Author: David Penn

Smart eMoney Presents LockByMobile to Stop Credit Card and ATM Security Breaches

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, Smart e-Money

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The team from Smart eMoney is on its way to the stage with its anti-fraud security solution, LockbyMobile.

To address the potential breach in credit card or ATM security, LockByMobile provides an additional security layer for cardholder accounts such as credit, debit, ATM and prepaid card, or even electronic wallets. It empowers cardholders to take control by “locking and unlocking” their accounts in real time using their mobile phone.

The service offers granual settings such as locking specific channels (point of sale, online, mobile, or ATM), or transaction settings (amount and merchant types), as well as limiting the transactions to certain countries and currencies.

LockByMobile’s concept comes from the Lock/Unlock feature of Smart Money, winner of the ‘Best Mobile Security Feature’ award, November 2009, GSMA in Barcelona.

Presenters: Angelito Villanueva, VP & head of innovation, and Guillaume Danielou, senior product manager 

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Product launch: October 2014
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
HQ: Manila, Philippines
Metrics: 217 employees
Twitter: @LockbyMobile

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Xignite Introduces its FactSet Fundamentals API

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, Xignite

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Our next presenter is Xignite, launching its FactSet Fundamentals API.

Xignite FactSet Fundamentals is the first RESTbased API to provide accurate and trusted historical financials, fundamentals, earnings and more across more than 170 global exchanges. Users can retrieve financial statement data for quarterly, semi-annual, annual, and restated filings for companies across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC, In addition, users can retrieve daily-calculated fundamentals, based on FactSet financial statement data, from P/E ratios and market caps, to 60-month betas, and 200-day moving averages, and more.

Presenter: Stephane Dubois, CEO & founder

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Product launch: February 2015
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), partnerships with fintech and financial services companies
HQ: San Mateo, California
Metrics: 1,000+ customers; 100+ APIs, 100+ data sources, $20 million raised; 20 billion API calls per month
Website: xignite.com
Twitter: @xignite

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Mistral Mobile Unveils m-Aegis, a Multi-Factor Integrity Solution for Mobile Apps

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, Mistral Mobile

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Making its way to the stage is the team from Mistral Mobile launching their mobile, multifactor integrity solution, m-Aegis.
m-Aegis is the only multi-factor, telco-independent, integrity solution for mobile applications requiring high-confidence device and user binding. The mobile phone is increasingly used for handling critical information and transactions. With the explosion of such usage comes risk. Can financial service providers be confident that their communications channel or mobile application has not been tampered with? With m-Aegis, Mistral Mobile provides the tools to bind mobile users to respective financial services using multiple factors. The result is increased system integrity and ultimately the security of your customer’s information and transactions.
Presenters: CEO Ludwig Schulze, and CTO Timo Tervo 
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Product launch: February 2015 at FinovateEurope
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed.
HQ: Oulu, Finland and New York, New York, U.S.A.
Metrics: 15+ employees
Twitter: @MistralMobile

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Revolut Presents its Personal Money Cloud Removes All Hidden Banking Costs

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, Revolut

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Our next presenter is Revolut, with its personal money cloud.
Revolut allows you to exchange currencies at interbank rates, send them through social networks, and spend with a multi-currency card accepted anywhere. All is done with the touch of a button, through a beautiful mobile application. There are features that will blow your mind. Just one example: the ability to pay with bitcoins in any shop through the Revolut multi-currency card. And there are several others.
Presenters: Nikolay Storonsky, CEO & founder, and Vlad Yatsenko, CTO
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Product launch: January 2014
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, thorugh other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Metrics: We have ~6,000 users pre-subscribed for our beta launch, and have arranged nine deals with big-name companies (including MasterCard) for product implementation
Website: revolut.com
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mBank & i3D Present Their Interactive Digital Bank Branch

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, mBank & i3D

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Pure-play Internet bank mBank and virtual reality innovator i3D have teamed up to demo their New Interactive Retail Branch Concept.
mBank and i3D have developed a digital branch with an interactive “art exhibition” experience using the best technology available—gigantic multi-touch screen, motion-sensing, and face recognition.
Presenters: Jacek Iljin, mBank’s managing director, sales and processes; Marcin Wisniewski,  i3D’s director, sales and marketing
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Product launch: November 2014
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)
HQ: Lodz, Poland, 9mBank; Gliwice, Poland, i3D
Metrics: mBank is the fourth largest Polish banking group with more than 4.6 million customers in PL, CZ, and SK; $400 million net income in 2013, and 6,000 FTE.
i3D is a world-class provider of advanced solutions for full reproduction of real world in virtual reality, including content development, VR software, equipment, and 3D image projection systems.
Website: mbank.pl & i3d.pl
Twitter: @mbankpl

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Mobino Introduces Mobino Cash, a Swiss Standard for Mobile Money

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, Mobino

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Global payment service Mobino is up next with its mobile money solution, Mobino Cash.
The Mobino Cash platform delivers superior convenience for customers with a seamless integration of many payment scenarios:
  • Peer-to-peer money transfer
  • Payment for goods and services in shops
  • POS and cash register integration
  • Quicker and safer e-commerce payments
  • Fluid payment flow for mobile commerce
  • Cheap and efficient international remittances
  • Registration and KYC process for unbanked
  • Cash-in/out operations at agents and ATMs
  • New one-touch payment from your smart watch
We are looking for distribution partners, merchants, and investors, to expand our reach in Europe and worldwide.
White labeling and cobranding are available.
Presenters: CEO Jean-Francois Groff, and CTO Alvaro Fussen
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Product launch: February 2015
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C); Direct to Business (B2B) through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms; licensed
HQ: Geneva, Switzerland
Metrics: Emerging market leader in Switzerland, expanding in Europe and Africa in 2015
Website: mobino.com
Twitter: @mobino

