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SaaS Markets Presents the MarketMaker Enterprise App Store Platform

By David Penn Posted on November 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013, SaaS Markets

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.

Our second presenter of FinovateAsia 2013 is SaaS Markets. The team from San Mateo is here to show the MarketMaker Enterprise App Store Platform for Financial Companies.

“SaaS Markets’ MarketMaker Enterprise app store platform allows financial companies to deploy a fully branded app store containing your proprietary apps and/or selected software from our catalog of over 1,500+ pre-qualified business applications.”

Presenting Jay Manciocchi (Director of Content) and Cameron Ministri (Enterprise Sales Manager)

Product Launch: January 2013

Metrics: Funding: $3.5M (private); employees: 20+ (U.S. & Europe); revenues: confidential, but fully profitable

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B) & through financial institutions

HQ: San Mateo, California, USA

Founded: November 2011

Website: SaaSMarkets.com / saasmarkets.com/news-2/blog

Twitter: @SaaSMarkets

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Kofax’s Solution Uses Multiple Channels to Enhance the Underwriting Process

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013, Kofax

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.

Next, Kofax showed how its omni-channel solution accelerates and enhances the underwriting process:

“Kofax is demonstrating how lenders can engage borrowers directly on mobile devices enabling them to interact with the loan origination process. Specifically when loans are not in good order and trailing documents are required, the solution engages customers providing them multiple channels to accelerate and supply the complex underwriting process.

While mobile is the preferred channel, an omni-channel approach is realized using web, email, or fax. Additionally as these supporting documents are processed, analytics technology provides real-time dashboards and visibility across channels of customer engagement and adoption highlighting patterns, trends, bottlenecks, and efficiencies for right channeling customers and improved decisions.”

Presenting Drew Hyatt (SVP Mobility) and Dimitri Snowden (Visual Strategist)

Product Launch: March 13, 2013

Metrics: Subsidiaries: 30 countries, Employees: >1,200, Channel Partners: 800+, Products: Available in 70+ countries, Customers: 20,000+, London Stock Exchange: KFX, Revenue: $262.5M, Adjusted EBITA: $48.5M, Adjusted Diluted EPS: $0.38, Cash: $81.1M

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: Irvine, CA, USA

Founded: 1985

Website: kofax.com

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Payoneer’s Commercial Account Gives Businesses and Individuals Global Access to Their Funds

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013, Payoneer

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.

Then, Payoneer debuted its commercial account:

“The Payoneer commercial account offers businesses and individuals worldwide the ability to receive funds from a global network of corporate companies. Account holders have a variety of tools to access their funds, including low cost withdrawals to bank accounts worldwide, a Prepaid Debit MasterCard card that enables instant spending and ATM access, and options to transfer funds to local eWallets in select countries.

The account can be managed from the Payoneer website or from a mobile application. Registration for the account is available via Payoneer’s website or directly from the website of companies that form the Payoneer commercial funds transfer network.”

Presenting Oded Zehavi (Chief Revenue Officer)

Product Launch: October 2013

Metrics: 200+ employees, 1,000 Alexa, $40M+ in revenues for 2012

HQ: New York, NY, USA

Founded: 2005

Website: payoneer.com

Twitter: @Payoneer

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LifePAD Pledges a Personal Online Bank Manager in Every Tablet

By David Penn Posted on November 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013, LifePAD

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.

Our next presenter is Moscow-based LifePAD.

“LifePAD gives every customer an opportunity to have a personal online bank manager in his tablet that can be reached with any question 24/7.”

Presenting Alexey Mikhaylik (CEO) and Marina Lapshina (Coordinator)

Product Launch: January 10, 2013

Metrics: Private funding $6M, life-pad.ru launched in 2013

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B) & through financial institutions

HQ: Moscow, Russian Federation

Founded: October 2012

Website: life-pad.ru

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Matchi Debuts its Global Innovation Community

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013, Matchi

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.

Second up, Matchi launched its global innovation community platform:

“A global community innovation platform for the financial services industry that offers market ready banking innovations from across the globe and collaboration opportunities that have the potential to save the banks millions of dollars in development costs.”

