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By David Penn Posted on April 16, 2015
Categories: Blackhawk Network, Blockchain, Check Point, Coinbase, Emida, Evo Snap*, Financial Media Solutions, Intellaegis, Kofax, mShift, PayPal, SecondMarket, Taulia, TransferWise, Uncategorized, Xero, ZenPayroll

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Finovate Debuts: Using Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS to Create Videographics

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Finovate Debuts: Using Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS to Create Videographics

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 16, 2015
Categories: Financial Media Solutions

Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS videographic production tool enables advisers to create short videos that present financial information to their clients. Videographics are a logical shift from PDF documents, since many clients are shifting to the mobile channel and find it difficult to gain information by reading a PDF on their smartphone.

Using video to convey financial information is a good alternative, but is generally expensive. With MAPPS, advisers have an inexpensive way to create compelling videographics for their clients.

Facts:

Based in Switzerland
Founded in 2011
Self-financed, less than $100,000
6 employees
2 clients

When synced with the adviser’s audio commentary, the videographics capture and maintain the client’s attention. This ultimately helps clients understand and retain information about their portfolios.

Unlike traditional video production, MAPPS is affordable and does not require specialized skills. It enables advisers to create a videographic in five steps:

1) Create a sequence
Upload data from Excel to create a chart. If the adviser frequently follows the same sequence in many of their videos, they can create and store templates for future use.

2) Add analysis to the sequence
Add text, images, and animations to explain a concept or analyze the information in the chart.

3) Write, record, and edit commentary
The adviser records in his or her own voice, and uploads the recording.

4) Set and synchronize timing
Place charts, words, and graphics to pace with the commentary flow

5) Preview and publish
Once the video is finalized, advisers can add it into their mobile app and/or send it directly to their clients.

The result is a video similar to the following:

The ideal video length is 90 seconds or less. According to MAPPS, 80% of consumers watch videos until 90 seconds, after which 40% of people quit watching.

Benefits to Mapps

1) Brings communication to the mobile channel, where many customers prefer to receive information
2) Does not require significant funds, time, or skill to create videos
3) Tailors content to each client and personalizes the connection with the adviser’s voice

The first firm to take MAPPS live experienced a 50%+ response rate from clients, which was 40x greater than received previously.

Financial Media Solutions demonstrated MAPPS at FinovateEurope 2015 in London.

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Financial Media Solutions Makes Financial Analysis Easier to Digest

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 10, 2015
Categories: Financial Media Solutions, FinovateEurope 2015

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2015.

Financial Media Solutions (FMS) showed how it brings life to financial statements.

Those attempting to read financial analysis from a PDF on their smartphone will understand the issue. How do institutions create financial content that is compatible for mobile users?

The answer is with MAPPS – Market Analysis Production and Publishing Solution. Operating from the cloud, MAPPS makes it simple to combine dynamic graphics with an audio message, enabling financial analysis and concepts to be delivered in concise, engaging videographic formats.

As client attention spans shorten—research indicates about 90 to 120 seconds is all the time you have to get a video message across—financial content needs to come in dynamic, bite-size formats that clients can easily digest. This is exactly what MAPPS delivers.

Presenters: Owner and CEO Ian Park; Marketing Director Christopher Thomas

Product launch: January 2011

Metrics: Self financed, less than $100,000; six employees, two clients

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B) through financial institutions and through other fintech companies and platforms; licensed

HQ: Walchwil, Zug, Switzerland

Founded: January 2011

Website: mapps-video.com

Twitter: @MAPPSvid

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FinovateEurope 2015 Sneak Peek: Part 5

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 27, 2015
Categories: Asseco, Financial Media Solutions, FinovateEurope 2015, FinovateEurope 2015 Sneak Peek, Fiserv, i3D, Intelligent Environments, mBank, Pirean, Telenor banka

The 70+ presenters that will showcase their new tech on stage at FinovateEurope in two weeks are now unveiled. To take a closer look at the presenting companies, we’re continuing our Sneak Peek series. Today, we’re featuring Financial Media Solutions, Fiserv, Intelligent Environments, mBank & i3D, Pirean, and Telenor banka & Asseco SEE.

