Author: Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz)

ITSector’s Commercial Sales GPS Helps Out Financial Institutions’ Sales People

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, ITSector
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Starting off the final session today, ITSector debuted its Commercial Sales GPS to help out financial institutions’ sales teams:
“Commercial Sales GPS offers financial institutions’ sales teams a solution to guide all commercial effort, including mobile access from everywhere. The main aim of the solution is to provide global information for commercial activity, including:
    1. Windows 8 Mobile Tablet – front end for accessing maps and detailed management information and Proactivity map
    2. Action Tool for Commercial Managers – guidance for commercial effort
    3. Tool for achieving Cycle Proactivity – planning, scheduling, preparation, and report overview
The software, based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, will cover the main activities of the sales process, from account planning, all the way through visit scheduling, preparation, and execution up to monitoring.”
Presenting João Pinto (Director) and Vitor Barros (IT Architect)

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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: €9M in 2013 revenues, 200 employees in 2013
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Porto, Portugal
Founded: April 2005
Website: itsector.pt

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Intuition Intelligence’s Smart Offers Solution Helps Banks Bring Users Relevant and Targeted Offers

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Intuition Intelligence
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Next, Intuition Intelligence demonstrated its Smart Offers platform:
“Smart Offers markets Bank Products and Merchant Offers embedded in Super Relevant financial content.  The financial content matching a customer’s life cycle serves as a powerful trigger to act on the Super Relevant Bank Products and Merchant Offers. The customer Analytical feedback to Banks is a powerful lead generation tool providing deeper insights on customer likes and needs.
Smart Offers solution sources a huge volume of offers from the open coupons and deals networks. The Bank manager portal enables financial institutions to view, select, and approve offers.
Smart Offers’ iCube Super Relevancy engine learns user intent in click time and delivers Super Relevant offers at the right moment via digital channels without spam or friction. Thus, banks experience higher conversion on a scale never seen before, resulting in dramatic increases in revenue.
Smart Offers solution can be easily integrated to existing infrastructure, hosted on-premise, or by a software-as-a-service model.”
Presenting Dr. Arif Ansari (CEO) and Yusuf Ansari (COO)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Metrics: 20 employees in California & India
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Dublin, CA, USA
Founded: October 2013

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BehavioSec’s Adaptive User Authentication System Removes the Burden of Security from the End User

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Categories: BehavioSec, FinovateEurope 2014
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Then, BehavioSec demonstrated how its system can remove the burden of security from the end user:
“User-friendly, adaptive user authentication via risk based authentication, or behavioural biometrics, and the reality of legacy systems at our current customers.
BehavioSec extended its award winning BehavioWeb and BehavioMobile solutions to offer policy based behaviour authentication actions.
This allows the web fraud detection system to define cause and effect authentication, removing the burden of troublesome security from the end user.”
Presenting Neil Costigan (CEO) 

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Product Launch: April 2012
Metrics: €1.5M, 12 employees, university spin out
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: May 2009
Twitter: @behaviosec

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Luxoft Helps Banks Give their Clients a Single Place to Track their Investments

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Luxoft
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Next, Luxoft demonstrated iStockTrack, an app that gives users a single place to connect with their investment life:
“iStockTrack is an innovative iPad solution providing mobile banking services for private and premium banking clients. iStockTrack features include client consolidated wealth view, investment portfolio monitoring, personal adviser video call and chat, 24/7 individual banking services, instant market data and news, and macroeconomics dashboard – all in one app!”
Presenting Przemyslaw Berendt (VP Global Marketing)

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Product Launch: May 2013
Metrics: 7,000+ employees, 19 offices worldwide, 130+ clients, 300+ successful projects, revenue CAGR 26% FY 2011 to FY 2013
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Zug, Switzerland
Founded: 2000
Website: luxoft.com
Twitter: @Luxoft_tweets

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Meniga Launches MarketWatch to Offer a New Revenue Stream for Banks

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Meniga
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Next, Meniga demonstrated its MarketWatch technology:
“The MarketWatch offers Financial Institutions a unique way to analyze financial data that lives within their systems. Complementary to Meniga’s PFM Solution, the MarketWatch enriches the transactional data and is a real-time, transaction-based analytics platform for industry-specific market intelligence and reporting. The superior market intelligence provided by the MarketWatch can be offered by banks to retailers for competitive analysis or to improve tactical decision making thereby creating a new revenue stream.”
Presenting Georg Ludviksson (CEO & Co-Founder) and Einar Gustafsson (VP Product Management)
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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: $8 million raised. 70 employees. Meniga is the European market leader of white-label Personal Finance Management (PFM) and next-generation online banking solutions. The Meniga PFM Solution has been implemented by more than 15 financial institutions in 11 countries, reaching well over 10 million online banking users. Meniga’s PFM Solution has received multiple awards for innovation, including “Best of Show” at FinovateEurope in 2011 and 2013, and boasts market leading adoption and retention metrics.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
HQ: Reykjavík, Iceland
Founded: March 2009
Website: meniga.com
Twitter: @meniga

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Cardwise’s Xpenditure Automates Expense Management

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Cardwise, FinovateEurope 2014
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Second up this afternoon, Cardwise demonstrated how Xpenditure can automate expense reports:
“Xpenditure is a web based expense management solution that eliminates expense reports for a company. By automating all steps of the expense management process and making use of receipt scanning and integrated approval on the level of expense, Xpenditure makes it possible to manage all daily costs without creating ordinary expense notes – all without long and expensive implementation costs.”
Presenting Wim Derkinderen (CCO & Co-Founder) and Koen Christiaens (Head of Product) 
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Product Launch: February 2013
Metrics: €1.8M in Funding (Angel), 15 Employees, €1.3M in revenue for 2013
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Mechelen, Belgium
Founded: April 2011
Twitter: @xpenditure

