{"id":15338,"date":"2019-12-18T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/?p=15338"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:11:53","slug":"wealthica-montreal-fintech-station-free-api-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wealthica-montreal-fintech-station-free-api-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealthica + Montr\u00e9al Fintech Station = Free API Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for the Fintech ecosystem in Canada! ?<\/p>\n<div id=\"rtoc-mokuji-wrapper\" class=\"rtoc-mokuji-content frame2 preset1 animation-fade rtoc_open default\" data-id=\"15338\" data-theme=\"Kicker Child\">\n\t\t\t<div id=\"rtoc-mokuji-title\" class=\" rtoc_left\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"rtoc_open_close rtoc_open\"><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Contents<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div><ol class=\"rtoc-mokuji decimal_ol level-1\"><li class=\"rtoc-item\"><a href=\"#rtoc-1\">Free Wealthica API Access<\/a><\/li><li class=\"rtoc-item\"><a href=\"#rtoc-2\">Ready to accommodate 25 to 35 startups<\/a><\/li><li class=\"rtoc-item\"><a href=\"#rtoc-3\">Check out the Montr\u00e9al Fintech Station launch (Video &#8211; In French) <\/a><\/li><li class=\"rtoc-item\"><a href=\"#rtoc-4\">Wealthica + Fintech Station = FREE API<\/a><\/li><li class=\"rtoc-item\"><a href=\"#rtoc-5\">Our role in the Canadian Fintech community<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div><h2 id=\"rtoc-1\" >Free Wealthica API Access<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fintechlogo.png\" alt=\"Montr\u00e9al Fintech Station\" title=\"fintechlogo.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" style=\"float:right\" \/>As an official partner of the Montr\u00e9al Fintech Station, Wealthica has teamed up with Finance Montr\u00e9al to offer <strong>free access to its API to tenants<\/strong>; meaning Fintech Station startups and developers will have the opportunity to integrate functionalities of Wealthica into their offering.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Montr\u00e9al, a major financial cluster since 2010, has recently announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finance-montreal.com\/en\/news\/montreal-fintech-stations-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launch<\/a> of the <strong>Montr\u00e9al FinTech Station<\/strong>, thanks to the support from its institutional members as well as Quebec&#8217;s Ministry of Finance (Minist\u00e8re des Finances du Qu\u00e9bec).<\/p>\n<p>The FinTech Station\u2019s goal is to :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Support the development of new financial technology businesses and promote the digital transformation of major financial institutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"rtoc-2\" >Ready to accommodate 25 to 35 startups<\/h2>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/office-space-fintech-station.png\" alt=\"Office space fintech station\" title=\"office-space-fintech-station.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"850\" height=\"265\" class=\"responsive\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new physical space, located at 4 Place Ville Marie (in the heart of downtown Montreal), boasts a 25,000 square feet surface; spreading across two floors. It can accommodate 25 to 35 startups and offers more than 140 workstations. At the time of writing, about 20 companies have signed up to occupy the premises. &#8220;The Station&#8221; offers many customized services for ambitious Fintech startups: &#8220;professional and technological services, training and coaching, financial industry networking activities, business growth support \u2014 at a competitive price in a modern space close to major Qu\u00e9bec financial institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"rtoc-3\" >Check out the Montr\u00e9al Fintech Station launch (Video &#8211; In French) <\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<iframe title=\"Lancement Station FinTech Montreal\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sEQOSXhwV10?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"rtoc-4\" >Wealthica + Fintech Station = FREE API<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/api.png\" alt=\"Wealthica API\" title=\"api.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"850\" height=\"265\" class=\"responsive\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Through this partnership with Finance Montr\u00e9al, Wealthica is offering Fintech Station residents free API access for up to 100 users. For these startups, more specifically, that could translate into:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to financial data to quickly build new products or MVPs.<\/li>\n<li>Explore new opportunities to add financial account aggregation to existing apps or products.<\/li>\n<li>Importing investment account data including holdings and transactions to existing apps.<\/li>\n<li>Access to over 80+ Canadian financial institutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"rtoc-5\" >Our role in the Canadian Fintech community<\/h2>\n<p>We intend to actively participate in the Fintech Station community, organizing events and Meetups around Open Banking and related technologies. Of course, such will be a good opportunity to explain how to use our API.<\/p>\n<p>Startups which currently use or integrate with the Wealthica API include :<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/interview-wealthscope-releases-add-on-for-wealthica\/\">Wealthscope<\/a><\/strong>: Hailing from Toronto, Wealthscope is a promising startup that offers a suite of portfolio tools and comprehensive analytics.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wealthicas-partner-hardbacon-launches-ios-app\/\">Hardbacon<\/a><\/strong>: A Montreal-based startup which launched a mobile app that syncs with online brokerages, analyzing its users\u2019 portfolios and providing them with data and tools to become better self-directed investors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More information can be found on the official <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stationfintech.com\/en\" rel=\"noopener\"> Montr\u00e9al Fintech Station website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for the Fintech ecosystem in Canada! ? Contents Free Wealthica API AccessReady to accommodate 25 to 35 startupsCheck out the Montr\u00e9al Fintech Station launch (Video &#8211; In French) Wealthica + Fintech Station = FREE APIOur role in the Canadian Fintech communityFree Wealthica API Access As an official partner of the Montr\u00e9al Fintech Station,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2050],"class_list":["post-15338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journey-updates","tag-fintech-station"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15338"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15723,"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions\/15723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealthica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}