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Tracking fintech, banking & financial services innovations since 1994
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateEurope in London on March 14. Register today and save your spot.
TAZI AI is a machine learning (ML) platform, enabling business experts and data scientists to build and deploy ML models with patented continuous learning and explainable AI.
Features
Easy to use: can be used by business users who don’t have data science training
Time to value: deploy models in less than two weeks
Adaptive: adapts to changes in data
Why it’s great
A no-code ML platform for business experts (and data scientists) to create, update and deploy ML models, allowing them to make smart decisions in dynamic business environments.
Presenter
Zehra Cataltepe, CEO & Co-Founder Cataltepe is a computer science expert with a Ph.D from CALTECH, democratizing AI across industries. She has 100+ publications in the field of AI and 14 patents. LinkedIn
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Trulioo is the identity platform global businesses turn to for growth, innovation and compliance. Trulioo is the end-to-end identity verification platform.
Features
Quickly build, launch and optimize onboarding workflows through Workflow Studio or connect to specific verification services through API Direct.
Why it’s great
No matter a company’s needs and requirements, Trulioo enables a company to smoothly connect their system with Trulioo’s solutions.
Presenters
Michael Ramsbacker, Chief Product Officer Ramsbacker has more than 20 years of experience in the strategic execution of product strategies, particularly for the business-to-business technology industry. LinkedIn
Ben Penning, Director, Product Management Penning is the Director of Product Managment at Trulioo. Prior to working at Trulioo, Penning was a Senior Product Manager at ServiceNow. LinkedIn
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10x Banking empowers banks to move from monolithic to next-generation core banking solutions delivered through their comprehensive and powerful cloud native SaaS core banking platform SuperCore®.
Features
Create innovative banking experiences across cards, savings and lending on one platform
Enable users to make smarter decisions based on real-time data to hyper-personalize
Launch new propositions in minutes
Why it’s great
10x SuperCore Cards help banks slash time to market from months to minutes with significantly reduced overheads in managing the ecosystem.
Presenters
George Broom, Product Owner Broom is the Product Owner for financial products and subscriptions at 10x. His job is to remove all the barriers to building innovative products that customers love. LinkedIn
Nicole Sanders, Product Marketing Manager With 15 years of product and marketing experience in FS and leading GTM’s in nine countries, Sanders champions actioned customer insight to transform business’ bottom line. LinkedIn
There are plenty of reasons why FinovateEurope 2023 next month will be one of the year’s biggest fintech events. With just over a week left to take advantage of early-bird savings on your FinovateEurope ticket, we thought we’d share a handful of our favorite reasons why we hope to see you in London, March 14 and 15.
New Keynote Speakers!
FinovateEurope 2023 will feature the return of many of our favorite keynote speakers. But this year’s event will also showcase a number of newcomers. At the top of the list is Leda Glyptis, veteran banking professional and author of the book Bankers Like Us. With a mainstage keynote on Day One of FinovateEurope titled “The Problem with Digital Transformation Is You,” Glyptis will examine the key role that financial services professionals play in helping – or hindering – the process of digital transformation in their own businesses and institutions.
Also making their Finovate debuts as keynote speakers at FinovateEurope are John C. Hulsman, President and Managing Partner, John C. Hulsman Enterprises, who will speak on the global economy; and Adam Lowe, Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Arculus by CompoSecure, who will discuss securing digital platforms and optimizing the customer experience.
FinovateEurope will also present a series of Quick Fire Keynotes. Leading these 10-minute presentations are Matt Bullivant, Director of ESG Strategy, OakNorth, who will speak about climate change, ESG, and financial services; Martin Hyde, EMEA Payment Partnerships Lead, J.P. Morgan Payments, who will talk about the power of embedded payments in financial services; and Dhaksha Vivekanandan, founder of Daylight Robbery, who will discuss bitcoin and the relationship between traditional and decentralized finance.
New Demoing Companies!
Of the 30 fintech innovators demoing their latest solutions live on stage next month, nearly half will be making their Finovate debuts. Representing countries as diverse as Scotland, Austria, Estonia, India, Switzerland, Israel, Sweden, and Bulgaria – as well as the U.S. and U.K. – these newcomers include:
The official name of the session is “Pre-Event Briefing for Financial Institutions.” But we know a pre-funk when we see one! On March 13 – “FinovateEurope Eve” if you will – we are hosting a special, invite-only occasion featuring expert insights into top fintech trends, a special address, and a fireside chat with keynote speaker, Steven Van Belleghem. We’ll top off the evening with drinks and networking to allow attendees to spend quality time with fellow professionals from banks and other financial institutions.
