FinovateFall 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 8

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 9 and 10. Register today using this link and save 20%.

Accelera Payments

Accelera Payments is a comprehensive payments stack. The flagship product Comply is a plug-n-play utility that integrates with existing payment infrastructures, ensuring ISO compliance with minimal disruption.

Features

  • Achieves ISO 20022 compliance at lightning speed
  • Provides multiple financial message formats
  • Offers ISO message validator

Who’s it for?

Small-and-medium size banks, credit unions, and financial institutions.

CardLift

CardLift keeps banks’ credit cards top-of-wallet by enabling customers to effortlessly switch payments to CardLift’s partner cards while showcasing card benefits at every online checkout.

Features

  • Transfers spending to the partner card seamlessly through CardLift’s auto card switching
  • Boosts online card usage through one-tap checkout
  • Drives consumer loyalty through enhanced cash back rewards

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and card issuers looking to increase card usage and transaction volumes.

CD Valet

CD Valet empowers financial institutions to compete online in the CD market with proven, targeted digital marketing solutions and online account opening.

Features

  • Provides CD digital account opening services
  • Delivers new digital account opening for IRA CDs
  • Offers featured CD listings, lead generation services, and lead qualification based on the user’s criteria

Who’s it for?

Financial institutions offering competitively priced CDs and IRA CDs.

Credit Mountain

The Warm Decline by Credit Mountain reinvents the decline experience for rejected borrowers and saves lenders money at the same time.

Features

  • Automates adverse action notices
  • Provides a personalized path to “yes”
  • Monitors, tracks, and re-engages declined borrowers

Who’s it for?

Credit unions.

illuminote

DARCi by illuminote digitally controls assent by securely registering, authenticating, and protecting legal records to guard companies from fraud, litigation, human error, and liability.

Features

  • Offers workflow optimization and protection
  • Improves client retention and business development
  • Delivers digital transformation and regulatory compliance

Who’s it for?

Financial institutions (banks and credit unions) and financial advisory firms.

NayaOne

Compass by NayaOne, the default industry utility, quickly and simply connects banks with vendors, reducing cost and complexity associated with discovering and sourcing partners and customers.

Features

  • Showcases tech to 100+ banks ready to buy
  • Investigates what peers are using
  • Accelerates vendor selection process
  • Improves third-party risk management

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and tech vendors.

Sei

Sei builds AI agents for risk and compliance teams to automate complex tasks. Sei’s customers include banks, publicly listed companies, and fintechs across the U.S., U.K., Europe, and APAC.

Features

Sei automates work for compliance and risk teams including marketing review, customer support QA, TPRM, etc., allowing for:

  • Faster growth
  • Real time compliance at scale
  • Reduced cost by 60%

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, fintechs, and payment providers.

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

We’re midway through August, and while everyone attempts to sneak in their final summer vacation days, the fintech news continues on. While we’ve seen a handful of acquisition news headlines so far this summer, I expect things to tick up slightly this fall.  Stay tuned throughout the week to read the latest news this week as we post updates and evolutions.

Embedded banking

ClearBank secures Dutch banking license and expands to Europe.

Fraud, security, and identity

Socure unveils selfie reverification solution with deepfake detection.

Experian acquires behavioral analytics company NeuroID for its fraud detection capabilities against AI-enabled fraud.

UFS acquires Safe Systems for undisclosed amount.

Payments

Billtrust introduces new Chief Product Officer Corrie DeCamp.

GoHenry by Acorns teams up with Google Wallet for new Fitbit Ace LTE integration.

Amazon and Barclays launch new co-branded credit card for U.K. users.

Conduit lands $6 million for cross border payments.

HPS/PayMedix acquires TempoPay to further expand and simplify healthcare payments.

Small business banking

Small business financial platform Lili announces strategic collaboration with business decisioning and analytics firm, Dun & Bradstreet.

Payroll services provider CloudPay receives $120 million in new funding.

Banking news

Scotiabank announces agreement to acquire 14.9% equity interest in KeyCorp.

Lending

Consumer lending company Selina Finance inks five-year mortgage servicing agreement with Phoebus Software.