Presenting Warren Bond (CEO, Matchi) and Gerrit Hoekstra (Chief Technology Officer)

Product Launch: November 14, 2013

Metrics: Privately owned company with 10-50 employees

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C) & Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: Hong Kong, China

Founded: 2013

Website: Matchi.Biz

Twitter: @matchi.biz

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Red Zebra Analytics Presents its Analytics Engine to Boost Customer Engagement

By David Penn Posted on November 13, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013, Red Zebra

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.

The first presentation of FinovateAsia 2013 is about to begin. Red Zebra Analytics are coming to the stage right now to demo the Red Zebra Analytics Engine.

“Suitable for any banking system, the Red Zebra Analytics platform is secure, fast, flexible and highly cost efficient. It maps consumer purchase behavior in detail, yet keeps the data entirely safe, with no individual customer identification ever leaving the bank. Retailers pay to upload campaigns via a simple interface while state-of-the-art predictive analytics deliver the right offer to the right customer at the right time and through the right channel. And for bank customers, it’s a way to save money on things they actually want.”

Presenting Manuel Ho (COO) and Nell Omar (MD)

Product Launch: May 2012

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B) & through financial institutions

HQ: London, United Kingdom

Founded: August 2011

Website: redzebra-analytics.com

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Majulah Fintech! Finovate Returns to Singapore

By David Penn Posted on November 12, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013

One of the world’s busiest ports, a leading global financial center, and featuring the third highest per capita income in the world … is there any wonder why we are back in the sovereign city-state known as “Lion City” for FinovateAsia 2013?

There are less than 24 hours to go before the curtain goes up on our second show ever here in Singapore, and presenters are busy putting the final touches on their demos.

When

Registration opens at 8:00 AM and the first demo session starts at 9:00 AM, so be sure to come early and get your seat before the first session.

Where to Go

Walk, bus, drive, or cab to the MAX Atria @ Singapore Expo (1 Expo Dr. Singapore 486150). If you’re unable to make it, there are still a couple of different ways to enjoy the show:

Live Blog

As we do at every Finovate event, the Finovate research team will be posting all day long, live, from the MAX Atria at Finovate.com.

We’ll document each and every presentation in real time, highlighting the innovations, key metrics, and business strategies that will help bring the benefits of the latest in financial technology to banks, businesses, and consumers around the world.

Live Tweet

And for those who prefer their FinovateAsia updates in 140 characters or less, the Finovate Twitter feed is the place to be. Follow us at @Finovate, and use the #Finovate in your tweets to take part in the conversation.

Presenters

This year, 36 companies will demo a wide range of fintech innovations ranging from security and lending to mobile payments and asset management. Below is a look at the startups and veteran enterprises that will be presenting at this year’s event.

Everything you want to know about FinovateAsia 2013 is available at our FAQ page here. And, as always, feel free to email your questions to us at info@finovate.com. We are grateful for your support and can’t wait to see you here in Singapore.

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An Exclusive Look at Arbor Ventures, an Asia-Focused VC Firm

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 8, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013

In preparation for FinovateAsia November 14, we wanted to provide some insight into the region’s venture capital scene. Here’s what we learned from Melissa Guzy, Founder and Managing Partner for Arbor Ventures.

Arbor Ventures is a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm with roots in the Silicon Valley. The firm invests in companies based in Singapore, Hong Kong, and ASEAN regions, whose focus is in up-and-coming topics such as:

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Financial Technology
Collaborative Consumption

Finovate: Arbor Ventures is focused on the Asia market. How is the Venture Capital environment in Asia different from that of the U.S. and Europe?

Guzy: The market in Asia is quite different than the US and Europe and China is different from the rest of Asia in terms of venture capital and market opportunities. In Asia, we are looking for entrepreneurs that can understand the local

opportunity, the business environment as well as scale across the region.

Finovate: What are some current trends in Asia-based fintech?

Guzy: We have a large under served and under banked population so areas such as prepaid cards, remittances, cross border brokerage and FX are some of the most interesting areas for innovation.

Finovate: Where do you see financial technology evolving in Asia in the next 5 years?

Guzy: Over the next 5 years, the convertibility of the Chinese Yuan will continue to drive change across the region as well as the formation of the AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) in 2015. The technology to support mobile banking, payments, and money transfers as well as cross border transactions are going to be transformed.

