FinDEVr Preview: Eshtapay, EVO Snap*, Intuit Partner Platform, and Xignite

In the weeks ahead of FinDEVr San Francisco, we’re taking a closer look at the companies that will share their technology through presentations and workshops on September 30 and October 1.

Today, we have two installments. In the first, we looked a Avoka, Financial App, Incomm, and Xero. In part two, we’re featuring:

• Eshtapay
• EVO Snap*
• Intuit Partner Platform
• Xignite

There’s still time to pick up your ticket to join in on the first event for fintech developers.

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Eshta develops and operates Eshtapay as a financial platform that can act as online payment system, e-wallet, escrow system, and self-service payment terminal back-end. Eshtapay (due to its very flexible architecture) is a Swiss-Army knife for the online banked and unbanked alike.

Keynote: Eshtapay: The Financial Swiss-Army Knife

Eshtapay is directly operated in Ukraine and Egypt and also used online from Dubai to France to power self-service payment kiosks, service vending machines, service marketplaces, and ATMs. With less than 6 months time to market for deployment, Eshtapay exhibits remarkable versatility and efficiency.

Workshop: Eshtapay: 80M People Market Case Study

Eshta CEO Catalin Braescu is offering a detailed break down of the customization and deployment of Eshtapay for the 80-million-person Egyptian market. Expect a colorful presentation, Indiana Jones situations, breakneck deadlines, and a Hollywood happy ending!

Why it’s great for developers:

• Suspiciously easy to integrate
• Dangerously fast to deploy
• Tempting pricing

Your company + Eshtapay = fast access to billions of developing world consumers.

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EVO Snap* is a one-stop shop for application integration, merchant underwriting and international payment processing. Our developer platform provides single-integration access to omni-channel payment processing and value-added services through one API – making it easy for developers to support merchants.

Keynote: DIY Offers and Rewards – Closing the Digital Loyalty Loop

Description: Activate and deepen relationships with customers by linking consumer data with payment and marketing services to create customized loyalty programs, card-linked offers and real-time rewards at point-of-sale.

Workshop: DIY Offers and Rewards API – A Look Under the Hood

Get up close and personal with the EVO Snap* Connect offers and rewards API and discover how to integrate offer publishing and card-linked redemption services into your loyalty app. Learn how to leverage pre-built service modules and explore options for making your bank/app portal more valuable to merchants by offering detailed retail analytics. We’ll crack open the API, review available data, and offer up sample code.

Why it’s great for developers:

• Simple, fast & easy-to-use payment APIs & integration tools
• Simplify merchant activation & approval
• Expand your global footprint and EMV readiness

Acquirer, Processor & Technology Partner – All-in-One. EVO Snap* is a one-stop shop for application integration, merchant underwriting and international payment processing.

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Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) is an open platform that enables developers to integrate with rich financial and transactional data through REST-based APIs and offers unparalleled reach to millions of small businesses through Intuit Apps.com.

Keynote: The Small Business Opportunity

The importance of small business to the global economy can’t be denied. With 600 million small businesses worldwide, the opportunity to drive their success is huge. Reach millions of small businesses by developing for Intuit QuickBooks Online, an open platform for developers that taps into the power of QuickBooks and the cloud. With partners from Square to American Express to Vend, QuickBooks Online allows Intuit and its ecosystem to simplify the business of life for millions of small businesses.

Workshop: Intuit’s Financial Data APIs: Getting Started With the Best Platform to Connect to Small Business and Consumer Financial Data

QuickBooks Online (QBO) has the largest small businesses audience in the world and the QBO API opens up this valuable market to partners and developers like you. The Customer Account Data (CAD) API is the same API that powers Mint.com giving you access to transaction data from over 19,000 financial institutions. In this session we will review the QBO and CAD APIs.

This session is best for developers looking to serve small businesses and accountants.

Key Takeaways:

• What the QBO Platform offers to you as a partner and developer
• How to start integrating with the CAD API so you can get started quickly

Why it’s great for developers:

• QB Apps.com reaches millions of qualified SMB customers & accountants
• You can easily connect your SaaS app to SMBs
• Extend the power of QB to handle multiple jobs

Through IPP, developers can extend the power of QuickBooks, join Intuit’
s ecosystem of applications, and tap into millions of existing SMB customers.

