Cardwise’s Xpenditure Automates Expense Management

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Cardwise, FinovateEurope 2014
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Second up this afternoon, Cardwise demonstrated how Xpenditure can automate expense reports:
“Xpenditure is a web based expense management solution that eliminates expense reports for a company. By automating all steps of the expense management process and making use of receipt scanning and integrated approval on the level of expense, Xpenditure makes it possible to manage all daily costs without creating ordinary expense notes – all without long and expensive implementation costs.”
Presenting Wim Derkinderen (CCO & Co-Founder) and Koen Christiaens (Head of Product) 
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Product Launch: February 2013
Metrics: €1.8M in Funding (Angel), 15 Employees, €1.3M in revenue for 2013
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Mechelen, Belgium
Founded: April 2011
Twitter: @xpenditure

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NF Innova Presents its Personal Experience Module to Boost Customer Engagement

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, NF Innova

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Making their way to the stage now is the team from NF Innova, a software company that specializes in omni-channel customer interaction products.

“Personal Experience Module, a part of iBanking product suite, enables banks to offer their customers a truly unique and tailored user experience. Namely, instead of static, CRM-based rules used for segmentation, this module provides for the adaptive behavior of the entire system, tailoring the user interface for each individual client, without the administration by the bank’s staff. 
It monitors the subscribed products and services, user’s behavior on the digital touch points (portal, mobile devices, etc.), and automatically provides the exact mash-up of functionalities that are most appropriate for the specific customer at the given time and the communication device.”
Presenting Eldar Banjica (CEO) and Dejan Petkovic (Director, Products & Strategy)
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Product Launch: iBanking: June 2012, Personal Experience Module: February 2014
Metrics: 42 employees, estimated €1.5 million in revenue in 2013, estimated 1 million named users of iBanking in 2013
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Vienna, Austria
Founded: March 2013
Website: nfinnova.com

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Payworks Provides Robust Checkout Options

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, payworks
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Taking the stage just before lunch, payworks showed how its platform can facilitate robust payment capabilities:
“We are showing how easy it is to build innovative payment solutions on top of the payworks platform and showcase stunning checkout options.”
Presenting Christian Deger (CEO) and Michael Englmaier (Head of Sales)

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Product Launch: Summer 2012
Metrics: 15 employees, winner of MPE Award for most innovative payment startup
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
HQ: Munich, Germany
Founded: April 2012
Twitter: @payworksmobile

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Tink Launches its Personal Finance Service Internationally

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Tink
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Next, Tink launched its platform to help users follow their finances:
“Tink is a free personal finance service that allows you to follow your money, wherever you are! The service automatically collects and categorizes up to 2 years of historical transactions and assets from the banks you decide to connect. Once connected, Tink presents your expenses and incomes, suggests budgets, sends alerts, and gives you a personalized feed. Tink removes all the unwanted noise, highlights what’s important, and provides intelligent insights into your finances. Following your money with the Tink feed is as effortless as browsing your Instagram feed!”
Presenting Daniel Kjellén (Founder & CEO) and Fredrik Hedberg (Founder & CTO)

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Product Launch: September 2013, international launch: 2014
Metrics: 10 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: June 2012
Website: tink.se/en
Twtter: @tink

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MyWishBoard’s P2P Platform Helps Family and Friends Fund Each Others’ Wishes

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, myWishBoard
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Next, MyWishBoard stepped up to demo its P2P platform that helps friends and family finance each others’ wishes:
“MyWishBoard.com is the first p2p platform where users can finance their wishes with the help of friends and subscribers. Once the necessary amount is raised, the money is transferred to the gift recipient’s digital account and could be further spent directly in e-stores or withdrawn on a credit card.”

Presenting Alexander Borodich (Co-Founder & Chief Dreams Officer) and Olga Kazmina (Marketing Fairy)

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Product Launch: July 2013
Metrics: $730,000 raised, more than 80,000 registered users with over 650,000 wishes, 6 employees
HQ: Moscow, Russia 
Founded: May 2013 

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Backbase’s Mobile Account Origination Module Creates a Seamless Mobile Enrollment Experience

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Backbase, FinovateEurope 2014
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Next, Backbase demonstrated how it will cut back office processing time with its new mobile account origination and enrollment module:
“We are launching our new mobile origination and enrollment module at FinovateEurope 2014. With the strong mobile capabilities of the Backbase Platform and the growing digital marketing capabilities, we are now including an out-of-the-box tool for seamless mobile enrollment experiences.
The new key features are:
    • Complete mobile application development capabilities within Backbase
    • Out-of-the-box enrollment and origination capabilities to support the online application process including camera facilitated image matching for insurance claims and digital image ID authentication using driving licenses for example – all linked with the FI’s back-end system (STP), with campaign analytics to track and monitor the campaign’s results”
Presenting Jouk Pleiter (CEO & Co-Founder) and Jelmer de Jong (Global Head of Marketing)

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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: Privately funded, 150+ employees, offices in New York, Amsterdam, London, Singapore, and Moscow
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, licensed 
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: April 2003
Website: backbase.com 
Twitter: @backbase

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PhotoPay Cloud Simplifies Paper, PDF Bill Payment on Mobile Devices

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, PhotoPay

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Our next presenter is the team from PhotoPay, debuting PhotoPay Cloud:

