“Virtual Piggy is the first e-commerce solution that enables kids to manage and spend money within a parent-controlled environment.The technology delivers online security platforms designed for the under-18 age group in the global online market, and also enables online businesses the ability to function in a manner consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar international children’s privacy laws. Virtual Piggy enables the U-18 audience to play, transact and socialize in a secure online environment guided by parental permission, oversight and control.”
Author: Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz)
Finantix Debuts Banking Assistant, a Smart Banker in Your Pocket
“Banking Assistant is a smart banker in your pocket. It runs on mobile phones and tablets, and can understand commands and questions in natural language, written or spoken.The app allows a bank’s customer to access intelligent information, launch transactions and receive useful advice in the most intuitive and effective way.Banks can easily integrate the underlying engine in their existing apps and systems.Banking Assistant is part of Finantix Sharp, a multi-channel platform for digital banking that introduces a fresh and engaging approach to customer interactions.”
ITSector’s SmartBank TV Offers a Different Way to Access Your Financial Services and Information
“SmartBank TV is a product that offers financial services based on the Google TV platform. It is intended to use the global widespread of sales in smart TVs.
The solution offers a channel for bank customers to access financial services from their TV. The solution offers a different way to receive notifications from their financial provider on the TV, and to access financial services, such as account balance, movements, credit cards and services payments from the TV. It provides a new sales channel for the financial institution with easy process of sale.”
Metaforic’s New Solution Protects Mobile Apps from Unauthorized Changes in Code
“We have a product that protects mobile applications from unauthorized changes and subversion of the existing code. In effect, by using our solution, the financial institution has control over what the application does if it is compromised. It can quit, display a message, send a silent security alert to bank servers or any other behavior the developer cares to define.
Critically, for financial institutions that have a lot of mobile developments underway, it can be integrated with existing developments at the end of the software development lifecycle, and it is an automatic process not requiring significant developer time or security expertise.”
Kalypton Launches Tereon Payment System
“Tereon was developed for, and proven at scale by, an African bank.Tereon is a complete payment ecosystem that can use EMV, operate a closed loop, or support interoperability. It provides flexible instruction processing, and can use existing core systems and settlement processes, for a secure, end-to-end, business process.It provides payment service providers with a powerful toolkit for rapid innovation to create stream-of-payment services.All Tereon services meet stringent standards for regulatory compliance and security. We will demonstrate a four-party deployment, supporting payments from phone to phone, phone to card terminal, card to terminal and online.”
eyeOpen Debuts Digital Mortgage Advisor
“eyeOpen launches world’s first digital mortgage advisor. In an age when banks and insurers strive for consumers’ trust, digital leadership and true customer centricity are the weapons of this service.
The personal advice algorithms are ‘the crème de la crème’ of personal mortgage advice. eyeOpen offers its service as a SaaS-solution to banks, insurers and advisor companies in Europe and the United States. The benefit: extreme cost reductions, smarter targeting and incredible NPS-improvements.”
ERN Launches Looop, a Transaction Analytics Engine
“Looop is a unique, big data technology platform that brings together card payment and merchant data in real time to create value from every single transaction.It provides transactional payment data analytics, insights, integrated and intelligent mCoupons, eReceipts and campaign management and tracking. All delivered through a smart phone app and cloud-based solution, to ensure rapid and secure global deployment across multiple jurisdictions.”
Holvi’s Online Banking Service Connects Retail Customers with Banking Product Providers
“Holvi connects retail customers and providers of banking and payments products in a seamless ecosystem. Holvi partners have created current accounts, among other uses, for election candidates to run their campaigns (Kokoomus, largest political party in Finland), entrepreneurship education (local chapter of Junior Achievement), and crowdfunding for cultural projects (Mesenaatti.me).
Holvi online banking service is easy to tailor for specific verticals, by partners or the customers themselves. For providers of banking and payments products Holvi offers access to the long tail of retail customers.”
Luminous’ BankFiling Helps FIs Increase Business Lending
“BankFiling loan origination solution enables financial institutions to increase lending to business banking customers, while reducing risk.”
Meniga’s New PFM Module Helps Users Decide if They Can Afford Certain Purchases
Wrapping up the first session this morning, Meniga demonstrated its platform that helps users make smart purchasing decisions:
“To buy or Not to buy is a white-label module for mobile banking applications, that uses PFM functionality to empower and influence consumers at the point of sale or when considering buying something.It allows users to check if they can afford what they are about to purchase or see how much closer to their savings goals they would get if they save the money and use it to feed their goal instead.One unique aspect of this innovation is allowing users to leverage their social networks and direct messages to crowd-source the decision and instantly collect feedback before making the purchase. This fun and simple feature uses gamification to engage users and their network of friends.”
IND Group Uses Real Life Situations to Reshape How Users Interact with Their PFM Platform
“By placing the customers at the center, we have reshaped the traditional idea of PFM to meet the end-users’ everyday needs.
Instead of functions and features we have developed stories that are real life situations, emerging in different stages of our lives and having financial impact, such as “Expecting a baby”, “Prepare for a rainy day”, “Buy a home”, “How to spend less” or “Retirement planning.” This entirely new approach in digital financial customer service takes online banking and financial management to the next level, offering mass retail financial planning and advice.”
Dynamics Launches ePlate, a Better Rewards Card, in UK
Dynamics’ intelligent powered payment cards include a fully card-programmable magnetic stripe that can be re-written with each transaction to reduce fraud. Using Dynamics’ backend system, users can select from a list of rewards, to tailor their own experience.