KlickEx Launches Crypto-Currency 2.0: A New Global Asset-Backed Currency

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In the final demo before lunch, KlickEx debuted its crypto-currency for central banks:
“After extensive testing in the Pacific, KlickEx is pleased to announce the development of a new asset-backed and algorithmic crypto-currency for institutional and retail use. A stable, international, risk-free asset is a key foundation for efficient financial markets, and KlickEx’s award-winning interbank payment network has an exemplary track record in stability, and efficiency. Having eradicated the significant systematic deficiencies of Bitcoin, then bridged the portfolio limitations of the IMF’s SDR, the new base asset is a proactive response to recent negative public sentiment towards banking in general, and recent global events including the GFC, Euro-Crisis, BASEL II, III, and fiscal & political instability in Prime currencies. 
KlickEx believes in efficient, effective, and accessible financial markets. Our products enhance transparency, stability, inclusion, and systematic velocity by eliminating counter-party risks from central bank balance sheets, informal remittance networks, and mitigating cash inefficiencies for commercial banks, mobile operators and regulators. KlickEx has taken the best, and made it better.”

Presenting Robert Bell (Manager of Operations) and Brett Waterson (CTO)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Product distribution strategy: Distribution begins with use-case pilots, followed by structured phase-in programs with Central Banks and local (sovereign) government entities, then Commercial and Clearing Banks. Finally, KlickEx engages Mobile Telcos and then directly to retail users. The process usually takes 6-60 weeks to go through, depending on the country.
HQ: New Zealand
Founded: 2009
Website: KlickEx.org

Backbase Debuts Social Media Capabilities of Bank 2.0 Portal

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Next, Backbase launched the social media capabilities of its Bank 2.0 Portal:
“We are launching the all-new social media capabilities of our Backbase Bank 2.0 Portal. With the new social media features, it is possible to integrate directly with social networks such as Facebook, bring deeply integrated social capabilities to the bank’s secure internet banking platform and push the bank’s internet banking platform as an app to Facebook.
The new key features include Social Login, the ability to use social information to target users within the internet banking platform, or to retarget across platforms, the power to employ Friends’ information and behavior to promote special offers (10 of your friends also have this credit card, apply now!), and the functionality to create and manage Facebook apps directly from the Backbase Portal Manager.”

Presenting Edwin Koh (GM, APAC) and 

Jelmer de Jong (Global Head of Marketing)

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Product Launch: October 2013
Metrics: Privately funded, 150+ employees, offices in New York, Amsterdam, London, and Singapore
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions & licensed
HQ: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Founded: April 2003
Website: backbase.com
Twitter: @backbase

Tootpay’s mPod Mobile Payment Solution Helps Remove Barriers to Mobile Banking

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Making their way to the stage next is the team from Tootpay with their mPod Mobile Payment Solution.
“Tootpay’s solution is based on an overlay chip for the customer’s mobile phone. The overlay chip is a stick-on solution that fits onto any standard SIM card of a GSM handset. A menu-based interface is deployed for simplicity and ease of use. It’s not internet or telco dependent and deploys with multiple authentication methods and end-to-end encryption to provide a high level of security for its mobile transactions. As such, barriers to mobile banking such as mobile phone handset incompatibility, dependency on telco service providers, non-existent mobile internet network coverage, fraud, and more are minimized.”
Presenting Balvinder Singh (MD) and Kok Hoong Choo (Application Development Director)

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Product Launch: January 2011
Metrics: More than 500,000 mobile users of banks in Indonesia, Malaysia & Thailand are utilizing Tootpay’s mobile payment solution.
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions and through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Singapore
Founded: November 2010
Website: tootpay.com

IND Group Debuts Essence Mobile Banking

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Next, IND Group launched Essence mobile banking:
“How they describe their product/innovation: To adapt to younger generations’ requirements, IND Group delivers a best-in-class banking app with an innovative drive. With IND’s next generation mobile banking, Essence, all services are only a few taps away – anytime, anywhere. Mobile banking has never been so comfortable and easy, yet secure. 
The application offers more than just transactional banking: based on customers’ life situations banks are able to deliver personal, targeted offers, turn data into relevant, visualized information, and provide a user experience like never before, turning mobile banking into their primary engagement and sales channel.”
Presenting József Nyíri (Chief Innovator & Founder), Tamás Grünzweig (Head of Innovation) and Viktor Bálint (Head of Marketing & Communications)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Metrics: €12M in revenue, 8 offices, 225 employees, 40 retail banks & financial institutions as clients
Product distribution strategy: Direct to business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, and licensed
HQ: Munich, Germany
Founded: October 1997
Website: indgroup.eu
Twitter: @indgroup

