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ITSector’s SmartBank TV Offers a Different Way to Access Your Financial Services and Information

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, ITSector

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

Then, ITSector (Sistemas de Informação)

launched SmartBank TV:

“SmartBank TV is a product that offers financial services based on the Google TV platform. It is intended to use the global widespread of sales in smart TVs.

The solution offers a channel for bank customers to access financial services from their TV. The solution offers a different way to receive notifications from their financial provider on the TV, and to access financial services, such as account balance, movements, credit cards and services payments from the TV. It provides a new sales channel for the financial institution with easy process of sale.”

Product Launched: February 2013

HQ: Porto, Portugal with offices in Lisbon (Portugal), Luanda (Angola) and Maputo (Mozambique)

Founded: April 2005

Metrics: €9M in 2012 revenues, 200 employees in 2012

Website: itsector.pt

Presenting João Lima Pinto (Director) and Ricardo Osorio (Senior Software Developer)

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Metaforic’s New Solution Protects Mobile Apps from Unauthorized Changes in Code

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, Metaforic

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

Then, Metaforic showcased its security technology that protects mobile apps from unauthorized code changes:

“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.”

Product Launch: FinovateEurope 2013

HQ: Glasgow, Scotland

Founded: 2006

Metrics: Metaforic is a 35-person company that has raised over $12M, primarily from VC groups such as SEP, Pentech and the Scottish Government.

Website: metaforic.com

Twitter: @MetaforicLtd

Presenting Douglas Kinloch (VP Business Development) and Ewan Dennis (Sr. Engineer)

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Mistral Mobile Unveils Mobile Front-End Building Solution

By David Penn Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, Mistral Mobile

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

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 services

system 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.”

Product Launched: February 2013

HQ Location: New York, NY, USA

Company Founded: June 2012

Website: mistralmobile.com

Twitter: @MistralMobile

Presenting Peter Ollikainen (SVP Product Marketing) and Timo Tervo (CTO)

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Third Generation ayondo Underscores the Benefits of Social Trading

By David Penn Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: ayondo, FinovateEurope 2013

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

Starting off our final session here on Day Two of FinovateEurope is ayondo. Ayondo is bringing social trading to a new level of usability, social interaction and guidance from top traders.

“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.”

Product Launched: January 2012

HQ Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Company Founded: 2008

Metrics: 12 employees; 3.2 million raised to date

Website: ayondo.com

Twitter: @ayondo_uk

Presenting Manuel Heyden (CEO & Founder) and Alexander Surminski (CMO)

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Kalypton Launches Tereon Payment System

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, Kalypton

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

Then, Kalypton debuted its 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.”

Product Launch: February 2013

HQ: London, UK

Founded: 2006

Metrics: Self-funded to date. Still small with <10 staff

Website: kalypton.com

Presenting Lars Davies (CEO) and Alun Thomas (Head of Business Development)

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eyeOpen Debuts Digital Mortgage Advisor

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: eyeOpen, FinovateEurope 2013

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

Afterwards, eyeOpen launched its 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.”

Product Launch: February 11, 2013

HQ: Amsterdam, The Netherlands & San Francisco, CA, USA

Founded: December 24, 2009

Metrics: eyeOpen raised €10M funding to scale up its European activities. The company serves the European markets from its Amsterdam office with 35 employees. eyeOpen serves the U.S. market from its San Francisco office. The website eyeOpen.nl is the Netherlands’ leading independent financial portal serving over 1M customers last year. On the B2B side the company licenses its technology platforms on digital advise, ratings, reviews and budgeting apps.

Website: eyeOpen.nl

Presenting Diederick van Thiel (CEO) and Rosali Waleson (CCO)

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TraitWareID from Acuity Systems Provides Authentication Solution

By David Penn Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: Acuity Systems, FinovateEurope 2013

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

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

HQ Location: Visalia, California, USA

Company Founded: July 2008

Metrics: $3.5 million raised to date; two full-time employees; pre-revenue

Website: traitwareid.com

Twitter: @TraitWareID

Presenting Harlan Hutson (President) and Chris Canfield (Lead Project Engineer)

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Biletu App Brings Event Planning and Expense Sharing to the Smartphone

By David Penn Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: Biletu, FinovateEurope 2013

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

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.”

Product Launched: April 2012

HQ Location: Tallinn, Estonia

Company Founded: January 2012

Metrics: $120,000 USD; 2 employees

Website: biletu.com

Twitter: @biletu

Presenting Felipe Millan (Founder)

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Five Degrees Introduces Matrix, a Web-Based Mid-Office Portal

By David Penn Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, Five Degrees

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

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

HQ Location: Breukelen, Netherlands

Company Founded: July 2009

Metrics: 2012 Revenue: 3.3 million euros; 40 full-time employees; 5 million euros in capital raised

Website: fivedegrees.nl

Presenting Martijn Hohmann (CEO) and Bjorn Holmthorsson (CTO)

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QuantConnect Presents a Cloud-Powered Stock Market Simulator

By David Penn Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, QuantConnect

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

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

HQ Location: New York, NY, USA, and Santiago, Chile

Company Founded: August 2011

Metrics: Raised $60,000; 3 employees; more than 500 beta-testing engineers/users

Website: quantconnect.com

Twitter: @quantconnect

Presenting Jared Broad (Co-Founder) and Shai Rosen (Co-Founder)

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Akamai Intelligent Platform Emphasizes Reliability, Security

By David Penn Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: Akamai, FinovateEurope 2013

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

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.”

Product Launched: February 2012

HQ Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

Company Founded: August 1998

Metrics: 2011 annual revenue: $1.1 billion; 2,800 employees; Akamai has deployed the most pervasive, highly-distributed cloud optimization platform with 119,000 servers in 80 countries within more than 1,100 networks.

Website: Akamai.com

Twitter: @akamai

Presenting Rich Bolstridge (Chief Strategist, Financial Services) and Nick Coleman (Senior Solutions Manager)

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Financial Simplicity Announces New Portfolio Management Solution

By David Penn Posted on February 13, 2013
Categories: Financial Simplicity, FinovateEurope 2013

This post is a part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2013.

Our last presenter before the noon break is Financial Simplicity:

“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.”

Product Launched: February 2013

HQ Location: Sydney, NSW Australia

Company Founded: 2003

Metrics: 20 employees and advisors in Australia, the U.S., Canada, and the UK

Website: financialsimplicity.co.au

Twitter: @FinSimplicity

Presenting Stuart Holdsworth (CEO)

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