FinovateEurope 2016: Themes on the Thames

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As FinovateEurope draws near, we’ve been listening to the themes that will drive innovation in our industry in 2016. Our FinovateEurope 2016 Theme Word Cloud below is a representative sample of what we heard.

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From APIs and the blockchain to personalization and robo-advisory, the themes of FinovateEurope 2016 remind us how new technologies are helping us with old challenges. The path to frictionless payments, for example, will be paved with technologies like beacons and natural language processing (NLP). Better mobile and online security increasingly will be the product of advanced biometric technologies, machine learning, and the blockchain. And there’s no better way to see these technologies on display than at FinovateEurope.

With that in mind, here’s a look at the current roster of companies that will be demoing live on stage in London in less than a month.

Come join 1,500 fellow fintech fans for what promises to be our biggest FinovateEurope to date. The show returns to Old Billingsgate Hall in London on 9/10 February, and tickets are available now. So visit our registration page today and save your spot at our first fintech conference of the year.

Questions? Visit our FAQ page for answers.


FinovateEurope 2016 is sponsored by The Bancorp and KPMG.

FinovateEurope 2016 is partnered with Acuity Market Intelligence, Aite Group, Bank Innovators Council, BankersHub, BayPay Forum, bob’s guide, Byte Academy, The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, The Cointelegraph, CrowdReviews, Digital Currency Council, The Emerging Payments Association, The Financial Services Club, Fintech Finance, The Fintech Times, Harrington Starr. IDC Financial Insights, Mapa Research, Mercator Advisory Group, The New Economy, Payments & Cards Network, PitchBook, Plus Journal, SME Finance Forum, techUK, The Paypers, Verdict Financial, and World Finance.

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Lexmark

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Lexmark

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Lexmark’s latest innovation in customer onboarding is a voice-driven, customer experience incorporating mobile capture, authentication, workflow, instant decisioning, and digital signature capture.

Features:

  • Fast and simple mobile onboarding
  • Convenience of voice-driven activation
  • Collaborative eSign video session

Why it’s great
Lexmark delivers a mobile onboarding experience driven by interactive and instructive natural voice recognition with a virtual collaboration session to eSign an application instantly.

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Darren Collins, Global Director, Financial Services and Insurance
Collins is responsible for strategy and providing thought leadership to global organizations in financial services. He assists organizations by mapping technical solutions to key business problems.
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LexmarkPresenter2Chris Edgington, Global Industry Solutions, Financial Services
Edgington provides industry knowledge, thought leadership and operations-technology expertise for banking industry-specific solutions.
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FinovateEurope Early Bird Discount Extended!

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2015 is officially behind us, and FinovateEurope 2016 is on pace to be our largest European event yet. A huge number of people registered in advance of the early bird ticket deadline back in December, but if you were out of the office and missed the deadline, no worries! We’ve extended the early-bird sales to this Friday, 8 January, to give everyone one more chance to save £100 on the cost of their ticket.

Finovate’s unique mix of live demos (no slides allowed!) and high-impact networking sessions offers an incredibly efficient way to stay up to speed on the fast-moving world of European fintech. This is your chance to connect with the influential innovators defining the future of finance and see the best of what the industry has to offer. Seating is limited, so lock in your spot (and the £100 discount) today!

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Check out the FinovateEurope homepage for more information, including a list of confirmed presenters. Also, our Sneak Peek blog series details what our presenters will show off on stage. For any other questions, email us at europe@finovate.com.

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Spiff

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Spiff

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Spiff is a simple saving service for you and me, designed with women in mind.

Features:

  • Designed for women
  • Fun, safe, and simple
  • We connect money to what it can accomplish

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Spiff_Carl_Nicolai_WessmannCarl-Nicolai Wessmann, CEO, Founder

Wessmann spent 3+ years at Schibsted Media Group, Strategy & International; and 3+ years at Handelsbanken. He is a Harvard Business School alum, and holds a master’s in business and economics from the Norwegian Business School. He is a proud father and husband.
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Spiff_Kristin_MollerKristin Juland Moller, Social Media and Communication Manager

Moller spent 10+ years in media as VP of consumer sales for Schibsted Media Group; VP product and marketing at Aftenposten; and as a management traineee at Schibsted. She holds a master’s in business and economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: SuiteBox

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: SuiteBox

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SuiteBox is a unified, cloud-based collaboration service that brings together video, voice, electronic signing, screen sharing, and selective recording to any device, anytime, anywhere.

Features:

  • Fully white-labelled virtual meeting room which is always ‘open’
  • Combines the power of video with electronic signing and recording
  • Integrates with your own CRM using open APIs, or use standalone

Why it’s great
Meet and complete virtual meetings and transactions using the power of the SuiteBox meeting room. The ‘suite’ of virtual collaboration tools enables you to complete business online, anytime.

Presenters

SuiteBox_Ian_DunbarIan Dunbar, Country Manager, Australia

Dunbar is the country head of SuiteBox for Australia. In addition, he is the founder of Afiniation, an Australasian network of fintech innovators. Dunbar is a former executive of UBS Australia.
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SuiteBox_RichardMannellRichard Mannell, CEO, Founder

Mannell is an experienced founder, investor, and CEO in financial markets and global wine trading. He is the former managing director, and board member, of ICAP in London. Mannell is also the founder/director of Bordeaux Index, a leading fine wine broker.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: ebankIT

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: ebankIT

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ebankIT is an omnichannel banking software company providing innovative technologies that allow banking customers to control their finances and invest their savings easily on their favorite channels.

