ETRONIKA Debuts BANKTRON Multi-Channel Partnership Ecosystem

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ETRONIKA, FinovateEurope 2014
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

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Then, ETRONIKA demonstrated its multi-channel partnership ecosystem within BANKTRON:
“BANKTRON introduces a brand new approach to the customer. By combining banking and partners, data analysis, personalization, loyalty, and even fraud prevention, we have laid a whole new ground for better customer interaction and value added product offering. BANKTRON enables the bank to provide personalized, tailored services to the customer via multiple channels, much attention drawn to the mobile. 
Our flagship product BANKTRON is enriched with data analysis, fraud prevention engines, and a customer loyalty platform, which increases customer engagement and eases the determination of a full customer’s profile based on behavioral patterns. Providing tailored marketing campaigns and enhancing fraud prevention – a way to retain a satisfied customer.”
Presenting Kęstutis Gardžiulis (CEO) and Asta Sabaitė (Head of Marketing) 

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Product Launch: Q2 2014
Metrics: 70 employees, self funded
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Vilnius, Lithuania
Founded: 2000
Website: etronika.com  
Twitter: @EtronikaTweets

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Kown’s New Platform Matches People with Investing Opportunities Based on Their Interests

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Kown
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Kown launched its platform that matches people with relevant investing opportunities:
“Kown provides an alternative for the traditional savings account. We match people with investing opportunities based on their interests, risk-graph and investment focus.”
Presenting Alexander Dresen (CEO) and Ilya Rudometov (CTO)

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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: 4,100 users of which 900 are accredited investors
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: London, UK
Founded: June 2013
Website: kown.co
Twitter: @kownco

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CurrencyTransfer Launches its FX Price Feed Aggregator for SMEs

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Categories: CurrencyTransfer, FinovateEurope 2014

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This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2014.

Our next innovator is CurrencyTransfer, developer of technologies to make it easier for small and medium sized businesses to operate internationally.

“FX price feed aggregator and execution platform that takes the technology blue chip treasurers take for granted, and makes it accessible to the masses. We offer a price feed aggregation solution to problems SMEs trading internationally face, including: outdated phone based comparison, experiencing ‘honeymoon rates’ & dreadfully expensive bank foreign exchange rates. 
Our goal is to create efficiency & total price transparency in an expensive, and opaque international money transfer industry. Version 1 features include: bidding platform, trade execution, multi broker registration & post trade history.”
Presenting Daniel Abrahams (Co-Founder & Head of Partnerships) and Steven Litobac (Co-Founder & Head of Product)

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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: Public launch of CurrencyTransfer.com at Finovate, office in London & Tel Aviv; 7 employees
HQ: London, UK
Founded: December 2013
Twitter: @currencytransfr

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SaaS Markets Helps FIs Build, Brand and Launch Their Own App Stores

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, SaaS Markets

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Making their way to the stage is the team from SaaS Markets with their Enterprise Cloud Marketplace Platform for financial companies.

“Saas Markets’ MarketMaker platform allows financial companies to deploy a fully branded cloud marketplace containing proprietary apps and/or selected software from our catalog of over 1,500+ pre-qualified business applications, plus other cloud products and services – all in one convenient marketplace for your employees or business customers.”
Presenting Ferdi Roberts (CEO & Founder) and Jay Manciocchi (Director of Marketing)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Metrics: $3.5 million private funding, 20+ employees in USA and Europe, confidential revenues, but fully profitable.
Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
HQ: San Mateo, CA, USA
Founded: November 2011
Twitter: @SaaSMarkets

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Nous.net’s Spark Feed Leverages Trading Intuition Rather Than Software Algorithms

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Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Nous.net

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Next up to the stage is Nous.net, a company that operates a next generation, free trading simulator

