Author: Kayley Cheng

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: ANNA

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: ANNA
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Categories: ANNA, FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

ANNA takes care of your banking and accounting while you get on with business.

Features

  • ANNA’s tax and VAT accounting sorts your self-assessment and VAT returns
  • Costs only a fraction compared to a dedicated accountant

Why It’s Great
ANNA does your invoicing, sort expenses, keep accounts up-to-date and even submits your tax returns, saving you the time and hassle.

Presenters

Vic Casambros, Digital Manager
Casambros has previous experience working in the Charities and Public Sector organisations. He specialises in analytics reporting, social media and digital engagement strategies. 
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Boris Dyakonov, Co-Founder
Co-Founder at Tochka.com, knopka.com, and Anna. Dyakonov is an expert on financial services for entrepreneurs.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: SONECT

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: SONECT
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Categories: FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek, Sonect

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

Sonect provides the largest ATM network in Switzerland and changes the way interaction happens with cash by allowing cash withdrawals anytime and anywhere with a smartphone.

Features

  • Easy integration already included in several core banking systems
  • Offer customers a large network of ATMs
  • Internationally licensed with e-money institution (EMI)

Why It’s Great
Withdraw cash with your smartphone – anytime, anywhere.

Presenters

Sandipan Chakraborty, CEO & Founder
Chakraborty is an ex-banker specializing in payments, core banking and regulatory compliance. He believes cash behaviour is changing and Sonect creates a path into the digital future.
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Thai Nguyen, IT Project Manager
Nguyen assures the high-quality of all IT products (Android, iOS, web) to meet Sonect’s customer expectation in order to make cash easily accessible everywhere!
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: EcoTree

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: EcoTree
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Categories: EcoTree, FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

EcoTree is a green investment revolution: in just a few clicks, and for as low as €18, anyone (firms or individuals) can now buy newly-planted trees from our forests in Europe.

Features

  • Become a real tree-owner
  • Do the planet a favor by compensating your CO2 footprint
  • All while building a green asset that will gain financial value over time!

Why It’s Great
You too can own trees in a forest with EcoTree!

Presenter

Marten Susebeek, Bus. Dev. Netherlands
In his previous role, Susebeek was CEO of a company that gets safe water to 125,000 people in Africa. After his exit, he joined EcoTree and now focuses on developing the Dutch market.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Lokky

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Lokky
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Categories: FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek, Lokky

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

Lokky is the first Italian digital insurance broker that focuses exclusively on 6 million micro-enterprises, professionals and freelancers that are highly underserved by traditional channels.

Features

  • Full digital and multi-channel experience
  • Real-time customer profiling, leveraging on external data enrichment
  • Real-time product customization for a real 1-to-1 proposition

Why It’s Great
Proprietary Algorithms manages high heterogeneity of SMEs in a scalable way, designed for ecosystems, relevant in open banking and open insurance environments.

Presenters

Paolo Tanfoglio, CEO & Co-Founder
Tanfoglio earned his MBA at the London Business School and has a background in financial services and M&A consulting in real estate. His entrepreneurial experiences include financial services to SMEs.
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Sauro Mostarda, Co-Founder & Exec. Dir.
Mostarda earned his MBA at the London Business School. His background includes consulting and investments in solar energy. His experience is in venture capital investments and investing in Italian and foreign startups.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Quppy

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Quppy
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Categories: FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek, Quppy

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

Quppy is a digital payments solution consolidating bank cards and accounts.

Features

  • Bank cards consolidation
  • AI based recurring payments, expenses and investments automatization
  • Planning solution, aftermarket gift card consolidator and marketplace

Why It’s Great
Quppy has gone further than Google Pay and Apple Pay to develop an AI solution that chooses the right payment card to use in any moment.

Presenter

Alina Kornienko, COO & Co-Founder
Kornienko is a serial entrepreneur and female pioneer in blockchain technologies, empowering women in business. She also serves as a senior PR specialist and world-known scientist.

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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Bambu

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Bambu
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Categories: Bambu, FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

Bambu is building innovative solutions for the digital wealth landscape with focus on customer engagement.

Features

  • Intuitive user experience to engage end customers
  • Powerful insights for advisors on their customers
  • Achieving customer outcomes through goal-based investing

Why It’s Great
Re-centering wealth management to the customer and away from the product.

Presenters

Nick Wakefield, Managing Dir.
Wakefield is a keen innovator in financial technology, helping to build Bambu across Europe. He is also the Co-Founder of Regulation Asia, the leading intelligence hub for regulatory professionals across Asia-Pacific.
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Sam Beeby, Ops. Dir.
Beeby has 15 years of experience in digital product delivery for clients including Google, Facebook, Nike and Amazon. He is now focused on revolutionising financial services with human-centered designs.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Altilia

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Altilia
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Categories: Altilia, FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

Altilia is a leader in automating business processes across multiple industries by combining human and machine intelligence. They provide augmented intelligence solutions for next generation RPA.

