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for its Smart Onboarding Engine, which is designed to
enable financial institutions to enhance their lending
experience. The Tech Projects Awards recognize innova-
tion in financial technology and are judged by an exter-
nal panel of industry experts. The Fintech Partnership
category evaluates fintechs that are collaborating with
banks and other financial institutions to solve specific
pain points.
Ibotta dubbed Colorado's latest tech unicorn
Ibotta, a U.S.-based mobile rewards platform, reported
it is now one of Colorado's fastest growing consumer
tech companies due to a Series D financing round at a
$1 billion valuation. According to Ibotta, the funding
will enable the company to continue leading innovation
within the payments industry through its turnkey and
ANNOUNCEMENTS rewarded payments solution Pay with Ibotta, further-
ing the company's mission to make every purchase
Blockstream touts bitcoin mining colocation rewarding. The round is being led by Koch Disruptive
Technologies LLC, an investment firm dedicated to
Blockstream recently launched Blockstream Mining, investing in emerging high-growth technologies across
which provides mining equipment colocation in pur- a range of industries.
pose-built data centers based in the United States and
Canada. Tailored to meet the needs of institutional and RiskIQ launches JavaScript threats solution
enterprise customers, Blockstream's facilities enable the RiskIQ, which specializes in attack surface manage-
fast deployment of virtually any type of bitcoin mining ment, launched the RiskIQ JavaScript Threats Module
equipment and provide customers with complete con- to ensure customer trust in ecommerce by protect-
trol over their mining operations, the company stated.
ing organizations' high-traffic payment pages from
Bluefin adds devices, applications, KIFs JavaScript attacks. The module is part of a compre-
hensive platform for reducing threats to organizations'
Payment security provider Bluefin added several new Internet attack surfaces, the company stated. JavaScript
devices, applications and key injection facilities (KIFs) Threats leverages RiskIQ's proprietary global discovery
to its Payment Card Industry (PCI)-validated point- infrastructure to build complete, dynamic inventories
to-point encryption (P2PE) listing. Bluefin's payment of organizations' websites, including critical ecommerce
security platform supports payment gateways, proces- assets with their own and third-party JavaScript; it then
sors and integrated software vendors globally. The monitors the web assets and JS resources, creating alerts
company noted that it became the first North American for malicious and suspicious changes.
provider of a PCI-validated P2PE solution and intro-
duced Decryptx, a PCI-validated P2PE decryption-as-a-
service (DaaS) to enable payment processors, gateways Also find us on FaceBook,
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Ever AI honored by NIST, rebrands as Paravision
can’t miss events and newest
Ever AI, a face recognition platform designed for mis- industry announcements.
sion-critical applications, disclosed that it was ranked
No. 1 globally by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology on its Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT)
1:1 Leaderboard. NIST FRVT is the U.S. government's
independent evaluation of face recognition algorithms.
The company also heralded its rebranding, with new
logo, positioning and website, to Paravision.
https://www.facebook.com/TheGreenSheetInc
ezbob lauded for Smart Onboarding Engine
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-green-sheet
Lending-as-a-service provider ezbob won Best Fintech https://twitter.com/The_Green_Sheet
Partnership in The Banker's Tech Projects Awards 2019
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