“Nous ‘Spark Feed’ is a real-time financial data service that helps you understand and predict the markets. Uniquely, Spark Feed uses the intuitive and analytical capabilities of tens of thousands of real people, not software algorithms. Their predictions are segmented by proven trading skill and then quantitatively blended.”
Presenting Justin Short (CEO & Founder) and Mick Horgan (Co-Founder)

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Product Launch: February 11, 2014
Metrics: Self-funded, pre-revenue, pre-launch; 5 FTE; 15,000 users (January 2013)
Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Tokyo, Japan (Operations), British Virgin Islands (Legal)
Founded: September 2012
Website: nous.net
Twitter: @nousinc

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Recently partnered Jack Henry & Associates and Luminous Demo DataVault

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Jack Henry, Luminous
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Luminous, along with its partner Jack Henry & Associates, started off the second day of FinovateEurope with its DataVault:
“DataVault is a virtual safety deposit box that allows banking customers to upload, sort, and store personal and business documents in one secure place. Now customers can bank online with important documents just a click away.”
Presenting Phillip Wood (Sales EMEA, Jack Henry & Associates) and Andrew Teversham (CTO, Luminous) 

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Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions
HQ: Monett, Missouri, USA (Jack Henry & Associates) & Johannesburg, South Africa (Luminous)
Founded: 1976 (Jack Henry & Associates) & 2009 (Luminous)
Product Launch: November 2013
Twitter: @ProfitStars, @LuminousBanking

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The Currency Cloud Revamps International Payments Platform

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, The Currency Cloud
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The Currency Cloud took the stage to finish off the first day of FinovateEurope 2014:
“This release will provide our clients access to an easy-to-use web console. Cross-border transactions tend to be expensive and inefficient (i.e., error prone) as the majority are executed through some type of manual process. While a variety of alternative international payment providers claim to offer relief, their services have limitations that often leave companies encountering the same issues of high costs, inadequate automation and deceptive pricing. We think global businesses deserve better, and have developed an entirely new model for international payments.”
Presenting Michael Laven (CEO) and Richard Bastin (CTO)

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Product Launch: April 2014
Metrics: 
• Current number of employees: 42
• Money raised: $8M as of December 2013 – next round imminent. 
• Financial Data: transaction run rate is approximately $4B per calendar month and is projected to double every five to six months. Revenue run rate is currently $4.4M.
• Customer Traction: we have on-boarded over 50 new direct clients with over 1,000 indirect customers since January 2013.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: London, England
Founded: January 2012
Twitter: @Currency_Cloud

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SQLI Launches Augmented Banking

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, SQLI
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Next, SQLI launched Augmented Banking:
“Augmented Banking is a new take at Online Banking. It is aimed at positioning a Bank at the very center of people’s digital lives. 
The core concept behind Augmented Banking is to collect a massive amount of information about a user’s digital life from multiple sources and to push it back to him as a visualization of his financial behavior.”
Presenting Benjamin Thomas (Innovation Manager) and Mederic Morel (Head of Consulting Services) 

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Product Launch: February 2013
Metrics: 2,000 employees
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, licensed
HQ: Saint Denis, France
Founded: 1990
Website: sqli.com
Twitter: @Groupe_SQLI

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Kensho Debuts Warren to Help Institutions Perform Quantitative Analyses

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Kensho
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Then, Kensho debuted Warren, its technology that aids institutions in quantitative research: 
“Warren is a user friendly, interactive research environment that enables portfolio managers and researchers to quickly and easily perform sophisticated quantitative analyses in a fraction of the time spent by institutional research teams today.
Kensho designed Warren to shorten traditional investment research cycles from days to minutes. Warren can currently answer a million distinct types of natural language questions about the impact of global events on asset prices, such as, “What happens to the share prices of energy companies when oil trades above $100 a barrel and political unrest has recently occurred in the Middle East?” Warren will be able to answer 100 million distinct types of complex financial questions by the end of 2014.”
Presenting Daniel Nadler (CEO) and Adam Broun (Head of Strategy & Bus. Dev.)

