FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: 0smosis

FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: 0smosis

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on 26 and 27 of February in Dubai, U.A.E. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot.

0smosis is a Belgian-based company that builds, validates and launches fintech startups. At FinovateMiddleEast, the company will present a new augmented way of interacting with your clients.

Features

  • Available 24/7 to your clients when they want it, where they want it
  • Creates an augmented customer experience compared to today
  • Automated so it revises your back office processes

Why it’s great
0smosis will present the default expectation of your clients in 2025. Be ready to engage.

Presenters

Geert Van Kerckhoven, Founder and Product Manager for Helder
Van Kerckhoven co-founded 0smosis in 2017 as the next-gen financial services catalyst. Today, he handles the global strategy of the company as well as the development of the different ventures.
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Len Adriaenssens, Founder and Venture Partner
Adriaenssens co-founded 0smosis in 2017 as the next-gen financial services catalyst. Today, he handles customer strategy, branding, and market development. Moreoever, he’s the product owner of “Helder.”
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Finovate Alumni News

On Finovate.com

  • Backbase Partners with SGBL to Support Digital Transformation.
  • Munnypot to Power Jyske Bank’s Robo Advisor Tools. Come see Munnypot’s demo of its newest technology at FinovateMiddleEast next week.
  • Temenos Agrees to $1.96 Billion Takeover of Fidessa Group.

Around the web

  • Entrust Datacard receives the Blue Shield Technology Innovation Award for Security and Anti-Counterfeiting Technology.
  • ACI Worldwide recognized as fraud innovation firm of the year by Finance Monthly.
  • Ping Identity wins gold in the Identity Management category by the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.
  • NICE Actimize introduces its next generation Suspicious Activity Monitoring solution.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Kony to Power Digital Initiative for Partners FCU

Kony to Power Digital Initiative for Partners FCU

Enterprise app company Kony announced it has teamed up with Partners Federal Credit Union to accelerate the credit union’s new digital banking services.

Specifically, Kony will fuel Partners FCU’s Digital 2x initiative which focuses on accelerating the delivery of new digital banking services and enhancing the digital user experience. Partners FCU, which is the credit union for employees of the Walt Disney Company, hopes that its Digital 2x initiative will offer its 150,000 members a seamless, universal experience across all of its digital services.

The aim of Kony’s involvement in the initiative is two-fold. Partners FCU is planning for it “to deliver new digital banking services and capabilities” while at the same time “fostering an agile work environment to empower teams to quickly adapt to change.”

To chronicle the success of the partnership, the California-based credit union is creating a five-part documentary series highlighting key milestones in the credit union’s digital evolution. Check out the series overview video below:

In describing why his firm selected Kony, Partners FCU President and CEO John Janclaes said, “We wanted to work with the industry’s best digital master, so we selected Kony to be our trusted partner to help us on this digital journey. Our objective is to ensure we deliver innovative banking services seamlessly across both our digital and physical channels, and not only meet but exceed the expectations of our cast members today and in the future.”

Founded in 2007, Kony is a cloud-based application solutions company that seeks to help financial institutions of all sizes quickly bring their app ideas to market. The company specializes in omni-channel banking applications that offer an excellent user experience.

Kony’s CTO, Bill Bodin and Product Marketing Manager, Antonio Sanchez, recently showcased its Digital Banking Platform at FinovateFall 2017. In August of 2017, the company unveiled the Kony AppPlatform V8 that aims to help professional developers meet demand for apps and help organizations simplify the app development and deployment processes. And in October of last year, the company launched a new digital banking solution that leverages Daon’s biometric tools. Kony is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has raised more than $115 million.

Entersekt Joins ForgeRock Trust Network as Principal Technology Partner

Entersekt Joins ForgeRock Trust Network as Principal Technology Partner

Mobile-first authentication and e-commerce enablement specialist Entersekt announced today that it has joined the ForgeRock Trust Network as a principal technology partner. ForgeRock provides identity and access management solutions to financial services, retail, healthcare, and communications companies as well as to educational institutions and governments including Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway.

