With ARTHOS, ArthaYantra Puts a CFO in its Web-Based PFM Solution

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Making their way to the stage now is ArthaYantra with their online personal finance solution, ARTHOS.

“Arthos is a user-friendly web based personal finance platform, which provides actionable advice instantly. It replaces the need of a traditional human advisor who has to spend days to create customized and quality advice for a family. Arthos uses patented algorithms, processes, and the proprietary system of PFLM to cover all aspects of personal finance. One can create a financial plan, implement recommendations, and monitor performance on a single online platform. Arthos can provide advice to individuals who can save as little as $100 a month.”
Presenting Nitan Vyakaranam (CEO & Founder) and Sunil Lingareddy (CFO & Co-Founder)

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Product Launch: November 2012
Metrics: $0.5M funding through seed capital; 15,000+ registered families from over 500 cities (India & abroad); largest online financial advisor in India in less than 8 months; 94% of registered users have never invested in capital markets before, high customer lifetime value of users.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, and through other fintech companies and platforms.
HQ: Hyderabad, India
Founded: January 2012
Twitter: @arthayantra

TSYS Authorization Controls Enable User-Defined Spend Limits, Alerts

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All the way from Columbus, Georgia, here is TSYS with their Authorization Controls solution.

“TSYS Authorization Controls allows a user to set their own default account parameters and authorization rules (for example, user-determined spend limits, daily, weekly, and monthly – category permissions or exclusions). TSYS Authorization Controls also allows for user definable authorization actions, including Alert, Decline, and Pre-Authorize, that enable a user to determine what happens throughout a transaction attempt.”
Presenting Paul Bridgewater (Group Executive, Global Product Group) and Chris Colson (Innovation Director)

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Product Launch: Q1, 2014
Metrics: $1.8B in annual revenue; 8,000+ employees worldwide
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B) & through financial institutions
HQ: Columbus, Georgia, USA
Founded: August 1983
Website: tsys.com
Twitter: @TSYS_TSS

CustomerXPs Debuts its Paperless Branch Banking

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Next, CustomerXPs debuted its Paperless Branch Banking solution:
“Our innovative Paperless Branch Banking solution works on mobiles, tablets and PCs and aims to revolutionize the way branch banking is conducted. This solution ensures that the branch is able to process customers faster and with minimum errors thus ensuring higher employee productivity and customer satisfaction – at the same time increasing the customer engagement and obviating the need for paper trail in the branch.”
Presenting Rivi Varghese (CEO) and Balaji Suryanarayana (COO)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Metrics: CustomerXPs is a 7 year old enterprise software products company. A Gartner Cool Vendor for 2012 and winner of the Red Herring Asia 100 award. We have about 90 million end customers through our customer banks.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms licensing
HQ: Bangalore, India
Founded: December 2006
Website: customerxps.com 
Twitter: @customerxps

TIBCO Launches Solution That Gives Context to Payments

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Next, TIBCO debuted its solution that helps banks and merchants unlock unstructured and big data:
“In this age of digital privacy there is an increased need to share temporary “in the moment” payment context. Ad-hoc digital encounters are the next forefront of a massive volume of micro transactions. Imagine a customer making a payment at a restaurant once the waiter “flicks over” the menu context to the customer, without the customer ever having to reveal any long-term impacting sensitive financial information. Once the “payment context” is over, no digital “remnants” remain. A total freedom of contextual interactions, not just payments, opens up a variety of digital services avenues for banks, their merchants, and customers. 
The massive volume of data transactions enables new analytical insight to both merchants and the banks, giving banks and merchants new perspectives into consumer behaviour through unstructured and big data.”

Presenting San Zaw (Director, Solutions Consultants, S.E. Asia) and 

Phil Scanlon (Director, Client Solutions, Asia)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Metrics: 2011 review: $920M, 70+ worldwide offices, offices in 25+ countries, 3,000+ employees, 4,000+ customers, 200+ partners
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, and through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Founded: 1997
Website: tibco.com
Twitter: @TIBCO

Mobexo Presents its Mobile Payment System Providing Instantaneous and Secure Fund Transfer

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The team from Mobexo is making their way to the stage right now.