Finovate: What 3 solid pieces of advice can you provide Asia-based fintech companies seeking investment?

Guzy: It is the same advice that you would provide anywhere to a start up, build a solid team and understand the market pull and what is needed before spending large sums of money on a product or service. Start ups especially in ASEAN need to spend wisely since there is a shortfall of Series A and Series B funding in the region so entrepreneurs need to aware of this issue when developing their funding requirements early on.

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If you’re interested in fintech in the Asia Pacific region, we hope to see you at FinovateAsia in a few days.

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Check Out FinovateAsia 2013’s Diverse Audience

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 6, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013

If you’re coming to FinovateAsia next week, you’ll be rubbing shoulders with a wide-ranging crowd. For next week’s show, attendees will fly in from as far away as South America and the U.S. (check out the map here).

These folks represent a range of organizations, from high-profile bank and venture capitalist executives, to small startups and independent bloggers. Here is a word cloud we created from the titles of FinovateAsia attendees:

And a small sample of the organizations that will be attending:

American Express
ANZ
Bank BTPN
Bank of Singapore
Bank Respublika
BOC Group Life Assurance
Citi Ventures
Credit Suisse
IDC Financial Insights

i-exceed
IND Group
INSEAD
Intel Capital
Javelin Strategy & Research
Maybank
Microsoft
OCBC
RBS

S&P Capital
Security Bank
Singtel
Standard Chartered
Suncorp Bank
TMB Bank
UBS
United Overseas Bank
Visa

Don’t miss out on being a part of this diverse audience and seeing what your competition is up to. Get your ticket here.

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FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 4

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 4, 2013
Categories: BehavioSec, FinovateAsia 2013, FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek, GMC Software Technology, Intuition Intelligence, KlickEx, Mambu, Payoneer, TSYS

FinovateAsia 2013 is coming to Singapore in just over one week. And, just in time, here are the final seven companies who will bring their live demos to the stage.

If you missed the previous three installments of our Sneak Peek preview series, check out the links below.

FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 3

FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 2

FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 1

Our final event of 2013 is only a few weeks away. Get your ticket here to be a part of the audience.

BehavioSec focuses on innovation in behavioral biometrics.

Features:

Transparent biometrics for mobile and web
Large deployments
Cost effective, low impact security

Why its great:
BehavioSec provides biometric security with no user experience cost

Neil Costigan

Dr Costigan is a cryptography and security expert with over 20 years experience developing security solutions deployed with retail banking in the U.S. and Europe.

GMC Software Technology’s Inspire Research Portal (IRP) for investors provides a single platform for users to access and replaces all manual processes to automation.

Features:

Streamlining the process
Reducing human errors while increasing productivity
Ability to view research reports from multiple platforms

Why it’s great:
IRP will provide a centralized platform for both researchers and approvers to access and perform their job in an interactive and engaging way.

Matthias Kraaz

Matthias has been in the customer communication space for many years and is currently looking after all the technical operations of GMC in Asia Pacific.
LinkedIn

Kelvin Huang

Working as a Presales Manager in GMC for 2 years, Kelvin specializes in web and mobile communication and is equipped with years of experiences in financial industry.
LinkedIn

Intuition Intelligence’s end-to-end card linked offers solution delivers super relevant offers to users from a huge volume of offers.

Features:

Brings a huge volume of offers from Open-coupon Networks
Solve Pains: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Vicinity, Visibility & Value
Win-win ecosystem for the Bank, Merchants and Customers

Why it’s great: By learning user intent in click time, we deliver the right offers at right moment via digital channels without spam and friction in pre-and post-login.

Arif Ansari
Keynote Speaker for Big Data and predictive analytics, expert in multiple areas of advanced intelligent systems and multiple patent holder.

Yusuf Ansari

Entrepreneur with track record of achieving #1 market share, visionary in building iconic products and hands-on execution and product management.
LinkedIn

KlickEx is the world’s most advanced multi-currency payments network – active in 8 countries, SWIFT and UNDP funded – and Asia’s top-ranked Mobile Money platform deployment.

