How they describe themselves: Kofax® is a leading provider of smart capture and process automation software and solutions for the business critical First Mile of customer interactions. These begin with an organization’s systems of engagement, which generate real time, information intensive communications from customers, and provide an essential connection to systems of record (large, enterprise applications and repositories not easily adapted to contemporary technology). Kofax® improves the customer experience and reduces operating costs for increased competitiveness, growth, and profitability.

How they describe their product/innovation: Kofax® demonstrated how banks can enable customers’ mobile phones to capture documents in support of the onboarding and check deposit process. Customers are prompted to take a picture of a document and submit information, which is automatically extracted, validated for accuracy, and then utilized in the decision process. Kofax® demonstrated how to engage the customer via the mobile device and allow the customer the ability to interact to open a new account, apply for loans, and deposit cheques with the snap of a photo.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Diane Morgan, [email protected], +1 949 378 3158
Press: Ina Schmidt, [email protected], +44 772 532 6146
Sales: Drew Hyatt, SVP Mobile, [email protected], +1 415 999 8870

How they describe themselves: Kown is a peer-to-peer investing marketplace, making discovery and investing in private companies easy with minimal effort.

How they describe their product/innovation: Kown provides an alternative for the traditional savings account. We match people with investing opportunities based on their interests, risk-graph and investment focus.

Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts:

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Alexander Dresen, Founder & CEO, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: LifePay is a young company in the fast-growing Russian mPOS market. We develop, integrate, customize and improve bank card receiving systems on smartphones. Our target is small and medium business in Russia: stores “near home” format, taxi companies, courier services, freelance, insurance, travel agents, etc. We popularize cashless to ensure the purity of doing business based on Russian legislation.

How they describe their product/innovation: At Finovate Europe 2014 we talked about our evolution from ordinary mobile card reader solution to the LifePay Ecosystem. Over 1.5 years of existence, we have connected more than 8,000 companies to LifePay, and also created a complete closed system of inside interaction. The components of LifePay Ecosystem include:

• Mobile app builder for business apps (iOS, Android, WinMobile)
• Consumer downloads building app with order delivery via LifePay mPOS (accepts card payment; SMS receipt with LifePay Wallet offer)

The app tracks all transactions and gives the opportunity to pay for further bargains without taking your card out of your pocket. LifePay Stand, a free tablet for business with preinstalled ecosystem software.

Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Vyacheslav Semenchuk, CEO, [email protected]
Press: Zinaida Bezzabotnova, PR Specialist, [email protected]
Sales: Alexander Ovcharenko, Director of Sales, [email protected]u

How they describe themselves: Luxoft is a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base consisting primarily of large multinational corporations. We focus on six industry verticals: financial services, travel and aviation, technology, telecom, automotive and transport, and energy. The company has been traded on New York Stock Exchange (LXFT) since it’s IPO in June 2013.

How they describe their product/innovation: iStockTrack is an innovative iPad solution providing mobile banking services for private and premium banking clients. iStockTrack features include client consolidated wealth view, investment portfolio monitoring, personal adviser video call and chat, 24/7 individual banking services, instant market data and news, and macroeconomics dashboard – all in one app!

Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Yuri Elkin, Managing Director, Luxoft Financial Services, [email protected]
Press: Alina Plaia, VP Investor Relations, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: i-exceed is a technology products and services company headquartered in Bangalore, India with offices in Singapore and New Jersey, USA.

i-exceed was founded in 2011 and now has over 140+ employees. We are proud of our considerable experience in designing, developing and implementing a variety of business critical solutions for leading financial institutions across the world.

How they describe their product/innovation: Appzillon is the next-generation mobile application development platform that offers unparalleled reusability, speed, and control to app developers. Appzillon allows developers to focus on delivering the best possible user experience instead of the time consuming and complex tasks of security, reusability and integration with backend enterprise systems. Net result: Appzillon helps slash app development cycle times by as much as 50%. This means apps reach the market sooner, while the overall cost of development, designing and deployment is reduced.

Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms, and licensed

Contacts:

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: S. Sundararajan, Executive Director, [email protected], +919845007159

How they describe themselves: IND Group is a digital banking, PFM and payments technology software vendor for financial institutions. Focusing on customer experience, our goal is to evolve e-banking technology to web 2.0, turning it into a sales and customer engagement platform. Our unique innovations and multichannel products support banks’ in-development needs caused by the economic slowdown.

Growing since founded in 1997, IND Group operates in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and the UK and is represented through local business partners in CIS countries and the Middle East.

How they describe their product/innovation: To adapt to younger generations’ requirements, IND Group delivers a best-in-class banking app with an innovative drive. With IND’s next generation mobile banking, Essence, all services are only a few taps away – anytime, anywhere. Mobile banking has never been so comfortable and easy, yet secure. The application offers more than just transactional banking: based on customers’ life situations banks are able to deliver personal, targeted offers, turn data into relevant, visualized information, and provide a user experience like never before, turning mobile banking into their primary engagement and sales channel.

Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, and licensed

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: József Nyíri, Chief Innovator & Founder, [email protected]
Press: Viktor Bálint, Marketing & Communications Director, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Intuition Intelligence & WIPRO have developed an end-to-end, next generation Super Relevant Card-Linked Offers solution with a multi-channel delivery system. They have targeted the next generation of problems for card-linked offers – the 6V’s: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Vicinity, Visibility & Value.

How they describe their product/innovation: The Smart Offers solution sources a huge volume of offers from the open coupons and deals networks. Merchants can upload offers via a merchant portal in the back end. There is also a bank manager portal that enables financial institutions to view, select, and approve offers they want delivered to their customers. Plus, banks and merchants will get offer analytics.

On top of that, Smart Offers’ iCube Super Relevancy engine learns user intent in click time and delivers super relevant offers at the right moment via digital channels without spam and friction. Thus, banks experience higher conversion on a scale never seen before, resulting in dramatic increase in revenue.

Smart Offers solution can be easily integrated to existing infrastructure, can be hosted on-premise or by software-as-a-service model.

Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, and licensed

Contacts:

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Yusuf Ansari, [email protected], +1-626-437-0480

How they describe themselves: KlickEx is an automated utility for high frequency immediate payments, in or between banks, consumers, or other actors in G20, OECD and G-77 currencies; serving capital mobility, regulatory compliance, mobile commerce, and financial inclusion at scale.

KlickEx’s pilot facility is currently ranked the most advanced inter-bank and mobile-money integrated real-time multi-currency ACH/RTGS network in Asia. Active across eight countries in the South Pacific, KlickEx’s mobile money deployment is ranked Asia’s number one penetrating and low cost Mobile FX platform by IFAD/UN/CGAP (GFR, 2013). The World Bank also ranks KlickEx as the top cross-border retail inter-bank remittance network in all served markets, and SWIFT recently named KlickEx as the top new financial services technology of 2013 at SIBOS in Dubai.

How they describe their product/innovation: After extensive testing in the Pacific, KlickEx is pleased to announce the development of a new asset-backed and algorithmic crypto-currency for institutional and retail use. A stable, international risk-free asset is a key foundation for efficient financial markets, and KlickEx’s award winning interbank payment network has an exemplary track record in stability, and efficiency. Having eradicated the significant systematic deficiencies of Bitcoin, then bridged the portfolio limitations of the IMF’s SDR, the new base asset is a proactive response to recent negative public sentiment towards banking in general, and recent global events including The GFC, Euro-Crisis, BASEL II, III, and fiscal & political instability in Prime currencies.

KlickEx believes in efficient, effective, and accessible financial markets. Our products enhance transparency, stability, inclusion, and systematic velocity by eliminating counter-party risks from central bank balance sheets, informal remittance networks, and mitigating cash inefficiencies for commercial banks, mobile operators and regulators. KlickEx has taken the best, and made it better.

