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The Currency Cloud Takes the Headache Out of Paying International Suppliers

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

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

Then, The Currency Cloud demonstrated how its XBP Connect API makes international payments easier:

“We will be showcasing the power of integrated international payments for businesses. Accounting solutions are ubiquitous in business, yet the break in the workflow when having to make international payments to suppliers is inefficient, time consuming and prone to operational risk.

Using The Currency Cloud’s XBP Connect API, the first truly effective applications that enable international payments to be managed directly from Sage and Salesforce.com are being launched at FinovateEurope 2013. The applications enable a business to initiate and manage their international payments just as they would their payments to domestic suppliers – directly from their ledger. Paying international suppliers becomes significantly easier and lower in cost and the business accounting function drastically more productive.”

Product Launch: August 2012

HQ: London, UK

Founded: March 2011

Metrics: $7.12M Series A in 2012 from 3 VCs: Notion Capital, Atlas Venture and Anthemis Group. Revenues for 2012 = $1.3M. 26 people. 100 customers/partners that enable over 250,000 corporates and consumers to benefit from our capabilities. Satellite office in Malta in Joint Venture with The Demajo Group.

Website: thecurrencycloud.com

Twitter: @currency_cloud

Presenting Michael Laven (CEO) and Nasir Zubairi (Director, Product Marketing)

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Dashlane Releases New Features to Make Online Transactions Even Easier with Integrated Rewards and Loyalty Solution

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

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

Afterwards, Dashlane showed how its new features can make online payments frictionless:

“Dashlane will demo its core technology: a cross-platform (desktop and mobile) consumer application that enables keyboard-less transactions on any site – no integration required.

In addition to being the ‘point of payment choice’ for our users, Dashlane offers financial services and ecommerce partners a privileged seat by the user during all their online transactions. We’re developing many new features to make online transactions incredibly easy and frictionless for our users.”

Product Launch: April 2012

HQ: New York, NY, USA

Founded: December 2009

Metrics: Dashlane is an NYC and Paris-based startup with 30 employees, founded in 2009. Our app launched publicly in April 2012, and is available on Mac, PC, iOS, and Android. Our users (currently in the six figures) have used Dashlane on over 250,000 websites and spent over $30M online and on mobile devices using Dashlane. We raised a $5M Series A in 2011 from Rho Ventures, FirstMark Capital & Bernard Liautaud (Founder, Business Objects & Co-Founder, Dashlane).

Website: dashlane.com

Twitter: @dashlane

Presenting Emmanuel Schalit (CEO) and Nishant Mani (VP Partnerships & Marketing)

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Fiserv’s Mobiliti Master Wallet Lets Users Choose Their Own Mobile Payment Experience

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

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

Third to the stage, Fiserv showed how its Mobiliti Master Wallet gives users control of their mobile experience:

“Mobiliti from Fiserv is the world’s most deployed mobile banking and payments platform. The Mobiliti Master Wallet enables consumers to choose which mobile payment wallets they wish to participate in and how. It retains the financial institution and its mobile banking app at the centre of the user experience for cloud-based and NFC mobile payments.”

Product Launch: 2013

HQ: Brookfield, WI, USA

Founded: 1984

Metrics: $4.34B revenue, 20,000 employees, 16,000 financial institutions as customers

Website: fiserv.com

Presenting Jonathan Atkinson (Sales Consultant, Digital Channels) and Fiona Murray (Sales Executive, Digital Channels)

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TESOBE’s Open Bank Project API Encourages Innovation and Transparency

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

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

Second up, TESOBE took the stage with its Open Bank Project (OBP) API:

“The world’s first Singing Bank! (singingbank.com) demonstrates three principles of the OBP API:

1) It encourages innovation (niche markets, interfaces, languages. etc.)

2) It supports public views on transaction data whilst preserving sensitive information

3) It results in lower barriers to entry, better security and lower cost

The OBP Transparency/Social Finance application is for organisations that want to practice wider transparency and/or generate a real time dialogue around their finances.

The OBP App Store allows vendors to showcase and consumers to find and rank apps.

