In the past, spotting a phishing email was easy due to its spelling and grammatical errors. Similarly, recognizing your child's voice on the phone assured you of their identity. However, with advances in AI, these simple identifiers are [...]
by Jim Bruene, BUX Advisors Read the original article on BUX Advisors Website. Star One Credit Union is in an enviable position. Its Sunnyvale location, smack dab in the heart of Silicon Valley, gives the credit union access to [...]
March 30, 2017 08:00 ET Tyfone's solution offers convenient user experience and fraud prevention in digital channels PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwired - March 30, 2017) - Tyfone has been named a Top 10 Mobile Banking Solution Provider by Banking CIO Outlook, honoring the [...]
Mobile devices in conjunction with the cloud have brought new levels of productivity to our lives. Internet of Things devices are bringing greater levels of productivity and cost-savings to businesses, and safety and convenience to our everyday lives. However, this [...]
Rated as Top 10 Mobile Banking Solution by Banking CIO Magazine two years in a row, Tyfone's Secure Digital Banking Solution is One of Only Two Mobile Banking Solution Providers to Receive the Honor in Both 2015 and 2016.
Digital security solutions firm Tyfone is launching a new challenge at MIT focused on Internet of Things (IoT) security. Participants will be finding new ways to secure a Raspberry Pi-based IoT device or service by using the firm’s Connected Smart [...]
The Web Crypto v.Next Workshop focused on improving secure authentication in the Open Web Platform. We reviewed the possible integration of hardware tokens as well as other forms of authentication, with the aim of being able to replace the password with more phishing-resistant cryptographic credentials. The workshop attracted more than 70 participants, including representatives from major browser vendors, hardware token vendors, mobile phone operators, payment technologists, government eID experts, and other bodies such as GlobalPlatform, SmartCard Alliance, FIDO Alliance, and SIM Alliance.
W3C’s Web Payments Interest Group is gaining momentum in its pursuit of the integration of payments into the Open Web Platform. As part of building understanding security, and the role of the Web, I am organizing a series of interviews on Web payments. In this first interview with Tom Poole and Drew Jacobs of Capital One, and Siva Narendra of Tyfone, we open with the broad question of what the Web needs to facilitate eCommerce.
Tyfone announced that it was given an award for “Widest Handset Coverage and Contactless Compliance” at the Asia Pacific Smart Card Alliance’s APSCA first forum on alternative NFC mobile payment solutions, recently held in Taiwan.
Marcell King is Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Product Strategy at Tyfone. As Chief Commercial Officer, Marcell oversees tyfone’s product strategy and execution, sales, marketing, partnership and account management efforts. Prior to joining Tyfone, he was Chief Innovation Officer at Payveris (acquired by Paymentus in September 2021) where he led product innovation, sales, and marketing.
While he was at Payveris, Marcell developed the banking industry’s first direct to biller credit card and debit card bank bill pay. Marcell has nearly 30 years of leadership in product management, sales, marketing, client services and P&L management in the digital banking and payments space. He has held key leadership roles at Paymentus, Open Solutions, Amazon.com, Incomm (formally Giftango) and Bankserv.
He is well-versed in digital banking, cash management, bill payments, peer to peer and account to account payments, mobile payments, gift cards, ACH origination, wire-transfer, and check/item processing technologies.
Nizar is responsible for technology direction and roadmap of Tyfone and contributes to strategic planning, sales, engineering process and operational execution of the company. Nizar is a technologist and entrepreneur with 30+ years of diverse experience in the Software, Security, Telecommunications, Marketing, Publishing, Legal and Financial services industries in US, India and Europe.
Previously, Nizar was a CTO at Maxval Group, a product and services organization providing intellectual property management solutions using Salesforce. Nizar was a Managing Director at UBS, responsible for implementing shared mobile and social platforms across UBS. Prior to UBS, he co-founded Impelsys where he conceptualized a cloud-based software as a services platform and transformed the company from a service organization to a software as a service, products and services organization. Nizar has held progressively responsible positions in technology startups prior to Impelsys.
Nizar received an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Annamalai University in India.
Dr. Siva Narendra is CEO of Tyfone, Inc., a digital banking and digital payments technology company in Portland, Oregon, he co-founded in 2004. Dr. Narendra has served as CEO since 2011.
Dr. Narendra is an inventor in 100s of patents. Inventions he patented have led to the launch of Tozny, a digital security company and iCashe, a digital payment fintech. Dr. Narendra was nominated to the National Medal of Technology and Innovation with recommendations from Oregon’s Attorney General and General (Retd.) David Petraeus. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Dr. Narendra was a Senior Staff Scientist at Intel’s Corporate Technology Group. Dr. Narendra is a published author and has more than 60 peer-reviewed papers. In addition to serving on the boards of tyfone and iCashe he co-founded, Dr. Narendra was a board member at OnPoint Community Credit Union from 2017 to 2020. He serves on the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines.
Dr. Narendra holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Prabhakar Tadepalli is a proven leader with over 30 years of experience in building teams and organizations in the technology sector. A recognized industry leader with demonstrated abilities in turning research ideas into viable, scalable products. A dynamic leader known for building strong organizational cultures with innovative, inclusive and successful teams. A dynamic public speaker with a strong ability to convince markets to embrace new ideas.
He is the is co-founder, President and COO of Tyfone, Inc. Tyfone develops an Omnichannel digital banking solution that empowers credit unions and community banks with a single-codebase multi-tenanted platform that is scalable, customizable, quick to deploy, and vendor agnostic. He is responsible for all operational elements at Tyfone and for developing strategic plans of the company.
Previously, he was Founder, CEO of Finatus, Inc, a venture-backed, web-application outsourcing company and was responsible for all the strategic and business management aspects of the company. Prior to founding the company, he was responsible for Strategic Planning at Intel Online Services, and also was part of the Intel’s Reseller Products Division, SMB Business Development team.
Prabhakar received his MBA from the University of Chicago, an MS in Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas and a BE from Bharathiyar University in India. Prabhakar is located in Bangalore, India.
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