Sandstone Launches SmartBank, A Next-Generation Consumer Banking Solution

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Second, Sandstone launched its SmartBank:

“Sandstone is showcasing its ‘next generation’ consumer banking solution combining internet and mobile banking, personal financial management, and loan origination capabilities to form a powerful end-to-end customer acquisition and retention tool. 

Building on the “anytime, anywhere” capabilities of emerging tablet and smartphone platforms, we will show how consumers can interact with their bank for a range of integrated banking services.”

Product Launch: November 2012
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Founded: June 1996
Metrics: Sandstone is a rapidly growing privately owned company with offices in Australia, Asia, and Europe. The company has grown from 40 employees in 2007 to over 230 employees in 2012.
Twitter@sandstonetech
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Introducing Ray Yap (Product Manager) and Adrian Leow (Product Manager)

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BlinkMobile Interactive’s Platform Offers Enterprises a Cheaper, Efficient Alternative to Access Interactive Systems

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Starting up the final session, BlinkMobile Interactive showcased its Blink Mobility Platform:

“Our innovative Blink Mobility Platform is a radical new Platform-as-a-Service, underpinned by a fundamentally new software architecture called the Interaction-oriented Architecture. The power behind this approach is the ability to rapidly build, deploy, and manage new intuitive and intelligent systems for staff and customers, utilising existing web-based information and business systems. 

The interaction-oriented approach focuses only on what the specific user needs and has the ability to contextualise data depending on time, location, authority, weather, etc. BlinkMobile services are also accessible on all internet enabled devices, from smartphones to tablets, kiosks, smart appliances and SMS-only phones.”
Product Launch: October 2012
HQ: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Founded: July 2005
Product Demoed: Blink Mobility Platform 3.0
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Introducing Stu Garrow (Managing Director, TechInject)

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Ayondo Demos What’s New in Social Trading

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Concluding the third session, ayondo demoed its new social trading platform:

“The third generation of ayondo brings social trading to a complete new level in terms of usability, social interaction, and guidance of top traders.”

Product Launch: November 2012
HQ: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Founded: 2008
Product Demoed: ayondo 3.0
Metrics: 12 employees; $3.2M raised to date
Website: ayondo.com
Finovate demo video: Demo videos will be posted next week
Introducing Manuel Heyden (CEO & Founder) and Alexander Surminski (CMO)

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Entrepreneurial Finance Lab’s Credit Scoring Tool Helps Expedite the Bank Lending Process

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After, Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) demonstrated its Credit Scoring Tool for FIs:

“The EFL Credit Scoring Tool is a credit scoring and management platform that seamlessly integrates into and expedites existing bank lending processes. EFL’s 45-minute credit application can be taken on a PC or mobile tablet device at a bank branch or in the field. The completed application is processed by EFL within 30 minutes into a 3-digit credit score. 

The EFL Score is posted on EFL’s Web Suite, allowing the credit team to simply log on to approve or deny the loan. EFL’s Web Suite offers a 365-view of the applicant and loan portfolio, allowing the bank to track loan approvals and disbursements, measure turn-around-times, arrears data, review applicant GPS, photos and biometrics and much more by branch and region. The EFL Credit Scoring Tool provides the simplicity, speed, and insight needed to make informed credit decisions that lead to higher growth and lower risk in information scarce markets.”

Product Launch: October 2010
HQ: Bermuda Based Global Company
Founded: October 2010
Metrics: 23 Countries, 16 Languages, +40,000 EFL Credit Applications, $1.6M Lent per Week, $7,500 USD Average Loan Size, Offices: Bermuda, Brazil, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, United States
Website: eflglobal.com
Twitter@efinlab
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Introducing DJ DiDonna (COO) and Colin Casey (Product Specialist)

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Zighra’s ZFraudShield Leverages Collective User Intelligence to Fight Fraud

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Next, Zighra demonstrated ZFraudShield, a fraud intervention solution:

“ZFraudShield is a fraud-risk intervention solution that leverages mobile contextual information and the collective intelligence of users. In short, we tie the user’s credit/debit card to their mobile phone and send them an authentication message via a custom branded channel on their mobile to confirm the transaction in real-time. Users are able to flag potential fraudulent transactions and share the information with other users in real-time. ZFraudShield is designed to drastically reduce false-positives, improve fraud discovery, and fully automate the resolution process where required.”

