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Payments

BCW Group

We are a global strategy consulting firm that specialises in inter-connecting digital payments, digital assets & distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Payment Services: We offer a wide range of cutting-edge digital payments technologies & services to meet the specific needs of companies in the crypto industry.
Consulting Services: We carefully curate customised corporate solutions for enterprise firms to adopt distributed ledger technology to improve their top and bottom lines.
Technology Services: We build, own & operate API based platforms & microservices and offer a multitude of network infrastructure services to our B2B clients who are interested to run nodes on DLT networks.

Payments

Galileo

Galileo--the API standard for card issuing, digital banking and BaaS--is a global payments processing platform powering leading fintechs, neobanks and financial services firms throughout the Americas and supporting the U.S. business of leading UK-based fintechs. Galileo’s powerful APIs, flexible platform and bank-grade back-office remove the complexity from payments, enabling clients to deliver innovative financial services to their customers. Salt Lake City, Mexico City, NYC, SF and Seattle.

Payments

Marqeta

Marqeta is the modern card issuing platform empowering builders to bring the most innovative products to the world.

Marqeta is the modern card issuing platform empowering builders to bring the most innovative products to the world. Marqeta provides developers advanced infrastructure and tools for building highly configurable payment cards. With its open APIs, the Marqeta platform is designed for businesses who want to easily build tailored payment solutions to create best-in-class experiences and power new modes of money movement. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California. For more information, visit www.marqeta.com,.

Payments

Swap

Swap is the full service financial technology partner that empowers next generation fintechs to expand their markets, deliver unmatched product experiences and boost their economics.

Swap is a BaaS + Card processor that puts together everything a company needs to launch its own financial services in Latam.

Payments

Visa

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is the world’s leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce. For more information, visit About Visa, our Blog and @VisaNews

Visa is streamlining onboarding for Fintechs — giving you easy access to our powerful capabilities and network. We’re here to help you navigate the complex world of payments so that you can quickly advance your ideas. Together with Visa and our enablement partners, we can help make your payment solution a success. Apply to the Visa Fintech Fast Track program today to launch and scale a card, virtual credential, or disbursement program with favorable commercial terms, easy onboarding, and Visa’s ongoing guidance and support. For more information, visit the Fintech Fast Track page on Visa Partner or contact now.

Banking-as-a-Service

Treasury Prime

Treasury Prime is the leading Banking as a Service (BaaS) company that connects banks and fintechs through an API so developers can start building in minutes and launch in days.

"Treasury Prime’s full integration into core banking systems gives developers access to a wide range of banking services from opening accounts to making payments to issuing cards. Why Treasury Prime? Strong partnership - We’ve worked in banks and in startups so we know what it takes to build and scale a fintech business. Fastest time to market - Our API is the easiest to use and the best documented so you can get your offering in market as quickly as possible. API-centric - We have the most powerful and best documented API and development tools. Deepest integration with bank systems - We give you access to the full breadth of banking capabilities. Multiple banking relationships - We connect you with the right banking partner, not just any bank. Direct relationship with your bank - Because banking services are the foundation of your business, so your bank is the most important relationship."

CFO / Corporate Services

Brex

Thousands of businesses use Brex to manage their finances. We’re proud to serve newly-founded startups, established tech companies, life sciences companies, and ecommerce brands alike, helping founders and their teams stay focused on what they care about most.

"Open a Brex account online in 10 minutes for instant access to your account number, routing number, and virtual credit cards. Then enjoy spending with uncapped rewards, no ACH or wire fees (even internationally), and free tools to track and manage your spend. Earn 50,000 points ($500 value) when you spend, save and control your money with Brex – the modern business banking alternative."

CFO / Corporate Services

Mercury

Mercury provides full-stack banking for startups, including FDIC-insured bank accounts, physical & virtual debit cards, domestic & international wires, and integrations with the tools your startup uses. Other features include API access, custom team management, Mercury Treasury (earn yield on idle funds), Mercury Raise (get intros to top investors). Get signed up in a few minutes and set up in a few days from anywhere in the world. No SSN or US residential address required. Mercury is backed by top investors like A16Z, CRV, and Elad Gil.

Get $500 cash when you spend $10K on your debit card in the first 90 days: mercury.com/partner/vgs

CFO / Corporate Services

Ramp

Ramp is the only corporate card that helps companies spend less money and time. Unlike other cards that design incentive programs for companies to spend more money to rack up “points,” Ramp is focused on addressing the hundreds of ways a company over-spends through actionable insights on how to reduce costs and stop wasting money. Add to that our industry-leading 1.5% cash back on all transactions, built-in expense management (replace Expensify and Concur), and $200k+ of partner rewards.

