The Currency Cloud Takes the Headache Out of Paying International Suppliers

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Then, The Currency Cloud demonstrated how its XBP Connect API makes international payments easier:

“We will be showcasing the power of integrated international payments for businesses. Accounting solutions are ubiquitous in business, yet the break in the workflow when having to make international payments to suppliers is inefficient, time consuming and prone to operational risk. 

Using The Currency Cloud’s XBP Connect API, the first truly effective applications that enable international payments to be managed directly from Sage and Salesforce.com are being launched at FinovateEurope 2013. The applications enable a business to initiate and manage their international payments just as they would their payments to domestic suppliers – directly from their ledger. Paying international suppliers becomes significantly easier and lower in cost and the business accounting function drastically more productive.”
Product Launch: August 2012
HQ: London, UK
Founded: March 2011
Metrics: $7.12M Series A in 2012 from 3 VCs: Notion Capital, Atlas Venture and Anthemis Group. Revenues for 2012 = $1.3M. 26 people. 100 customers/partners that enable over 250,000 corporates and consumers to benefit from our capabilities. Satellite office in Malta in Joint Venture with The Demajo Group.
Twitter: @currency_cloud
Presenting Michael Laven (CEO) and Nasir Zubairi (Director, Product Marketing)
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Dashlane Releases New Features to Make Online Transactions Even Easier with Integrated Rewards and Loyalty Solution

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Afterwards, Dashlane showed how its new features can make online payments frictionless:

“Dashlane will demo its core technology: a cross-platform (desktop and mobile) consumer application that enables keyboard-less transactions on any site – no integration required. 

In addition to being the ‘point of payment choice’ for our users, Dashlane offers financial services and ecommerce partners a privileged seat by the user during all their online transactions. We’re developing many new features to make online transactions incredibly easy and frictionless for our users.”

Product Launch: April 2012
HQ: New York, NY, USA
Founded: December 2009
Metrics: Dashlane is an NYC and Paris-based startup with 30 employees, founded in 2009. Our app launched publicly in April 2012, and is available on Mac, PC, iOS, and Android. Our users (currently in the six figures) have used Dashlane on over 250,000 websites and spent over $30M online and on mobile devices using Dashlane. We raised a $5M Series A in 2011 from Rho Ventures, FirstMark Capital & Bernard Liautaud (Founder, Business Objects & Co-Founder, Dashlane).
Website: dashlane.com
Twitter: @dashlane
Presenting Emmanuel Schalit (CEO) and Nishant Mani (VP Partnerships & Marketing)
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Fiserv’s Mobiliti Master Wallet Lets Users Choose Their Own Mobile Payment Experience

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Third to the stage, Fiserv showed how its Mobiliti Master Wallet gives users control of their mobile experience:

Mobiliti from Fiserv is the world’s most deployed mobile banking and payments platform. The Mobiliti Master Wallet enables consumers to choose which mobile payment wallets they wish to participate in and how. It retains the financial institution and its mobile banking app at the centre of the user experience for cloud-based and NFC mobile payments.”

Product Launch: 2013
HQ: Brookfield, WI, USA
Founded: 1984
Metrics: $4.34B revenue, 20,000 employees, 16,000 financial institutions as customers
Website: fiserv.com
Presenting Jonathan Atkinson (Sales Consultant, Digital Channels) and Fiona Murray (Sales Executive, Digital Channels)
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TESOBE’s Open Bank Project API Encourages Innovation and Transparency

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Second up, TESOBE took the stage with its Open Bank Project (OBP) API:
“The world’s first Singing Bank! (singingbank.com) demonstrates three principles of the OBP API:
1) It encourages innovation (niche markets, interfaces, languages. etc.)
2) It supports public views on transaction data whilst preserving sensitive information
3) It results in lower barriers to entry, better security and lower cost
The OBP Transparency/Social Finance application is for organisations that want to practice wider transparency and/or generate a real time dialogue around their finances.
The OBP App Store allows vendors to showcase and consumers to find and rank apps.
The OBP Virtual Machine allows CTO’s to easily evaluate our technology.”
Product Launch: May 2012
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2005
Twitter: @tesobe
Presenting Simon Redfern (CEO & Founder) and Ismail Chaib (Project Manager)
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Cardlytics Organizes Your Rewards in a Facebook App

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Then, Cardlytics took the stage with its Facebook app that summarizes rewards for users:

“Cardlytics’ latest innovation is a Facebook app, initially launched from an online banking session, containing a rewards summary page showing all available offers. The innovation is a working prototype with a release available to banks in Q2 2013.”