Real estate and asset-backed lending infrastructure provider Setpoint secures $31 million in Series B funding.

Prosper reaches milestone of reaching 2 million customers.

Cryptocurrency and DeFi

SEC sues crypto firm NovaTech for fraud.

Wealth management

Digital wealth management solutions company SigFig unveils new AI capabilities for its financial advisor collaboration platform, Engage.

Wealth management solution provider FusionIQ forges strategic partnership with wealth management software company interVal.

Regtech

Third-party risk management specialist Kobalt Labs joins the NayaOne Tech Marketplace.


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Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

With neobank Monzo’s big investment and multi-billion dollar valuation on one side and the continued woes of BaaS provider Synapse on the other, “interesting times” continue to characterize the fintech landscape as we slide into the summer months.

Be sure to check our Fintech Rundown all week long for the latest updates and fintech headlines.

Insurtech

Indian insurtech CoverSure raises $4 million in pre-Series A funding in a round led by Enam Holdings.

Payments

First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO) turns to Derivative Path for advanced FX payments.

Quest Payment Systems to provide payment technology to Australian public sector POS payment company NSW Government.

Turkey’s United Payment secures e-money license from the Central Bank of Azerbaijan.

Chinese digital payments solutions provider Lianlian DigiTech receives e-money license in Luxembourg.

Deel extends strategic investment to Alviere to enhance U.S. worker payments.

Five million businesses now transacting on Versapay’s B2B payment network.

DailyPay appoints Stacy Greiner as interim Chief Executive Officer.

Pidgin partners with Corelation to enable real-time payments for credit unions nationwide.

Curve plans to launch digital payment solution on iOS to compete with Apple Pay.

Fraud prevention and compliance

Fraud and financial crime prevention platform DataVisor announces partnership with financial services compliance consultancy firm Davies.

Blockchain-based SaaS platform Henoscene partners with Lithuanian regtech iDenfy to enhance its KYC operations.

Solutions by Text secures $110 million growth round led by Edison Partners and StepStone Group.

Ocorian appoints Chief Financial Officer.

Sift announces RiskWatch to simplify fraud decisioning and catalyze growth.

AMLYZE announces strategic partnership with Aura Cloud to enhance financial crime prevention. 

Embedded finance

Embedded finance solutions provider Finotta announces strategic partnership with digital banking services provider Constellation Digital Partners.

Treasury Prime partners with onboarding identity provider Footprint.

Digital banking

Crédit Agricole Next Bank taps InvestGlass to enhance its lead management and CRM.

Sikoia joins the NayaOne marketplace.

Data

Transcend raises $40 million in Series B funding to fix privacy for the enterprise.

Small business finance

Rewards network Ascenda to provide Ramp customers more ways to redeem points earned on U.S. spend. 

Inter&Co to acquire the remaining 50 percent of Granito, a Brazil-based merchant acquirer.

Kintsugi lands $6 million in Series A funding to simplify tax compliance with AI-powered automation.

Crypto

Ledger starts shipping its high-end hardware crypto wallet.

Wealth management

DriveWealth introduces new Chief Product Officer Kyla Murphy.

Alternative asset platform Alto launches Alto Marketplace, offering curated private alternative investment opportunities for eligible investors.

PureFacts Financial Solutions selects BridgeFT’s WealthTech API to enhance data infrastructure for end-to-end revenue platform.

Identity management

AU10TIX launches free Risk Assessment Model to help companies conduct initial assessment of identity fraud risk.


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More Than $113 Million Raised by Nine Alums in Q1 2024

More Than $113 Million Raised by Nine Alums in Q1 2024

Nine Finovate alums raised more than $113 million in Q1 of 2024. The relatively low fundraising results for the first three months of the year do reflect larger trends in fintech funding. But the fact that nearly half of the alums that raised funds in Q1 did not disclose the amounts raised tells us that the quarterly funding haul for Finovate alums was higher than the $113 million we have been able to confirm.

