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Finovate Blog
Tracking fintech, banking & financial services innovations since 1994
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Lokky is the first Italian digital insurance broker that focuses exclusively on 6 million micro-enterprises, professionals and freelancers that are highly underserved by traditional channels.
Features
Full digital and multi-channel experience
Real-time customer profiling, leveraging on external data enrichment
Real-time product customization for a real 1-to-1 proposition
Why It’s Great Proprietary Algorithms manages high heterogeneity of SMEs in a scalable way, designed for ecosystems, relevant in open banking and open insurance environments.
Presenters
Paolo Tanfoglio, CEO & Co-Founder Tanfoglio earned his MBA at the London Business School and has a background in financial services and M&A consulting in real estate. His entrepreneurial experiences include financial services to SMEs. LinkedIn
Sauro Mostarda, Co-Founder & Exec. Dir. Mostarda earned his MBA at the London Business School. His background includes consulting and investments in solar energy. His experience is in venture capital investments and investing in Italian and foreign startups. LinkedIn
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Quppy is a digital payments solution consolidating bank cards and accounts.
Features
Bank cards consolidation
AI based recurring payments, expenses and investments automatization
Planning solution, aftermarket gift card consolidator and marketplace
Why It’s Great Quppy has gone further than Google Pay and Apple Pay to develop an AI solution that chooses the right payment card to use in any moment.
Presenter
Alina Kornienko, COO & Co-Founder Kornienko is a serial entrepreneur and female pioneer in blockchain technologies, empowering women in business. She also serves as a senior PR specialist and world-known scientist.
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Bambu is building innovative solutions for the digital wealth landscape with focus on customer engagement.
Features
Intuitive user experience to engage end customers
Powerful insights for advisors on their customers
Achieving customer outcomes through goal-based investing
Why It’s Great Re-centering wealth management to the customer and away from the product.
Presenters
Nick Wakefield, Managing Dir. Wakefield is a keen innovator in financial technology, helping to build Bambu across Europe. He is also the Co-Founder of Regulation Asia, the leading intelligence hub for regulatory professionals across Asia-Pacific. LinkedIn
Sam Beeby, Ops. Dir. Beeby has 15 years of experience in digital product delivery for clients including Google, Facebook, Nike and Amazon. He is now focused on revolutionising financial services with human-centered designs. LinkedIn
The Brexit challenge. Rising economies of Central and Eastern Europe. The crisis of confidence in traditional financial institutions. The growing anxiety over the power of new enabling technologies … how will innovation in financial technology be shaped by these competing interests and demands?
Next week in Berlin, Germany, Finovate will host its first fintech conference in continental Europe. From February 11 through February 13, we will present the innovators, the entrepreneurs, the analysts, and the venture capitalists who will share their accomplishments and insights with our 1200+ audience of financial professionals. Below is a sneak peek at what we have in store over the course of our three-day event. Visit our FinovateEurope page for more details.
Industry Stage Day – February 11
This year FinovateEurope kicks off with an Industry Stage Day. This day begins with a pair of keynote addresses leading into the morning’s special address from Steven Van Belleghem, author of Customers The Day After Tomorrow. The afternoon will feature a variety of tracks with their own keynotes, addresses, and fireside chats on themes such as the digital future, insurtech, open banking, and payments.
Our Industry Stage Day will also feature our new Startup Booster program. Read our interview with Finovate VP and host of the Finovate Podcast Greg Palmer on Finovate’s latest commitment to fintech’s startup community.
Demo Stage Days – February 12 and 13
The second and third days of FinovateEurope will introduce our live fintech demos into the mix. In addition to our demos, we will also feature addresses, power panels, and special analyst insight presentations to help contextualize and examine the technologies – and their applications – on display during our Demo Stage Days. Learn more about the companies demonstrating their technologies in our FinovateEurope Sneak Peek series.
Another new feature for FinovateEurope is our Women in Fintech stream on Wednesday. This special opportunity offers keynote addresses, panel discussions, and networking sessions geared toward discussing and promoting gender diversity in the fintech industry.
FinovateEurope Need to Knows
We’re excited about Finovate’s first trip to Berlin, Germany. If you’re planning on joining us, then here’s some information to help you make the most of your stay.
What: FinovateEurope 2020 – a three-day conference in Berlin, Germany featuring live demonstrations of the latest innovations in financial technology
When: The conference begins Tuesday morning, February 11, with registration at 8:30am and opening remarks at 9:15am. FinovateEurope continues through Thursday, February 13.
Where: FinovateEurope will be held at the Intercontinental Berlin, Budapester Strabe 2, Berlin, Germany.
Why: Finovate’s combination of keynote addresses, panel discussions and debates, and live technology demos is the most exciting way to keep up with what’s new – and what’s next – in the world of fintech innovation.
How: To get tickets and join us? Visit our registration page today and save your spot! Join us for our Industry Stage Day, our Demo Stage Days, or save big with an All-Access Pass that will enable you to enjoy the entire, three-day event.
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Altilia is a leader in automating business processes across multiple industries by combining human and machine intelligence. They provide augmented intelligence solutions for next generation RPA.
