Fintech Fundings: 22 Companies Raise $590 Million Week Ending 9 Oct 2015

The fourth quarter began with a burst of funding: $585 million, including $254 million in debt, raised across 22 companies worldwide. The total included four Finovate and/or FinDEVr alums: CardFlight, $4.2 million; Ripple, $4 million; Praesidio, $3.1 million; and Spreedly, $500,000. Almost 40% of the total—$223 million—went to Chinese real estate marketplace FangDD which is Read more…

Ripple Labs Makes Waves: Raises $4 Million, Rebrands & Launches Interledger

I suppose we should not be surprised when a company like Ripple Labs makes big waves. An innovator in the field of distributed ledgers and alternative currencies, the company has raised $4 million in funding from Santander InnoVentures. Santander InnoVentures is the venture capital arm of the Spanish financial services giant. The investment completes a Read more…

FinDEVr Live: CenturyLink Enables Developers to Build Applications with Docker and Containerization

centurylink.com/business/enterprise | labs.ctl.io & ctl.io | ctl.io/blog & thinkgig.com | @CenturyLinkENT & @CenturyLinkCLD CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global communications, hosting, cloud, and IT services company enabling millions of customers to transform their businesses and their lives through innovative technology solutions. CenturyLink offers network and data systems management, Big Data analytics, and IT consulting, and Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Markit’s Technology Shows Modernization and Modularity as Keys to Rich UX

markit.com | modl.markit.com | @markit | openf2.org | blog.openf2.org | @mod_labs & @openf2 Markit is a leading global provider of financial information services. We provide products that enhance transparency, reduce risk, and improve operational efficiency. Our customers include banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, auditors, fund administrators, and insurance companies. Founded in 2003, Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Advisor Software’s Wealth Management Cloud Platform Offers 100+ APIs

advisorsoftware.com | advisorsoftware.com/blog | @AdvisorSoftware Advisor Software is the leading cloud platform for the investment advice industry. Our Wealth Management CloudTM platform offers an end-to-end suite of APIs and apps supporting every aspect of the wealth-management process, from client acquisition and financial planning to investment planning and portfolio construction, and extending to digital advice and Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Currency Cloud Takes a Look into the Creation of its API

currencycloud.com | currencycloud.com/blog | @currency_cloud Develop and automate your product with the Currency Cloud Payment Engine. Benefit from real-time wholesale rates and a fast, secure payment network that can be tailored to your business using our next generation API. Currency Cloud API Rebuild by the Currency Cloud tech team is giving the audience an insider’s Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Hyperwallet Presents its RESTful API and Embedded Payout Widget

hyperwallet.com | @hyperwallet Enhance your outbound payments experience and improve worker loyalty with Hyperwallet’s flexible payments platform. From online payment portals to unified APIs, Hyperwallet’s global payout network provides collaborative economy companies and their workers with a range of payments capabilities, integrated financial tools, tax-reporting solutions, and business support services. Our range of flexible worker-payment Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Thomson Reuters Showcases Eikon

thomsonreuters.com |@thomsonreuters Thomson Reuters connects and powers the global financial community through our open and trusted news, data, analytics and insight, tools and applications, trading capabilities, and infrastructure and services—enabling discovery, liquidity and compliance. We help our customers uncover critical insights and market opportunities and connect to the largest network of financial professionals—enabling better decisions Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Enterprise Engineering Shows its Data Aggregation & Management Software

joineei.com | @JoinEEI Since 1995, Enterprise Engineering (EEI) has provided strategic technology services such as enterprise data management, data architecture and governance, big data, business intelligence and systems integration. Our software products are proven and trusted by the world’s largest wealth managers (front ending assets under management well in excess of $7 trillion dollars). Therefore, Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Hypori’s VMI Moves Fintech Mobile Apps to a Secure, Virtualized Cloud

hypori.com | @Hypori_Inc Hypori’s virtual mobile infrastructure platform—VMI—shields enterprises from the risks of BYOD while providing a rich, responsive end-user experience, and a more secure, cost-effective, compliant solution for any organization. The highly scalable and flexible infrastructure helps commercial and public sector organizations bridge the gap between mobile productivity and mobile security. Hypori’s platform can Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Mifos Presents an Open-source Application Framework for Digital Financial Services

mifos.org |@mifos The Mifos Initiative is the open-source developer community that builds and guides the world’s first open-source financial services platform, reaching more than 3.5 million account-holders worldwide. We are a flourishing ecosystem of more than 50 development partners, global volunteers, and Silicon Valley corporate sponsors that builds and supports fintech solutions for more than Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Kofax’s Mortgage Borrower Onboarding

kofax.com | @Kofax Kofax® from Lexmark is a leading provider of software to simplify and transform the First Mile™ of customer engagement. Kofax Insight, our business analytics and process intelligence solution, monitors, analyzes and helps optimize operational business processes to ensure compliance, eliminate risk and gain unprecedented insights to achieve operational excellence. Common processes like Read more…