Arkalogic Debuts Moneta, a Seamless Payment System for Bank and Telco Customers

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Then, Arkalogic debuted Moneta, its latest payment system:
“For Arkalogic Transaksi, a mobile financial solution must be cost efficient for institutions. It must also be amusing and help consumers as opposed to confusing and taxing them. Advanced yet simple technology combined with great design of customer experience and meticulous customer care are the key ingredients to Arkalogic Transaksi’s latest solution, Moneta.
Moneta’s dream essentially is to create a mass and “seamless” payment system for bank and telco customers in the form of combined mobile wallet, e-money, mobile payment, and mobile commerce, in Indonesia and globally.
With one registration and with one platform that is easy for partners to integrate into their existing system and for end consumers to ‘plug and play,’ Moneta believes that transactions and life should be simple and secure. Always.” 
Presenting Aryo Karbhawono (CEO), John Chard (Chief Strategy Officer), and Kemal Idris (Chief Product & Commercial Officer)

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Product Launch: October 2013
Metrics: $10M funds raised to date, 15-20 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B) & through financial institutions
HQ: Jakarta, Indonesia
Founded: April 2013

Smart Engine’s Card-Linked Loyalty Platform Creates Personalized, Targeted Marketing

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Next, Smart Engine demonstrated how its card-linked loyalty platform can benefit banks, merchants, and the end customer:
“1. Purchase history of bank payment transactions are analyzed and individual shopping behavior profiles developed 
2. Profiles are enriched with online shopping personalization results
3. The Smart Engine provides answers to three critical questions: Who? Where? Which delivery channel (online banking, Web, smartphones, email or SMS supported) – which allow retailers to communicate tailored offers to those bank customers with the highest purchase probability
4. Relevant bank customers receive attractive personalized offers. Card payments result in automated cash back to cardholders’ accounts
5. Location services and event-driven notifications optimize personalization experience
6. Retailers measure return and conversion rates
7. Banks optimize income from cards by extending card usage”
Presenting Christian Bacher (Managing Partner) and Anna Bacher (Director, Sales & Business Development)
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Product Launch: Q2, 2011
Metrics: Money raised to date: $8M USD, annual revenues: $950,000 USD, number of employees: 35, shareholder structure: 60% – two private venture capital funds, 40% – management
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), and through financial institutions
HQ: Europe HQ: Vienna, Austria; Asia HQ: Hong Kong, China
Founded: December 2010
Twitter: @SmartengineNws 

BehavioSec Showcases Technology that Removes the Burden of Security from the End User

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Second up in this session, BehavioSec demonstrated how it removes the burden of security from the end user:
“User-friendly adaptive user authentication via risk based authentication, or behavioral biometrics, and the reality of legacy systems at our current customers.
BehavioSec extended its award-winning BehavioWeb and BehavioMobile solutions to offer policy-based behavior 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

Advanced Merchant Payments Debuts Its Small Business Lending Solution

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Next, Advanced Merchant Payments (AMP) launched its online lending solution that helps banks provide a short-term lending product to their small business customers:

“AMP’s small business lending solution offers an efficient and scalable managed solution by which banks can readily originate and manage a broad portfolio of small business loans. AMP solves the problem wherein banks find short-term, unsecured, lending to their small business account-holders costly and inefficient. 
AMP’s platform utilizes existing communication methods (including commonly accepted file formats) to bridge the divide between the Retail Banking and Business Banking activities of a bank – without the costs and difficulties inherent in formal bank system integration. AMP can manage all or some stages of the loan process: from Qualification to Verification, Credit Scoring, Approval, Disbursement, Daily Repayment & Risk Monitoring, through to Completion.”
Presenting Thomas DeLuca (MD) and James Lloyd (Director of Product Management)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Metrics: More than $25M USD in loans to small businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines – representing approximately 90,000 loan days and 60,000 repayment events.
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions
HQ: Hong Kong
Founded: April 2009

Yodlee Launches Tandem App Internationally

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YodleeLogo2012.jpgNext, Yodlee took the stage to debut its Tandem app:

“Most people have multiple “shared finances” in their life. Spouses. Children. Elderly parents. Accountants. Advisors. Friends. So Yodlee is introducing Tandem – the first collaborative financial app that lets users securely establish and manage their social financial relationships. 
From tagging transactions, to sharing documents, to sending money, to collaborating with advisors and accountants, Tandem gives users the power to establish financial circles based on levels of trust and account sharing access. And Tandem gives financial institutions the ultimate mobile banking app.”

