Ladies First: Celebrating the Women of FinovateEurope 2025

By David Penn Posted on March 10, 2025
Categories: AQ22, Deriskly, Dimply, FinovateEurope 2025, Mati Labs, PromoComply, Women in Fintech

This past Saturday marked International Women’s Day, but if you missed it, I’ve got good news: Women’s History Month is celebrated throughout the month.

In the US, Women’s History Week was first celebrated in 1982, and this commemoration of women’s history was extended to the full month of March four years later. To learn more about the history of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month—and their fascinating origins in European and women’s labor history—check out this primer from Time.com.

Here at Finovate, we have recognized the accomplishments of women in fintech and financial services for more than a decade. In both our conferences and on the Finovate blog, we have endeavored to showcase women who have founded and led some of the most innovative companies in our industry.

With this in mind, Finovate is once again proud to recognize the women who introduced themselves and their companies to our FinovateEurope audience this past February.

Catherine Kurt

CEO & Co-Founder, AQ22

Kurt (LinkedIn) is a co-founder at AQ22, leading the growth of an agentic banking orchestration platform that transforms financial workflows with AI-driven automation globally.

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, AQ22 automates and accelerates up to 90% of commercial lending processes.

Tatiana Botskina

CEO, Deriskly

Botskina (LinkedIn) is an award-winning serial founder, Oxford-trained AI scientist, and banking lawyer with 10+ years of expertise in safe, explainable AI, and compliance for the financial sector.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in London, England, Deriskly empowers organizations to enhance customer trust, reduce compliance risks, and optimize engagement via AI-driven insights to create clear, effective, and customer-centric financial communications.

Jackie (Jac) Dunne

CEO, Dimply

Dunne (LinkedIn) is a seasoned executive whose expertise lies in the financial services and fintech/regtech industry. She has a proven track record in growing and building businesses and fostering relationships.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Dimply helps banks and credit unions unlock greater value from their data and create beautiful, personalized, insightful, and resonant embedded financial experiences.

Moyi Dang

CEO, Mati Labs

Dang (LinkedIn) is a former Asia investment researcher, Uber data scientist, an experienced entrepreneur, and YC alum.

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Mati Labs helps financial institutions transform and grow by enabling AI adoption with robust data foundations, ensuring security and compliance, and fostering knowledge-based innovation.

Sage Franch

CEO & Co-Founder, PromoComply

Franch (LinkedIn) has more than a decade of experience in artificial intelligence and business leadership, working with organizations of all sizes to drive business growth through digital transformation.

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, PromoComply streamlines compliance for financial promotions, cutting down significantly on the time and cost of maintaining compliant marketing, so organizations build trust with consumers and regulators.

Streamly Snapshot: Overcoming Increased Regulatory Scrutiny on Financial Promotions

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on March 6, 2025
Categories: CEO Interview, Interview, PromoComply, Streamly

The regulatory landscape for financial promotions has become increasingly complex as regulators focus on ensuring that promotional materials are fair, transparent, and compliant. Today, both banks and fintechs are having to take a new approach to how they create, approve, and distribute promotional content to avoid regulatory breaches and potential penalties, while still conveying their messaging.

In this exclusive interview recorded at FinovateEurope last week, Sage Franch, CEO of PromoComply, shares her insights into how firms can navigate this increased scrutiny, the importance of real-time compliance monitoring, and how technology is transforming the way financial promotions are managed.

“Regulators are really cracking down on non-compliant financial promotions,” said Franch. “And every financial organization that markets a financial product here in the UK has to comply with these. If they don’t, illegal financial promotion is a criminal offense and so the potential consequences are huge.”

PromoComply offers a comprehensive compliance automation platform designed specifically for the financial services sector, helping firms streamline the review and approval process for financial promotions. The platform uses AI-driven content analysis to automatically flag potential compliance risks, reducing the manual burden on compliance teams while enabling faster marketing campaign approvals. By integrating with existing content management systems, PromoComply ensures that compliance is embedded into every step of the promotional lifecycle.

As CEO and Co-Founder of PromoComply, Sage Franch brings a unique blend of technological expertise and regulatory insight to the world of financial services marketing compliance. With a background in software development and product management, Franch helps banks and fintechs leverage technology to simplify complex regulatory processes.

Photo by Polina Tankilevitch

FinovateEurope 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 5

By Madeline Clines Posted on February 11, 2025
Categories: Byne, EKAI, FinovateEurope 2025, FinovateEurope 2025 Sneak Peek, PromoComply, RE-ViVE, Torus

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateEurope in London on February 25. Register today using this link and save 20%.

Byne

Byne is a secure, on-premise platform that lets teams build AI agents to automate document-heavy workflows while keeping sensitive data protected within company walls.

Features

Build AI agents without code for document workflows
Deploy anywhere – on-premise or cloud
Deliver enterprise-grade security with sensitive data protection

Who’s it for?

Regulated enterprises.

EKAI

EKAI’s AI Compliance Co-Pilot applies automation, speed, and a unified customer view to regulation workflows.

Features

Provides scenario testing for operational resilience compliance
Offers a unified customer view
Delivers modularized compliance program management

Who’s it for?

Banks, insurers, fintechs (including payments), investment managers, private markets, and the health, energy, and logistics industries.

PromoComply

PromoComply is the fastest and most comprehensive platform for ensuring compliance of financial promotions, throughout the entire promotion lifecycle.

Features

Ensures financial promotions comply with all regulations
Streamlines collaboration between all stakeholders, partners, and regulators
Saves time and money – shortens process from weeks to minutes

Who’s it for?

All businesses promoting financial products in the U.K. market.

RE-ViVE

RE-ViVE is a process intelligence platform revolutionizing how businesses optimize, monitor, and transform their workflows, with a particular focus on the BFSI and fintech sectors.

Features

Map and analyze hundreds of workflows from raw data within minutes
Offer agentic AI functionality
Deliver actionable insights across diverse systems and workflows

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, community banks, payment providers, insurance companies, BFSI system integrators, fintech companies (partnership), and any SMB with complex processes.

Torus

Torus is an award-winning SaaS intelligence platform for banks and fintechs that aims to enhance profits on card transactions by up to 50%.

Features

Understands transaction-level costs and revenues daily allocation with 98% accuracy
Provides profit-based pricing for fintech partners
Offers agentic AI support

Who’s it for?

Banks, BaaS providers, credit unions, card issuers, merchant acquirers, and payment providers.