How they describe themselves: AccountScore is a highly innovative global data and analytics business that provides digital access to and analytics on bank transaction data for clients – typically banks and financial services companies, that want to make better-informed decisions during their customer assessment processes.

AccountScore operates the registered Account Information Service Provider (AISP) consents.online which is at the forefront of Open Banking in the UK.  The online Open Banking API platform carries out the collection and storage of bank transaction data belonging to the consenting customers of its B2B clients, in addition to providing a customer-facing platform where those customers can monitor access to their bank accounts and control what they share.

How they describe their product/innovation: The product being demoed will be the AccountScore Open Banking solution.

We will walk through the process as if we are a consumer sharing transaction data to a client of AccountScore’s. On show will be our newly developed consent management process for consumers sharing transaction data via Open Banking with third parties.

Furthermore, we will show businesses in the room how they can tap into Open Banking using our platform as well as how we successfully provide actionable insights from the Open Banking provided transaction data, allowing them to gain value from the data in practical products such as lending.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Joseph Hungin, Head of International, [email protected]
Press: Viali Munteanu, Cognito Media, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: ABC TECH Group is a provider of IT consulting services and software development with over 120 + IT professionals located internationally.

We are bringing platform-based solutions to large and midsized companies in Banking and Telecom as well as providing state-of-the-art solutions for the start-up industry.

As part of this journey, we are working with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Node and more tech leaders to ensure that our clients will benefit from steady reliability and originality across solutions.

We offer a full range of product, mobile, and web development services for a wide variety of business domains and connect you to an effective, fully equipped team that is ready to commit from day one.

How they describe their product/innovation: LEONUS is a banking digital solution powered by blockchain, aimed to provide both traditional and challenger banks with an easy turnkey solution for entering the digital banking world while utilizing advantages of blockchain and AI technology in the very essence of the system. Security, indisputability, and immutability are enabled by an Ethereum based private blockchain implementation.

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

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Sladjan Sehovic, Bus. Dev. Manager, [email protected], +387 61 109 439
Press: Dunja Bezdrov, Marketing & Communications Manager, [email protected], +387 61 456 346

How they describe themselves: The way we bank has changed. Customer expectations are shifting away from physical interactions in local branches towards online, instant and personal experiences. 24sessions introduces a new and more convenient way to meet customers through the power of video. Financial service providers and banks such as Rabobank, ING & Aegon use 24sessions every day to video call customers in a safe and secure way.

How they describe their product/innovation: 24s Conversational Analytics empowers financial advisors to focus on what really matters: building the customer relationship. Not on repetitive admin jobs or time-consuming compliance tasks. Through natural language processing and AI analytics, we track compliance for every meeting and automate report writing. We put a stop to the guesswork and help client teams deliver the best personal banking experience by providing them with insights in customer satisfaction, effort & call analytics.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Ferdinand Royackers, Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Anouk Willems, Head of Marketing, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Drive Revenue was founded to provide an enterprise grade cloud accounting solution to the legal profession. The legal profession is undergoing significant technology effects that impacts their revenue earning ability. As a result, they need to be more cost effective and efficient, running their business like a business. Our SaaS solution enables them to have insight into their performance, manage their cashflow and trust accounts effortlessly and focus on what they do best, practice law.

How they describe their product/innovation: Drive Practice is a completely flexible, legal accounting solution providing financial history for an unlimited number of years, trust and investment accounts across multiple financial institutions, unlimited activity types, rates and tracks individual professional and team performance. Generating invoices, statements, trust statements and ledgers is simple and quick, improving productivity and the practice’s bottom line.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Press:Jenny Assheton-Smith, CEO, [email protected], +27 82 491 5893

How they describe themselves & their product/innovation: DocFox is a web application which automates KYC/FICA compliance and ongoing due diligence for financial institutions. DocFox works for any FI, servicing any client base, whether it’s a complex offshore structure, people or companies. We take what has been a traditionally undisrupted, stale and manual process and digitise it with automated features. DocFox is comprised of 4 modules: Document Collection and Verification; Sanctions Screening and Adverse Media, Risk Rating and Bank Account Verification. One of the unique aspects of DocFox is that we bring these 4 modules into one system – all of it delivered through a beautiful and easy-to-use experience.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Dylan Edel, Senior Sales Executive, [email protected],                  +1 082 802 7208
Press: Tayla Bates, [email protected], +1 082 291 3572

How they describe themselves: CybiWealth is a division of FIM Capital Limited, an experienced wealth manager, based on the Isle of Man. We offer a simple and intuitive digital investing platform that enables individuals to easily own shares directly in a managed portfolio of high quality, multinational companies listed on the world’s major stock exchanges. FIM Capital is licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The CybiWealth product is distributed in South Africa by Marriott Asset Management, a licensed financial services provider.

How they describe their product/innovation: CybiWealth is a digital investing platform that offers individuals the ability to invest directly in high quality, multinational companies such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestlé and L’Oréal. We offer individuals wanting to invest offshore the opportunity to start from as little as £500 (approx. R9,500). The CybiWealth portfolio is managed by FIM Capital’s experienced investment team. Clients are able to sign up through our electronic on-boarding and identity verification process and invest through our website and app via EFT, debit card or credit card.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Scott Cooper, CEO, [email protected]
Press: Lauren Dobie, Marketing Manager, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Craft Silicon is a global leader in financial technology services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 32 countries to craft and execute solutions for their digital transformation.

From software engineering to mobile application development, we assist our clients to identify the right problems to solve, and to solve these effectively and effortlessly.