Previous quarterly comparisons

  • Q1 2023: $453 million raised by 13 alums
  • Q1 2022: $365 million raised by 11 alums
  • Q1 2021: $3.3 billion raised by 26 alums
  • Q1 2020: $1.3 billion raised by 14 alums

The biggest fundraising month of Q1 was likely January, which featured the $58 million investment secured by Digital Onboarding. Again, the high number of “amount undisclosed” investments makes comparison difficult.

Top Equity Investments from Q1 2024

  • Digital Onboarding: $58 million
  • Argyle: $30 million
  • Amplify Life Insurance: $16.3 million
  • Altro: $4 million

As noted above, Digital Onboarding pulled in the biggest investment of any Finovate alum in the first three months of the year. Also noteworthy was the $30 million raised by Argyle, a real-time income data platform that made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring in 2022.


Here is our detail alum funding report for Q1 2024.

January: More than $58 million raised by three alums

February: More than $21 million raised by three alums

March: More than $34 million raised by three alums

If you are a Finovate alum that raised money in the first quarter of 2024 and do not see your company listed, please drop us a note at research@finovate.com. We would love to share the good news! Funding received prior to becoming an alum not included.


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NayaOne Lands $4.7 Million in Funding

NayaOne Lands $4.7 Million in Funding
  • NayaOne has received $4.7 million in funding in a round led by EJF Capital.
  • The company will use the funds to accelerate its product roadmap and meet demand.
  • NayaOne offers a sandbox-as-a-service, where banks can test new technologies, as well as a fintech marketplace, which serves as a network of vetted fintech solutions.

NayaOne, which just stepped off the FinovateEurope stage this week, has received $4.7 million in funding for its sandbox-as-a-service platform and fintech marketplace. The amount of the company’s total funds is undisclosed.

This investment round saw contributions from EJF Capital, which led the round, as well as from Valley Ventures and existing investor Carthona Capital. NayaOne will use the funds to accelerate its product roadmap and meet market demand by optimizing bank-fintech relationships.

When asked about the significance of today’s funding round, NayaOne CEO Karan Jain said, “It’s about more than just growth; it’s about setting the pace in a sector that’s fundamentally rethinking how it evolves.”

NayaOne was founded in 2019, just before the digital transformation wave that hit the industry in 2020. The company’s sandbox-as-a-service platform serves as a single place for banks to access hundreds of fintechs and datasets with which they can innovate, build, and test digital solutions quickly and securely. Banks also have access to NayaOne’s network of vetted fintech solutions that have been evaluated for quality, security, and compliance.

Providing banks with a single place where they can access fintechs and datasets helps them reduce the time it takes to adopt new technologies and solutions. It also reduces the risks associated with potential compliance, quality, and security issues.

 “We’re still in the early stage of a tech revolution in banking and capital markets, and NayaOne stands out as the critical infrastructure enabling the next big leap forward,” said EJF Ventures’ Michael Cherepnin.

There’s a story behind the U.K.-based company’s name. The words Naya and One were derived from ancient wisdom. Naya signifies transformation and financial innovation, while One represents the company’s foundational principle, which is: unparalleled connectivity with a single gateway to financial technology.


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Founders Series: Five Conversations on Hiring

Founders Series: Five Conversations on Hiring

Headlines announcing layoffs in fintech and banking have been pulsing throughout the news cycle since the start of last year. And according to one fintech expert, we may see more throughout 2024.

And while there is no doubt that layoffs and job losses are personally devastating to those involved, there may be a silver lining. Freeing up talent– especially experienced and/or technical talent– allows other organizations in the sector the opportunity to capture new, experienced professionals while offering individuals the chance to level up their career.

In a series called Fintech Founders, our sister publication Fintech Futures recently produced five videos on hiring. The videos capture founders’ thoughts on their internal hiring process, how they intentionally build their company culture, their hiring strategy, how they create a versatile team, and upcoming industry trends.