Features:

Completed solution to distributed/”crypto”-currency value destruction
No need to dis-intermediate Central Banks or regulators
Implemented, asset-based store of value – full USD alternative

Rob Bell

Rob and his award winning team turned the SWIFT and UNCDP funded, World Bank ranked, Pacific inter-bank payment network, into Asia’s top rated mobile money platform in 3 years. Ex HSBC, Stanford, NZX.
LinkedIn

Brett Waterson

Brett is the multi-award winning architect behind many global trading and banking systems, including the NZ Police Database, and all four NZ bank credit card loyalty programs – and of course, KlickEx.
LinkedIn

Mambu helps banks, microfinance institutions and financial innovators deliver banking services to individuals and emerging enterprises around the world.

Features:

Makes state-of-the-art banking technology accessible to all
Eliminates the costs and complexities of traditional core banking
Helps financial organisations get new products to market, fast

Why it’s great:

Mambu’s cloud-first Software-as-a-Service solution enables financial organizations of all sizes to rapidly deliver state-of-the-art banking services

David Hamilton, president of Mambu

Eugene Danilkis, CEO and co-founder of Mambu
LinkedIn

Payoneer simplifies global commerce by providing companies and businesses of all sizes with an innovative, convenient and cost effective solution to send and receive funds worldwide.

Features:

Global corporates can transfer funds to over 200 countries and more than 50 currencies
Funds can be received on prepaid cards, local bank accounts, or even local e-wallets

Why it’s great:

In a borderless world, Payoneer helps SMBs and professionals get paid with minimal friction and the convenience of choosing their preferred financial instrument.

Oded Zehavi

As CRO, Zehavi is responsible for Payoneer’s sales, marketing and product activities. Prior to joining Payoneer, he served as business development director for PayPal.

TSYS‘ Authorization Controls allows the a user to set one’s own default account parameters and authorization rules.

Features:

Spatiotemporal locks allow user to geo-fence their location
Authorization Rules allow you to define spend limits for defined cycles
Authorization actions the user to Alert, Decline or Pre-authorize

Why it’s great:

TSYS Authorization Controls reduce risk to the card issuer, merchant and consumer by monitoring transactions in real-time and enforcing responsible spending at the POS.

Paul Bridgewater

As Group Executive of Global Product, Paul is responsible for product strategy, product delivery, product marketing and TSYS Innovation across the company.
LinkedIn

Chris Colson

As the director of innovation for TSYS, Chris is an 18-year veteran of the payments and financial services industry, having previously served as vice president, product management, of Equifax.

For more information about how to join us in Singapore, visit our FinovateAsia 2013 page here.

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FinovateAsia 2013 Demo Companies Bring Global Innovation to Singapore

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 30, 2013
Categories: Advanced Merchant Payments, App Annie, Arkalogic, ArthaYantra, Backbase, BehavioSec, BlueKite, BRIDGEi2i, CustomerXPs, Dragon Wealth, FinovateAsia 2013, GMC Software Technology, i-exceed, IND Group, Intuition Intelligence, KlickEx, Kofax, LifePAD, Luminous, Mambu, Matchi, Mistral Mobile, Mobexo, Mobino, Pangea Payments, Payoneer, Pixeliris, Red Zebra, SaaS Markets, Serverside Group, Smart Engine, TIBCO Software, Tootpay, TradeNet, TSYS, White Label Personal Clouds, Yodlee

FinovateAsia is typically our most globally diverse show, and this year is no different. Two weeks from now, we will showcase 37 demos from companies spanning the globe that are innovating in everything from remittance to small business tools to back office solutions and much more.

Given that diversity, we thought it would be fun put together a map showing the geographic spread of the demoing companies that will take the stage (click the map to enlarge).

Here’s the breakdown of the number of companies from each region:

Asia: 12
Europe: 11
North America: 9
Africa: 1
Oceania: 2
Middle East: 2

To refresh your memory, the list of the companies that we’ve hand-picked to show off their new technology at the Max Atria @ Singapore Expo on November 14, include:

Advanced Merchant Payments
App Annie
Arkalogic
ArthaYantra
Backbase
BehavioSec
BlueKite
BRIDGEi2i
CustomerXPs Software
DragonWealth
GMC Software Technologies

i-exceed
IND Group
Intuition Intelligence
KlickEx
Kofax
LifePAD
Luminous
Mambu
Matchi
Mistral Mobile
Mobexo
Mobino
Pangea

Payoneer
Pixeliris
Red Zebra
SaaS Markets
Serverside
Smart Engine
TIBCO
Tootpay
TradeNet
TSYS
White Label Personal Clouds
Yodlee

To see live demos of the new technology, meet the entrepreneurs responsible, and network with others in the industry, get your ticket to FinovateAsia here. If you have questions about the show, check out who is attending or email asia@finovate.com.