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Xignite is the pioneer of cloud-based market data APIs & the provider for leading Fintech innovators Wealthfront, StockTwits, Robinhood & Yodlee. Our APIs cover every asset class, market & data type available & are ideal for integrating data into FinTech mobile apps, websites, and platforms.

Keynote: Kick-Start Your FinTech Business with Xignite Market Data APIs

Xignite powers hundreds of breakthrough FinTech apps and platforms – touching millions of investors & finance professionals each day. Learn how Xignite can help you kick-start your FinTech business, fuel your growth, and power your success with our easy-to-integrate financial data APIs.

Workshop: Power Your FinTech Apps with Xignite Market Data Cloud APIs

Come see how easy Xignite makes it to add virtually any type of financial market data into your app and why the top FinTech start-ups are Xignite customers. Get first-hand experience calling Xignite REST APIs for pricing, reference, and historical market data. Novices and experts are welcome; Xignite experts will be on hand to answer any questions and explain basic concepts (i.e. how to call a REST API) and share best practices (i.e. using our open-source SDKs).

Why it’s great for developers:

• Get going now with our special startup pricing 

• Get to market first – thanks to our easy APIs 

• Huge catalog of market data to fuel your growth

The flagship FinTech companies are winning with Xignite. Shouldn’t you be too?

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If you missed any of the previous FinDEVr Preview posts, check them out below:

• Yodlee Interactive
• TD Ameritrade Institutional 
• Visa Developers 
• MasterCard Developer Zone
• PayPal / Braintree and Forte Payment Systems

Alumni News– August 8, 2014

• TransferWise earns a spot on Wired UK’s list of the “100 hottest start-ups” in Europe for 2014.

• TMC Net takes a look at CU of America’s deployment of mobile banking solutions from Malauzai Software. See Malauzai at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.

• First Access Funding Corporation to deploy loan origination system (LOS) from defi SOLUTIONS.

• MasterCard Indonesia launches e-commerce initiative.

• Intuit acquires PaySuite, bringing cloud-based payroll services to Quickbooks.

• American Banker: Authentify introduces extension of xFA called Smart Choice to determine authentication mechanisms the user’s device has access to.

• Cachet Financial Solutions and Contact Solutions bring Mobile Customer Care to Prepaid Clients.

• CNBC looks at how LearnVest, Tuition.io, and ReadyForZero are making student loan payback easier.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Alumni News– August 4, 2014

• Oink adds payment solutions provider Merchant e-Solutions to its Channel Partner program.

• American Banker takes a look at Credit Karma’s plan to provide free, weekly credit reports to its 25+ million members.

• Allied Payment Network announces 99.2% read success rate when processing payments via PicturePay.

• Intuit to acquire tax filing software startup, KDK Software.

• MorningStar’s Christine Benz interviews MaxMyInterest founder, Gary Zimmerman. See MaxMyInterest at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.

• EZBOB reports boost in client volume.

• Wall Street & Technology talks gamification and compliance training with True Office.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Coinbase Integration Brings Bitcoin Payments to Shopify Merchants

If you’re a merchant on the Shopify e-commerce platform with a hankering to join the cryptocurrency revolution, then Coinbase has some very good news for you.

Thanks to a new integration of Coinbase’s technology, the more than 100,000 merchants that rely on Shopify to do business online will be able to start accepting payment in bitcoin as early as Tuesday.

The process involves setting up a Coinbase account, initiating the integration on Shopify, providing account credentials, and that’s it. Already on board are merchants such as Leap Motion, Soylent, and iOgrapher.

Coinbase is a bitcoin payment processing and digital wallet platform that makes bitcoin transactions easier and safer. The company holds more than one million consumer wallets, and enables more than 28,000 merchants to accept payment in bitcoin. There are no fees charged for the first $1,000,000 in transactions, with merchants paying a 1% exchange fee beyond that amount. Coinbase’s most recent innovation, demoed at FinovateSpring in San Jose this year, is called Instant Exchange and helps remove exchange rate risk from bitcoin transactions.

Coinbase has had a busy first half of 2014. The company’s technology was integrated with Intuit’s PayByCoin in June. And Coinbase earned a spot on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list shortly after announcing its acquisition of Kippt in May.

Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Coinbase was co-founded by Brian Armstrong (CEO) and Fred Ehrsam (President).

