FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Bankers Lab

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Bankers Lab
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: BankersLab, FinovateEurope 2016, FinovateEurope 2016 Sneak Peek

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Bankers Lab designs virtual world training-simulations for fintech lenders and bankers. PortfolioQuest is a complex simulation game with billions of possible outcomes.

Features:

  • Skilled benchmarking of fintech lenders and bankers
  • Unlimited gaming outcomes in an SaaS-simulation environment
  • Train and benchmark entry through executive staff

Why it’s great
Lending skill benchmarking dashboards for CXOs, compliance, regulators, and investigators.

Presenters

BankersLab_M_KaticsMichelle Katics, CEO
Katics is a former bank executive turned entrepreneur. She is driven by a mission to reinvent learning for the fintech and banking world. She led BankersLab from inception to scaling.
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BankersLab_K_GingherKurt Gingher, Chief Technology Officer
Gingher’s 30 years of experience spans signal processing, software development, and the financial sector. He has led BankersLab software design from founding to scaling.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Alpha Payments Cloud

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Alpha Payments Cloud
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Categories: Alpha Payments Cloud, FinovateEurope 2016, FinovateEurope 2016 Sneak Peek

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Alpha Payments Cloud is a world leader in providing international banks and merchants with proprietary and third-party solution access to the payments world.

Features:

  • Access any payment type, any solution provider, anywhere in the world
  • Consolidate all integrations and reports on one platform
  • Mitigate risks and costs by orchestrating across vendor functionality

Why it’s great
The AlphaHub is a brand-new middleware layer that amplifies third-party access and simplifies the process of selecting and orchestrating new vendors down to the click of a button.

AlphaPaymentsCloud_O_RajicPresenter: Oliver Rajic, CEO
Rajic is a global business development leader and payment expert whose vision is bringing the payments world into the 21st century.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: VoicePIN.com

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: VoicePIN.com
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2016, FinovateEurope 2016 Sneak Peek, VoicePIN

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FEU2016_logo_withdateA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500 fintech professionals. Get your tickets to join us in London!

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VoicePIN.com is a team of experienced engineers and technology lovers that provide advanced voice biometrics for customers all around the world.

Features:

  • Very simple and quick installation and configuration
  • Passive enrollment (generating voiceprints from previously recorded data)
  • Lexical and language-independent

Why it’s great
VoicePIN enables easy and secure user authentication, based on natural voice commands. Our technology allows you to securely log on to a system without having to remember any PINs or passwords.

VoicePIN_J_GalkaPresenter: Jakub Galka, Director, Research & Development

Engineer Doctor Galka is a researcher and experienced leader of, and participant in, many speech recognition and voice biometrics projects.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Kontomatik

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Kontomatik
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2016, FinovateEurope 2016 Sneak Peek, Kontomatik

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Kontomatik is a banking API solution with Sign In Widget, a multilingual tool that is available for 7 countries and can be deployed in just 3 minutes. It is mobile friendly, too.

Features:

  • Our widget supports multiple languages
  • It can be used in multiple countries
  • Works perfectly on mobile devices

Why it’s great
Kontomatik API is here to bring your services fully online. Kontomatik Sign In Widget is here to bring your services to a global scale and allow a smooth adoption on mobile devices.

Presenters:

Kontomatik_M_TruszelMarcin Truszel, CEO
Truszel is CEO and founder of Kontomatik, a data-aggregation solution that is here to make the world of finance more innovative.
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Kontomatik_P_HiekmannPeter Hiekmann, VP Sales
Hiekmann has been in the financial services industry for more than 25 years and now he is approaching more and more financial and banking leaders to start leveraging data aggregation technology.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: North Side

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: North Side
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2016, FinovateEurope 2016 Sneak Peek, North Side

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FEU2016_logo_withdateA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500 fintech professionals. Get your tickets to join us in London!

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North Side enables people to access financial services, make transactions, and get help in context through speech or typing. Through dialogue, we clarify ambiguities and incomplete information.

