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Tickets for upcoming FinDEVr London and FinDEVr New York are at their lowest prices now. Register for FinDEVr New York now and save! On FinDEVr.com SimplyTapp Launches New Payments and E-Commerce App, Gane. Alumni updates Let’s Talk Payments interviews Marcin Truszel, Founder & CEO of Kontomatik. StockTwits Partners with TradeIt to Expand Beyond Robinhood’s Brokerage. Read more…
Ed Addario, the new Chief Technology Officer for CurrencyCloud, brings an impressive track record as a fintech executive to the company. Addario comes to CurrencyCloud after serving as Global Head of Architecture and Integration at Misys. And previous to his tenure at Misys, Addario was SVP Technology at Monitise. At CurrencyCloud, Addario will manage a Read more…
If you’ve been following our series on wealth tech, you’ve seen our analysis of the industry as a whole, a review of the top trends, and an examination of B2C wealth tech players. Our wealth tech coverage continues this week with a review of business-to-business (B2B) players in the wealth tech space. These are companies Read more…
What blockchain trends from 2016 are worth watching for follow-through in 2017? Here are five blockchain players to keep an eye on as the new year begins. IBM: Something Old, Something New, Something Blue It is remarkable that a company that is more than 100 years old (“International Business Machines”) is one of the leading Read more…
In a deal inked in the second half of December and slated to be completed in the first quarter of 2017, payments innovator Kalixa Group has been sold to Senjō Group, a private investment company based in Singapore. The price tag of the purchase is $30 million (€29 million), with a completion accounts adjustment that Read more…
FinDEVr Silicon Valley was a success! Tickets for upcoming FinDEVr London and FinDEVr New York are at their lowest prices now. Register today for London or New York to save your spot! On FinDEVr.com Avalara Adds New CMO Jeremy Korst. The latest from FinDEVr Silicon Valley presenters Finovate Debuts: Sindeo Revamps the Mortgage Application Process. Read more…
Starting in 2017 former Microsoft executive Jeremy Korst will be the man driving the message at tax compliance innovator and FinDEVr alum, Avalara. The Seattle-based company announced this week that Korst will join Avalara as its new chief marketing officer and executive vice president. Coming onboard at what Korst called “an exciting inflection point” for Read more…
One of the world’s most innovative, fintech-friendly banks just onboarded a new boss. BBVA announced this week that U.S. subsidiary BBVA Compass has named former Garanti Bank deputy CEO, Onur Genç, as its new CEO. At Garanti, Turkey’s largest bank by market cap at $9 billion, Genç (pictured) was in charge of retail banking, private Read more…
Financial services innovator Nubank closed on $80 million in Series D funding led by DST Global earlier this month, marking DST’s first investment in a Brazilian company. Other participants in the round include Founders Fund, QED Investors, Redpoint, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia, and Tiger. This is Nubank’s sixth round of funding and brings its total amount Read more…
FinDEVr Silicon Valley was a success! Tickets for upcoming FinDEVr London and FinDEVr New York are at their lowest prices now. Register today for London or New York to save your spot! On FinDEVr.com “CTO Talk with Eugene Marinelli, CTO of Blend“ “Nubank Raises $80 Million in Series D Funding” The latest from FinDEVr Silicon Read more…
Student loan repayment platform Tuition.io will get a fresh start in 2017. The Los Angeles-based company today announced Scott Thompson (pictured) will take the reins from Brendon McQueen as CEO. Thompson most recently served as CEO for ShopRunner. Prior to that he held a short-lived role as CEO of Yahoo and served as president of Read more…
A new investment of more than $10 million (€10 million) will help core banking technology provider Five Degrees focus on both product development and global expansion. The funding comes courtesy of new investor Karmijn Kapitaal and existing investors, 5Square and Velocity Capital. Calling Karmijn Kapitaal “more than just a new shareholder,” Five Degrees CEO Martijn Read more…