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H2 Ventures and KPMG have released their Fintech 100 roster for 2016. Divided equally between 50 “industry leaders” and 50 “emerging stars,” the roster features 17 Finovate/FinDEVr alums in the first category, and 10 in the second. Calling its roster a “celebration” of the most compelling innovators in this “bold new space,” the H2 Ventures/KPMG Read more…
On Finovate.com H2 Ventures and KPMG Unveil 2016 Fintech 100 Around the web Signifyd to power fraud protection for Magento Commerce platform’s online merchants. InComm launches new brand of solutions for cash-based consumers, VanillaDirect. Handpoint expands agreement with PaySafe to power EMV POS. YoYo Wallet expands focus to U.K.’s high street retailers, with partnerships between Read more…
On Finovate.com Lendio Closes $20 Million Funding Round Lending Club Launches Car Loan Refinancing Product Check out today’s sneak peeks of upcoming FinovateAsia demos: FixNix Sentifi Around the web AdviceRobo reaches 900k credit scores Bill.com partners with Intuit to power end-to-end accounts payable within QuickBooks Online Actiance appoints Cynthia Crossland as CMO Entrepreneur Magazine names Read more…
Not to be outdone by the notoriously clever Tweeters of Finovate, the attendees of FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2016 produced more than their fair share of insights and observations on Twitter during the show. And for the first time, FinDEVr announced a pair of prizes for those technologists whose use of Twitter throughout the show was Read more…
Blockchain Visa (FD14) partners with blockchain innovator Chain (FD15) to develop a “near real-time,” high value, fund-transfer system between banks and corporate customers called Visa B2B Connect. The technology is expected to pilot in 2017 and could add much needed transparency and security, as well as speed, to B2B payments. SBI Securities of Japan teams Read more…
On Finovate.com SumUp Launches Air Register Around the web Visa builds new blockchain payments platform, Visa B2B Connect, in partnership with Chain. Wipro to acquire cloud services firm, Appirio, for $500 million. Open source subscription billing and payments platform, Kill Bill, integrates with Dwolla. Revolut wins Best New Customer Facing Innovation at Emerging Payments Awards Read more…
After watching two days of live presentations from fintech innovators from around the world, the attendees at FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2016 have made plain their preferences. So many presenters received enthusiastic praise for the way they are solving problems and developing tools/APIs to make payments more efficient, security more effective, and financial data more accessible. Read more…
On Finovate.com Welcome to Day 2 of FinDEVr Silicon Valley FinDEVr Silicon Valley: Celebrating the Best of the Builders Around the web FinDEVr alum Thinking Capital launches Lucy, an AI-powered chatbot for small business borrowers. Narrative Science forges strategic partnership with Deloitte to promote broader adoption of advanced NLG technology. AdviceRobo launches Seedrs crowdfunding campaign Read more…
We’re back! After taking FinDEVr on the road for a very successful inaugural New York show this spring, our fintech developers conference has returned to the Left Coast for two days of APIs, SDKs, and enough case studies, integrations, and code to choke a Python (see what I did there?). If you haven’t picked up Read more…
A look at the trending topics of the past two weeks, co-authored by Finovate’s research analysts David Penn and Julie (Schicktanz) Muhn. Big handshakes Cardtronics acquires DirectCash Payments In a $460 million deal, Texas-based ATM operator Cardtronics has acquired Canada-based DirectCash Payments. The deal is expected to help Cardtronics expand into Canada and the United Read more…
On 8 Oct Ron Lieber’s NY Times column Your Money discussed alternatives for consumers looking to move from major banks (thanks, Wells Fargo). He started with credit unions, touched on community banks and then finished with a major shout-out to an unlaunched fintech startup Zero Financial. Not being familiar with Zero (other than its recent Read more…
Featured U.K.-based challenger bank Atom opens to the public. The bank’s iPhone and iPad app is built on the Unity gaming platform and is the only way to access the mobile-only bank. Atom has a customer service team equipped with AI and machine learning, and has bolstered its security using voice and face biometric login. Read more…