Product Launch: Q2 2013
HQ: Atlanta, GA, USA & London, UK
Founded: 2008
Metrics: The company has raised just under $60M in venture capital and has over 250 U.S. employees and over 15 U.K. employees. Cardlytics’ targeted advertising platform can reach 220M U.S. consumers and 10M U.K. consumers. Over 20% of consumers are reached through an integrated mobile solution.
Twitter: @cardlytics
Presenting Jason Brooks (Managing Director) and Charles Humphrey (Commercial Director)
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BörseGo’s Guidants Platform Gives Users Access to Financial Information via Widgets

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Afterwards, BörseGo showcased its Guidants platform:
“Guidants is a unique html5-based platform to access any imaginable kind of financial information and calculations. Guidants comprises more than thirty small widgets the user can freely add, arrange and save on his workspace. Each such widget has one task like displaying a chart, the fundamentals of a stock, showing a video stream or giving direct access to a broker. 
The user can modify each widget according to his needs (size, content, appearance) and connect single widgets with others so that they interact with each other. All widgets make use of real-time push technologies and thus live up to the heightened requirements of our information society.
Guidants is free of charge and users can subscribe to premium content and additional widgets.”
Product Launch: October 2011
HQ: München, Germany
Founded: 2000
Metrics: 70 employees, 10M revenue, working
Website: boerse-go.ag
Presenting Johannes Pfeuffer (Executive Assistant) and Christian Ehmig (CTO)
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rplan Launches Portfolio Builder to Help Users Select Investments Based on Personal Goals and Risk Preferences

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Second, rplan launched its Portfolio Builder platform that guides users through the investment process:
“Portfolio analysis aims to help investors answer three fundamental questions:
• What have I got?
• How well am I doing?
• What can I do to improve?
It shows users how much they have invested and where, but also tells them how they are doing based on risk, cost, performance, and goals. Finally, it offers in-depth analysis based on asset allocation and fund analysis, alerting users to how they can improve their portfolios.
Portfolio builder helps users create an investment portfolio based on key criteria such as goals and risk. It allows users to narrow down from 2,400 available investments to those that are applicable to them, giving them feedback on their investment decisions as they go in areas such as asset allocation and fund selection.
The key to both these features is simplicity, giving mainstream investors the knowledge, tools and confidence to manage their own investments.”
Product Launch: February 2013
HQ: London, UK
Founded: January 2011
Website: rplan.co.uk
Twitter: @rplanme
Presenting Andy Creak (CEO) and Nick Curry (CPO)
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Kabbage Brings its Small Business Lending Platform Across the Pond to the U.K.

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First up for the final session of the day, Kabbage demonstrated how U.K. businesses can receive funding on its platform:

“Kabbage has launched its services in the UK at uk.kabbage.com. Now small businesses in the UK can link their eBay and PayPal accounts to Kabbage’s platform and receive funding in minutes!”

Product Launch: February 2013
HQ: Atlanta, GA, USA
Founded: February 2009
Metrics: Raised $56M in equity to date. Approximately 80 employees in two offices. Approximately 10,000 qualified accounts.
Website: kabbage.com
Twitter: @kabbageinc
Presenting Robert Frohwein (CEO) and Kathryn Petralia (COO)
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ETRONIKA’s BANKTRON E-Channels Management Platform Offers a Personalized EBanking Experience with Animated Widgets