Tune in to the conversations below from:

Hiring process

Building a company culture

Hiring strategy

Building a versatile team

Upcoming trends


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NayaOne, NF Innova, and Realmonitor Return to the Stage for FinovateEurope 2024

NayaOne, NF Innova, and Realmonitor Return to the Stage for FinovateEurope 2024

Last month we shared the first round of demoing companies to make the cut for FinovateEurope 2024. With more names on the way, we wanted to take a moment to highlight the return of three alums who will be demoing their latest fintech innovation live on stage in London next month, February 27 through 28.

NayaOne: De-risking innovation and facilitating partnership

A Best of Show winner in its Finovate debut last year, NayaOne offers a secure, Digital Sandbox platform that helps banks take the risk out of innovation, integration, and partnership with fintechs. Financial institutions that use NayaOne’s platform gain single key access to more than 350 technology vendors that are being actively evaluated by banks, a secure digital sandbox environment, and 2.5 billion datapoints to facilitate evaluation and review of new technologies.

NayaOne’s approach allows banks to review multiple vendors simultaneously. This helps them get their proofs-of-concept evaluated faster, saving money and enabling greater integration-induced productivity with less integration-related risk.

Among the company’s 2023 highlights are, most recently, its partnership with market network and technology platform PIMFA WealthTech. NayaOne teamed up with the wealthtech firm last fall to launch a client analytics and profiling tech sprint. The goal of the tech sprint was to explore how both unstructured and alternative data can be used to identity and attract potential clients. The sprint also examined use cases for Large Language Models in client services, such as pre-onboarding.

The partnership with PIMFA WealthTech came in the wake of NayaOne’s securing of the Digital Sandbox tender from the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority last spring. “We believe that our digital transformation platform and synthetic data technology will be a valuable asset in helping fintech companies to develop and test their products more efficiently and effectively,” NayaOne CEO Karan Jain said in April.

NayaOne also announced partnerships with Polymesh, which joined the NayaOne Network in June, and Valley National Bank, which deployed its innovation platform – powered by NayaOne – the previous month.

Headquartered in London, U.K., NayaOne was founded in 2019. The company most recently demoed its technology at FinovateFall in September.


NF Innova: Turning traditional banks into digital leaders

NF Innova will return to the Finovate stage next month at FinovateEurope. The company made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope in 2014 and was among the alums to participate in FinovateAfrica in Cape Town four years later.

Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and founded in 2013, NF Innova demoed its FINTENSE Omnichannel Digital Banking Platform at FinovateEurope 2023. At the conference, the company showcased its innovation in personal finance management, leveraging augmented reality to enable users to see their financial data in a new and compelling way.

In addition to augmented reality, NF Innova’s platform automates a number of customer-facing processes, including account opening. In fact, the company notes that firms using its technology have experienced efficiency increases of up to 600% thanks to NF Innova’s end-to-end automation of five different customer facing digital products.

NF Innova also reports faster times in completing common operations ranging from credit card payments to loans, as well as greater efficiency when it comes to orchestrating digital channels and segmentation.

In August NF Innova announced a strategic partnership with proactive mobile app security company Promon. The alliance will integrate Promon’s state-of-the-art technology to enhance security for users of NF Innova’s FINTENSE platform. NF Innova began 2023 by opening the doors on new offices in Čačak, Serbia, to provide workspace closer to where a number of its employees live.


Realmonitor: Helping banks benefit more from the homebuying process

Proptech innovator Realmonitor offers a white-label, AI-based property discovery mobile app designed to help address the specific pain points of the real estate market in Central and Eastern Europe. Because of the way properties are advertised in the CEE, there are often pricing discrepancies and anomalies that make the market difficult for home sellers, buyers, and agents.

Realmonitor brings transparency to this market by featuring all listings on the market from listing sites, Facebook Marketplace, Groups, and other locations. The technology conducts price comparisons to identify the best offers for advertised properties and provides instant push notifications when opportunities arise.

At the same time, banks benefit from an increase in mortgage loan prospects, as well as early engagement insofar as prospective homebuyers have used their whitelabled solution to find their properties.

Last month, Realmonitor won recognition as the most promising Hungarian fintech and Beyond Banking Solution of the Year at the FinTechShow. In its seventh year in 2023, the FinTechshow is an opportunity for fintechs and financial services companies in the country to “discuss digital transformation directions, new technological trends, and challenges.