Features:

  • Hands-off banking, as you drive or ride your bike
  • Personalized contextual help in the authenticated environment
  • Customers discover needed products and services through dialogue

Why it’s great
Banking through speech or typing is easy, natural, intuitive, and will be the next big thing.

Presenters

This is #1 !Eugene Joseph, CEO
Joseph developed intuitive person-computer interfaces for 30 years. He is Natural Language Understanding tech at North Side and data-driven, interactive graphics at Virtual Prototypes (now Presagis)
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Christian Hogan Lemieux, Technology Evangelist
With a strong background in linguistics, Lemieux works on various facets of the North Side NLU pipeline and semantic databases, and occasionally presents them publicly.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Capitalise

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Capitalise
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Capitalise, FinovateEurope 2016, FinovateEurope 2016 Sneak Peek

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Capitalise uses the simplicity of words to turn investment ideas into executable and optimized investment strategies.

Features:

  • Trade and invest using your own words
  • Built-in investment prediction and optimization
  • Unlimited ideas and auto-execution when conditions are met

Why it’s great
Capitalise simplifies the investment process by bridging between the simplicity of common words and the complex words of automated trading.

Presenters:

Capitalise_S_RabinShahar Rabin, CEO, Co-founder
Rabin is a futures day-trader and formerly a trading product manager at eToro.
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Capitalise_A_ShiovichAmir Shiovich, CTO & Co-founder
Shiovich is formerly a R&D Team Leader at SuperDerivatives.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Payever

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Payever
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2016, FinovateEurope 2016 Sneak Peek, Payever

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The vision of Payever is to make commerce easy. They do this by solving problems faced in buying and selling everyday.

Features:

  • Point-of-sale self-financing in retail stores
  • Buying network for personal offers
  • Apps providing business with all the tools Amazon has

Why it’s great
We are solving the huge problem: to “pay everywhere,” with your preferred payment option.

Presenter:

Payever_A_SchlahtArtur Schlaht, CEO
Schlaht is truly an internet entrepreneur. He started his first business at 18 and never stopped.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Ethoca

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Ethoca
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Ethoca, FinovateEurope 2016, FinovateEurope 2016 Sneak Peek

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FEU2016_logo_withdateA look at the companies demoing live to 1,500 fintech professionals. Get your tickets to join us in London!

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Ethoca Alerts eliminates fraud and chargebacks through a merchant-issuer collaboration network that allows participants to share fraud and customer-dispute intelligence in real time.

 

Features:

  • Eliminate chargebacks and control chargeback ratios
  • Stop the fulfillment of fraudulent orders
  • Drive higher acceptance

Why it’s great
Ethoca Alerts provides an unparalleled source of cardholder-confirmed fraud and customer-dispute information that arrives much faster than the inefficient chargeback process.

Presenters:

Ethoca_J_Fergerson_2Julie Fergerson, SVP, Industry Solutions
With 20-plus years of experience, Fergerson is one of the industry’s foremost experts on internet payments fraud.

 

 

Ethoca_S_DurneySteve Durney, SVP, Issuer Relations
After spending 20 years working with a top-3 issuer, Durney is an expert in fraud prevention, dispute recovery, and cost reduction.

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Tink to Test PFM App with 10,000 ABN AMRO Customers

Tink to Test PFM App with 10,000 ABN AMRO Customers
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Tink

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Fresh off the announcement of the FinovateEurope 2016 lineup, we have big news from Swedish alum Tink which has partnered with ABN AMRO, a large Dutch bank widely considered digitally progressive.

As a part of the partnership, ABN AMRO has worked with Tink to launch Grip, a budgeting and expense-management app that aims to help users control their spending.

Starting today, a select 10,000 ABN AMRO customers will pilot the iOS app, offering feedback on how developers can tweak the platform. If the pilot is successful, Grip will be released to the bank’s 4.5 million customers.

Tink’s direct-to-consumer PFM app launched in 2012 and boasts 300,000 iOS and Android users in the Swedish market.