Alumni Alley: How the Best Have Won
Alumni Alley is our opportunity to showcase some of the biggest brands in fintech that have demoed their innovations live on the Finovate stage. For our upcoming conference next month, the focus will be on FinovateEurope alums. Check out our coverage of some of FinovateEurope’s most storied alums.
If you’re working with a bank, an established fintech innovator, or a bold, new startup, Alumni Alley is a unique chance to gain insights and ideas that can help you grow your organization, improve partner relationships, and take your business to the next level.
“If You Start Me Up”: Finovate’s Startup Booster Program
Our Startup Booster program is designed to enable early-stage startups to take advantage of the full Finovate experience – at a price point appropriate for their early-stage status. Held on March 15, participants in our Startup Booster Program will hear from successful founders about partnership strategies, insights into the investment process, tips on how to land your first bank customer, and more.
Following the presentations, startups will have two hours of networking time with investors from across the U.K. and Europe.
What’s Hot? What’s Not? The GameShow!
Think you know what’s hot and what’s not among fintech’s competing trends and passions? Join us for our special event – What’s Hot? What’s Not? The Gameshow! – where we’ll pit veteran fintech analysts and insiders against the wisdom of the crowd to find out who really knows where fintech is headed!
Our unique gameshow format – in which you the audience get to play judge and jury – will bring a little lighthearted fun to the discussion of fintech trends, and add a little healthy competition to the endless debate: HOT? Or NOT!
Early-bird savings for FinovateEurope end on March 3rd. Visit our FinovateEurope hub today and save your spot!
The number of female entrepreneurs and founders in fintech and financial services has grown significantly in recent years. Nevertheless, there is still some distance between where we are now and the kind of gender-neutral future that so many are fighting for.
As of 2019 women in finance are better represented in many C-suite leadership positions – including CIO, CTO, CMO, and CHRO – than they are in most other industries. Only in the CEO and CFO roles does female representation lag behind that of other industries. Overall, according to analysis by Korn Ferry, women in finance have outperformed their peers in other industries in achieving executive leadership – and it’s not especially close.
At the same time, according to the Global Gender Gap Report published by the World Economic Forum, women make up more than 50% of the entry-level finance workforce in the United States. Yet only 6% of the “top financial institutions” in the country have women in senior positions.
On the morning of Day Two of FinovateEurope next month, we will host our Women in Fintech Breakfast Briefing to discuss how women and their allies can work together to help close this gender gap. Moderated by Magdalena Krön (LinkedIn), Global Head of Rise Digital Innovation & CTO Group Innovation for Barclays Bank, our special morning session will discuss the key questions on the state of gender diversity in fintech and financial services: How much progress has been made? What can we do to pave the way for the next generation of female founders and executives in our industry?
Joining Magdalena Krön are a distinguished panel of industry professionals including:
Martha Mghendi-Fisher, Founder, European Women Payments Network (EWPN). Mghendi-Fisher is a fintech and payments professional, social entrepreneur and philanthropist with years of experience in cards and payments, NGOs, and entrepreneurship. LinkedIn.
Veronique Steiner, Head of High Growth Tech and Head of Technology, Media, and Telecom for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), J.P. Morgan. Steiner represents J.P. Morgan across the global payment industry, positioning the institution as a leading bank for the tech companies in EMEA. LinkedIn.
Nitzan Solomon, Head of Transaction Monitoring, AML, and Fraud, Revolut. Passionate about regtech and financial crime, Solomon was named 2020 best regtech practitioner and one of the U.K. Top 100 Women in Tech. LinkedIn.
Chantal Swainston, Founder, The Heard. Launched in 2022, The Heard profiles and showcases women and non-binary talent in the fintech industry. Swainston brings nearly a decade of experience in journalism and public relations covering both fintech startups and established companies. LinkedIn.
The FinovateEurope 2023 Women in Fintech Breakfast Briefing is scheduled for Wednesday, March 15 from 8:15am – 9:00am. To learn more visit our FinovateEurope hub. Take advantage of big savings by registering by March 3rd.
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateEurope in London on March 14. Register today and save your spot.
Connect Earth supports financial institutions in offering customers transparent insights into the climate impact of daily spending.
Features
Includes carbon emissions data estimates for every spend-based transaction
Provides calculations with maximum granularity
Delivers actionable insights and tips to put knowledge into practice
Why it’s great
Every transaction is a climate transaction. Financial services can be a catalyst for change.
Presenter
Alexander Lempka, Co-Founder & CEO In 2021, Lempka co-founded Connect Earth by combining his experience in fintech with his passion for sustainability. LinkedIn
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SESAMm is a fintech company specializing in big data and artificial intelligence. It provides analytics and investment signals from over 20B web data points using NLP.