“The application helps users throughout the entire journey of searching for, buying and selling real estate, and in relation to renovations and maintenance, with a specialist search engine,” Realmonitor founder Péter Faragó said upon receiving the award. “The greatest value of the application is that it helps save time for the user, who can handle everything related to the purchase, renovation, and maintenance of a home in one place, through one platform.”


Interested in demoing at FinovateEurope in London next month? Applications are still being accepted from innovative companies with new solutions that are ready to show. Visit our FinovateEurope hub today to learn more.

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: NayaOne

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: NayaOne

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

NayaOne provides the fastest way for banks to work with tech providers.

Features

  • Find the right partner with 350+ vetted fintechs
  • De-risk integration upfront in 6 weeks
  • Build product propositions for customers with fintechs fast

Why it’s great

NayaOne is the fastest way to go to market with any tech provider.

Presenters

Karan Jain, CEO & Founder
Jain is the former CIO of a multinational bank and a highly regarded technologist and practitioner now solving a problem in the market he experienced firsthand.
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Oli Platt, Product Manager
Platt is a data led product manager with a data science background driving NayaOne’s product development and adoption with some of the largest banks and the best vendors in financial services.
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Finovate Global: Showcasing International Alums at FinovateFall

Finovate Global: Showcasing International Alums at FinovateFall

FinovateFall is right around the corner (September 11 through September 13). If you still haven’t registered for our annual autumn fintech conference in New York this month, there’s no better time than the present. Visit our FinovateFall 2023 hub today and save your spot.

This week’s edition of Finovate Global highlights companies headquartered outside of the U.S. that will be demoing their latest innovations on the Finovate stage in just a few days. Get to know them here, then join them in New York live and in person for FinovateFall!


Connect Earth

Founded in 2021 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, Connect Earth enables financial institutions to offer their retail and SME customers insights into the environmental impact of their spending. LinkedIn.


Engage People

Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Engage People is a loyalty network that enables program members to pay with points directly at checkout. The company was founded in 2015. LinkedIn. X (Twitter).


eSelf

eSelf is building the next generation of client-financial institution interaction, enabling human-like conversations and efficient personalization. Founded in 2022, eSelf is headquartered in Israel.


FinTech Insights

Fintech Insights offers a comprehensive digital banking research platform. The company’s technology helps FIs build strategies and launch new features faster. Headquartered in London, the company was founded in 2010. LinkedIn. X (Twitter).


Flybits

Founded in 2013, Flybits enables FIs to deliver personalized digital banking experiences across mobile, web, and the Metaverse. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. LinkedIn. X (Twitter).


Fundica

Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Fundica is a government funding platform used by some of the largest FIs in North America to acquire and retain clients at scale. Fundica was founded in 2017. LinkedIn. X (Twitter).


Jaid

Jaid is an AI-powered platform build to enable the intelligent automation of business communications. Founded in 2018, Jaid is based in London, U.K. LinkedIn. X (Twitter).


LemonadeLXP

Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, LemonadeLXP is a digital growth platform that helps FIs and fintechs create effective training and support tools to maximize their investment in their technology. The company was founded in 2019. LinkedIn. X (Twitter).


MacroMicro

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, MacroMicro empowers over three million investors worldwide to make personalized investment decisions through dynamic and insightful charts. X (Twitter).


NayaOne

NayaOne gives banks a single point of access to hundreds of fintechs, digital sandboxes, fintech-as-a-service offerings, and datasets. Headquartered in London, U.K., NayaOne was founded in 2019. LinkedIn.


SESAMm

Headquartered in Metz, France, and founded in 2014, SESAMm is an AI insight and ESG risk detection specialist serving the financial services industry. LinkedIn. X (Twitter).


Zero Bank Design Factory

Zero Bank Design Factory is developing and operating a banking system for Japan’s first digital bank, Minna Bank. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan. X (Twitter).


Here is our look at fintech innovation around the world.