"- Save your finance teams 10 hours/week. Close your books faster with Ramp’s accounting software integrations and intelligent spend categorization.
- Earn more than with any other corporate card. $200k in sign-up offers. 1.5% cash back on everything.
- Eliminate overspend. Ramp’s current customers are uncovering and cutting an average of $125k/year through our savings reports on spend activity and automated insights. Don’t accept waste in your organization as you scale.
- Distribute spend, keep control. Streamline your request and approval process and put team leads in control of their spend. Issue unlimited virtual & physical cards that automatically enforce your company expense policy.
- Higher limits and no founder guarantee. Our novel underwriting model allows us to offer 10-20x the limit of traditional card providers, without affecting credit scores.
- Unlimited cards. Zero fees. We keep it simple with no setup costs, recurring subscriptions, hidden fees, or foreign transaction fees of any kind.
- Slack integration. See all transactions in real time, receive alerts (e.g. large transaction), request and issue cards.
- Receipt tracking. Ramp allows you to see exactly what's outstanding and remind people in one click.
- Robust Reporting. Full visibility into company spend, slice and dice the data by cardholder, department, and merchant.
VGS companies receive a $500 Amazon Gift Card (after paying down your first Ramp balance over $1k in spend). Apply Now: https://ramp.com/partners/vgs"

Compliance

Cobalt

Cobalt provides a Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform that is modernizing the traditional, static penetration testing model. With a globally distributed team and offices in San Francisco, Boston and Berlin, Cobalt is transforming pentesting by providing streamlined processes, developer integrations, and on-demand pentesters who have undergone rigorous vetting. With Cobalt, customers can build their pentest program in as little as five minutes and start a pentest in 24 hours.

Pentest as a Service Credits | 5% Discount at VGS' current tier

Compliance

ComplyAdvantage

"ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry’s leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage’s mission is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 500 enterprises in 75 countries rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they’re doing business with through the world’s only global, real-time database of people and companies. The company actively identifies tens of thousands of risk events from millions of structured and unstructured data points every single day.
ComplyAdvantage has four global hubs located in New York, London, Singapore and Cluj-Napoca and is backed by Ontario Teachers’, Index Ventures and Balderton Capital. Learn more at complyadvantage.com."

"Customer Screening & Monitoring:
-Understand new risks in real-time with our proprietary database of Sanctions, Watchlists, PEPs, and Adverse Media, offering richer data quality and provenance.
-Reduce false positives with consolidated profiles and tailored matching and monitoring. Seamlessly integrate AML checks into your onboarding workflow via a highly functional RESTful API.
-Receive automated ongoing monitoring alerts related to relevant changes in risk status. **10% discount for the first 2 years of any agreement."
"Transaction Monitoring:
-Monitor transactions in real-time or retrospectively to identify patterns of suspicious activity and fraud risk.
-Leverage pre-set industry-specific rules and scenarios fit for your business or work with our industry experts to build your own.
-Fine-tune rules and matching thresholds based on risk appetite and transaction type to reduce false positives.**10% discount for the first 2 years of any agreement."
"Transaction Screening:
-Screen transactions against a consolidated, near real-time database with updates in minutes
-Run separate rules on each field of the payment message including unregulated free text
Send data in real-time or batch upload, giving you the opportunity to balance risk with straight-through processing -Whitelist clients that don’t pose a risk and significantly reduce false positives
**10% discount for the first 2 years of any agreement. "

Financial Data Provider / Credit Reports

Pinwheel

Pinwheel provides the platform allowing consumers to connect their payroll account to any app. Developers can integrate Pinwheel into their app with just a few lines of code, and access the wealth of data and functionality in payroll platforms. By building pipes that connect these systems to banks, lenders, and other service providers, we give developers the tools to spark innovation of new financial products, and to make it easier for underserved consumers gain equitable access to financial services.

Direct Deposit Switching 20% discount to rack rates.
Paycheck Linked Loan Payments 20% discount to rack rates.
Income and Employment Data endpoints 20% discount to rack rates.

Financial Data Provider / Credit Reports

Plaid

Plaid is a technology platform and data network that enables developers to build applications to connect with users’ financial accounts. We focus on lowering the barriers to entry in financial services by making it easier and safer to use financial data. Today, tens of millions of people across North America and Europe have used Plaid to connect their financial accounts to applications they rely on.

Plaid Products Overview: https://plaid.com/products/

Financial Data Provider / Credit Reports

Wage

Wage lets people easily, instantly, and securely share their employment and income records with 3rd-parties they authorize with just a few clicks. Embed Wage directly in your app and leverage income & employment data today - no clunky forms or login credentials required.