Presenting Katy Gibson (VP, Applications) and Melanie Flanigan (Head of Marketing)
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Product Launch: November 2013 (international)
Metrics: Yodlee is a global financial leader with 600+ customers, 50M+ users, and more than 700 employees worldwide. From leading financial institutions to Fortune 500 consumer service companies to the coolest startups, Yodlee powers innovative digital services shaping the future of customer interactions. With 25%+ year over year revenue growth, Yodlee continues to expand in existing and new markets globally.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions & through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Redwood City, CA, USA
Founded: February 1999
Website: yodlee.com
Twitter: @yodlee

Pixeliris’ CopSonic Uses Sonic Communication to Create a Universal, Contactless Mobile Payment Solution

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Then, Pixeliris stepped up to demo its universal mobile payment solution:
CopSonic is the first universal contactless mobile payment system powered by our unique technology. It is based on sonic communication transiting through the devices’ speakers and microphones. Therefore, our technology is compatible with 100% of existing phones and smartphones, unlike NFC technologies. Several patents have been filed with regard to the security of the transaction.
Our technology also allows the use of phones and smartphones for online passwordless authentication. It turns mobile devices into security dongles.
We have developed an SDK with our technology that allows third-party companies to integrate the modules and, therefore, create a business model based on transaction fees or licenses.”

Presenting Emmanuel Ruiz (CEO & Head of Innovation) and Brian Roeten (Senior Product Manager)

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Product Launch: September 2013
Metrics: €210,000 in capital, 11 employees in France & 50 engineers around the world
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms, and licensed
HQ: Montauban, France
Founded: April 1989
Website: copsonic.com

Kofax’s Solution Uses Multiple Channels to Enhance the Underwriting Process

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Next, Kofax showed how its omni-channel solution accelerates and enhances the underwriting process:
“Kofax is demonstrating how lenders can engage borrowers directly on mobile devices enabling them to interact with the loan origination process. Specifically when loans are not in good order and trailing documents are required, the solution engages customers providing them multiple channels to accelerate and supply the complex underwriting process. 
While mobile is the preferred channel, an omni-channel approach is realized using web, email, or fax. Additionally as these supporting documents are processed, analytics technology provides real-time dashboards and visibility across channels of customer engagement and adoption highlighting patterns, trends, bottlenecks, and efficiencies for right channeling customers and improved decisions.”
Presenting Drew Hyatt (SVP Mobility) and Dimitri Snowden (Visual Strategist)
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Product Launch: March 13, 2013
Metrics: Subsidiaries: 30 countries, Employees: >1,200, Channel Partners: 800+, Products: Available in 70+ countries, Customers: 20,000+, London Stock Exchange: KFX, Revenue: $262.5M, Adjusted EBITA: $48.5M, Adjusted Diluted EPS: $0.38, Cash: $81.1M
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Irvine, CA, USA
Founded: 1985
Website: kofax.com

Payoneer’s Commercial Account Gives Businesses and Individuals Global Access to Their Funds

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Then, Payoneer debuted its commercial account:
“The Payoneer commercial account offers businesses and individuals worldwide the ability to receive funds from a global network of corporate companies. Account holders have a variety of tools to access their funds, including low cost withdrawals to bank accounts worldwide, a Prepaid Debit MasterCard card that enables instant spending and ATM access, and options to transfer funds to local eWallets in select countries. 
The account can be managed from the Payoneer website or from a mobile application. Registration for the account is available via Payoneer’s website or directly from the website of companies that form the Payoneer commercial funds transfer network.”
Presenting Oded Zehavi (Chief Revenue Officer)

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Product Launch: October 2013
Metrics: 200+ employees, 1,000 Alexa, $40M+ in revenues for 2012
HQ: New York, NY, USA
Founded: 2005
Website: payoneer.com
Twitter: @Payoneer