Features of the software:

  • Allows banks to extend their customers’ networks
  • Provides seamless access to financial products and services
  • Works on every device and wearable technology

Why it’s great
Omnichannel and social banking provides a consistent experience across channels, providing customers with seamless access to financial products and services more efficiently, faster and easier.

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ebankIT_Paulo_OliveiraPaulo Oliveira, Omnichannel Specialist

Oliveira is a project manager, omnichannel specialist, and software architect at ebankIT. He has developed solutions in the financial sector for more than 15 years.
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ebankIT_Diana_WinstanleyDiana Winstanley, Business Developer

Winstanley is a business developer and omnichannel specialist at ebankIT with several years’ experience in business analysis and consulting within the financial sector.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Ledger

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Ledger

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Ledger Blue is a personal handheld device that secures payments and smart contracts for bitcoin and blockchain-based applications.

Features:

  • Secure: based on banking standards with a trusted screen—what you see is what you sign
  • Open: API to build custom applications for industry needs
  • Ubiquitous: BLE/NFC/USB connectivity

Why it’s great
A bank-grade security device built on open standards to secure critical assets and transactional flow for fintechs and financial institutions.

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Presenter: Eric Larcheveque, CEO
Serial entrepreneur since 1996, Larcheveque has founded several companies in Europe. Respected member of the bitcoin community, he launched La Maison du Bitcoin, a French Bitcoin center, before founding Ledger.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: meetinvest AG

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: meetinvest AG

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meetinvest AG will present its expert-based and algorithm-driven, single-stock robo-adviser as a white-label solution that targets the mass affluent and retail investors worldwide.

Features:

  • A role-model approach towards stock investing
  • Successful recipes of 30+ top stock-investment experts (Buffett, Templeton, etc.)
  • Algorithmic-driven portfolio management

Why it’s great
Any investor can now be empowered to invest like a pro by using a toolkit that employs proven expert recipes with state-of-the-art portfolio management techniques.

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Presenter: Michel Jacquemai, CIO and Co-founder
Jacquemai has 22 years of experience in asset management, primarily in equities and hedge funds. He co-founded meetinvest to combine his know-how with the best expert strategies available worldwide.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Scalable Capital

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Scalable Capital

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Scalable Capital is a digital investment manager that creates personalized, globally diversified portfolios. Scalable is dynamically optimized with a primary focus on cutting-edge risk management.

Features:

  • Personalized, globally diversified portfolios
  • A unique, dynamic risk-management technology
  • No hidden fees, and a total cost of 0.75% p.a.

Why it’s great
Scalable Capital is not just using technology to solve a distribution problem. It gives private investors access to investment technology previously reserved for institutional investors.

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Erik Podzuweit, Founder and Co-CEO
Podzuweit combines extensive capital market experience with online expertise. An ex-Goldman Sachs banker, he was also co-CEO at Westwing Germany.
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ScalableCapPresenter2Adam French, Founder and U.K. Managing Director
French spent the last eight years working at Goldman Sachs in London as an executive director of commodities trading and in derivatives trading.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Nexmo

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Nexmo

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Nexmo is a global cloud communications platform with APIs and SDKs for SMS, voice and mobile verification. Nexmo Verify SDK enables phone verification for password replacement, 2FA, and more.

 

Features:

  • Securely verify and authenticate users to prevent SIM swap
  • Send unlimited push verifications with subscription pricing
  • Minimize design and development resources with preintegrated verification workflow

Why it’s great
Mitigate fraud and bypass common security challenges like SIM swapping by using phone number verification and unique device identifiers to increase security, significantly decrease fraud and protect users.

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Presenter: Parth Awasthi, Product Lead
Awasthi is a product lead for Nexmo. Prior to Nexmo, Parth spent over a decade leading technology teams building communication and productivity software for the cloud at Microsoft.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: PaySend

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: PaySend

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PaySend is leveraging Visa and MasterCard networks to help banks and schemes facilitate an efficient remittance network, all important for meeting global financial inclusion goals.

Features:

  • Simplifies remittances by using payment cards
  • Tokenizes card data in demand for social-based transfers
  • Leverages global partnership network for decreased cost of sending money

Why it’s great
PaySend offers fast international money transfers using global Visa and MasterCard networks—all for
 1% + 1 Euro available through a dedicated app or your favorite instant messenger.

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Presenter: Daniel Gusev, Co-founder, User Experience and Product Engineering
Gusev is an ex-banker in charge of successful innovation programs at leading banks in Russia. He is a reformed international fintech entrepreneur in payments and contextual finance, blogger, tinkerer and amateur father.
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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Passport

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Passport

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Passport is an urban mobility platform helping cities improve their transportation options. The company will be demonstrating its multimodal plan, track, and pay mobile application.

Features:

  • Trip planning to improve navigation
  • Transit tracking to better understand the urban ecosystem
  • Mobile ticketing to make transit riding more convenient

Why it’s great
Passport’s enterprise platform empowers cities to transform mobility through innovative mobile applications, providing secure platforms to better manage their system and easy-to-use apps for riders.

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Khristian Gutierrez, CBDO
Gutierrez is the CBDO at Passport and a former investment banker. He earned his master’s of science in finance from the graduate school of business at the University of Florida, along with his bachelor’s degree in business administration.
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PassportPresenter2Bob Youakim, CEO
Youakim is the CEO at Passport and former VP in investment banking. He earned an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and his bachelor’s of science from the University of Illinois.
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