The FinTech Forward Rankings, published by American Banker and BAI, are based on reported and estimated calendar-year revenues derived from the financial industry. VASCO provides two-factor authentication and electronic signature solutions to financial institutions. VASCO's security services are used by more than 100 of the top banks in the world, but it also serves industries such as healthcare, gaming, automotive, government and education. Arroweye is a single-source provider of card marketing and production solutions for the payment card industry. Among those startups to watch was Rippleshot, a company founded in 2012 that detects fraud by pouring through credit card data. But rather than focusing on the consumer, they examine millions of merchants and their transactions, searching through the data for something that might indicate the early stages of a data breach.

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