr 2014 – Yodlee

Yodlee Interactive is a driving force behind today’s FinDat revolution with APIs that empower entrepreneurs, partners, and developers to power the latest digital financial innovations around the world. Yodlee Interactive APIs support independent and partner FinApps by providing authorized access to real-time data for customers’ current bank, credit card, investment, and loan accounts, as well as bills, insurance, and rewards programs. Yodlee Interactive APIs are behind hundreds of today’s coolest and most personalized digital experiences, including Credit Karma, LearnVest, miiCard, PowerWallet, SavvyMoney, SelfWealth, Xero, and Wave.

Presentation

Demystifying the Yodlee Data
What is the Yodlee platform and what value do the Yodlee Interactive APIs open up to developers? What are the use cases and killer solutions built with the APIs, and what data does it enable? What is coming next for developers? We’ve covered categorization, wealth, and future enhancements in this video.

Workshops

How to Build an App with Financial Data. Hands on help from Yodlee Interactive and the hot app builders who are leading the charge
Getting started with the Aggregation API: integration, developer portal tools, resources, help
Using key features like our add account wizard (FastLink). Show and tell on how two key developers have used Yodlee data & FastLink to build killer apps. What features are coming soon, hear from our early adopters. Presenters: Cheung Tam, Anita Hayrapetian & Guest Developers

Supercharge your Apps with Wealth Data from Yodlee & Xignite
Learn from both Yodlee and Xignite on how to get access to Wealth Data information (Stocks, Mutual Funds, Positions) via their APIs and the types of apps that you can build with this information. Presenters: Deviprasad Kocherry (Product Manager, Yodlee) & Al Chang (CTO, Xignite)

Yodlee’s Instant Account Verification (IAV) API for Managing Risk and Fraud
Learn how to use Yodlee’s Instant Account Verification APIs as a comprehensive account validation solution to minimize Risk and Fraud. Roll up your sleeves and see first hand how builders are using the API to streamline the availability and validation of accounts in today’s rapidly innovating funding processes. Presenters: Lori Martel, Jayasree Iyer & Guest Developers

Yodlee Interactive Code Review – Kick Back and Code With Us
We brought in the Yodlee Pro Services team to kick back and review code, answer questions, and hack through any confusion or challenges users may be facing.

FinovateFall 2014 – Yodlee

FinovateFall 2014 – Yodlee

How they describe themselves: The Yodlee Financial Cloud powers dynamic innovation for digital financial services. Leveraging comprehensive and unique transactional data, the Yodlee Platform transforms customer interactions through app-driven solutions – like digital money management (DMM), money movement, wealth and risk management, APIs and more. Yodlee solutions speed financial innovation, improve digital experiences, and deepen customer engagement.

How they describe their product/innovation: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the rage, but if you’re a financial institution – or a company with complicated systems and data connections – then taking advantage of APIs can be daunting or even impossible. Yodlee is changing that with a single API and customized developer portal, built for each customer, and exposable to developers in a secure and compliant way. With the data, the API, and the tools to build and create, financial institutions are free to innovate with speed and agility. For example, enabling consumers to “invest their change” in stocks – a cool new idea, and a big win for institutions AND consumers.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts:

Bus. Dev: Karim Bhalwani, Strategy & Bus. Dev. Manager, [email protected],
650-980-3647
Press: Melanie Flanigan, Senior Marketing Director, [email protected], 650-980-3707
Sales: Nick Kamali, Inside Sales Rep, [email protected], 650-980-3675