ThreatMetrix Launches Digital Identity Graph

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on

This week, cybercrime-prevention company ThreatMetrix launched Digital Identity Graph, a new tool to help businesses positively identify their customers. The Digital Identity Graph maps associations among people, devices, phone numbers, account credentials, home addresses, and businesses they associate with. The resulting map defines digital, global relationships without compromising privacy. On top of the Digital Identity Graph, the company layers machine Read more…

PayPal Unveils Carrier Partnerships & NFC Payment Capability

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on

Last week, PayPal upgraded its mobile app with a cleaner user interface, quick PIN login and other enhanced features. Today, the San Jose-based company announced further updates, powered by partnerships that will offer it access to Vodafone’s 454 million users and America Movil’s 286 million subscribers. The payment company’s partnership with Vodafone enables European-based Vodafone wallet users to Read more…

Best of Show Winner DriveWealth Inks New Partnership with Stoxs

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Fresh off its Best of Show winning performance at FinovateEurope, DriveWealth has signed a new partnership that will make it possible for Australian investors to get access to American stocks DriveWealth’s partner is Stoxs, a financial technology company based in Silverwater, New South Wales, whose investing platform is geared toward new and millennial Australian investors. Read more…

FinDEVr APIntelligence

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on

We’re taking our FinDEVr developer showcase to New York on March 29 & 30, 2016. Register today. Developer news The Personal Finance Operating System. The latest from FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 presenters Aerospike unveils version 3.7 of its NoSQL database. Mitek to combine its Mobile Verify solution with fraud prevention and risk management technology from IdentityMind Global. Wallaby’s Chrome Read more…

Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $260 Million Week Ending Feb 5

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Private capital continued to flow into the fintech sector this week with 21 companies raising $257 million. The total included at least $85 million in debt. One Finovate alum raised new cash: London’s Revolut brought in $4.8 million for its global funds-transfer app. Just five weeks into the new year, fintech companies have raised $4.25 billion in equity and debt Read more…

Former HP Exec Rob Binns Appointed New CFO at Misys

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Rob Binns will join Misys as the company’s new CFO; he formerly served as the head of treasury and investor relations at Hewlett-Packard. Misys CEO Nadeem Syed said that hiring Binns will help the company continue the “outstanding financial performance” that is central to its long-term strategy. “I am excited to welcome Rob on board at Read more…

Ripple Partners with SBI Holdings to Meet Demand in ASEAN Countries

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on

Yesterday, financial settlement services platform Ripple announced a partnership that will boost its expansion into a region where it has seen lots of local interest and growth potential. The San Francisco-based startup has teamed up with financial conglomerate SBI Holdings to form a new company called SBI Ripple Asia. As a part of the joint Read more…

How is Europe Fueling the Fintech Fire?

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on

FinovateEurope is just weeks away, so we’ve been paying closer attention to European fintech. The sector not only achieved a banner year for innovation, but also scored a record amount of VC investments. To gauge the temperature of fintech innovation in Europe, we looked at Finovate alums in different regions: Aire.io in the United Kingdom, Read more…

Alpha Payments Cloud Wins Next Gen Payments Category of KPMG Fintech Innovation Challenge

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Alpha Payments Cloud, which won Best of Show at FinovateSpring 2015 with its AlphaHub technology, took home top honors in the “Next Generation Payments” category at the KPMG Fintech Innovation Challenge. “We are delighted to have the AlphaHub platform recognized for its groundbreaking fintech innovation in the KPMG Challenge,” said Ronan Gallagher, chief product officer Read more…

CEO Interview: Nexmo’s Tony Jamous

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on

Nexmo is a global cloud communications platform company providing communication APIs and SDKs for voice, text, messaging, phone verification, and chat-app connectivity. At FinDEVr San Francisco 2015, Nexmo showed how its APIs and SDKs help companies such as Expedia, Zipcar, and Viber increase security, decrease fraud, and protect user identity—without compromising the user experience. To Read more…