The OBP Virtual Machine allows CTO’s to easily evaluate our technology.”

Product Launch: May 2012

HQ: Berlin, Germany

Founded: 2005

Website: openbankproject.com

Twitter: @tesobe

Presenting Simon Redfern (CEO & Founder) and Ismail Chaib (Project Manager)

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Xendpay Introduces Cash-to-Cash Mobile Payments

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

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

Starting off day two here at FinovateEurope is Xendpay. The COO and CEO are coming to the stage right now:

“Xendpay itself is very new. However, we will be demonstrating a new service: a cash-to-cash mobile international payment. The user will send a money transfer without a payment card or bank account using just their mobile phone from a corner shop.

Previously to do this kind of payment, the person would have to visit a Western Union (or similar) agent.

Xendpay can also send a conventional card-to-bank payment, as well.”

Product Launched: August 2012

HQ Location: London, UK

Company Founded: July 2012

Metrics: 6 employees; more than 20,000 registered users; average money transfer is £700; money sent to more than 80 countries

Website: xendpay.com

Twitter: @xendpay

Presenting Jake Holloway (COO) and Rajesh Agrawal (CEO & Chairman)

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Comarch Merges Online Banking with PFM, CRM with Investment Advisory

By David Penn Posted on February 12, 2013
Categories: Comarch, FinovateEurope 2013

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

Wrapping things up for the final session of Day One at FinovateEurope 2013 is Comarch:

“Comarch Smart Finance is an innovative system that combines functionalities of online banking and personal finance managemet into one powerful solution, making banking more personal.

It helps banks address the needs of their customers with relevant offers. Comarch Smart Finance comes with

complementing mobile applications for tablets and smartphones, offering and intuitive interface, easy access to operations, and broad functionality.

Comarch Investment Advisor is a multi-channel solution dedicated to private banking and wealth management. It combines CRM and investment advisory, and supports an optimal selection of investment, pension, and insurance products for the client.

The most important benefit is access to client financial and wealth analysis based on historical, today, and forecast records as well as client-oriented sales advice.”

Product Launched: 2012

HQ Location: Krakow, Poland

Company Founded: 1993

Metrics: 3,500 employees; more than 30 offices worldwide

Website: comarch.com

Twitter: @Comarch_Finance

Presenting Tomasz Marszał (EVP Business Development) and Grzegorz Prosowicz (Business Development Manager)

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SAGE Introduces Risk Management, Portfolio Optimization Tool

By David Penn Posted on February 12, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, SAGE SA

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

SAGE is coming to the stage now with their BlackSwan Financial Platform:

“BlackSwan Financial Platform is a risk management and portfolio optimization tool. It is addressed to investors and

relationship managers to help them make better investment decisions, but more importantly build trust with their clients. The platform allows them to visualize the risk held in a portfolio and perform what-if scenarios. Investors can intuitively understand the consequences of their decisions.

Using fat-tailed distribution and minimizing the expected tail-loss allows the system to take into account extreme events such as market crashes or other collective behavior when suggesting the most appropriate asset allocation for the client’s profile.”

Product Launched: September 2012

HQ Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Company Founded: August 1986

Metrics: 85 employees, 15M CHF 2012 sales

Website: sage.ch

Presenting Jean-Luc Freymond (CEO) and Xavier Martinot (Consultant)

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Cardlytics Organizes Your Rewards in a Facebook App

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 12, 2013
Categories: Cardlytics, FinovateEurope 2013

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

Then, Cardlytics took the stage with its Facebook app that summarizes rewards for users:

“Cardlytics’ latest innovation is a Facebook app, initially launched from an online banking session, containing a rewards summary page showing all available offers. The innovation is a working prototype with a release available to banks in Q2 2013.”

Product Launch: Q2 2013

HQ: Atlanta, GA, USA & London, UK

Founded: 2008

Metrics: The company has raised just under $60M in venture capital and has over 250 U.S. employees and over 15 U.K. employees. Cardlytics’ targeted advertising platform can reach 220M U.S. consumers and 10M U.K. consumers. Over 20% of consumers are reached through an integrated mobile solution.

