The vision of fintech_devcon, first-ever fintech developer conference, is to bring together like-minded developers and increase the voices heard throughout the financial technology space.
My design career started at the age of six when I got my first Polaroid camera. I was obsessed with taking photos, and I started out by taking a photo of every family member, friend, or stranger who would let me, as well as many portraits of the family dog dressed up in my clothes.
From a consumer’s perspective, debit and credit cards are relatively straightforward. You sign up for a card, and you use that card to pay for goods or services – either with money directly from your account (for debit card purchases) or with borrowed money that you’ll pay back (for credit card purchases).
I learned a valuable lesson as a young product manager years ago that transitioning your product from a cost center to a profit center for your customers changes the dynamic of your relationship with them.
We’re excited to announce that our flagship developer conference is back and ready to bring together builders in 2022. fintech_devcon started as a way to democratize fintech knowledge across payments, compliance, finance, and more.
Moov’s mission is to make it easy for applications to accept, store, and disburse money. Transfers in Moov are instructions to move money between source A and destination B.
Performance, reliability, and maintainability are essential elements of everything we build here at Moov. In design discussions, we pay particular attention to how our services are defined and how information moves between them.
Truth be told, my story isn’t like some of the other stories shared by my team members. For starters, I found Moov the same way most people find a new job.
Even though we push to production every day at Moov, there’s nothing quite like publishing the changelog and seeing the complete list of what’s gone out.
Chaucer was right; life is a lot like the Canterbury Tales. If you haven’t read the stories, the takeaway is that life is more than just a pilgrimage; it’s about the people you meet along your journey.
Whether you’re a developer, product manager, or just a curious builder exploring our money movement platform, one thing is critical as you get going: the ability to play, interact, and test—quickly.
The end of the year is fast approaching, and it’s time to pause and reflect on our immense gratitude. Let us share some of the things for which we are thankful.
I’m happy to announce that Moov has joined Plaid’s payment ecosystem to help bring faster, more secure payment experiences to every digital financial interaction.
Growing up, I was unable to talk. Speaking was difficult for me because of a severe stutter. Imagine being excited to share something with your friends, family, or bullies, but then your throat collapses in and completely locks.
We caught up with Anuhya Challagundla, a computer science student and fintech_devcon 2021 scholarship winner, to talk about her experience attending the inaugural event.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to re-examine daily life as we knew it. Because of this shift, fresh opportunities for innovation surfaced in many different sectors.
Life has a funny way of trying to fit people into similar molds.
The human brain makes sense of the world through order, so when square peg people don’t fit into the round holes of society, things get uncomfortable.
Be an architect—that was the result of my high school career aptitude test.
That short, generic quiz somehow felt so official, but it failed to teach me anything about myself.
Founded in 1973, the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) network connects more than 11,000 financial institutions around the globe, enabling reliable wire transfers in a secure environment.
The Moov ACH Gateway is a customizable payment gateway that enables automated ACH operations including file uploading and downloading. When paired with our test harness, which acts as a financial institution, achgateway serves as the final puzzle piece for ACH transactions.
From currency converters to invoicing tools, the world of open source fintech is overflowing with interesting projects. We’ve put together a curated list of our favorites and hope you’ll add projects you love too.
Our commitment to creating a diverse culture in fintech development.
fintech_devcon is the first-ever fintech developer conference. Our vision is to bring together like-minded developers and increase the voices heard throughout the financial technology space.
Not many people can say that the Scholastic book catalog set their entire career in motion.
While other fourth-graders chose books like Animorphs and Goosebumps, I decided to purchase an HTML book for kids.
The Moov ACH Test Harness project provides a configurable FTP/SFTP server to replicate real-world ACH file transfer scenarios like returns and changes.
After announcing fintech_devcon earlier this year, we’ve been blown away by the positive response. Not only are developers eager to finally attend a conference dedicated to them, but it’s exciting to see that people are ready for in-person events again.
The Moov Watchman project provides search functionality over U.S. trade sanctions lists, including individuals, groups, and companies legally forbidden to transact with.
The Moov Metro2 project offers an API with several operations for Metro 2 credit reporting files, including bidirectional conversion between plaintext and JSON formats.
Why did I join Moov?
Well, it all started back in 2001, when a much younger Joel Tosi entered the payments world with a head full of hair and a heart full of childlike idealism.
A few years ago, a fintech company came to me with a formidable task.
“We’d like you to build a new product in four months,” they said, straight-faced and so matter-of-factly that the engineer in me felt an exciting adrenaline rush followed by a pragmatic gag reflex.
The Moov Wire project offers an API with several operations for Fedwire messages, including bidirectional conversion between plaintext and JSON formats.
Developers don’t want payments, and they don’t want Elasticsearch. They want a better user experience for their users. They want the experience we have all come to expect from Uber (payments) and Google (Elasticsearch).
The Moov ImageCashLetter project features an API with several operations for X9 files, including bidirectional conversion between ASCII/EBCDIC and JSON formats.
In 2014 I had the privilege of joining a small San Francisco-based fintech startup. I worked with some incredible people, and we achieved impressive results along the way.
I will judge my success at Moov based on the experiences of my employees. Not how many people we hire, how much money we raise, or how many dollars we move through our platform.
Real-time payments (RTP) is a payments network owned by The Clearing House (TCH). RTP enables 24/7 real-time electronic payments in the US, meaning you can transfer and receive funds immediately over its network at any time.
My path to working at an embedded payments startup isn’t as straightforward as I would’ve hoped. In college, I studied finance and computer science with the singular goal of joining a big hedge fund as a programmer.
Edtech. Fintech. B2B consulting. I’ve dabbled in several different industries, but I’ve always found ways to incorporate writing into my previous roles, from customer success to UX research and analytics.
The world of open source software (OSS) is booming. OSS dependencies live in every corner of the digital products we use daily, yet many projects lack a reliable maintenance and contribution plan.
We are thrilled to announce that Moov Financial has joined the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), a membership organization dedicated to advancing faster payments in the United States.
We started Moov in 2017 to lend a trusted hand to developers building or integrating financial products. After more than 15 years of experience developing digital banking solutions, core banking, and payments, we knew that banking infrastructure could be better.
We recently welcomed Zach Bruhnke the CEO/Janitor at HMBradley to be a speaker at our Moov weekly happy hour. Zach is a longtime member of the Moov community and fintech veteran.
The recap This month marked the first meetings of the Moov ACH and ICL working groups. Our first of many ongoing monthly meetings where community members come together and discuss how we can improve our open source projects.
Today, the news of our $5.5 million seed round became public! All of us at Moov have been looking forward to this day for a while, and we’ve internally referred to it as Moov-ing day.
First of all, hi, we’re Moov. We’re a new company with a mission to bring joy to developers tasked with building on top of the United States banking and payments infrastructure.
In Part 1 we covered how to update our README and GitHub Pages documentation. In this article, we’ll map out how to quickly and easily suggest changes to our API documentation.
The documentation for our open source projects is here to serve you, the community. We’re always interested in feedback from those using our open source libraries and incredibly thankful to anyone willing to contribute to them.