“Entersekt will bring our customers powerful, proven authentication options that will add great vale to the exciting digital transformation projects they are embarking on with ForgeRock,” Ben Goodman, VP of global strategy and innovation for ForgeRock said. Entersekt’s advanced mobile app security, authentication, and digital signing solutions integrate seamlessly into ForgeRock’s identity and access management platform, giving customers an easy way to secure individuals, connected devices, and services.

“As Entersekt did with push-based authentication, so has ForgeRock reimagined identity and access management, rearchitecting it from the ground up,” Entersekt CCO Dewald Nolte said. “Besides our game-changing complementary technologies, it’s that pioneering approach that I believe will benefit mutual customers the most. It promises to spur further innovation and help deliver to end users the best mobile experiences available anywhere.”

Entersekt’s solutions can be applied to a variety of challenges including mobile app security, strong authentication, payments enabling, digital signing, biometric enablement and regulatory compliance. The company’s flagship products are Transakt, which provides one-touch, multi-factor authentication for digital banking and payments, Interakt, which enables push USSD, out-of-band communication for feature phones, and Connekt, which provides secure and seamless e-commerce enablement. Entersekt secures 150 million digital transactions every month in 45 countries, protecting tens of millions of end users.

Entersekt participated in our developer’s conference, FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2014, with a presentation titled Securing Mobile Applications Through Transport Layer Diversity. Headquartered in Stellenbosch, NA, South Africa and founded in 2008, the company includes RMI and Endeavor Catalyst among its investors. Schalk Nolte is CEO.

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Pushfor

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Pushfor

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on the 6 through 9 of March 2018 in London. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot.

Pushfor provides a secure layer of control across all devices and data stores, allowing you to protect and share digitized content, internally and externally, via any channel with absolute confidence.

Features

  • Push content using a unique URL link via any other communication channel
  • Control and track who, how, when, and where content is viewed
  • Provides real-time usage analytics for valuable insight

Why it’s great
Pushed content never leaves its source location so is never actually sent – Push, don’t send.

Presenters

John Safa, Founder and CTO
Safa is an entrepreneur and seasoned executive in architecting solutions for mobile, desktop, and cloud platforms.
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Crispin Luxton, VP, Client Solutions
Luxton has a strong track record with 18+ years of consultancy and business development experience in the software sector focused on B2B, enterprise, and end-user computing.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Partner HUB

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Partner HUB

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on the 6 through 9 of March 2018 in London. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot.

Partner HUB’s Charlie-India platform offers a white label platform for electronic invoice presentment and payment for banks, payment service providers, and fintechs.

Features

  • White label product retaining the bank’s primary customer contact
  • Modular implementation starting with an off-the-shelf product
  • Interoperability with invoicing systems for data processing

Why it’s great
Charlie-India helps banks to get primary access to business level transaction data by setting up invoice related services needed to provide more efficient trade finance and payment services.

Presenter

Katalin Kauzli, Business Development Director, Co-founder
Kauzli has significant business development, corporate finance, and start-up experience. Since 2013 she has been involved in the fundraising and business development of several innovative start-ups.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: ApPello

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: ApPello

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on the 6 through 9 of March 2018 in London. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot.

ApPello is a lending industry fintech vendor providing banking solutions. It covers the whole loan process, including loan origination, credit scoring, collaterals, monitoring and collection.

Features

  • Makes it quick to customize any main part of a business application
  • Is flexible and easy to fine tune for customer needs
  • Offers omni-channel capabilities

Why it’s great
The ApPello Loan Factory, with the help of its flexible platform, allows the quick implementation of new products and rules and also the fulfillment of clients’ business needs.

Presenters

János Hoós, Chief Consulting Officer
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Agnes Magyar, Business Analyst
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Bernadett Nagy, Head of Pre-Sales
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: SecuredTouch

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: SecuredTouch

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on the 6 through 9 of March 2018 in London. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot.

SecuredTouch is the leader in behavioral biometrics, delivering continuous authentication technologies to strengthen security and reduce fraud while improving the customer’s digital experience.

Features

  • Enhance the user experience by reducing friction
  • Increase conversions by reducing false positive transaction denials
  • Receive immediate ROI with early detection of fraud attempts

Why it’s great
The reality is that 98% of human traffic is legitimate and 2% is not. It’s time we stop treating our clients as if it’s the other way around.