Product Launch: 2012
HQ: Ottawa, Canada
Founded: 2009
Metrics: Offices in Canada & India
Website: zighra.com
Twitter@dcdutt
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Introducing Deepak Dutt (CTO) and Sameer Salahudeen (Lead Asia Operations)

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PocketSmith Helps Users Project Cashflow

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Then, PocketSmith showed how it can generate a meaningful cashflow projection for users:
“PocketSmith is the comprehensive personal finance app with cashflow forecasting. It empowers you to make smart financial decisions by creating what-if scenarios. The product combines day-to-day and financial planning, projecting daily bank balances up to 30 years in the future. It offers you an interactive, flexible and creative experience and connects to over 11,000 banks worldwide. PocketSmith’s underlying software has also been adapted for online banking.
At FinovateAsia 2012, PocketSmith shows you how it generates a meaningful and easily adjustable cashflow projection for anyone with bank transactions. This innovation provides users with an instant perspective on their financial future, as well as the ability to make immediate changes to improve their outcomes. “
Product Launch: November 2011
HQ: Dunedin, New Zealand
Founded: June 2008
Metrics: Bootstrapped; self-funded; investment-ready; $138,755,375.85 managed for users in 172 countries, and counting
Twitter@pocketsmith
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Introducing Jason Leong (Co-Founder) and James Wigglesworth (Co-Founder)

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BankBazaar’s Credit Processing Platform Gives eApproval in 7 Minutes

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After, BankBazaar showcased its credit processing platform:
“BankBazaar.com is demoing its 7-minute eApproval process highlighting the platform’s real time integration with bank underwriting engines, loan origination systems, net-banking systems, identity bureaus, and online payroll management tools. Combined with a full service CRM system powering credit and sales work flow management, the platform delivers 7-minute eApproval via online, mobile, and tablet interfaces.
The demo applicant will interact with the 3 stage online credit processing platform by providing eligibility details, reviewing and selecting a custom product offer, and completing a real time credit application, which includes secure processing of bank statement data from 21 net-banking systems. The platform’s advanced decision engine processes the case information from up to 15 independent data sources in real time and provides the applicant with an eApproval letter in 7 minutes.”
HQ: Chennai, India
Founded: February 2008
Product Demoed: BankBazaar Real Time Credit Processing Platform
Product Launch: May 2011
Metrics: $7M raised to date; 125 employees; $750M annum credit disbursed
Twitter@BankBazaar
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Introducing Adhil Shetty (CEO)

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InterAcct Launches EZYsecure, SecurePay

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Next, InterAcct launched EZYsecure:

“The InterAcct product suite encompasses self-care, mobile banking/payments, direct handset reload, authentication and secure messaging for Mobile Network Operators and financial institutions.”

Product Launch: November 2012
HQ: Singapore
Founded: 2001
Metrics: InterAcct is a privately held Singapore registered company
Website: iasgrp.com
Finovate demo video: Demo videos will be posted next week
Introducing Chris Eyles (Group CEO)

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BankersLab Launches ScoringLab, Flight Simulator for Bankers

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Then, BankersLab showcased ScoringLab:

“ScoringLab is simulation-based classroom training for bankers that addresses the usage of credit scores in retail banks. In ScoringLab, players are pitted against each other to operate virtual banks. That’s right – flight simulators for bankers! Although scores are used globally, it can be difficult to diagnose and understand customer trends, shifts, and impacts to model efficacy. 

First, players must make portfolio underwriting decisions, and as the portfolio matures, manage the effects of external influences on customer behavior and model performance. The challenge is to run the most profitable bank with the most satisfied customers. May the best team win!”