Features

  • Augmented intelligence solutions
  • Help businesses process complex, unstructured documents
  • Along with typical and alternative data, quickly, securely and at scale

Why It’s Great
Scalable, modular and flexible, Altilia’s human-in-the-loop technologies help deliver significant cost reduction while augmenting employee productivity and transforming customer engagement.

Presenters

Umberto Scilinguo, COO
Scilinguo has 10+ years as a technical team leader for design and implementation of augmented intelligence solutions and COO for company management and growth hacking.
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Fausto Pupo, VP Bus. Dev.
Pupo has 9+ years as a designer of AI software solutions, pre-sales and post-sales engineer, partner manager and business developer.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Authlete

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Authlete
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Categories: Authlete, FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

Authlete provides an API authorization engine to implement OAuth, OpenID Connect, Financial-grade API and CIBA for various use cases from Open Banking to Identity Assurance.

Features

  • Unique architecture to build secure open API platforms faster
  • The first certified solution of Financial-grade API and CIBA
  • Highly integrable with existing infrastructure assets

Why It’s Great
Authlete provides core capabilities of standard-compliant API authorization and enables customers to allocate more resources on businesses development

Presenter

Takahiko Kawasaki, Co-Founder
Kawasaki is a Co-Founder of Authlete, implementing state-of-the-art specs into the service and providing his insights as blog entries at https://medium.com/@darutk/.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Bankish

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Bankish
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Categories: Bankish, FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

Bankish provides credit providers with an end-to-end and highly modular loan administration platform. The cloud-based solution (SaaS) features vital functionality with outstanding configurability.

Features

  • Core-IT solution designed to simplify procedures via modularity
  • Ease of use
  • Configurability and automation

Why It’s Great
Bankish’s core-IT software brings all aspects of the business together in one, seamless environment.

Presenters

Ian Kalla, CXO
Kalla is a finance and investments enthusiast with a demonstrated history in project management and client/investor relations. He’s passionate about fintech for its efficient, operational focus.
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Marek Piller, CTO
Piller has 20+ years of experience in banking and IT (Swedbank, Coop Bank, Tieto), and is a true professional of core-IT solutions in banking.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: MODIFI

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: MODIFI
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Categories: FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek, MODIFI

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

MODIFI is solving trade finance for SMEs globally. Their online platform allows SMEs to get the trade finance they need. Simple, flexible and transparent, they empower businesses to trade internationally.

Features

  • Speed: Apply for finance in under 10 minutes
  • Growth: Improve cash flow and grow businesses
  • Global: Worldwide platform available 24/7

Why It’s Great
Trade finance is an old and broken industry. MODIFI’s platform removes the inefficiencies to give SMEs rapid access to the finance they need to trade and grow.

Presenters

Nelson Holzner, CEO & Co-Founder
Lawyer, turned private equity investor, turned serial entrepreneur, with 20 years of professional experience in top international firms, startups and high growth companies.
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Sven Brauer, COO
Expert in European Fintech & Banking industry, especially the German lending space with consumer credit market for B2C + B2B lending, such as working capital financing.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Chatvisor

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Chatvisor
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Categories: Chatvisor, FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

Chatvisor combines customer engagement and analytic platforms powered by Co-Browsing, providing improved customer communication for companies.

Features

  • Screen-sharing without downloading
  • Bi-directional control
  • Maximum security & privacy

Why It’s Great
Co-Browsing is screen-sharing without downloading, optimized for websites, mobile apps & desktops.

Presenters

Horst Fuchs, COO
Fuchs is a former competitive swimmer as well as former COO at his family company. He’s passionate about innovation & disruptive technology and loves competition, sports, learning, and pushing limits.
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Markus Wagner, CEO & CTO
Wagner is a problem solver at heart and applies his exceptional skills daily in his co-role as CEO & CTO. He leads Chatvisor’s product development to not just match, but exceed customer expectations.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Neonomics

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Neonomics
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Categories: FinovateEurope 2020, FinovateEurope 2020 Sneak Peek, Neonomics

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

Neonomics arose as a direct response to the challenges facing the financial industry during its radical transition into the era of PSD2 and open banking.

Features

  • Reduce cost
  • Plug-and-play integration
  • Seamless customer journey

Why It’s Great
Users are enabled to trigger instant payments and transfers from their bank, directly from your app or website.

Presenters

Roar Alme, COO
Alme is extremely experienced with business development and finance in Norway and internationally. He is the Chief Commercial Officer at Neonomics.
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Yifan Yu, Software Developer
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