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To help you prepare for FinovateEurope 2014, our fourth Finovate event in London, we’ve compiled a small taste of what the companies will demo over the course of February 11 and 12. To see each company demo live, get your ticket here.
Below, you’ll find a preview of the next 6 companies in our series. If you missed the first 2 posts, check out:
The Currency Cloud provides a transparent online service powering international payments firms. It enables businesses to move money around the world easily, quickly and securely.
Features:
The ability to hold multi-currency balances in an ewallet
Faster international payments
Delivered though our upgraded intuitive interface
Why it’s great:
Moving money should be easy. It powers next-generation companies with a transparent, fast and trusted global payments platform to transform how the world moves money.
Mike Laven, CEO
Mike is a seasoned FinTech expert who has been pioneering innovation for over 30 years
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Richard Bastin, CTO
With a lifelong passion for technology, Richard has been leading technology departments for over ten years
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ETRONIKA unites emerging trends and innovative techniques in IT solutions to amaze the market and create unique opportunities for clients in finance, banking and e-businesses.
Features:
- Holistic multichannel partnership ecosystem for banks and partners
- Personalized service offerings enabled by smart data analysis
- Customer loyalty platform with enhanced fraud prevention
Why it’s great:
Its ecosystem helps banks and partners to achieve customer experience beyond expectations through upgraded smart data analysis engine and maximized fraud prevention.
Kestutis Gardžiulis, CEO
Kestutis has 18 years experience in banking and e-channel development. With a background in visual arts and quantum electronics, he is a true idea generator.
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Asta Sabaite, Head of Marketing
Asta’s broad marketing perspective comes from years of multinational practice in FMCG and retail industries. Her creative and analytical skills are devoted to fully understand client’s needs.
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Feedzai provides payment fraud prevention at Big Data scale.
Features:
- Connect mobile bank apps to social apps such as Facebook and Yelp, privately
- Consumers check in and post status (geolocation) to protect their transactions
- Feedzai’s fraud software lets banks “friend” customers, offering added peace-of-mind
Why it’s great:
Feedzai lets consumers and Banks be Facebook friends in order to make omnichannel commerce safe.
Nuno Moura Pires, VP of Sales
Nuno is a senior sales executive with 15 years experience with a solid and extensive experience in technology and software companies like QlikView and SAS.
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IND Group is a digital banking, PFM and payments technology software innovator and vendor for financial institutions.
Features:
- Turns the mobile banking channel into a real-time communication platform
- Persona-based design
- Revolutionary card view concept
Why it’s great: With IND Essence, all services are only a few taps away – anytime, anywhere. Mobile banking has never been so comfortable and easy, yet secure.
József NYÍRI
József is the Co-Founder and Chief Innovator of IND Group, market leader of innovative banking front-office solutions.
Tamas BRAUN
Tamas is the General Manager of IND (UK), a subsidiary of IND Group, a leading international innovative banking front end solution vendor.
Meniga is the European market leader of white-label Personal Finance Management (PFM) and next-generation digital banking solutions.
Features:
- Unique way to create value from data and analyze spending behavior
- Anonymous and based on consent of retail banking customers
- New revenue stream. Actionable, real-time insights into retail markets
Why it’s great:
The Market Watch provides unprecedented, real-time, insights into consumer spending behavior, allowing banks to offer a highly valuable service to retail industry players.
Georg Ludviksson, CEO
Georg is an accomplished technology entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience of founding, building and managing software companies with a global perspective.
Einar Gústafsson, VP Product Management at Meniga
An interaction and information designer with a special focus on financial data and online banking. Einar has been working in the web industry since 1998 and is responsible for Meniga’s product roadmap.
Trustev provides real time, online identity verification to eliminate fraud and increase revenues.
Features:
- Brings retail identity decision making in the internet age
- Provides identity decisions in real time
- Uses multiple independent dynamic data sources
Why it’s great:
Its rigorous authentication technologies deal with fraudsters, so you can serve your real customers.
Pat Phelan, CEO & Co-founder
One of Ireland’s best-known serial entrepreneurs, Pat Phelan is recognised across the globe as one of the most connected men in the technology industry.
Chris Kennedy, CTO & Co-founder
Kennedy is a web professional with over 10 years experience in developing state of the art web engineering solutions with a speciality in building heavy duty web platforms.
Stay tuned over the next few weeks for more in our Sneak Peek series.
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