Central and Southern Asia

Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia-Pacific

Sub-Saharan Africa

Central and Eastern Europe

Middle East and Northern Africa

Best of Show: The Finovate Podcast’s Greg Palmer Chats with the Faves of FinovateEurope

Best of Show: The Finovate Podcast’s Greg Palmer Chats with the Faves of FinovateEurope

Join Finovate VP and host of the Finovate Podcast Greg Palmer (@GregPalmer47) as he catches up with the innovators that earned top honors at FinovateEurope earlier this year!


Greg Palmer talks with Karan Jain of NayaOne on streamlining and de-risking the onboarding process. Episode 168. Demo video.

“NayaOne is a digital transformation platform that helps you leverage the fintech ecosystem. We work with product, innovation, and tech teams in banks and insurance companies to help them get their products to market much, much quicker. We have synthetic data sets and building tools on the platform. Typically, it takes companies nine to twelve months to begin working with a fintech. Our customers can get to that outcome in about six to eight weeks.”


Greg Palmer and Nickolas Belesis of Fintech Insights discuss understanding the competitive landscape in fintech and financial services. Episode 170. Demo video.

“We provide the industry with a digital banking market research platform that’s analyzing the digital offerings of banks, fintechs, credit unions, across the U.S. and worldwide. We analyze – from A to Z – what the banks, fintechs, and credit unions are offering, how they offer it, (and) how well they offer it, all while providing them with the ability to benchmark against the market and organize their product roadmap to implement their digital banking strategies.”


Greg Palmer chats with Nicole Sanders and George Broom of 10x Banking on streamlining product development and getting to market faster. Episode 171. Demo video.

“10x is a cloud-native banking platform that acts like a real-time operating system for banks. It allows you to build and run your bank at record speed at a fraction of the cost. We demonstrated that at Finovate through the use of our Bank Manager UI application. This allows product managers at banks to build products in minutes rather than months. In that seven minutes, we built a current account with a card and also a loan ready for launch to production.”


Greg Palmer interviews Zehra Cataltepe of TAZI AI on using AI where it will impact the bottom line. Episode 172. Demo video.

“We are a scale-up, San Francisco-based, that provides a software-as-a-service, machine learning platform which enables business experts to stay in control of their AI models. We also empower the data science and engineering teams through our technology that consists of the ability to continuously learn from the data as the business world changes. We provide continuous explanations to business users and give them the ability to give feedback to the models so that the models are aligned with the business all the time.”

Stay tuned for more insightful conversations from Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast!


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NayaOne Wins Tender from Financial Conduct Authority to Build Digital Sandbox

NayaOne Wins Tender from Financial Conduct Authority to Build Digital Sandbox
  • Digital sandbox developer NayaOne secured the Digital Sandbox tender from the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
  • In the past year, NayaOne has built digital sandboxes and marketplaces for Lloyds Banking Group and FinTech North.
  • NayaOne won Best of Show in its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope in March.

FinovateEurope Best of Show winner NayaOne has scored again this year. The London, U.K.-based fintech has secured the Digital Sandbox tender from the country’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The Digital Sandbox will give startups a safe and secure environment to build, test, and develop their fintech solutions. All with the full support of the FCA.

“We are thrilled to have been selected for this prestigious opportunity to collaborate with the FCA on driving innovation in financial services,” NayaOne CEO Karan Jain said. “We believe that our digital transformation platform and synthetic data technology will be a valuable asset in helping fintech companies to develop and test their products more efficiently and effectively.”

The FCA’s decision comes in the wake of a pair of pilot projects, in 2020 and again in 2022. The initiatives gave startups access to synthetic and publicly available data in order to test and develop their solutions. The FCA announced that it would make the digital sandbox permanent in the summer of 2023. NayaOne has built a business of creating digital sandboxes for financial institutions, such as Lloyds Banking Group and FinTech North. And it is this experience – according to FCA Chief Data, Information, and Intelligence Officer Jessica Rusu – that makes the company well-positioned to help the FCA fulfill its goal of “promoting solutions to complex regulatory challenges like APP fraud, greenwashing, and scam detection.”