Wage income and employment verification API access | 10% discount to standard rates.

Fraud / ID Verification

Alloy

Alloy is the Identity Decisioning Platform that helps banks and fintech companies automate their decisions, approve more customers, and outmaneuver fraud.

Alloy is the Identity Decisioning Platform that helps banks and fintech companies automate their decisions, approve more customers, and outmaneuver fraud. Our single API-platform connects financial services companies to more than 85 data sources to help them verify identities and monitor transactions - giving them a holistic view of each customer from the day they onboard and throughout their life with the organization. From automatic decisions and fewer manual reviews to smooth onboarding, Alloy is how smart banks and fintech companies take a closer look at the whole picture.

Fraud / ID Verification

Ekata

Ekata provides global identity verification solutions via enterprise-grade APIs for automated decisioning, and Pro Insight, a SaaS solution for manual review for cross-border businesses to grow revenue by maximizing their predictability of good transactions. Ekata’s product suite is powered by the Ekata Identity Engine, the first and only cross-border identity verification engine of its kind. It uses complex machine learning algorithms across the five core consumer attributes of email, phone, name (person or business), physical address, and IP, to derive unique data links and features from billions of real-time transactions within the Ekata proprietary network and the data licensed from a broad spectrum of global providers. Businesses around the world including Alipay, Microsoft, and Stripe leverage our product suite to increase approvals of more good transactions, reduce customer friction at account opening, and find fraud.

Account Opening API - Designed to support your customer onboarding strategy, the Account Opening API identifies potential bad actors from good customers during the online application process. It expedites the user experience for good customers while preventing bad actors from using stolen or synthetic identities to gain instant credit, seek loans, launder money, or carry out credit bust-out schemes.
Transaction Risk API - Designed to offer great customer experience in every touchpoint, the Transaction Risk API maximizes approval rates while fighting payment fraud in every transaction. In under 100ms, it delivers a concise response to expedite authorizations and reduce customer friction. Powered by a robust and reliable engine, Transaction Risk API integrates seamlessly into fraud models to increase operational efficiency.
Pro Insight - Ekata Pro Insight is the only global identity review solution that provides six ways to search, robust analytics and admin tools, direct workflow integrations, and a clear and focused user experience. Pro Insight enables organizations to assess identity risk, approve good transactions, and investigate fraud on a global scale.

Fraud / ID Verification

Neuro-ID

Neuro-ID is pioneering the Behavior-as-a-Service (BaaS) space, providing a new standard for collecting, translating and actioning on the real-time behaviors of digital interactions. Through a body of patented technology called Human Analytics™, Neuro-ID leverages over a decade of scientific research and discovery in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to measure both customer Intent and Experience.

Via a light-weight JavaScript integration, Neuro-ID collects high-fidelity behavioral signals from web applications, processing these signals in session and making available scores ("Neuro Confidence Scores") and attributes ("Neuro Attributes") to inform real-time decisioning. Neuro-ID's scores and attributes offering is accompanied by a behavioral dashboard which enables companies to understand and act upon end user behaviors (behaviors indicative of fraud, hesitation, frustration, focus) within their digital customer journey.

Fraud / ID Verification

SardineAI Corp

Sardine provides a risk and fraud operating system using hundreds of signals from device intelligence, email, phone risk levels to prevent identity and payment fraud as well as account takeover.

Sardine is a Fraud Prevention-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform for Digital businesses to detect all types of fraud and financial crimes.

Fraud / ID Verification

Unit21 Inc

"Unit21 provides a configurable and flexible engine for transaction monitoring, KYC, and case management. We are backed by Google, and work with the most cutting edge companies in the world like Intuit, Chime Bank, and Coinbase. Read case study by Intuit here (https://www.unit21.ai/intuit-case-study).
We empower non-technical risk and compliance operations teams with a no-code approach to modeling risk, driving investigation and remediation, and reporting workflows from within our system."

