Dan Gray
Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Zooz
What is your mission statement? Our mission is to be the payment partner of choice for all merchants seeking to maximize their payments potential. We strive to reduce the burden of payments, open up borders with ease, and enable merchants to realize their business vision with data-driven insights. Zooz aims to
Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Behaviosec
What is your mission statement? Our mission is to create a world where consumers are part of the security solution, rather than the problem. Security should just work, without disrupting the user journey. Our behavioural biometric solution is a form of intelligent security – a multi-layered, pragmatic approach to user authentication and verification
Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Trunomi
What is Trunomi’s mission statement? Our mission is to reinvent identity and personal data management and sharing. Trunomi builds FinTech solutions and data-sharing technologies that connect companies and people; eliminating pain points, reducing friction and making both their lives simpler, safer and easier. We are building our company to transform the lives of
Avox Launches Web-Based API for Rapid Legal Entity Data Access
Avox, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, DTCC, has launched a series of web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to support faster access to legal entity data, including legal entity identifiers (LEIs), legal names, addresses, industry classifications and corporate hierarchies. Founded in 2003 in cooperation
Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Darwinex
What’s your company’s mission statement? Darwinex returns financial markets to people. We pair talented investment managers with savvy investors, P2P, without most traditional intermediaries. Our vision for the future is one where EVERYONE, regardless of wealth or financial expertise, has access to the best available investment opportunities. Where are you
Digital Concierge iOS App ‘Reserve’ Raises $15 Million in Funding
Founded by Greg Hong and true(x) CEO, Joe Marchese, Reserve is a digital concierge service focused on making every part of the dining experience better, for both restaurants and diners. They’ve partnered with some of the top names in dining, over 110 partners — from Michelin-starred restaurants to James Beard
Columbian Mass Transit Gets an Upgrade with Contactless Card Technology.
Recaudo Bogotá S.A.S, Bancolombia and MasterCard(press release) have announced the inclusion of electronic payments to promote and facilitate access to Bogotá’s Integrated Public Transit System (SITP). To this end, Bancolombia is integrating a transit component in its Maestro debit cards for use as a means of payment on the SITP
The Total Volume of FinTech Investments in 2014? $6.8B
According to the annual research of international fintech venture capital firm Life.SREDA, fintech startups worldwide raised a total of $6.8B in 2014. This is three times more than in 2013, when the total investment amount in fintech was $2.2B. In 2014, we witnessed the first IPOs of fintech companies, setting
First Government run digital currency to start operations in Equador
Ecuador’s monetary system is due to get revamped again. After they switched to USD, 15 years earlier, they are all set to digitise the currency now. The Ecuador’s Sistema de Dinero Electrónico (electronic money system) started operating in December allowing users to set up accounts and starting this month they
Polish Banks Come Together to Launch Mobile Banking Service Blik
Backed by six Polish banks, mobile banking service Blik was launched in Poland. The initiative which started in November last year went live yesterday. The participating banks are Alior Bank, Bank Millennium, Bank Azchodni WBK, mBank, ING Bank and PKO Bank Polski. These banks combined to create the Polish Payment