Product Launch: November 2012
HQ: San Diego, CA, USA 
Founded: April 2011
Metrics: Global Headquarters – San Diego, California; Asian Headquarters – Bangkok; Additional Offices – Dubai, Sao Paolo, Seoul; Number of Employees – 10; Investors – Private, Founders Capital; Money Raised – $300,000; Products Introduced: CreditLabTM introduced at FinovateSpring 2012; ScoringLabTM & Banc-itTM: Scoring Edition to be introduced at FinovateAsia 2012; CollectionLabTM to be introduced in October 2012
Twitter@BankersLab
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Introducing Michelle Katics (CEO) and Kurt Gingher (CTO)

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Wipro’s SmartOffers Solution Helps FIs Provide Customers the Right Offer at the Right Moment

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Second, Wipro debuted its SmartOffers Solution:

“The Wipro SmartOffers Solution powered by Intuition Intelligence’s iCube Super Relevancy engine provides bank customers with the right digital offers at the right moment that they can redeem at merchants for benefits/discounts at the time of purchase. 

These offers are merchant or bank funded at the bank’s preference. The main differentiator of the SmartOffers solution is that unlike the aggregator-centric models currently in practice in the market, the solution champions the bank-centric offer model. Wipro believes the aggregator-centric model does not bring significant benefits to the bank or the bank’s customers and banks actually face significant disadvantages since the aggregators control the entire lifecycle of offer creation and consumption. 

Aggregators can also access significant customer spend and preferences data, which they may or may not be willing to share. Banks, therefore, are left only as participants in the entire value chain. The Wipro solution intends to give the power back to the bank.”

Product Launch: November 2012
HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Founded: 1945
Metrics: 135,000 employees and clients across 54 countries
Website: wipro.com
Twitter@Wipro
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Introducing Sushankar Daspal (Mobility Practice Head) and David Breitling (Mobility Domain Head)

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BellaDati’s Social Network for Business Data Analysis Changes the Way Business Users Interact with Data

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Starting things up after lunch, Bella Dati demoed how its analytics and reporting tool helps businesses interact with data: 

“BellaDati is an agile analytics and reporting cloud tool that reinvents the way in which business users can interact with data. All you need is a web browser or mobile device. 

It turns ATM, mobile, e-banking, sales or fraud data into the visualized reports and dashboards. BellaDati data-warehouse includes ready connectors for huge databases and services like Oracle, SalesForce, Facebook, Intuit Quickbooks or a simple Excel spreadsheet. 

The solution brings three layers of innovation– for management, analyst and developer. Heads of retail and operations in banks can consume and comment on charts and tables in reports via their iPad/iPhones. Analysts can drill-in and slice data to create regional ATM reports without coding.”

Product Launched: End of 2011
HQ: Prague, Czech Republic
Founded: 2006
Product Demoed: BellaDati
Metrics: Financed by enterprise software integration company TRGIMAN; 20 employees; customers from insurance, mining & retail industries; customers from large retailers, financial services & small shops with 20 employees
Website: belladati.com
Twitter@belladati
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Introducing Martin Trgina (CEO & Founder) and Lubomir Micko (CTO)

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Smart Engine’s Loyalty Platform Benefits FIs, Merchants, and Users

smartenginelogo.jpgConcluding the session before lunch, Smart Engine took the stage with its loyalty platform:

“Smart Engine is demonstrating the end-to-end process of offer creation, personalization, delivery to the bank’s client via smartphone, acceptance, purchase in accordance with the offer details, and merchant campaign reporting.

The tool can create personalized offers for new customers who are similar to existing customers by using metrics like number of times they shop, how much they spend, and their geolocation.”

Product Launch: Q2, 2011
HQ: Vienna, Austria
Founded: December 2010
Metrics: Number of employees: Vienna, Austria (HQ) – 28, Moscow, Russia – 8
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Introducing Christian Bacher (Managing Partner) and Anna Bacher (Director Technology & Innovation)

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