Website: cardlytics.com

Twitter: @cardlytics

Presenting Jason Brooks (Managing Director) and Charles Humphrey (Commercial Director)

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BörseGo’s Guidants Platform Gives Users Access to Financial Information via Widgets

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 12, 2013
Categories: BörseGo, FinovateEurope 2013

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

Afterwards, BörseGo showcased its Guidants platform:

“Guidants is a unique html5-based platform to access any imaginable kind of financial information and calculations. Guidants comprises more than thirty small widgets the user can freely add, arrange and save on his workspace. Each such widget has one task like displaying a chart, the fundamentals of a stock, showing a video stream or giving direct access to a broker.

The user can modify each widget according to his needs (size, content, appearance) and connect single widgets with others so that they interact with each other. All widgets make use of real-time push technologies and thus live up to the heightened requirements of our information society.

Guidants is free of charge and users can subscribe to premium content and additional widgets.”

Product Launch: October 2011

HQ: München, Germany

Founded: 2000

Metrics: 70 employees, 10M revenue, working

Website: boerse-go.ag

Presenting Johannes Pfeuffer (Executive Assistant) and Christian Ehmig (CTO)

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Pockets United App Brings the Social to Mobile

By David Penn Posted on February 12, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, Pockets United

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

Following rplan to the stage is Pockets United:

“Social is the next big thing in mobile payments, yet you cannot downgrade it to a simple, on-top feature for existing PSPs nor banks. A category killer in this field must be social by design.

This means cutting-edge user experience and fund to use in day-to-day scenarios. This space is hot. Carriers see their business threatened by all-encompassing data flats, while traditional banks and credit card companies see payment shifting to mobile devices, whose users are owned by carriers.

Pockets United sits right in the center of this clashing zone, offering a helping hand to both sides.”

Product Launched: Spring 2013

HQ Location: Munich, Germany

Company Founded: May 2011

Metrics: $160,000 raised to date; winner of several awards (e.g. 50 Hottest Companies of 2011, Vienna & IKT First Prize Internet of Services, Berlin)

Website: pocketsunited.com/en

Twitter: @pocketsunited

Presenting Markus Stiefel (CEO) and Matthias Schicker (CXO)

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rplan Launches Portfolio Builder to Help Users Select Investments Based on Personal Goals and Risk Preferences

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 12, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, rplan

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

Second, rplan launched its Portfolio Builder platform that guides users through the investment process:

“Portfolio analysis aims to help investors answer three fundamental questions:

• What have I got?

• How well am I doing?

• What can I do to improve?

It shows users how much they have invested and where, but also tells them how they are doing based on risk, cost, performance, and goals. Finally, it offers in-depth analysis based on asset allocation and fund analysis, alerting users to how they can improve their portfolios.

Portfolio builder helps users create an investment portfolio based on key criteria such as goals and risk. It allows users to narrow down from 2,400 available investments to those that are applicable to them, giving them feedback on their investment decisions as they go in areas such as asset allocation and fund selection.

The key to both these features is simplicity, giving mainstream investors the knowledge, tools and confidence to manage their own investments.”

Product Launch: February 2013

HQ: London, UK

Founded: January 2011

Website: rplan.co.uk

Twitter: @rplanme

Presenting Andy Creak (CEO) and Nick Curry (CPO)

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Kabbage Brings its Small Business Lending Platform Across the Pond to the U.K.

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 12, 2013
Categories: FinovateEurope 2013, Kabbage

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

First up for the final session of the day, Kabbage demonstrated how U.K. businesses can receive funding on its platform:

“Kabbage has launched its services in the UK at uk.kabbage.com. Now small businesses in the UK can link their eBay and PayPal accounts to Kabbage’s platform and receive funding in minutes!”

Product Launch: February 2013

HQ: Atlanta, GA, USA

Founded: February 2009

Metrics: Raised $56M in equity to date. Approximately 80 employees in two offices. Approximately 10,000 qualified accounts.

Website: kabbage.com

Twitter: @kabbageinc

Presenting Robert Frohwein (CEO) and Kathryn Petralia (COO)

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