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Payworks Provides Robust Checkout Options

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, payworks
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Taking the stage just before lunch, payworks showed how its platform can facilitate robust payment capabilities:
“We are showing how easy it is to build innovative payment solutions on top of the payworks platform and showcase stunning checkout options.”
Presenting Christian Deger (CEO) and Michael Englmaier (Head of Sales)

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Product Launch: Summer 2012
Metrics: 15 employees, winner of MPE Award for most innovative payment startup
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
HQ: Munich, Germany
Founded: April 2012
Twitter: @payworksmobile

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Tink Launches its Personal Finance Service Internationally

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Tink
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Next, Tink launched its platform to help users follow their finances:
“Tink is a free personal finance service that allows you to follow your money, wherever you are! The service automatically collects and categorizes up to 2 years of historical transactions and assets from the banks you decide to connect. Once connected, Tink presents your expenses and incomes, suggests budgets, sends alerts, and gives you a personalized feed. Tink removes all the unwanted noise, highlights what’s important, and provides intelligent insights into your finances. Following your money with the Tink feed is as effortless as browsing your Instagram feed!”
Presenting Daniel Kjellén (Founder & CEO) and Fredrik Hedberg (Founder & CTO)

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Product Launch: September 2013, international launch: 2014
Metrics: 10 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: June 2012
Website: tink.se/en
Twtter: @tink

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MyWishBoard’s P2P Platform Helps Family and Friends Fund Each Others’ Wishes

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, myWishBoard
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Next, MyWishBoard stepped up to demo its P2P platform that helps friends and family finance each others’ wishes:
“MyWishBoard.com is the first p2p platform where users can finance their wishes with the help of friends and subscribers. Once the necessary amount is raised, the money is transferred to the gift recipient’s digital account and could be further spent directly in e-stores or withdrawn on a credit card.”

Presenting Alexander Borodich (Co-Founder & Chief Dreams Officer) and Olga Kazmina (Marketing Fairy)

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Product Launch: July 2013
Metrics: $730,000 raised, more than 80,000 registered users with over 650,000 wishes, 6 employees
HQ: Moscow, Russia 
Founded: May 2013 

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Backbase’s Mobile Account Origination Module Creates a Seamless Mobile Enrollment Experience

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Backbase, FinovateEurope 2014
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Next, Backbase demonstrated how it will cut back office processing time with its new mobile account origination and enrollment module:
“We are launching our new mobile origination and enrollment module at FinovateEurope 2014. With the strong mobile capabilities of the Backbase Platform and the growing digital marketing capabilities, we are now including an out-of-the-box tool for seamless mobile enrollment experiences.
The new key features are:
    • Complete mobile application development capabilities within Backbase
    • Out-of-the-box enrollment and origination capabilities to support the online application process including camera facilitated image matching for insurance claims and digital image ID authentication using driving licenses for example – all linked with the FI’s back-end system (STP), with campaign analytics to track and monitor the campaign’s results”
Presenting Jouk Pleiter (CEO & Co-Founder) and Jelmer de Jong (Global Head of Marketing)

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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: Privately funded, 150+ employees, offices in New York, Amsterdam, London, Singapore, and Moscow
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, licensed 
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: April 2003
Website: backbase.com 
Twitter: @backbase

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Dynamics Launches Its Open Loop and Closed Loop Cards

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Dynamics, FinovateEurope 2014
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Second up at this session, Dynamics launched its new hardware and software technology, Open Loop and Closed Loop:
Its new technology eradicates credit interchange for merchants while increasing interchange revenue for FIs. End customers can earn rewards by making regular purchases. Can run network and non-network contactless payments.
The new cards have increased security by embedding the EMV chips into the card.
Presenting Jeff Mullen (CEO) and George Schmelzel (Chief Payments Officer) 
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Product Launch: February 2014
HQ: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Founded: November 2007
Twitter: @dynamicsinc

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CRIF Debuts its Mobile Lending Platform that Adapts to Any Business, Regulation, or Country Requirement

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: CRIF, FinovateEurope 2014
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Starting off the second session today, CRIF showed how its mobile lending platform can keep institutions compliant:
“CRIF’s innovation combines lending via mobile devices with agile, business user-friendly technology to ensure business KPIs are met during the sales phase of the lending process. The demo shows new releases of CRIF Credit Framework’s technology, which is a Smart Process Application platform built specifically for the credit and lending space that is extremely adaptable to any business, compliance regulation, and country requirement. 
It consists of modular decision management, process management, and business intelligence products used to develop smart, dynamic applications for credit, risk management, and lending. Flexibility along with control and analytical features allow our customers to be faster, better, and more efficient.”
Presenting Aldo Bruschi (VP Global Decisioning Bus. Dev. & Delivery), Sheila Donohue (Product Marketing Manager), and Gabriele Graziani (Application Analyst) 

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Product Launch: Q1 2014
Metrics: $380 revenue (FY 2012), 1,500 employees, customers in 43 countries, credit bureau solutions in 15 countries, over 30M credit applications and collection cases processed in the cloud, lending and decision management solutions in 22 countries
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Bologna, Italy
Founded: 1988
Website: crif.com 

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