Contacts:

Press/Sales: Robert Bell, MD Operations, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Kofax® is a leading provider of smart capture and process automation software and solutions for the business critical First Mile of customer interactions. These begin with an organization’s systems of engagement, which generate real time, information intensive communications from customers, and provide an essential connection to systems of record (large, enterprise applications and repositories not easily adapted to contemporary technology). Kofax improves the customer experience and reduces operating costs for increased competitiveness, growth, and profitability.

How they describe their product/innovation: Kofax is demonstrating how lenders can engage borrowers directly on mobile devices enabling them to interact with the loan origination process. Specifically when loans are not in good order and trailing documents are required, the solution engages customers providing them multiple channels to accelerate and supply the complex underwriting process. While mobile is the preferred channel, an omni-channel approach is realized using web, email, or fax. Additionally as these supporting documents are processed, analytics technology provides real-time dashboards and visibility across channels of customer engagement and adoption highlighting patterns, trends, bottlenecks, and efficiencies for right channeling customers and improved decisions.

Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Diane Morgan, Sr. Business Development Manager, Mobile Sales, [email protected], +1-949-378-3158
Press: Gina Ray, [email protected], +1-949-370-0941
Sales: Drew Hyatt, SVP Mobile Applications, Mobile Sales, [email protected], +1-415-999-8870

How they describe themselves: LifePAD gives every customer an opportunity to have a personal online bank manager in his tablet that can be reached with any question 24/7.

Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B) & through financial institutions

How they describe themselves: We solve problems, that’s what we help banks do. We’re the ultimate financial innovations company with visionary products that are breakthrough in sheer simplicity. Simplicity being another word for higher ROIs. Our solutions are intuitive. They’re for banks. We know how banks work, how banks think. With technology solutions designed for what banks need. Backed by Hasso Plattner Ventures, we continue to expand our way of thinking as well as our global reach with offices in South Africa, London, Brisbane, and Mumbai. We also have a number of partnering agreements with industry leaders across the globe.

How they describe their product/innovation: DataVault is an electronic safety deposit box that allows banking customers to upload, sort and store personal and business documents in one secure place. Now customers can bank online with important documents just a click away.

Product Distribution Strategy: Through financial institutions

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Warren Bond, CEO, +44 75 9532 1764
Press: Philippa Newnes, Head of Marketing, +61 401 915 153

How they describe themselves: Ignite’s solution combines a recommendation platform with powerful analytics that matches banking products to customer eligibility in real-time at the point-of-sale. At the core of Ignite’s solution is its Eligibility Analytics. Data for the Analytics is obtained using several unique and patented predictive analytics algorithms gathering input from the user, banking product thresholds, and specialized banking data based on over 3,000,000 data points on purchasing behavior that have been collected over a 10 year period. The Eligibility Analytics is used to match product bundles to the customer using the Recommendation Guides.

How they describe their product/innovation: Ignite’s innovative Branch Profitability Dashboards offer a breakthrough in branch performance measurement. The visual dashboards give bank executives unprecedented information to manage the sales process and determine which branches are profitable. Segmented on multiple levels, even revealing potential fee-generating sales otherwise difficult to find, bank executives can quickly spot branch trends, gain actionable insights about their customers, and manage sales performance. The Profitability Dashboards enable bank executives to quickly see which products are being opened at each branch. Gap analysis for each branch of what was opened, what the customer was eligible to purchase, and the resulting gap per product by branch can be viewed.

Product Distribution Strategy: Through financial institutions & licensed

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Mitchell Orlowsky, CEO & President, [email protected], 972-789-5524
Press: Lisa Allocca, Red Javelin Communications, [email protected], 978-470-2227
Barbie Boe, VP Marketing & Founder, [email protected], 972-789-5522
Sales: Marjorie Aarant, Business Development Director, [email protected],
972-789-5531