“Mobexo seamlessly connects businesses and their customers. The Mobexo mobile payment application allows business owners to create customized and targeted promotional campaigns via the Merchant Portal to reach their customers when they want to and how they want to. 
Personal Mobexo users then have the ability to apply these offers when they pay using the application. Every time a user checks out using Mobexo, it will notify them when they have offers to apply to their payments. In this way, Mobexo is a tool that enlivens the connection between consumers and businesses.”
Presenting Sopheap Lao (CEO) and Jean-Marc Ly (Communications Manager)

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Product Launch: February 2012
Metrics: $1.8M USD raised to date, 60+ person team in 3 countries (Hong Kong, China, and Vietnam)
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C) & Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Hong Kong
Founded: October 2010
Website: mobexo.com
Twitter: @Mobexo

Luminous Debuts its Virtual Safety Deposit Box, Data Vault

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Then, Luminous debuted how its Data Vault can increase page visits from customers:
“DataVault is an electronic safety deposit box that allows banking customers to upload, sort and store personal and business documents in one secure place. Now customers can bank online with important documents just a click away.”

Presenting Andrew Teversham (CTO) and 

Warren Bond (CEO)

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Product Launch: 2013
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions
HQ: Johannesburg, South Africa
Founded: 2009
Twitter: @luminousbanking

Mambu Takes a Cloud-First Approach to Running End-to-End Operations for Banks

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Our next presenter is Mambu:

“Mambu is a native cloud SaaS banking application. Built entirely for the web with a ‘cloud-first’ approach, our product runs the end-to-end operations that a bank needs, from loan and deposit product creation and servicing, to client relationship management and reporting. It does this entirely online and with a business and delivery model that allows any financial institution of any size to rapidly access state-of-the-art banking technology in the cloud, at a fraction of the cost and time of a traditional core banking solution.”
Presenting David Hamilton (President) and Eugene Danilkis (CEO & Co-Founder)

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Product Launch: May 2011
Metrics: Since 2011, we’ve raised nearly $3M in venture funding. We have offices in Berlin, Iasi, London, Geneva and will be establishing offices in Manila and San Jose (Costa Rica) in the next 12 months. By the end of 2013, we will have more than 20 employees. We currently work with over 100 financial institutions in 26 countries, helping them service a portfolio of over $100M.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Founded: December 2011
Website: mambu.com
Twitter: @mambu_com

GMC Software Technology Debuts Inspire Research Portal for Investors to Streamline the Wealth Management Process

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Coming to the stage for the first of two separate presentations here at FinovateAsia is GMC Software Technology.

“GMC Software Technology is proposing Inspire Research Portal for Investors. Wealth management groups, investment companies and banks have their own team of market researchers who would study the markets and provide their findings to investors on what they could do to secure or enhance their investments. But the current process is too manual and prone to errors. GMC Software Technology has researched and identified that there is a need to streamline this process, as there is no centralized platform or a total solution which could fulfill all these requirements.”
Presenting Matthias Kraaz (Technical Director, APAC) and Kelvin Huang (Assistant Manager, Professional Services)

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Product Launch: November 14, 2013
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Appenzell, Switzerland
Founded: 1994
Website: gmc.net
Twitter: @gmc_net

Intuition Intelligence Launches Smart Offers Solution

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Then, Intuition Intelligence launched its Smart Offers solution:
“The Smart Offers solution sources a huge volume of offers from the open coupons and deals networks. Merchants can upload offers via a merchant portal in the back end. There is also a bank manager portal that enables financial institutions to view, select, and approve offers they want delivered to their customers. Plus, banks and merchants will get offer analytics.
On top of that, Smart Offers’ iCube Super Relevancy engine learns user intent in click time and delivers super relevant offers at the right moment via digital channels without spam and friction. Thus, banks experience higher conversion on a scale never seen before, resulting in dramatic increase in revenue.
Smart Offers solution can be easily integrated to existing infrastructure, can be hosted on-premise or by software-as-a-service model.”
Presenting Arif Ansari (CEO) and Yusuf Ansari (COO)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Metrics: 20 employees in California & India
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, and licensed
HQ: Dublin, CA, USA
Founded: October 2013

Mobino Debuts the International Version of its Universal Mobile Payments Solution

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Making their way to the stage in our first presentation after the noon lunch break is Mobino. The company is debuting its universal mobile payments solution.

