Finovate Global: Meet the International Alums of FinovateFall 2025!

By David Penn Posted on September 5, 2025
Categories: Aurem, Dimply, ebankIT, Finovate Global, FinovateFall 2025, FintechOS, ID-Pal, Keyless, LemonadeLXP, MoneyPlanned, OPL, R34DY, Sequretek

Eleven of the more than 60 companies that will be demoing their latest fintech innovations live on stage at FinovateFall next week are headquartered in countries other than the US.

This week’s edition of Finovate Global highlights these fintechs from the Middle East, Western and Central Europe, Canada, India, the UK, and Ireland. With innovations in fields ranging from wealth management and digital banking to fraud prevention and lending, this year’s roster of international alums is a reminder of the robustness of fintech innovation around the world.

FinovateFall 2025 comes to the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square, September 8 through September 19. Tickets are still available. Visit our FinovateFall hub and save your spot today!

Aurem – Abu Dhabi, UAE

Founded in 2022, Aurem offers an intelligent operating system for retirement and wealth providers. Their platform helps institutions unify and optimize their products, processes, and data and deliver them globally in days.

Dimply – Ireland

Founded in 2020, Dimply enables organizations to optimize operations, enhance customer engagement, uncover growth opportunities, and accelerate digital transformation.

ebankIT – Porto, Portugal

Founded in 2014, ebankIT empowers financial institutions to innovate quickly, reduce costs, and deliver personalized services across all channels, accelerating growth and future-proofing their digital strategy.

FintechOS– London, England

Founded in 2017, FintechOS enables banks and credit unions to launch any product faster, modernize customer experiences, and adapt quickly to market and regulatory changes—without replacing their core systems.

ID-Pal – Dublin, Ireland

ID-Pal facilitates business growth with AI-powered identity verification and AML screening, increasing operational efficiency and customer trust.

Keyless – London, England

Founded in 2019, Keyless replaces outdated MFA with biometrics, improving UX and saving millions. One bank saved $3.5 million by eliminating call centers for OTP-based recovery.

LemonadeLXP – Ottawa, Canada

Founded in 2018, LemonadeLXP’s InsightAI improves staff and customer education and access to knowledge, while driving significant operational efficiencies.

MoneyPlanned – Bengaluru, India

Founded in 2021, MoneyPlanned empowers institutions to offer intelligent, automated financial planning—boosting advisor efficiency, reducing cost-to-serve, and delivering personalized client experiences at scale.

OPL – Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Founded in 2015, OPL’s cash-flow-based lending helps banks transform their operations through agile lending, AI-driven insights, and intelligent credit underwriting—expanding credit access to SMEs.

R34DY – Budapest, Hungary

Founded in 2019, R34DY helps organizations transform their business by taking the pain out of integrations and making it easy for business owners to create use cases and reduce time to market.

Sequretek – Mumbai, India

Founded in 2013, Sequretek provides AI-powered, continuous threat exposure management ensuring compliance, governance, and holistic threat visibility across cloud and on-premises systems.

Here is our look at fintech innovation around the world.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Mexico-based SME platform Kapital doubled its valuation to $1.3 billion upon securing up to $100 million in Series C funding.
Latin America’s largest insurtech, 180 Seguros, raised $9 million in funding.
Evertec acquired 75% stake in Brazilian fintech Tecnobank.

Asia-Pacific

Hong Kong-based stablecoin-powered cross-border payments infrastructure provider Obita announced $10 million in new funding.
Stripe Terminal launched in Japan.
International payment solutions provider dtcpay inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the People’s Committee of Da Nang during Vietnam Blockchain Day.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Tanzania-based fintech NALA expanded into Kenya courtesy of a partnership with Equity Bank and Pesalink.
Ripple partnered with Chipper Cash, VALR, and Yellow Card to make its USD-backed stablecoin Ripple USD (RLUSD) available to institutions in Africa.
Congolese fintech Maishapay earned a spot in Visa’s Africa Fintech Accelerator program.

Central and Eastern Europe

JPMorgan Chase announced plans to launch a digital bank in Germany.
Payments network TrueLayer went live in Poland this week.
Tietoevry Banking signed a SaaS agreement with IC Cash Services, its first foray into the German ATM market.

Middle East and Northern Africa

Israel-based fraud prevention innovator BioCatch and Nasdaq Verafin partnered to fight payment fraud.
Mastercard and Zain Cash teamed up to advance digital payments in Jordan.
Egyptian cross-border digital solutions provider Munify raised $3 million in seed funding.

