BlueKite’s Platform Helps Users Pay Utility Bills for Loved Ones Overseas

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.Next, BlueKite demonstrated how its users can pay bills for family and friends living across borders:"BlueKite's real time bill payment platform is currently offered at affiliated Money Stores via a proprietary web portal (with our mobile application to be unveiled shortly) and is the perfect complement to traditional cash remittances.Customers (typically "unbanked" immigrants) make billing enquiries and pay outstanding utility bills from U.S.-based stores for loved ones overseas. Immigrants gain visibility and control over the money they send home while relieving family members from the hassles associated with paying bills locally. BlueKite enables money stores to generate additional revenues and aids utility companies in reducing bad accounts and the administrative load of chasing receivables."Presenting Benny Hammond (Business Development Manager, US & Central America) and Toby Kennett (Head of Business Development, Asia)Product Launch: April 2012Metrics: BlueKite raised $1.5M seed funding through Peoplefund, closed a…

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BRIDGEi2i’s Cloud-Based Analysis Platform Brings Banks Insight Into Consumer Needs

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.BRIDGEi2i demonstrated how its Surveyi2i product can derive insight into the customer experience:"Surveyi2i is a cloud-based one-stop shop for all analysis and reporting needs from survey data. Surveyi2i enhances productivity for analysts and researchers. Business managers can derive insights quickly without help from data scientists. Surveyi2i enables financial institutions to very easily implement data-driven customer and employee engagement strategies by understanding customer needs and experiences better at negligible costs."Presenting Prithvijit Roy (CEO & Co-Founder) and Pritam Kanti Paul (Director & Co-Founder)Product Launch: August 2013Metrics: 35 member organization working with 10+ enterprises globally in Financial Services, Insurance and Technology. Surveyi2i has around 80 registered users and 2 paid clients since launch. BRIDGEi2i has around 2,000 website visits per month with 10,000 page views and 1,000+ followers in social media. BRIDGEi2i has featured among the top 10 analytics and big data start-ups in…

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Welcomer from White Label Personal Clouds Helps You Move Personal Data from Website to Website Securely

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.Making their way to the stage next is the team from White Label Personal Clouds."WLPC's first product is Welcomer. Welcomer will initially be focused toward ecommerce sites and the technology is intended across a range of different segments. Welcomer removes the need for websites to have user codes/passwords to identify returning customers. Websites that deploy Welcomer can - with the person's permission - allow the person to move personal data securely between websites. This includes personal details such as name and address, preferences such as clothing size or preferred seat and also a person's cards and accounts."Presenting Rory Ford (Product Manager) Product Launch: Finovate 2013Metrics: $1M, 5 employeesProduct distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, and through other fin tech companies and platforms.HQ: Canberra, ACT, AustraliaFounded: June 2013Website: wlpc.com.au

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App Annie Showcases Mobile App Analytics Capability with Three Products: Store Stats, Analytics, and Intelligence

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.Next, App Annie stepped up to demo:"The App Annie suite consists of three main products - Store Stats, Analytics, and Intelligence. App Annie Store Stats is a free online service that has become the standard for app ranking analysis in the industry. It provides a range of charts visualizing on historical rankings, daily rankings, ratings, and featured placements broken down by countries and categories. App Annie Analytics offers the ultimate sales analytics dashboard for app publishers that is easy-to-use and packed full of features. It allows publishers to track their app downloads, revenues, rankings, and reviews across multiple platforms in one safe place. And App Annie gives publishers the tools to access that data via web dashboard, daily email reports, export function, and API.  App Annie Intelligence is our premium offering for those that need advanced market intelligence about the global app economy.…

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With ARTHOS, ArthaYantra Puts a CFO in its Web-Based PFM Solution

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.Making their way to the stage now is ArthaYantra with their online personal finance solution, ARTHOS."Arthos is a user-friendly web based personal finance platform, which provides actionable advice instantly. It replaces the need of a traditional human advisor who has to spend days to create customized and quality advice for a family. Arthos uses patented algorithms, processes, and the proprietary system of PFLM to cover all aspects of personal finance. One can create a financial plan, implement recommendations, and monitor performance on a single online platform. Arthos can provide advice to individuals who can save as little as $100 a month."Presenting Nitan Vyakaranam (CEO & Founder) and Sunil Lingareddy (CFO & Co-Founder)Product Launch: November 2012Metrics: $0.5M funding through seed capital; 15,000+ registered families from over 500 cities (India & abroad); largest online financial advisor in India in less than 8…

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TSYS Authorization Controls Enable User-Defined Spend Limits, Alerts

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.All the way from Columbus, Georgia, here is TSYS with their Authorization Controls solution."TSYS Authorization Controls allows a user to set their own default account parameters and authorization rules (for example, user-determined spend limits, daily, weekly, and monthly - category permissions or exclusions). TSYS Authorization Controls also allows for user definable authorization actions, including Alert, Decline, and Pre-Authorize, that enable a user to determine what happens throughout a transaction attempt."Presenting Paul Bridgewater (Group Executive, Global Product Group) and Chris Colson (Innovation Director)Product Launch: Q1, 2014Metrics: $1.8B in annual revenue; 8,000+ employees worldwideProduct distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B) & through financial institutionsHQ: Columbus, Georgia, USAFounded: August 1983Website: tsys.comTwitter: @TSYS_TSS