Presenters

Mark Freeman, Head Of Business Development
Freeman served 9 years in an IDF elite intelligence unit before moving into the start up world. He is in charge of business development and strategic alliances at SecuredTouch.
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Ran Wasserman, VP of R&D
With more than 10 years of experience in cyber-security, Wasserman is an expert in advanced identity fraud and theft. As VP of R&D, he is leading the delivery of cutting edge behavioral biometrics based solutions.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: iProov 

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: iProov 

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on the 6 through 9 of March 2018 in London. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot.

iProov uses the faces of your mobile and online customers to verify them for KYC, onboarding and PSD2 authentication. Its uniquely effective anti-spoofing technology is the strong, usable solution chosen by banks and governments.

Features

  • Fully automated for fast, reliable results, even with ID document photos
  • Customer-proven great usability and security
  • The best anti-spoofing system in the world

Why it’s great
iProov’s user experience is so simple and easy it delivers superior customer conversion on any device, yet its unique technology satisfies even the most demanding security team.

Presenters

Andrew Bud, Founder and CEO
Bud founded iProov in 2011. From 2000-2010 he founded and led mBlox, the world’s largest provider of enterprise text messaging services and mobile payments.
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Matthew Pearch, Commercial Director

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Yoyo

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Yoyo

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on the 6 through 9 of March 2018 in London. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot.

Yoyo is Europe’s fastest growing end-to-end customer engagement platform, delivering frictionless payment and loyalty for consumers alongside behavioural analytics and marketing tools for merchants.

Features

  • First-of-its-kind loyalty platform and bank account integration
  • Retailer-specific, automated loyalty when using a debit card
  • Improved spending insight for consumers with in-app itemised receipts

Why it’s great
Yoyo’s integration allows banks to retain the simplicity of card payments, whilst automatically adding loyalty, personalised offers, rewards and itemised receipts to their offering.

Presenters

Michael Rolph, CEO & co-founder
An experienced entrepreneur and business developer, Rolph was previously an advisor at Azimo before founding Yoyo, Europe’s fastest growing mobile payment and loyalty marketing platform.
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Dave Nicholson, VP strategic partnerships & co-founder
Nicholson has successfully co-founded 2 fintech startups: Yoyo Wallet (a ground-breaking mobile payment and loyalty platform) and Zopa (the world’s first P2P lending exchange).
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Microblink

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Microblink

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on the 6 through 9 of March 2018 in London. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot.

Microblink’s SDK, BlinkReceipt, provides instant insight into consumer purchases on the SKU level with real-time receipt scanning. The SDK runs OCR and captures all purchase data, even from long receipts.

Features

  • Real-time data capture from retail receipts
  • Robust cataloging system for structured data extraction
  • High accuracy and infinite scalability

Why it’s great
BlinkReceipt is the most cost-effective way to collect consumer purchase data and can be used for purchase validation, loyalty and rewards programs, market research, PFM, and more.

Presenters

Luka Slibar, Business Product Manager
Slibar is a business product manager working with clients in the banking industry on improving the end-customer experience with new digital solutions enabled by Microblink’s technology.
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Chad Wood, Product Manager
Wood is a serial entrepreneur and product manager for BlinkReceipt with a passion for the intersection of technology and the real world.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: NF Innova

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: NF Innova

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on the 6 through 9 of March 2018 in London. Pick up your tickets today and save your spot.

NF Innova provides a unique banking solution to visionary financial institutions by delivering a rich and seamless customer journey on any digital channel.

Features

  • Omni-channel digital banking platform
  • Full process automation and digitalization
  • Personalized real-time services through a chatbot

Why it’s great
The NF Innova platform is helping banks design unique customer experiences using a chatbot as an assistant in a fully digitalized and automatized loan approval process.

Presenters

Dejan Petković, CTO
With more than 20 years of experience in software development for the financial industry, Petković is in charge of the definition and direction of products. He oversees innovation and execution at company.
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Vladimir Stojić, Technical PreSales Consultant
Stojić has been consulting with banks on end-to-end omni-channel banking for more than 10 years. He is an expert in front-end channels, the “Smart Digital Layer” and digital banking design.
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