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FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 3

By David Penn Posted on October 28, 2013
Categories: FinovateAsia 2013, FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek

Still just getting to know the companies that will be presenting at FinovateAsia 2013 in November? Here are another five fintech innovators scheduled to take the stage next month in Singapore.

And if you missed the previous two installments of our Sneak Peek preview, check out the links below.

FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 2

FinovateAsia 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 1

Our final event of 2013 is only a few weeks away. For more information about how to join us in Singapore, visit our FinovateAsia 2013 page here.

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Arkalogic’s latest innovation, Moneta, enables customers to have a seamless and secure payment system that caters to their key daily transaction needs, in one platform.

Features:

Mobile payments and banking platform
Seamless and secure transaction experience
Comprehensive end-to-end solution for cashless transactions

Why its great:

Transactions and life should be simple and secure. Always. With Arkalogic’s latest innovation, Moneta, it’s as if carrying your ATM and wallet in your mobile device.

Aryo Karbhawomo

Visionary Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO, Arkalogic

PhD in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

John Subroto Chard (pictured)

Strategy & Finance Advisor, Arkalogic

MBA, New York University. Expertise in corporate development, start-ups and corporate strategy. Previously with McKinsey.

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BRIDGEi2i Analytics Solutions‘ cloud-based application, Surveyi2i, enables business users to unearth hidden patterns and share holistic insights from survey data in just a few clicks.

Features:

Zero in to key insights in matter of hours
Single tool for analyzing both quantitative and unstructured textual inputs
Design, automate and share dashboards without a single line of script

Why it’s great:

It makes the process of analyzing survey data incredibly faster, easier and cheaper.

Prithvijit Roy

CEO and Co-founder, Bridgei2i

Known among the pioneers of the analytics industry in India, Prithvijit has experience building and leading large scale analytics centers for Hewlett-Packard and GENPACT.

Pritam Kanti Paul

Business Analytics Entrepreneur, Bridgei2i

Known as an innovative thinker, Pritam has led development and implementation of several high impact and cutting edge analytical solutions for Hewlett-Packard and General Electric.

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Luminous is the ultimate financial innovations company with visionary products that are breakthrough in sheer simplicity.

Features:

Electronic safety deposit box
Banking customers can upload, sort and store personal and business documents
Ability to back up and save the most recent version of important documents

Why it’s great:

Banking customers can upload, sort and store personal and business documents.

Warren Bond

CEO, Luminous

Andrew Teversham

Chief Technology Officer, Luminous

Andrew heads up the development and implementation teams at Luminous and has gained extensive experience with SAP implementations over a number of years.

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Matchi is a global community innovation platform for the banking industry that offers market ready innovations from across the globe.

Features:

Unprecedented collaboration opportunities for banks
Marketing platform for innovators to showcase their innovations to banks
A go-to-destination for market-ready, banking innovations online

Why it’s great:

An innovation matchmaking site for banks globally

Paul Steenkamp

Head of Innovation, First National Bank

Warren Bond

CEO, Matchi

Warren is constantly looking for new ideas and ways to drive innovation and change in the banking industry.

Gerrit Hoekstra

CTO, Matchi

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Mobino aims to enable mobile payments for 5 billion people. The company was founded by J.F. Groff, one of the creators of Web technology.

Features:

Total independence from credit cards and telcos
Local and international payments, in-shop, peer-to-peer and e-commerce
Universal access from smartphones and dumbphones

Why it’s great:

Banked or unbanked, online or offline, privately or for business, Mobino lets everybody move money simply and efficiently.

Jean-Francois Groff

CEO, Mobino

Jean-Francois was one of the architects of the Web firm CERN. Mobino, his fourth startup, is guided by a lifelong passion: making technology serve humanity, not vice versa.

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Be sure to catch the fourth installment of our Sneak Peek preview of FinovateAsia 2013 next week.

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