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Wrapping up the third session of the day, ETRONIKA showcased its BANKTRON E-Channels Management Platform:
“ETRONIKA’s BANKTRON e-channels management platform enables a completely new approach to the banking and finance industry, which provides front-end users elegant, safe, and secure financial products and services. 
The solution allows financial institutions to offer a highly personalized, attractively simple, and enhanced e-banking experience for its clients across all channels and devices.
BANKTRON makes all delivery channels work seamlessly together as an integrated whole.”
Product Launched: Q2 2013
HQ: Vilnius, Lithuania
Founded: 2000
Metrics: 50 employees, self-funded
Website: etronika.com
Twitter: @EtronikaTweets
Presenting Kęstutis Gardžiulis (CEO & Co-Founder) and Vytautas Šopis (Project Manager)
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Trustly Helps You Safely Pay and Get Paid for Goods Sold Online

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Third, Trustly showed how its direct, person-to-person payment solution can help you pay and get paid for items sold online:
“Today there are many payment methods available for the e-commerce market, but there are no solutions solving the pain people experience when buying and selling on electronic person-to-person marketplaces – the risks and hassle of exchanging cash, and in the case of non-local deals where the goods have to be shipped – the risk that the buyer will not receive the goods or the seller will not receive the payment. 
Trustly Direktbetalning removes these pains.
We’ll showcase how people from now on can safely pay and get paid for goods sold on Sweden’s largest marketplace, with an integrated fraud guarantee. Trustly Direktbetalning is a direct person-to-person bank payment solution embedded in the marketplace and does not require its users to learn any new behaviour or sign up to any new feature. It will (thanks to the combination of the following features) revolutionize the way people pay and get paid when purchasing goods from each other:
1. Direct and seamless payments embedded in the marketplace
2. Integrated instant identification – no false identities can be used
3. Fraud guarantee offered to both buyer and seller for complete peace of mind
Trustly Direktbetalning leverages Trustly’s proprietary direct bank e-Payment system. Its first marketplace partner is Blocket.se, Sweden’s largest marketplace with an aggregate value of ads posted in excess of €20B per year. It can, in principle, be embedded into any online marketplace in the world, or offered as a stand-alone service.”
Product Launch: Q1 2013
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: April 2008
Metrics: Organically grown, Employees: 35+, Number of payments: 200,000+ monthly
Website: trustly.com
Presenting Carl-Henrik Somp (COO)
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OPENTECH Launches Enhanced Hybrid Apps for Mobile Banking and Payments

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Just before lunch, OPENTECH debuted its Enhanced Hybrid apps:
“At Finovate we are launching a revolutionary approach to mobile finance with our suite of Enhanced Hybrid (TM) apps for mobile banking and mobile payment.
Not happy with HTML5 UX, neither with native app complexity? Enhanced Hybrid is the solution:
•  User experience same as native apps
•  Development “server side” instantly available cross platform
•  Minimized testing effort thanks to a common codebase across all supported devices
•  Multiplatform rollout without additional development costs
•  Change management without publishing a new version on the app stores”

Product Launch: February 2013
HQ: Roma, Italy
Founded: May 2003
Metrics: In the last 4 years revenues have grown from €800K to over €4M. Five out of top 10 banks in Italy chose OPENTECH mobile banking product.
Website: opentech.com
Presenting Stefano Andreani (CEO) and Alessandro Borghini (Head of User Experience)
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Additiv’s add.direct Improves Customer Experience While Keeping Cost Down

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Now, Additiv is demonstrating how its add.direct solution can improve customer experience while lowering cost:
“With add.direct we solve two major issues in banking today:
1. Costs
Add.direct allows for a major step in the industrialisation of banks by automating the mid- and front-office processes. It enables a true end-to-end business process along the complete customer journey.
2. Differentiation in the marketplace
Add.direct allows for a highly improved customer experience along all touchpoints and is the basis for serious 2.0 banking.”
Product Launch: September 2012
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Founded: 1998
Metrics: 40+ FTEs, privately held company, self-funded
Website: additiv.ch
Presenting Michael Stemmle (Chairman) and Manuel Thomet (Head, Bank 2.0 Consulting)
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