“We are introducing the international version of the Mobino application, available in 5 languages and 50 currencies.
  • Various scenarios will be outlined:
  • Peer-to-peer money transfer
  • Payment for goods and services in shops
  • POS and cash register integration
  • Quicker and safer e-commerce payments
  • Fluid payment flow for mobile commerce
  • Cheap and efficient international remittances
  • Registration and KYC process for unbanked
  • Cash-in and cash-out operations at agents
We are looking for distribution partners and investors in the Asia Pacific region in order to prepare service launch.”
Presenting J.F. Groff (CEO) and Sabrina Bailly (Evangelist)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, and licensed.
HQ: Geneva, Switzerland
Founded: March 2011
Website: mobino.com
Twitter: @mobino

KlickEx Launches Crypto-Currency 2.0: A New Global Asset-Backed Currency

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In the final demo before lunch, KlickEx debuted its crypto-currency for central banks:
“After extensive testing in the Pacific, KlickEx is pleased to announce the development of a new asset-backed and algorithmic crypto-currency for institutional and retail use. A stable, international, risk-free asset is a key foundation for efficient financial markets, and KlickEx’s award-winning interbank payment network has an exemplary track record in stability, and efficiency. Having eradicated the significant systematic deficiencies of Bitcoin, then bridged the portfolio limitations of the IMF’s SDR, the new base asset is a proactive response to recent negative public sentiment towards banking in general, and recent global events including the GFC, Euro-Crisis, BASEL II, III, and fiscal & political instability in Prime currencies. 
KlickEx believes in efficient, effective, and accessible financial markets. Our products enhance transparency, stability, inclusion, and systematic velocity by eliminating counter-party risks from central bank balance sheets, informal remittance networks, and mitigating cash inefficiencies for commercial banks, mobile operators and regulators. KlickEx has taken the best, and made it better.”

Presenting Robert Bell (Manager of Operations) and Brett Waterson (CTO)

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Product Launch: November 2013
Product distribution strategy: Distribution begins with use-case pilots, followed by structured phase-in programs with Central Banks and local (sovereign) government entities, then Commercial and Clearing Banks. Finally, KlickEx engages Mobile Telcos and then directly to retail users. The process usually takes 6-60 weeks to go through, depending on the country.
HQ: New Zealand
Founded: 2009
Website: KlickEx.org

Backbase Debuts Social Media Capabilities of Bank 2.0 Portal

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Next, Backbase launched the social media capabilities of its Bank 2.0 Portal:
“We are launching the all-new social media capabilities of our Backbase Bank 2.0 Portal. With the new social media features, it is possible to integrate directly with social networks such as Facebook, bring deeply integrated social capabilities to the bank’s secure internet banking platform and push the bank’s internet banking platform as an app to Facebook.
The new key features include Social Login, the ability to use social information to target users within the internet banking platform, or to retarget across platforms, the power to employ Friends’ information and behavior to promote special offers (10 of your friends also have this credit card, apply now!), and the functionality to create and manage Facebook apps directly from the Backbase Portal Manager.”

Presenting Edwin Koh (GM, APAC) and 

Jelmer de Jong (Global Head of Marketing)

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Product Launch: October 2013
Metrics: Privately funded, 150+ employees, offices in New York, Amsterdam, London, and Singapore
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions & licensed
HQ: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Founded: April 2003
Website: backbase.com
Twitter: @backbase