Features
Broad coverage: includes 20B articles covering 5M public and private companies
Timeliness: provides near-live web data
Transparency and expertise: delivers detailed alerts and 90 pre-built ESG risk categories
Why it’s great
TextReveal® Alerts & Monitoring helps companies keep track of potential controversies and positive-impact events on companies of interest.
Presenter
Sylvain Forté, CEO Forté is the CEO & Co-Founder of SESAMm. His passion for artificial intelligence and finance led him to create SESAMm in 2014. Forté holds a double degree in engineering from Germany and France. LinkedIn
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Little Blocks is a fintech platform for SMB manufacturers. It facilitates access to risk capital for machinery purchases by leveraging industrial IoT data and blockchain technology.
Features
Risk capital – repayments linked to machine usage
Industrial IoT data on blockchain – single source of truth
Machine tokenization – distributed digital ownership
Why it’s great
Invest in a machine, why just lend? Little Blocks is a technology platform designed to build trust for SME manufacturers – trust unlocks value and enhances investor return.
Presenter
Hanu Panchakarla, Co-Founder & CEO Panchakarla comes with over 15 years of experience in finance and technology during which he worked with Bank of America and several technology startups in India. He is an alumnus of IIT Madras and a CFA. LinkedIn
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Refine Intelligence is transforming AML by ‘catching the good guys’ using AI to automatically identify the life stories behind anomalous transactions.
Features
Explains 80% of alerts in minutes
Delivers 90% reduction in triage time
Provides clear evidence, consistency and explainability
Why it’s great
By ‘catching the good guys’ in anti-money laundering, companies identify their customer’s life stories, keeping customers happy and saving the bank time and money.
Presenters
Uri Rivner, CEO Rivner is a technology innovator who has been fighting fraud and financial crime for decades. He founded Refine Intelligence to disrupt the current paradigm. LinkedIn
Gillie Natra, Product Manager Natra is a talented visual communicator and user experience expert. She is the Product Manager at Refine Intelligence, an innovative company in anti-money laundering. LinkedIn
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ebankIT enables banks and credit unions to future-proof their digital strategy and to offer a proactive, interactive, and consistent experience through every banking channel.
Features
Includes a new tool to anticipate clients’ needs
Provides back-office ratings of each user experience
Uses data so banks know the best way to address each customer
Alerts clients when a bug is solved and why it happened
Why it’s great
A tool that assesses the banking app performance of each client and uses that data to give customers an experience tailored to their unique needs and past experiences. That’s what ebankIT does.
Presenters
Pete Atkinson, VP of Global Sales Atkinson has spent much of his career working at the convergent point of technology, business, and consumers. He is VP of Sales at ebankIT and for the last 15 years has helped FIs to digitally transform. LinkedIn
Joana Lucas, Sales Development Representative Lucas is a financial industry enthusiast, experienced in Financial Markets, Banking, and Fintech space. Her current mission: Help FIs humanize their digital banking worldwide via ebankIT´s omnichannel capabilities. LinkedIn
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Storied Data’s platform creates and distributes smart digital documents. Get rid of PDFs and transform all digital communications with in-document UI/UX, data interactivity, and analytics.
Features
Replaces PDFs and static documents with smart digital documents
Create a transformational user experience with Hybrid DocuApps
Improves cost, time, and ESG efficiency by 90%
Why it’s great
Documents are companies’ most frequent stakeholder touchpoints. UX should be similar to mobile and web apps and remain portable and accessible – online and off.
Presenters
Rado Kotorov, Founder & CEO Kotorov is a business leader and innovator with many patents, articles and books. He is passionate about data and digital technologies that create new business models and revenue streams. LinkedIn
Antoine Chausson, CRO EMEA Chausson is a senior banking executive with over 30 years of international banking management. LinkedIn
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Finshape delivers ready-to-use, customisable digital banking solutions for retail, corporate, and SME clients in Europe, Africa, and MENA regions.
Features
Includes a mobile banking app with data-driven business insights
Creates informative and swipeable stories about the SME’s finances
Delivers relevant and actionable notifications to provide more sales opportunities
Why it’s great
Finshape is a digital banking solution provider that boosts digital engagement, loyalty, and sales among companies’ customers with actionable insights through mobile banking platforms.
Presenters
Tamás Braun, Head of International Sales Braun is a stakeholder and the head of the international sales team at Finshape. Braun has more than 20 years of experience in the digital banking field. LinkedIn
Christian Hanke, Regional Sales Director Hanke is a regional sales director at Finshape. He has more than 10 years of experience in the digital banking field. LinkedIn