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FOBISS Presents its Cash Management Solution, FOBISS CM

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, FOBISS

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FOBISS is next with its intelligent business operations technology that leverages the power of artificial intelligence.
FOBISS CM performs the complex cash-demand forecasting and optimization tasks using its integrated artificial intelligence algorithms, capable of real-time processing of large amounts of information, evaluation of historical data, relations between them, trends, and projections. It chooses the optimum decisions out of millions of possible combinations—something standard analytical tools cannot do.
The biggest value of the technology lies in its rich, advanced analytic tools, such as “what if” scenario modeling based on real-time profitability counting capabilities, which allow decision makers not only to make the best operational and tactical decisions in real time, but also to flexibly and timely adjust to the winning strategies.
Presenters: Managing Director Mindaugas Leonavicius, and Global Sales Director Andrius Ojeras
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Product launch: 2011
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B) through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms; licensed
HQ: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Metrics: 30 employees
Website: fobiss.com
Twitter: @FOBISS_BV

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nextmarkets Previews its Web and iOS Apps to Help Investors Save Smarter

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, nextmarkets

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nextmarkets is our next presenting company, with a web and mobile app to help investors earn more and learn more about the markets.

The way people trade on financial markets will change radically through the internet. so nextmarkets developed a smart and innovative web and mobile application that allows users to invest more effectively, save smarter, and learn how capital markets work.

The idea is simple but powerful. We wanted to develop web and mobile software that help users survive everyday ups and downs of financial markets and accomplish their objectives.

Presenters: Manuel Heyden, CEO, and Dominic Heyden, CTO 
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Product launch: April 2015
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)
HQ: Cologne, Germany

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EVRY Launches Spendific, A Personal Trainer for Your Finances

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Categories: EVRY, FinovateEurope 2015

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Making its way to the stage now is the team from EVRY with its personal financial management tool, Spendific.

EVRY is a leading IT company in the Nordics, offering a broad portfolio of solutions to a wide range of industries. EVRY has some 10,000 employees and reports annual turnover approaching 1.5 billion euros. The company operates from headquarters in Oslo, Norway.

Through the business area of financial services, EVRY covers all the core processes involved in banking. With a combination of extensive industry experience and customer-centric approach, we are contributing to transforming and simplifying banking and payment services, as well as many services that are important and beneficial for society.

 

Presenters: Anne Moa, product developer, and Magne Meldal, business developer

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Product launch: February 2015
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions
HQ: Oslo, Norway
Metrics: 10,000 employees
Website: evry.com

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mydesq Presents a Powerful Workbench for Wealth Managers

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, mydesq

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mydesq is up next, with its solution to help wealth managers improve the client experience.
Imagine having your desktop in your hand; mydesq is a powerful workbench that allows wealth managers to work from anywhere, anytime.
Simple and intuitive, it is tailored to your every need.
We are demonstrating two use-cases: how wealth managers can gain 70% efficiency by using our investment suitability, and how the creation of an investment recommendation campaign can be done effortlessly.
Presenter Milan Vora, CEO & Founder, and Amit Gupta, VP Sales, Metadesign Solutions

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Product Launch: February 2015
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, licensed
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Metrics: $1 million raised; 7 employees
Website: mydesq.com
Twitter: @mydesq

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BankClip from CREALOGIX Uses Video to Enhance Traditional Financial Advisory

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Categories: CREALOGIX, FinovateEurope 2015

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The team from CREALOGIX is making its way to the stage. The Swiss software house and market leader for digital banking is introducing BankClip.
CREALOGIX is demoing how each financial advisory session can be wrapped up as a video clip, rather than traditionally done by email and documents. The possibility for the relationship manager to set together snippets of information into a video clip makes the experience of personalized information through visual transcribing more engaging.
Presenters: Antony Bream, U.K. managing director; Roger Gatti, senior product manager
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Product launch: February 2015
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, licensed
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Metrics: +90% new license sale since July 2011; +16% license royalties; revenue $60 million USD; 27% share of sales outside of Switzerland; 300 employees
Website: crealogix.com
Twitter: @CREALOGIX

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Vipera Demonstrates its Card Control Mobile Banking App

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2015, Vipera

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Our next compay is mobile financial services and digital customer engagement solutions provider, Vipera, with its new mobile banking app.
Vipera Card Control is a cutting-edge mobile-banking app allowing a bank’s customers to control cash and card expenses with real time alerts on transactions, card locking for fraud management, auto-learning expense-categorization logic, budget settings and alerts, as well as loyalty-engagement functionality.
Presenters: Simon Pearce, commercial director; Andrea Gambirasio, pre-sales head
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Product launch: December
Product distribution strategy: B2B2C through financial institutions and through other fintech companies and platforms; licensed
HQ: London, United Kingdom; Milan, Italy
Metrics: N.A.
Website: vipera.com

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