“Econography is the study of spending profiles of a population of a region and the culture of its people, down to the postcode level, including consumer and business spending by age, location, family status, income, and spend. Econographic trends describe the historical changes in spending (for example, the average spending in a category such as “Eating Out” may increase or decrease over time). People Like U is an econographic tool that gives consumers the ability, for the first time, to compare their own spending to the actual spending habits of other Australians.”
Author: Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz)
Figlo launches Tablet Solution for Financial Product Advice
“Figlo announced the global launch of their tablet solution for Financial Product Advice. Figlo offers insurance companies a leading edge tablet application for financial product advice which gives a quick overview of the client financial situation and facilitates product advice and sales.The tablet solution will push the boundaries of current financial product advice in the insurance and bancassurance industry, and shows how it can help advisors and sales agents to provide more transparent and interactive advice to their customers. The application integrates with Figlo’s applications for personal financial planning and personal finance management for complete financial insight. Through a secure connection with an existing CRM system, mid- and back office basic client data is already pre-filled.”
SocietyOne Launches Smartphone Loan Application Solution
“SocietyOne is launching a smartphone loan application channel solution that simplifies the process of applying for a loan and minimizes manual data entry requirements by leveraging the customer’s third party data. ClearMatch’s credit decision engine is being enhanced to cater for new metrics and behavioral attributes of consumers in the loan provisioning and pricing process.”
Fiserv Shows Off Mobiliti Reach Mobile Banking and Payments Platform
“Mobiliti from Fiserv is the world’s most deployed mobile banking and payments platform. Mobiliti Reach aims to make financial services simultaneously available to banked and unbanked consumers alike in emerging and fast-growing markets. It includes a comprehensive payments engine to enable person-to-person payments, bill presentment and payments, and top up and merchant payments.”
CurrencyFair Shows Off its Simple and Efficient Marketplace UI
“CurrencyFair has completely upgraded the interface on its MarketPlace, making the process of order execution even simpler and more efficient. The new layout allows customers to easily and clearly view the market depth, helping them choose an appropriate exchange rate for their MarketPlace order.Using CurrencyFair’s new MarketPlace, it is possible for customers to achieve an exchange rate approaching, and in many cases even better than, the market interbank rate otherwise only available to market professionals dealing in millions.”
Strands Finance’s What If Functionality Gives Users Insight to Future Purchases
“Strands Finance is presenting new “What If” functionality that takes PFM historical data and makes it relevant for the future. Users will gain greater insight and control of their financial health with little to no effort. For banks, the data is invaluable to better advise their customers. Strands has developed and leveraged pattern identification algorithms that help model future scenarios and the impact to the user’s short-term cash flow and long-term net worth.”
Pendo Systems Breaks Down Silos of Investment Accounting Data
“Pendo has the first cross vertical global investment accounting cloud solution. We provide services to capital markets across banking, asset management, wealth management, insurance, and corporate treasury.
The landscape today consists of products that are vertically focused on industry (mutual fund, investment management insurance, etc.) & regionally (Asia Pacific, Europe, US). This has caused firms to have silos of investment accounting data – resulting in the same asset being valued differently with a variation of up to 25 basis points. It also is the inhibitor to transparency as the ability to drill down & view total exposure to a given sector, industry, currency, or cost basis cannot be done in a single database and instantaneously. This is a problem that our product solves.BasisPoint solves the issues for the verticals and provides for complete multi-jurisdictional processing for capital markets firms (insurance, mutual fund, asset managers, wealth managers, pension funds, and corporations).”
Perfectsen Launches Targeted Ad Platform, The Hook
“Retaining a customer is said to be 5 times cheaper than acquiring a new one. But the problem for banks has always been getting the right product in front of the right customer.The Hook is a targeted ad platform that solves this problem. It helps banks to intelligently monetize web and mobile traffic by displaying the right products based on existing users’ needs, employing data points from its PFM and other sources.With a single line of code and flexibility to self-host, integration is a breeze and e-banking as a profit centre is no longer a distant dream.”
Striata’s Interactive eBill Helps Paperless Adoption
“Utilizing the power of email; Striata’s next generation interactive PDF eBill can be read and paid on any email-enabled device. Our paperless adoption technology eliminates registration and allows customers to switch off paper in just one click. This results in optimal adoption and faster ROI. Striata will demonstrate the powerful interactive bill which is encrypted, has integrated eConsent, shared password security, instant dispute capability, and mobile one click pay.”
Backbase’s Launchpad Offers a Consistent UX Across Devices
“Backbase Launchpad is a new and unique banking experience, based on Backbase Portal technology. Launchpad offers the latest innovations and best practices in user experience design and cross device customer journeys. The goal of Launchpad is to drastically bring down time-to-market for online and mobile projects.Launchpad is immediately optimized for use on regular browsers, tablets, and smartphones and is entirely manageable by the e-business and digital teams using the Backbase Portal Manager. Launchpad is seamlessly integrated with the Backbase App Center and includes apps such as Accounts Overview, Payments, PFM, Stock Portfolio Manager, Message Center, etc. Other apps (developed by the bank, by Backbase, or by third party vendors) can be easily added to Launchpad.Launchpad and its apps come with universal integration architecture to hook up existing core banking systems with the new Bank 2.0 front-end.”
Metaforic Launches Mobile Software Security to Detect and Respond to Mobile Security Threats
“Metaforic is demonstrating its latest technology that can detect, respond, and report on a range of security threats to mobile financial applications. The product works on a per-app basis at the application layer to inform operators of the real-time security state of the application and device.For example, a Metaforic protected application can detect an application repackaged with a malicious payload, alert the institution if the app connects to its service, and mark any transactions with a higher risk profile. Another example is if the device is jail broken, it will be reliably reported.”
eWise Launches MyFin Mobile Banking App
“The eWise MyFin mobile banking application combines the most powerful elements of PFM, account aggregation, and eAuthentication into a single, integrated solution. The groundbreaking functionality of the eWise MyFin application transforms the consumer’s online banking into a simple, fast, and powerful experience that delivers unprecedented value to Financial Institutions through an integrated ROI engine.”