“Send any kind of payment related document from your mobile device to PhotoPay Cloud service and it will automatically extract necessary payment data for very simple, one tap payment experience. PhotoPay Cloud will handle any type of bill or invoice customers can receive – photo of a paper bill, PDF document and other types of electronic documents.
“Besides simple payment, PhotoPay Cloud can archive documents for users and provide banks with a deeper understanding of customer financial behavior.
PhotoPay Cloud service can be integrated as a mobile banking feature or as a stand-along product. It can be used as a private, on premises installation or through a secure cloud API.”
Presenting Damir Sobol (Founder & CEO) and Jurica Cerovec (Lead Engineer)

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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: Self-financed, 8 employees, 8 bank customers in 5 countries
Product distribution strategy: Private cloud setup or secure cloud API, direct licensing, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Zagreb, Croatia
Founded: April 2013
Website: photopay.net
Twitter: @photopay

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SecureSafe Emphasizes Connectivity, Security in Cloud Storage

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, SecureSafe

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Our next presenter is the team from SecureSafe, demoing their Swiss online storage that is as safe as a bank vault.

“The financial services ecosystem suffers from the fact that each service provider has its own portal through which data is delivered in a 1:1 fashion. SecureSafe presents a platform that connects banks, EAA, POA, FIM, SNE customers, and private customers. Documents can be sent from banks to professional partners such as EAA, which then can be shared with the assigned end customers. 
Metadata that is passed together with the documents allows for an improved experience and processing on all levels. Professional teams can seamlessly and securely work together with the high-privacy platform run in Switzerland.”
Presenting Tobias Christen (CEO and Co-Founder) and Tim Kahrmann (Head of Marketing)

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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: 500,000 registered users, 10 full time employees
Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Founded: January 2008
Twitter: @SecureSafe

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Dynamics Launches Its Open Loop and Closed Loop Cards

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Dynamics, FinovateEurope 2014
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Second up at this session, Dynamics launched its new hardware and software technology, Open Loop and Closed Loop:
Its new technology eradicates credit interchange for merchants while increasing interchange revenue for FIs. End customers can earn rewards by making regular purchases. Can run network and non-network contactless payments.
The new cards have increased security by embedding the EMV chips into the card.
Presenting Jeff Mullen (CEO) and George Schmelzel (Chief Payments Officer) 
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Product Launch: February 2014
HQ: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Founded: November 2007
Twitter: @dynamicsinc

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CRIF Debuts its Mobile Lending Platform that Adapts to Any Business, Regulation, or Country Requirement

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: CRIF, FinovateEurope 2014
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Starting off the second session today, CRIF showed how its mobile lending platform can keep institutions compliant:
“CRIF’s innovation combines lending via mobile devices with agile, business user-friendly technology to ensure business KPIs are met during the sales phase of the lending process. The demo shows new releases of CRIF Credit Framework’s technology, which is a Smart Process Application platform built specifically for the credit and lending space that is extremely adaptable to any business, compliance regulation, and country requirement. 
It consists of modular decision management, process management, and business intelligence products used to develop smart, dynamic applications for credit, risk management, and lending. Flexibility along with control and analytical features allow our customers to be faster, better, and more efficient.”
Presenting Aldo Bruschi (VP Global Decisioning Bus. Dev. & Delivery), Sheila Donohue (Product Marketing Manager), and Gabriele Graziani (Application Analyst) 

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Product Launch: Q1 2014
Metrics: $380 revenue (FY 2012), 1,500 employees, customers in 43 countries, credit bureau solutions in 15 countries, over 30M credit applications and collection cases processed in the cloud, lending and decision management solutions in 22 countries
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Bologna, Italy
Founded: 1988
Website: crif.com 

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EZBOB Debuts its New Proprietary Business Lending Platform

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Categories: EZBOB, FinovateEurope 2014

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Making their way to the stage now is EZBOB, a web-based, fully-automated lending platform for SMEs.

“EZBOB’s lending platform was initially designed to provide an automated funding solution for online retailers, such as people operating online shops on eBay, Amazon, or those using PayPal.
“At Finovate EZBOB is launching their new proprietary platform (EZ10.1), which allows for any of the 5 million SMEs in the UK to apply online in minutes and find out how much funding is available to them.
“Now, all business applicants will enjoy EZBOB’s USP, which is a short online application with an automated lending decision and instant funding of up to 50,000 pounds.”

Presenting Nimrod Kaplan (COO) and Tomer Guriel (CEO & Co-Founder)

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Product Launch: February 11, 2014

Metrics: £6 million raised, 15 employees
Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: London, UK
Founded: November 2011
Website: ezbob.com

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Fiserv Debuts New Version of Its Mobile & Tablet Banking Platform, Mobiliti

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Fiserv
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Next, Fiserv showed off what is new on its Mobiliti mobile and tablet banking platform:
“We are demonstrating the next version of Mobiliti – our flagship mobile and tablet banking platform, with a focus on its completeness, intuitive design and disruptive capabilities.”
Presenting Jonathan Atkinson (Solution Consultant, Digital Channels) and Denis Zelenskiy (Sales Executive, Digital Channels)

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Product Launch: 2014
Metrics: More than $4.5B in revenue from digital banking and payments.  The world’s leading provider of online, tablet and mobile banking solutions, and white-labeled bill presentment, payment and P2P solutions.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), reaching consumers through financial institutions (licensed or SaaS)
HQ: Brookfield, WI, USA
Founded: 1984
Website: fiserv.com
Twitter: @Fiserv

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