The company was listed in the Fintech 50 earlier this year and won Best of Show for its demo at FinovateEurope 2014. Check out its award-winning presentation.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Bizfi, Nous.net, On Deck Capital, Simple, Tink, Top Image Systems, TransferWise, Trustly

On Finovate.com

  • “Tink to Test PFM App with 10,000 ABN AMRO Customers”
  • “Bizfi Closes on $65 Million in Debt Financing”
  • “Nous Closes In On £350,000 Fundraising Goal” [Update: Nous Exceeds Original Goal, Raises $750,000].

Around the web

  • “TIS Closes 550,000 Euro Deal with Leading German Health Insurance Provider”
  • Trustly partners with payment solution iDEAL in the Netherlands.
  • TechCrunch looks at OnDeck and the future of alt-lending.
  • USA Today features how Simple is a different type of bank.
  • TechCrunch considers how TransferWise is a better way to send remittances.

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

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A Boku Win for Carrier Billing in Expanded Microsoft Partnership

A Boku Win for Carrier Billing in Expanded Microsoft Partnership
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Boku

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Direct mobile billing startup Boku took home a big win last week. The San Francisco-based company expanded its partnership with Microsoft to enable direct carrier billing in the Windows store.

Sprint’s U.S. customers can now make purchases from the Windows store using their mobile phone number. Previously limited to mobile transactions, customers can now purchase applicable content on all Windows devices. Boku’s previous integration with the Windows store resulted in an 8x increase in purchase rates in emerging markets and a 3x increase in developed markets.

In a press release, Boku CEO Jon Prideaux highlighted the solution’s convenience, security, and ubiquity. He says with this new move that “[Microsoft is] creating a tremendous opportunity for developers and consumers alike.”

If you’re not familiar with direct mobile carrier billing, this graphic explains how it works:

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In addition to the Windows Store, Boku can be used to make purchases at:

  • Google Play
  • PlayStation Store
  • Facebook App Center
  • League of Legends
  • Spotify

Boku works with 300+ mobile operators in 60+ countries. The company demoed its mobile payment service at FinovateEurope 2011 in London.

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Finovate Alums Take Silver and Bronze at UBS Future of Finance

Finovate Alums Take Silver and Bronze at UBS Future of Finance
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Categories: WealthForge

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Finovate newcomer Capital Preferences and alum WealthForge won second and third place respectively at the UBS Future of Finance Challenge Finals last week. Aesthetic Integration, which specializes in the qualitative analysis of financial algorithms, took first place.

The first-prize winner was awarded $50,000. Capital Preferences earned $20,000, and WealthForge won $10,000. Along with the other 60 regional finalists, all three companies will have access to UBS’s expert mentors and partners, and three months of intensive support and acceleration to get innovations market ready. The competition featured more than 600 applicants.

WealthForge_logo_FS15_200pxOn making the finals last month, WealthForge Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder Mat Dellorso focused on how his company could help firms like UBS add “significant scalability to (its) network of financial advisers and investment banking professionals.” WealthForge earned its spot in the finals with its Invest Now button, demonstrated earlier this year at FinovateSpring 2015.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, WealthForge recently added Bill Robbins as chief revenue officer. A financial services veteran with more than 20 years of experience in building brokerage platforms, and a former president of BB&T Securities Services, Robbins will lead WealthForge’s sales, marketing and platform development.

Capital_Preferences_hi_res_logoIncorporated in 2014, Capital Preferences uses game theory, econometrics, and experimental economics to provide a unique client-risk profiling system for financial institutions. Calling client profiling “a major area of weakness for most advice firms,” Capital Preferences co-founder and CEO Bernard Del Rey credited UBS for recognizing his company’s technology and giving it a spot in the finals. He says the demand “for our technology and patent-pending methods” is from all sides of the industry and includes “bespoke private banks, regulators, and large-scale consumer-credit players in the U.S. and Australia.”

Capital Preferences makes its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2016 in London. To find out more about our upcoming February fintech conference, visit our FinovateEurope 2016 page.

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