Interview

Meet ‘The Fintech 50’ – Worapay
What is Worapay’s mission statement? WoraPay is the mobile acquiring network for banks, telcos and other mobile wallets. We are working on the network which we supply to any payment and/or loyalty apps. Any of these can be used at any merchant location where WoraPay infrastructure is installed. By doing

Jagex Games Studio to Accept Bitcoin in Partnership with Adyen
Jagex, one of the largest independent games developers and publishers in the UK, will now accept Bitcoin payments. This move was enabled by Adyen, payment innovation firm spread across six continents with clients like Mango, KLM, Superdry, TomTom, PhotoBox, Lebara, Indiegogo, Badoo, SoundCloud, Getty Images, Vodafone, Farfetch and Wix. With

How a Coder Became the CEO of One of America’s Fastest Growing Companies
We got in touch with Jeff Thorness, CEO and Founder of Forte Payments, through the FinDEVr Conference in San Francisco. As Founder of the company he bootstrapped the venture from inception in 1998 to a 115-people operation in 2014. Over time the company has become a leader in omni-channel payments

Brian Gentile, ex-CEO of Jaspersoft, Speaks With Dataconomy
We spoke with Brian Gentile, the CEO of Jaspersoft, ahead of the new release of TIBCO Jaspersoft’s 5.6 Platform. Version 5.6 of the Jaspersoft BI platform is designed to help more business users become capably analytic, with advances in key areas such as Big Data connectivity, platform performance, analytics and reporting.

Birst Interview: Introducing Support for HANA
We spoke with the VP of Product Strategy at Birst, Southard Jones, ahead of the announcement of Birst’s support for SAP HANA. Birst provides an enterprise-calibre Business Intelligence platform based on the cloud. Its approach is designed to be less costly and more agile than Legacy BI and more powerful