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Product Launch: February 2014
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Cambridge, MA, USA
Founded: May 2013
Website: kensho.com
Twitter: @kensho

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Encap Security’s Smarter Authentication Turns Personal Devices into Security Credentials

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Categories: Encap, FinovateEurope 2014

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From Oslo, Norway, Encap Security is next, demoing their software-based, authentication solution.

“Smarter Authentication is the world’s only software-based, banking-grade, authentication technology that doesn’t compromise between security, user experience and utility.”

Presenting Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen (CEO) and Adam Dolby (VP Bus. Dev.)

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Product Launch: November 1, 2012
Metrics: People – Based in Oslo and Palo Alto, Encap Security’s management team has more than 60 years’ experience and an unrivaled pedigree in authentication, identity management, mobile app security and mobile financial services. Finance – Following a recent funding round, the total investment in Encap Security stands at €4.8 million. Market Traction – Encap Security’s solution is used by major financial institutions, enterprises and technology integrators including Santander Consumer Bank Norway, EnterCard and Sparebanken Vest. Encap Security’s technology is approved by the Norweigian Banks’ Standardisation Office and security experts Room66.
Product distribution strategy: Indirect through System Integrators and Service Providers, Direct to Business (B2B), and through financial institutions/tech companies and licensed platforms.
HQ: Oslo, Norway
Founded: 2007
Twitter: @encapsecurity

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Nostrum Launches its Virtual Collector, An Automated Lending Platform

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Nostrum Group
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Then, Nostrum took the stage to debut its Virtual Collector:
“Nostrum’s mission is to provide a fully automated lending platform, enabling lending to be performed cheaper, faster and safer.
Whilst innovation in certain sectors of the lending industry have addressed the auto approval of applications and now provide loan funds rapidly, no business has adequately considered how delinquency management activity can be redesigned to ease the customer experience and reduce the risk of compliance failure. The functionality demonstrated will replace the traditional call centre operator who manages in and outbound calls to customers to discuss their delinquent payments and either takes a payment or puts an arrangement in place.”
Presenting Richard Carter (Chief Executive) and Tom Martin (Head of PMO)

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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: Self funded, 65 employees, £7M+ revenues, 20+ customers
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Harrogate, United Kingdom
Founded: August 2001
Twitter: @nostrumgroup

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Switchless’ Solution Helps Banks Enable Users to Buy, Sell, Save, and Spend Bitcoin

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2014, Switchless
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Afterwards, Switchless launched its solution that helps financial institutions enable their users to buy, sell, save, and spend bitcoin:
“Our proprietary modular enterprise software allows for partial or full integration into existing financial infrastructures, giving financial institutions maximum flexibility for the unique and complex requirements they face. The following modules are currently available:
Broker: Allows end users to buy and sell Bitcoin using traditional currencies. Our broker algorithm searches for the best pricing globally and offers instant and reliable execution.
Vault: Allows end users to store their Bitcoin securely. Our state-of-the-art cold storage system makes use of multi-level security that substantially increases overall security whilst still delivering a frictionless end-user experience.
Merchant: Allows merchants to accept Bitcoin as payment for goods or services, guaranteeing conversion of Bitcoin to traditional currencies at competitive rates. Full integration also means that end users can easily spend the Bitcoin they have purchased.
Controller: Manages the account level end-user environment. It controls interactions with existing banking infrastructure such as online banking and KYC verification, the Broker, Vault and any other Switchless or external modules.
Our extensive range of exchange, payment and storage modules give financial institutions the unique ability to implement entire crypto-currency ecosystems for their clients.
At FinovateEurope we are showcasing a full implementation of our software for a banking client. This solution allows the bank’s customers to buy, sell, save and spend Bitcoin, all in one easy to use and integrated platform.”
Presenting Marcus Swanepoel (Co-Founder) and Timothy Stranex (Co-Founder)
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Product Launch: January 2014
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Singapore
Founded: June 2013
Twitter: @goswitchless

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