Features
Augmented intelligence solutions
Help businesses process complex, unstructured documents
Along with typical and alternative data, quickly, securely and at scale
Why It’s Great Scalable, modular and flexible, Altilia’s human-in-the-loop technologies help deliver significant cost reduction while augmenting employee productivity and transforming customer engagement.
Presenters
Umberto Scilinguo, COO Scilinguo has 10+ years as a technical team leader for design and implementation of augmented intelligence solutions and COO for company management and growth hacking. LinkedIn
Fausto Pupo, VP Bus. Dev. Pupo has 9+ years as a designer of AI software solutions, pre-sales and post-sales engineer, partner manager and business developer. LinkedIn
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Authlete provides an API authorization engine to implement OAuth, OpenID Connect, Financial-grade API and CIBA for various use cases from Open Banking to Identity Assurance.
Features
Unique architecture to build secure open API platforms faster
The first certified solution of Financial-grade API and CIBA
Highly integrable with existing infrastructure assets
Why It’s Great Authlete provides core capabilities of standard-compliant API authorization and enables customers to allocate more resources on businesses development
Presenter
Takahiko Kawasaki, Co-Founder Kawasaki is a Co-Founder of Authlete, implementing state-of-the-art specs into the service and providing his insights as blog entries at https://medium.com/@darutk/. LinkedIn
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Bankish provides credit providers with an end-to-end and highly modular loan administration platform. The cloud-based solution (SaaS) features vital functionality with outstanding configurability.
Features
Core-IT solution designed to simplify procedures via modularity
Ease of use
Configurability and automation
Why It’s Great Bankish’s core-IT software brings all aspects of the business together in one, seamless environment.
Presenters
Ian Kalla, CXO Kalla is a finance and investments enthusiast with a demonstrated history in project management and client/investor relations. He’s passionate about fintech for its efficient, operational focus. LinkedIn
Marek Piller, CTO Piller has 20+ years of experience in banking and IT (Swedbank, Coop Bank, Tieto), and is a true professional of core-IT solutions in banking. LinkedIn
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MODIFI is solving trade finance for SMEs globally. Their online platform allows SMEs to get the trade finance they need. Simple, flexible and transparent, they empower businesses to trade internationally.
Features
Speed: Apply for finance in under 10 minutes
Growth: Improve cash flow and grow businesses
Global: Worldwide platform available 24/7
Why It’s Great Trade finance is an old and broken industry. MODIFI’s platform removes the inefficiencies to give SMEs rapid access to the finance they need to trade and grow.
Presenters
Nelson Holzner, CEO & Co-Founder Lawyer, turned private equity investor, turned serial entrepreneur, with 20 years of professional experience in top international firms, startups and high growth companies. LinkedIn
Sven Brauer, COO Expert in European Fintech & Banking industry, especially the German lending space with consumer credit market for B2C + B2B lending, such as working capital financing. LinkedIn
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Chatvisor combines customer engagement and analytic platforms powered by Co-Browsing, providing improved customer communication for companies.
Features
Screen-sharing without downloading
Bi-directional control
Maximum security & privacy
Why It’s Great Co-Browsing is screen-sharing without downloading, optimized for websites, mobile apps & desktops.
Presenters
Horst Fuchs, COO Fuchs is a former competitive swimmer as well as former COO at his family company. He’s passionate about innovation & disruptive technology and loves competition, sports, learning, and pushing limits. LinkedIn
Markus Wagner, CEO & CTO Wagner is a problem solver at heart and applies his exceptional skills daily in his co-role as CEO & CTO. He leads Chatvisor’s product development to not just match, but exceed customer expectations. LinkedIn
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Neonomics arose as a direct response to the challenges facing the financial industry during its radical transition into the era of PSD2 and open banking.
Features
Reduce cost
Plug-and-play integration
Seamless customer journey
Why It’s Great Users are enabled to trigger instant payments and transfers from their bank, directly from your app or website.
Presenters
Roar Alme, COO Alme is extremely experienced with business development and finance in Norway and internationally. He is the Chief Commercial Officer at Neonomics. LinkedIn
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Passwords should not exist. Covr is the next generation of digital on-boarding & authentication solutions. Credential-less, for maximum security and user experience for your customers.
Features
User intuitive with end users in full control
Eliminating One Time Passwords, ending reliance on passwords and hardware tokens
Biometrics for digital on-boarding of new customers and three factor SCA
Why It’s Great Digital identification is a strategic asset in financial services. Covr is the next generation of digital on-boarding & authentication solutions, eliminating passwords and optimizing your UX and security.
Presenter
Johan Envall, VP Bus. Dev. Envall brings more than 15 years of experience in banking and financial services, including JPMorgan, Mastercard and as entrepreneur in Fintech start-ups. Currently, VP Bus. Dev. at Covr Security, based in Sweden. LinkedIn
Sam Leslie-Miller, Head of Ops. Leslie-Miller looks after Fidel’s delivery of products, existing & new, ensuring Fidel is adhering to it’s ambitious goals. LinkedIn