"Transaction Monitoring
Our world-class transaction monitoring enables your risk and compliance teams to customize rules and create complex statistical models without engineering resources.
- Complex machine learning applied in an understandable and approachable way
- Hundreds of out-of-the-box scenarios that you can deploy with a single click
- Apply unique monitoring logic and thresholds to different segments of your customers"
"Case Management
- Streamline your investigations with a highly flexible system of record for customer risk & reviews.
- Built-in SAR e-filing to FinCEN, saving hours of manual work per week
- Preserve an immutable and auditable trail for all data and actions within your system
- Customize investigation workflows and actions, enabling you to tailor the case management system to your needs
- Export your own alerts and cases to the case management system
- Export data in real-time back to your system"

Platform / Ecosystem Partners

Hydrogen

"Hydrogen is embedded finance simplified. The Hydrogen no-code platform allows businesses to configure and embed white labeled financial products without writing a single line of code. Launch new programs, earn new revenue, and join the embedded finance revolution in under 5 minutes.
Hydrogen has been named World Changing Technology from Fast Company, FintechStartup of the Year from KPMG Luxembourg, and was the winner of BBVA Open Talent USA. Hydrogen is a graduate of MasterCard Start Path, Plug and Play FinTech, and MassChallenge FinTech."

We make it easy to embed financial services with simple pricing and no long term contracts.

Platform / Ecosystem Partners

Infinicept

Infinicept is how software companies are now getting all the advantages of embedded payments – from more revenue to more control of the merchant experience – without the usual disadvantages. Instead of having to choose between the costs and risks of DIY approaches or the restrictions and limitations of off-theshelf solutions, software companies are able to maintain full control of their payments solution without having to build it themselves. Infinicept tools and services simplify everything from onboarding and underwriting to administration and service. Customers can count on more foresight, more freedom, and more follow-through across the entire process. That’s why industry leaders such as Fivestars, Patientco, and NCR have all turned to Infinicept. With over 200 customers in 25 countries, the Infinicept platform is growing at 800% per year, and the company has reached #95 on the Inc. 5000 list. Infinicept. Get payments going your way.™

Infinicept allows you to review key factors related to your merchants, including identity verification, credit review, a virtual site survey, and bank account verification, to name a few. Merchants who have flags on one or more checks will be pended for further review by an underwriter. Merchants that pass these automated checks using Infinicept will be automatically approved and boarded and can begin processing payments immediately.
The Infinicept Merchant Management portal allows you to manage your merchants from start to finish. All of your merchant information for approved and boarded merchants can accessed in one easy to use dashboard with customizable options to fit your business need, monitor risk and keep your merchants safe and compliant.

Platform / Ecosystem Partners

Teampay

Teampay is the first purchasing software built for modern, technology-enabled businesses. Our products enable companies to request, approve and track expenditures in real-time.

"Set your policy and let the software do the rest. Rules engine: Effortlessly enforce spend policy through automatic routing of purchase requests to the right approver/s. Upfront coding & receipt reminders: Eliminate manual work by requiring employees to code purchases upfront and sending automatic receipt upload reminders. Issue payments: Automatically issue the appropriate payment, limited to the pre-approved amount and vendor." "Gain financial agility with real-time, actionable insights. Automated reconciliation: View purchases in the general ledger as they happen. Committed spend & budgeting: Understand what spend has been committed against the budget and make better decisions, faster. Reporting: Free finance from providing actuals by democratizing spend data across the organization." "Simplify complex processes with a seamless, all-in-one purchasing experience. Capture all spend: Manage all company purchases, whether paid via virtual cards, physical cards, purchase orders, and expense reimbursements. Conversational user interface: Effortlessly guide employee through the buying process. Accessibility: Empower all employees to make purchases from anywhere through an easy-to-use Slack or web interface."

Platform / Ecosystem Partners

Trava

Trava exists to protect small and midsize businesses from the potential damage of cyber threats. By integrating assessment, mitigation, and insurance into one, convenient cyber risk management platform, Trava enables business owners and IT professionals to operate secure, productive businesses without fear of interruption or loss caused by cyber incidents. Whether you run a business or provide support services to small and mid-market clients, Trava can help you manage cyber risk in a new—and better—way.

Automated Assessments Check for vulnerabilities in external and internal environments with the following scan types:
External Infrastructure
Certificate
Dark Web
Cloud
Web Application
Internal Network
Agent
Asset / Discovery
Schedule and manage assessments from one convenient platform
Streamline results with simple, aggregated reports
Prioritize mitigation actions based on risk severity
Mitigation Consulting
Complete in-depth risk surveys and compliance audits
Work with security experts to perform mitigation activities
Get advice from a virtual CISO
Create and implement programs for cyber risk management and secure software development
Cyber Insurance
Transfer residual risk for extra business protection
Cover potential losses from common cyber threats:
Cyber Extortion
Social Engineering
Business Interruption
Virus Transmission
Liability Implications
Coverage limits range from $100,000 to $10 million

Associations

Cloud Security Alliance

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products. CSA’s activities, knowledge and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and the assurance industry — and provide a forum through which diverse parties can work together to create and maintain a trusted cloud ecosystem. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

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