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Developers! Curious how Coinbase makes it easy for merchants to add bitcoin payment functionality to their businesses and apps? Learn more about Coinbase’s Bitcoin API here. And be sure to check out our FinDEVr page for updates on the first event for fintech developers.

Finovate Alumni News– May 16, 2014

• Google Play Store now accepting PayPal.

• Intuit buys Invitco to help bookkeepers put bill processing in the cloud.

• SocietyOne, an Australian peer-to-peer lender, mulls entering NZ market, is talking with ‘multiple parties’.

• miiCard graduates from SixThirty accelerator.

• Swipely tops $2 billion in annual sales managed; launches Summer ’14 release.

• Bermuda Commercial Bank picks the T24 core banking system, Model Bank, from Temenos.

• Pymnts.com interviews Ingrid Pinheiro of Jumio.

• FinSMEs talks about BodeTree with CEO and co-founder Chris Myers.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– December 5, 2013

• Dwolla announces partnership with Fiverr by giving away free Fiverr gigs.

• FinovateEurope 2014 Presenting Companies Revealed.

• Intuit to Acquire Docstoc, Small Business Document Startup.

• Expensify modernizes its UI.

• Better ATM Services rolls out reseller network and announces first agreement with Express Teller Services.

• TSYS earns spot on the National Conference on Citizenship’s The Civic 50.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– December 4, 2013

• American Banker takes a close look at NCR’s purchase of Digital Insight.

• BBVA Compass announces launch of BBVA Research iPad app.

• Bank Innovation column on fintech in Israel features TipRanks and Payoneer.

• Emida launches Handset and SIM Programs.

• Taulia partnership with Optima ECM Consulting.

• BancVue and other Credit Unions Help U-Haul Refinance Corporate Debt.

• Prosper’s daily average loan originations grew almost 10% in November over October.

• The Next Web reports: PayPal launches a digital gift store, featuring Apple as its sole launch partner.

• City of Gig Harbor Launches on doxo; More than 5% of Residents Go Paperless in the First 90 Days.

• Forbes: Kabbage Now Uses Square Data to Provide SMB Funding.

• Mint is now available on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.

• btcQuick Bitcoin Exchange working with miiCard to mitigate fraud.

• EyeVerify interviewed on The Kansas City Power Lunch radio program.

• IntelliResponse wins bronze in Best in Biz Awards’ Most Innovative Product of the Year category for 2013.

• Intuit to purchase document startup company, Docstoc.

• American Banker features Zaydoon Munir, founder of RevolutionCredit.

• ACI Worldwide adds new executives, open new South American HQ in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– November 20, 2013

• Moven launches Android app.

• Kabbage launches iPhone app out of test market.

• PC Mag includes Dashlane on list of the 50 best free iPhone apps of 2013.

• Financeit brings in $13 million in series A funding.

• TSYS Director of Innovation Chris Colson talks about the launch of their Idea Center.

• Intuit launches Apps.com, a small business app store, and an updated QuickBooks Online API.

• FIS to power Bharatiya Mahila Bank Ltd., the first women-focused public sector bank in India.

• Fiserv wins top honors at Mobile Money Global and Mobile Excellence Awards with Popmoney P2P payments service.

• TechCrunch reports that Google Wallet customers will soon have the option of physical, prepaid Wallet cards.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– November 8, 2013

• adesso to sell & implement Backbase’s Customer Experience Platform in Germany, Austria & Switzerland.

• ValidSoft announces appointment of Paul Burmester as CEO. Pat Carroll to assume role of Executive Chairman.

• Fidor Bank expanding into Russia through a joint venture Life.Sreda.

• Numbrs, Kofax make American Banker’s “Top 10 FinTech Companies to Watch” roster.

• Intuit announces partnership with American Express to support receipt data integration to QuickBooks.

• La Caixa launches social network for its investors, StockTactics.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– October 31, 2013

• Intuit to acquire FullSlate, an online scheduling company.

• Boku partners with PassportParking, enabling consumers to pay for parking using their mobile number, and billed to carrier billing statement.

• American Banker comments on the savings strategies of SaveUp, Betterment’s ImpulseSave, and Social Money.

• FIS study reports: Customer engagement in real-time payments requires mobility and convenience.

• CurrencyFair featured in prime time on Irish television news.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.