Don’t miss our other Sneak Peeks, available here:

Financial Media Solutions’ MAPPS simplifies Videographics, making it possible to create financial content in digestible bite size video formats for broadcast to any device, including smartphones.

Features

Makes Videographics easy
Empowers institutional users to convey financial concepts in concise video formats
Rapidly broadcasts dynamic content to any client device, including smartphones

Why it’s great
Communicating client content by video is the future. MAPPS resolves the challenge of how institutions better engage clients in financial concepts, even via their smartphone.

Presenters

Ian Park, Owner Director & CEO
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Christopher Thomas, Marketing Director
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Fiserv is one of FORTUNE magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies and will demonstrate next generation digital banking interactions.

Features

Focuses on a truly integrated payments user experience
Allows customers to manage their spending habits and banking products
Visually stimulates consumers using augmented reality technology

Why it’s great
This innovation is geared towards the consumer and will allow greater control and transparency over their spending and banking habits.

Presenters

Jonathan Atkinson, Market Development, Digital Channels and Payments
Atkinson is a Sales Executive in Digital Channels and Payments team at Fiserv, Inc., focused on new clients across EMEA, with previous experience in core banking and CRM.
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David Abbott, Payments Lead, EMEA
Abbot has 25 years’ sales, business development experience in payments & eCommerce joined Fiserv’s payments business to support development activities in the EMEA region.
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Intelligent Environments is an innovative provider of mobile and online solutions for financial service organisations.

Features
Hopes to fight against cybercrime

Why it’s great
No firm is an island – we all have a shared interest in responding to the growing threat against cybercrime.

Presenter

Clayton Locke, CTO
Clayton Locke is a keen sailor. He is hoping for calm waters come Finovate!
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mBank, financial sector innovator & i3D, world-class provider of high-tech virtual reality solutions, developed an ultra-modern interactive digital bank branch.

Features

Digital wall with unlimited touch points and innovative UI/UX
Proximity-motion-sensing and face recognition technologies for dynamic content adjustment
Integration with sales support systems

Why it’s great
mBank & i3D dare to challenge the traditional notion of physical bank branches with ultra-modern multi-touch screens, motion-sensing and face recognition technologies.

Presenters

Jacek Iljin, Managing Director Sales & Processes, mBank
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Marcin Wiśniewski, Sales & Marketing Director, i3D
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Pirean enables organisations to provide secure, people-focused access for employees, customers, and partners across on-premise and cloud-based applications.

Features

Reduces lead-time to value for application access
Provides secure self-service capabilities for users
Introduces a single point of control and audit for all access management

Why it’s great
Pirean’s Access: One is an Identity and Access Management solution designed to provide a first class user experience anytime, anywhere.

Presenters

Rob Macgregor, Pirean’s Principal Consultant and Access: One’s Product Manager

Rob Blowers, Pirean’s Development Team Lead

With Telenor banka & Asseco South Eastern Europe, banking goes mobile – changing customer experience and reshaping banking products & services to fit mobile, brought by Telenor banka in synergy with Telco, powered by Asseco SEE multichannel solutions.

Features

Big data processing enabling relevant offer at relevant moment and place
Superb customer journey supported by straight-through processing and full automation
Utilization of synergy

Why it’s great
IT is a fully automated and personalized online handset loan enabled by Telenor banka and Telenor, powered by Asseco SEE.

Presenters

Martin Navratil, Chairman of the Executive Committee at Telenor banka
Managing Director of Telenor banka responsible for the design and implementation of the bank’s strategy, having great experience in Telco and Finance sector.
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Piotr Jeleński, Group President of the Management Board of Asseco SEE
Executive manager with experience in running and establishing new business in Poland, SEE region and Turkey. Managing international structure with over 1,400 people in 12 countries.

Marko Carevic, Marketing Director at Telenor Banka
Started his career in Telenor, initiated Telenor M&A initiative in financial services, currently responsible for entire customer value chain and go-to-market process.
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We’ll feature six more companies later this week. To see them all demo live, get your ticket to FinovateEurope 2015.

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