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CustomerXPs Debuts its Paperless Branch Banking

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.Next, CustomerXPs debuted its Paperless Branch Banking solution:"Our innovative Paperless Branch Banking solution works on mobiles, tablets and PCs and aims to revolutionize the way branch banking is conducted. This solution ensures that the branch is able to process customers faster and with minimum errors thus ensuring higher employee productivity and customer satisfaction - at the same time increasing the customer engagement and obviating the need for paper trail in the branch."Presenting Rivi Varghese (CEO) and Balaji Suryanarayana (COO)Product Launch: November 2013Metrics: CustomerXPs is a 7 year old enterprise software products company. A Gartner Cool Vendor for 2012 and winner of the Red Herring Asia 100 award. We have about 90 million end customers through our customer banks.Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms licensingHQ: Bangalore, IndiaFounded: December 2006Website: customerxps.com Twitter: @customerxps

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TIBCO Launches Solution That Gives Context to Payments

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.Next, TIBCO debuted its solution that helps banks and merchants unlock unstructured and big data:"In this age of digital privacy there is an increased need to share temporary "in the moment" payment context. Ad-hoc digital encounters are the next forefront of a massive volume of micro transactions. Imagine a customer making a payment at a restaurant once the waiter "flicks over" the menu context to the customer, without the customer ever having to reveal any long-term impacting sensitive financial information. Once the "payment context" is over, no digital "remnants" remain. A total freedom of contextual interactions, not just payments, opens up a variety of digital services avenues for banks, their merchants, and customers. The massive volume of data transactions enables new analytical insight to both merchants and the banks, giving banks and merchants new perspectives into consumer behaviour through unstructured and…

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Mobexo Presents its Mobile Payment System Providing Instantaneous and Secure Fund Transfer

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.The team from Mobexo is making their way to the stage right now."Mobexo seamlessly connects businesses and their customers. The Mobexo mobile payment application allows business owners to create customized and targeted promotional campaigns via the Merchant Portal to reach their customers when they want to and how they want to. Personal Mobexo users then have the ability to apply these offers when they pay using the application. Every time a user checks out using Mobexo, it will notify them when they have offers to apply to their payments. In this way, Mobexo is a tool that enlivens the connection between consumers and businesses."Presenting Sopheap Lao (CEO) and Jean-Marc Ly (Communications Manager)Product Launch: February 2012Metrics: $1.8M USD raised to date, 60+ person team in 3 countries (Hong Kong, China, and Vietnam)Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C) & Direct to Business…

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Luminous Debuts its Virtual Safety Deposit Box, Data Vault

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.Then, Luminous debuted how its Data Vault can increase page visits from customers:"DataVault is an electronic 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 Andrew Teversham (CTO) and Warren Bond (CEO)Product Launch: 2013Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutionsHQ: Johannesburg, South AfricaFounded: 2009Website: luminousbanking.comTwitter: @luminousbanking

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Mambu Takes a Cloud-First Approach to Running End-to-End Operations for Banks

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.Our next presenter is Mambu:"Mambu is a native cloud SaaS banking application. Built entirely for the web with a 'cloud-first' approach, our product runs the end-to-end operations that a bank needs, from loan and deposit product creation and servicing, to client relationship management and reporting. It does this entirely online and with a business and delivery model that allows any financial institution of any size to rapidly access state-of-the-art banking technology in the cloud, at a fraction of the cost and time of a traditional core banking solution."Presenting David Hamilton (President) and Eugene Danilkis (CEO & Co-Founder)Product Launch: May 2011Metrics: Since 2011, we've raised nearly $3M in venture funding. We have offices in Berlin, Iasi, London, Geneva and will be establishing offices in Manila and San Jose (Costa Rica) in the next 12 months. By the end of 2013, we…

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GMC Software Technology Debuts Inspire Research Portal for Investors to Streamline the Wealth Management Process

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.Coming to the stage for the first of two separate presentations here at FinovateAsia is GMC Software Technology."GMC Software Technology is proposing Inspire Research Portal for Investors. Wealth management groups, investment companies and banks have their own team of market researchers who would study the markets and provide their findings to investors on what they could do to secure or enhance their investments. But the current process is too manual and prone to errors. GMC Software Technology has researched and identified that there is a need to streamline this process, as there is no centralized platform or a total solution which could fulfill all these requirements."Presenting Matthias Kraaz (Technical Director, APAC) and Kelvin Huang (Assistant Manager, Professional Services)Product Launch: November 14, 2013Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)HQ: Appenzell, SwitzerlandFounded: 1994Website: gmc.netTwitter: @gmc_net

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