NayaOne demoed its Digital Sandbox in its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope. The company’s platform helps make innovation, integration, and partnership an easier – and faster – process for banks. NayaOne offers single key access to more than 200 technology vendors; a secure, digital sandbox environment; and 2.5 billion data points to support tech evaluation. The company reports that it has enabled banks to accelerate their proof-of-concept timeline from 12 months to only two months. This saves banks up to 80% in costs and significantly increases productivity.

NayaOne’s Digital Sandbox announcement comes as the company reports that Bambu is now available via the NayaOne Marketplace. Bambu is a Singapore-based B2B roboadvisor and fellow Finovate alum. A three-time Best of Show winner, the company most recently demoed at FinovateFall in 2021. “We recognize NayaOne’s commitment to enable banks and financial institutions to take advantage of revolutionary innovations in financial technology by bringing banks and fintechs together for innovation,” Bambu founder and CEO Ned Phillips said. “As a wealth technology provider, we at Bambu want to bring our award-winning financial solutions to the forefront, and we look forward to doing so on the NayaOne Digital Transformation Platform.”

NayaOne was founded in 2019. Karan Jain joined the company as CEO in 2021.


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FinovateEurope 2023 Best of Show Winners Announced

FinovateEurope 2023 Best of Show Winners Announced

Winds of more than 60 mph tossing 787s around like paper planes. A wave of multi-industry strikes sending parents, patients, and passengers scrambling to reroute plans and rearrange schedules. There is no doubt that the attendees of FinovateEurope 2023 have had more than their fair share of challenges to make it to the Intercontinental O2 this year.

But make it they have – and we are all the better for it. Now, with the votes tallied from those undaunted delegates, we are happy to reveal the names of the companies that have earned Finovate’s most coveted prize: Best of Show.


10x Banking for its technology that enables banks to move from monolithic to next-generation core banking solutions with its cloud native SaaS core banking platform Supercore. Demo.

FinTech Insights by Scientia for its competitive analysis tool for banks and fintechs that offers all the data companies need to outsmart the competition. Demo.

NayaOne for its technology that enables institutions to 10x their digital transformation with single-key access to 200+ fintechs to discover, evaluate, and scale new solutions to production. Demo.

TAZI AI for its technology that empowers experts and data scientists to create, update, and deploy ML models with a no-code platform, making smart decisions in dynamic environments. Demo.

Your Juno for its solution that engages more than 50,000 users around financial education. Demo.

We congratulate this year’s winners – as well as all of our demoing companies – for taking to the Finovate stage to show us their latest fintech innovations. And, of course, a hearty thanks to our sponsors, our partners, and – perhaps most of all – our attendees whose attention, participation, and appreciation make our annual European fintech conference such a joy to host. We look forward to seeing everyone again next year!


Notes on methodology:
1. Only audience members NOT associated with demoing companies were eligible to vote. Finovate employees did not vote.
2. Attendees were encouraged to note their favorites during each day. At the end of the last demo, they chose their three favorites.
3. The exact written instructions given to attendees: “Please rate (the companies) on the basis of demo quality and potential impact of the innovation demoed.”
4. The five companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were named “Best of Show.”
5. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014. Best of Show winners from our 2015 through 2022 conferences are below:
FinovateEurope 2015
FinovateSpring 2015
FinovateFall 2015
FinovateEurope 2016
FinovateSpring 2016
FinovateFall 2016
FinovateAsia 2016
FinovateEurope 2017
FinovateSpring 2017
FinovateFall 2017
FinovateAsia 2017
FinovateMiddleEast 2018
FinovateEurope 2018
FinovateSpring 2018
FinovateFall 2018
FinovateAsia 2018
FinovateAfrica 2018
FinovateEurope 2019
FinovateSpring 2019
FinovateFall 2019
FinovateAsia 2019
FinovateMiddleEast 2019
FinovateEurope 2020
FinovateFall 2020
FinovateWest 2020
FinovateEurope 2021
FinovateSpring 2021
FinovateFall 2021
FinovateEurope 2022
FinovateSpring 2022
FinovateFall 2022