Central and Southern Asia

Amazon announced completion of its acquisition of India-based lender Axio.
Mongolia-based fintech AND Global locked in $21.4 million in Series B funding.
Fintech Alif Uzbekistan reported that it is preparing to apply for a banking license from the country’s Central Bank.

Photo by Gaël Gaborel – OrbisTerrae on Unsplash

FinovateFall 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 5

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 19, 2025
Categories: Castellum.AI, CD Valet, Charm Security, Fideo Intelligence, FinovateFall 2025, FinovateFall 2025 Sneak Peek, Fravity, Sequretek, Warrant

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 8 – 10. Register today using this link and save 20%.

Castellum.AI

Castellum.AI is a financial crime compliance platform with in-house risk data, AML/KYC screening, and AI agents. Through its use, institutions identify risk and take on business with confidence.

Features

83% less time reviewing AML alerts
94% reduction in false positives
Instant AML alert adjudication

Who’s it for?

Community banks, BaaS sponsor banks, credit unions, fintechs, and crypto exchanges.

CD Valet

CD Valet is a digital marketplace connecting financial institutions with consumers to compare and open CDs with the best rates and terms nationwide.

Features

Offers comprehensive data to price CD offers that win deposits
Delivers insights that help users understand competitor strategies and consumer behavior
Provides marketing services to help companies succeed on a digital marketplace

Who’s it for?

Credit unions and banks with $1B+ in assets, CMOs, and CFOs.

Charm Security

Charm Security is an AI-powered scam defense platform proactively protecting financial institutions and their customers from scams, social engineering, and human-centric fraud.

Features

Delivers AI-powered scam defense agents
Offers protection, prevention, and remediation of scams, social engineering, and human-centric fraud
⁠Reduces losses and operational costs
Builds customer trust and company reputation

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and payment providers.

Fideo Intelligence

Fideo Intelligence’s Verify provides an AI-powered, unified series of real-time risk checks through a single API to help banks, financial institutions, and financial platforms proactively verify identities pre-KYC.

Features

Comprehensive: Eight categories of checks per session
Cost-Effective: Low-cost application, saving operational and fraud-related expenses
AI-Powered: Dynamic, adaptive, real-time risk scoring

Who’s it for?

Financial services (including banks and credit unions), fintechs, and telecom companies.

Fravity

Fravity’s AI Agentic Copilot for investigations and operations in Fraud Risk and AML Compliance (FRAML) works alongside existing tools, acting as an AI expert to help investigate complex cases, enforce policies, perform investigative leg-work, and help users make faster, more accurate decisions with complete confidence.

Features

Offers a catalog of tuned AI agents and workflows for FRAML investigations operations
Provides Copilot as a plug-n-play browser extension for analysts
Delivers an AI studio that lets users build their own agents and workflows

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, payment providers, and fintechs.

Sequretek

Sequretek offers AI-powered, cloud-native, open, modular, and cost-effective solutions that simplify security and empower business growth.

Features

Utilizes single console visibility
Produces organizational risk scores
Offers Defense-in-Breadth and Defense-in-Depth
Provides asset threat mapping
Delivers AI-based attack detection enhanced by GenAI analytics

Who’s it for?

Financial services, credit unions, community banks, healthcare, manufacturing, SMB’s, pharmaceuticals, retail, technology, and more.

Warrant

Warrant is an AI platform that reviews marketing content against 1,500+ regulations, flags risks instantly, and streamlines approvals and recordkeeping to keep teams compliant.

Features

Flags risks instantly across 1,500+ regulations with AI compliance checks
Delivers faster approvals, cutting review time down from weeks to minutes
Reduces labor costs, savings average $200K+ annually

Who’s it for?

Banks and credit unions.

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Sequretek

By oliver Posted on August 12, 2021
Categories: Finovate, FinovateFall 2021, FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek, Sequretek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Sequretek offers end-to-end security in the areas of enterprise threat monitoring, incident response, device security, identity, and access governance through its own AI-driven Percept Cloud Security Platform.

Features

Enterprise scale, easy to use, and cloud native
AI-driven threat detection, protection, remediation and response
Quick implementation and integration capabilities

Why it’s great
Percept Cloud Security Platform offers end-to-end security through three products instead of implementing and managing 12 to 15 different cybersecurity products. It reduces the total cost of ownership while simplifying security.

Presenters

Pankit Desai, Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Desai is a veteran of the corporate industry with over 25 years of experience in global sales, operations, and FP&A, with leadership stints at Rolta, NTT Data, IBM, and Wipro.
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Anand Naik, Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Naik has worked in the corporate industry for over 25 years with companies like Symantec, where he was the MD for South Asia. He was also previously with IBM and Sun Microsystems in technology roles.
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