Our team of 250+ innovators, across Africa and Asia, is differentiated by the thinking, knowledge and experience, across domain and technologies that we bring to every project we undertake.

How they describe their product/innovation: Craft Silicon’s Remote Account Opening solution provides banks and their customers with a single engagement platform to open new accounts through any hand held devices. It can easily be integrate with the banks existing systems and solution for identity verification ­and validation and leverage native features on mobile devices such as location identification. By presenting the potential customers with sales and marketing offers at the points of acquisition, enhancing customer’s “anywhere banking” experience.

Instant Loans On Phone solution allows bank customers and non-customers to access banking loan services through their phones through native apps and USSD model.

Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Kamal Budhabhatti, CEO, [email protected],                            +254 720 516010
Press: Joseph Christopher, Corporate Communications, [email protected], +254 716 618846

How they describe themselves: Bambu is a leading global provider of robo-advisory technology for businesses of every size and industry, from finance to commercial or even new disruptors, transforming the digital wealth space. We enable businesses to make saving and investing more straightforward and intelligent for their clients. The smart advisory solution is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools.

How they describe their product/innovation: Our goal-based Robo-advisor offers investors a natural and effortless experience in finding the right investment strategy for their client’s needs. Instead of a traditional single risk profile portfolio, the White-Label creates personalised portfolios for each of your life goals, providing you full control of your future. Offered to B2B clients as a white-label solution.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Sean Zhou, Bus. Dev. Manager, [email protected]
Press: Laura Pereira, Marketing Manager, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: AlphaTech Investment Solutions, LLC is a company founded by professionals in financial field and more than 40 years of combined industry experience. We are experts in manager analysis, portfolio construction, investment strategy design and verification, and working with different types of clients from investors to consultants, hedge fund managers, and platforms. The primary focus of AlphaTech at this time is its AlphaBot project that will be presented at the conference.

How they describe their product/innovation: AlphaBot is a novel solution combining multiple features in a unique and modern way: portfolio construction and execution, social networking, cloud computing, and data management. It allows clients to find and connect with investment platforms, hedge funds, data providers and other market participants, obtain performance data, model, build, and execute portfolios all from withing a consistent and user-friendly interface.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Dmitri Alexeev, Ph.D., CEO, [email protected]
Press: Tomas Walek, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Arival is on a mission to help underbanked businesses discover the new world of digital banking. We built the first digital fintech bank for SMEs, freelancers, and startups. By partnering with some of the top names in fintech, Arival delivers 3^rd party financial products and services in one banking interface – handpicked for businesses. Combining kick-ass customer support with exclusive product accessibility, Arival offers a seamless banking experience for a new generation of businesses. Arival was founded by top ranked fintech VCs who have invested in nearly 30 fintech startups including 4 exits from digital banks.

How they describe their product/innovation: Arival believes fintech partnerships are the secret to a great banking experience. Powered by open-API fintech banking, ArivalOS is a digital banking platform that integrates a full suite of 3^rd party fintech products tailored for SMEs. ArivalOS offers bank accounts, money transfers, debit cards, and other fintech products ranging from mPOS and factoring to SME loans. Currently, businesses are forced to navigate, download, and create accounts with 10 to 20 different providers; whereas, ArivalOS unifies logins, aggregates data, and integrates the best fintechs into one place. Above all, ArivalOS delivers banking products that SMEs need to thrive on a day-to-day basis.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts

Press: Xenia Vyazemskaya, Head of Marketing & Press, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Avaloq is driving the digital transformation and automation of the financial services industry.

Our customers are the leading banks of today and tomorrow. We create powerful digital experiences provided through a standardized Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS) model to banks and wealth managers.

To further spur innovation, we work with customers, fintechs and hundreds of third-party in a uniquely collaborative way we call the Avaloq Ecosystem.

Avaloq has a presence in the world’s most demanding financial and innovation centres, including Berlin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Paris, Singapore and Sydney.

How they describe their product/innovation: Avaloq’s Ecosystem provides seamless access to an unparalleled number of market-leading fintech solutions on the Avaloq platform via open APIs.

With its new feature “double marketplace” Avaloq brings the app-store concept to banking. Fintechs can add solutions to the Ecosystem themselves; financial institutions can browse, discover and add solutions from the marketplace and integrate them into their operations.

Banks and wealth managers can also offer state-of-the-art solutions to their own clients via this ‘app store’, while clients themselves can personalise their bank experience.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Gery Dachlan, Head of Sales – APAC, [email protected], +65 8322 6838
Press: Andreas Petrosino, Communications Manager, [email protected], +41 583161010

How they describe themselves: Beacon Inc. is a financial technology company which delivers its flagship service bearing the same name. Beacon is a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform. With Beacon’s open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure, our clients can build in-house functionality on a platform that has been proven at some of the largest financial institutions in the world. We give financial and quantitative developers the tools they need to be as productive as they can be, so that they can focus on the business rather than plumbing and process. And for business users, we deliver fully integrated applications for analytics, pricing, risk management, and much more.

How they describe their product/innovation: Beacon is the first Enterprise Innovation Platform on the market today that has its lineage in proprietary platforms built at some of the largest and most successful financial institutions in the world. Leveraging our experience in building and deploying these platforms, we designed Beacon to provide the right balance of rigorous controls needed in today’s regulatory environment and the flexibility needed to run a dynamic, quantitatively-focused market-making business. Unlike most vendors who offer “black boxes” that cannot be extended on demand, we give clients access to our source code so that they can respond to business needs quickly in a controlled, collaborative, and scalable platform.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Press: Ryo Shimizu, Country Manager – Japan & Head of Beacon Apps and Partners, [email protected]