“We have a product that protects mobile applications from unauthorized changes and subversion of the existing code. In effect, by using our solution, the financial institution has control over what the application does if it is compromised. It can quit, display a message, send a silent security alert to bank servers or any other behavior the developer cares to define.
Critically, for financial institutions that have a lot of mobile developments underway, it can be integrated with existing developments at the end of the software development lifecycle, and it is an automatic process not requiring significant developer time or security expertise.”
Mistral Mobile Unveils Mobile Front-End Building Solution
Representatives of Mistral Mobile are on their way to the stage now. The company will be demoing their Money Mobility Suite:
“Money Mobility Suite is the focal point of building a comprehensive mobile front-end for any financial service.Suite integrates to any financial servicessystem such as core banking systems, payment processing systems, or a stored value account system and provides fully secure communication between the system and the Money Mobility applications in the handsets.
Suite provides fast time to market to deliver mobilization for various types of financial services. Most importantly, it provides remote management and configuration capabilities for all the applications through a single configuration management center and enables the financial service provider to instantly add or change features available for the users of the different financial services products.”
Third Generation ayondo Underscores the Benefits of Social Trading
“The best traders. Now on your account. The idea is temptingly simple: Why should we make trades ourselves if we can get the best day traders on our accounts automatically?Doing away with fees such as issue surcharges, transaction costs, and management and deposit commission? Build your own portfolio of top traders and change them as often as you like – for free.”
Kalypton Launches Tereon Payment System
“Tereon was developed for, and proven at scale by, an African bank.Tereon is a complete payment ecosystem that can use EMV, operate a closed loop, or support interoperability. It provides flexible instruction processing, and can use existing core systems and settlement processes, for a secure, end-to-end, business process.It provides payment service providers with a powerful toolkit for rapid innovation to create stream-of-payment services.All Tereon services meet stringent standards for regulatory compliance and security. We will demonstrate a four-party deployment, supporting payments from phone to phone, phone to card terminal, card to terminal and online.”
eyeOpen Debuts Digital Mortgage Advisor
“eyeOpen launches world’s first digital mortgage advisor. In an age when banks and insurers strive for consumers’ trust, digital leadership and true customer centricity are the weapons of this service.
The personal advice algorithms are ‘the crème de la crème’ of personal mortgage advice. eyeOpen offers its service as a SaaS-solution to banks, insurers and advisor companies in Europe and the United States. The benefit: extreme cost reductions, smarter targeting and incredible NPS-improvements.”
TraitWareID from Acuity Systems Provides Authentication Solution
Next up is Acuity Systems with their demonstration of TraitWareID:
“TraitWareID simplifies and secures access to protected websites and applications by employing the user’s mobile device as a login token, eliminating the use of inconvenient and problematic usernames and passwords.
TraitWareID does this with patent-pending technology, which begins with user authentication, then binds the user’s identity to their device. TraitWareID utilizes digital identity mapping to analyze the user-created content of the authentication device.
Adding the patent-pending, user friendly, PhotoAuth image-based activation method to TraitWareID will enhance the security and user experience for transactions of all types on an end user’s device.”
Product Launched: October 2012
Biletu App Brings Event Planning and Expense Sharing to the Smartphone
With a new way to organize events and share expenses with friends, Biletu is the next company to take the stage here at FinovateEurope:
“Biletu is an all-in-one, state-of-the-art app to join together events, chat, gamification, mobile payments, and social networks in a simple way. Biletu is a new, simple way to allow users to connect and for companies to engage innovatively with targeted users.”
Five Degrees Introduces Matrix, a Web-Based Mid-Office Portal
Five Degrees is on its way to the stage right now. The company will be introducing Matrix, its banking services hub:
“Watch a fully-automated model bank with unparalleled self-service (on-boarding) that gives both customer and bank imminent insight and control in the process. Through the web-based, mid-office portal we offer the enormous potential of business benefits in terms of efficiency in adapting new businesses processes on the go.
As the market demands today, our open services hub integrates with external services like KYC checks, passport validation, PFM, etc. Come and view the fast and instant response for the next banking generation: rapid deployment, rich customer experience, instant and transparent insight for banks and clients alike.”
Product Launched: Q2 2013
QuantConnect Presents a Cloud-Powered Stock Market Simulator
Next to the stage is QuantConnect with its stock market simulator and backtesting solution:
“QuantConnect gives engineers free access to a stock market backtester with high-resolution data for designing trading algorithms. Engineers can design strategies and have them distributed to working capital.’
‘We are demonstrating our cloud-powered backtester, capable of simulating years of stock data in minutes. Users can design strategies in C# IDE, compile them online, and run them across 14 years of tick data (up to 8 TB data).”
Product Launched: February 2013
Akamai Intelligent Platform Emphasizes Reliability, Security
Representatives from Akamai Technologies are making their way to the stage in our first presentation after the noon break:
“Akamai is a leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, platform, anywhere.At the core of the company’s solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform, providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility, and expertise.
Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud.”
Financial Simplicity Announces New Portfolio Management Solution
“Financial Simplicity offers a highly efficient capability to manage large numbers of individually tailored investment portfolios (in the thousands or tens of thousands). It will ensure that clients can offer highly customized propositions to their customers, while maintaining a high degree of centralized control over access, data, and business work flows.
Using systematically programmed processing and advanced algorithmic engines, Financial Simplicity negates the need for many time-intensive workflows and workarounds to manage data effectively. Financial Simplicity’s innovations have enhanced significantly the efficiency with which relevant portfolios can be delivered to investors.”
ERN Launches Looop, a Transaction Analytics Engine
“Looop is a unique, big data technology platform that brings together card payment and merchant data in real time to create value from every single transaction.It provides transactional payment data analytics, insights, integrated and intelligent mCoupons, eReceipts and campaign management and tracking. All delivered through a smart phone app and cloud-based solution, to ensure rapid and secure global deployment across multiple jurisdictions.”