How they describe themselves: Founded in 2012, TipRanks is a leading provider of financial accountability solutions with a singular goal of giving power back to the individual investor. By making performance data regarding financial advice easily available and highly visible to the investing public, TipRanks will ensure accountability, objectivity, and transparency within the business of stock picking and analyst reports. TipRanks is proudly unaffiliated with any investment firm.

How they describe their product/innovation: TipRanks is the first online co-browser that aggregates, scrutinizes, and ranks digitally published stock recommendations. TipRanks’ Financial Accountability Engine™ transparently provides the individual investor unbiased information about the reliability, accuracy and track record of those who provide sell-side advice. TipRanks’ free, cloud-based technology provides unprecedented measurement and clarity to the worldwide financial advice domain. It lets the investor decide who to trust.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Uri Gruenbaum, CEO, [email protected], +972-54-770-0039
Press: Kevin Johnson, Account Supervisor, The Cline Group, [email protected], 610-538-6700 x1625

How they describe themselves: Tradeslide offers any independent trader of futures, foreign exchange and CFDs (stocks, indices, commodities) a rigorous, public, independent assessment of invest ability – a 0-100 TS Score.

Traders are free to take their TS Score wherever they go, including conversations with potential employers, Social (Twitter, Linkedin, etc.), investors, etc. To reach invest-ability, Tradeslide offers the TS Challenge – a gamified learning process where traders compete to develop the skills that make up a solid trader (risk management, discipline, etc.), in the right order, one badge at a time.

How they describe their product/innovation: We develop algorithms that analyze traders’ decisions with a goal: to rule out luck as a source of performance. This analysis allows us to infer that traders achieving non-random positive returns are worthy of investors’ capital – aka investable. The applications of this analysis are broad: including free diagnostic tools allowing traders to grow their skill, rating/certification service allowing our traders to credibly pitch to investors. More interesting applications based on processing the market data supplied by our users will follow soon.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Juan Colon, CEO, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Future ecommerce depends on businesses being able to safely interact with online customers that are using malware-infested PCs and mobile devices. Trusted Knight is a security software company that creates simple-to-install, patented software solutions that block malware-based key-logging and man-in-the-browser (web-inject) attacks against customer PCs and mobile devices. With Trusted Knight software solutions installed, browser-entered information such as online banking credentials and credit card information are protected from key-logging malware (i.e., crimeware) attacks. Trusted Knight solutions are highly transparent to customers and block crimeware functioning pending crimeware removal by antivirus products.

How they describe their product/innovation: Protector is designed to be quickly deployed to the large and diverse customer bases of businesses and financial institutions to immediately reduce fraud losses. Protector is extremely lightweight and can be easily integrated into existing security products. There is no minimally-required hardware configuration, no customer configuration or interaction necessary, and installation causes no stability issues or conflicts with other resident software. Rather than attempting to detect malware (a nearly impossible task), Protector simply blocks malware functioning to prevent criminals from getting the data they need to commit crimes.  Protector achieves a remarkable 70+% install rate on a customer “opt-in” basis.

Contacts:

Phil Mellinger, CSO, 410-750-2603

How they describe themselves: TrustEgg is the simple way to save for a child’s future. TrustEgg enables parents to create a Trust for their child in minutes for free. Parents can invite family and friends to make contributions. The Trust Fund is invested with Vanguard and earns a market rate of return until the child turns 18.

The simple, social nature of TrustEgg will dramatically change the savings rate for the 70+ million children in the US.

How they describe their product/innovation: TrustEgg is the simple way to save for a child’s future.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Jeffrey Brice, CEO, [email protected]
Press: Kinda Hatamle, CMO, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: At TSYS, (NYSE: TSS), we believe payments should revolve around people—not the other way around. We call this belief “People-Centered PaymentsSM.” By putting people at the center of every decision we make, with unmatched customer service and industry insight, TSYS is able to support financial institutions, businesses, and governments in more than 80 countries. Offering merchant payment-acceptance solutions as well as services in credit, debit, prepaid, mobile, chip, healthcare and more, we make it possible for people in the global marketplace to conduct safe and secure electronic transactions with trust and convenience. TSYS’ headquarters are located in Columbus, Georgia, with local offices spread across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

How they describe their product/innovation: TSYS Spend ControlsSM for Consumers provides convenience, control and peace of mind with the power to turn the consumer’s browser or connected device into a 21st century financial control center. They can remotely control how, when and where their money gets used, and most importantly by whom. The payee will be sent easy to understand, plain category exclusions and restrictions that will reduce risks for both the card issuer and the consumer by monitoring transactions in real-time and enforcing responsible spending at the point of sale. This allows everyone to avoid costs and aggravation associated with misuse and fraud, results in higher payments automation, helps businesses grow volumes by increased efficiencies and furthers card adoption.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Frank Braski, Innovation Architect, [email protected], 706-644-4987
Press: Cyle Mims, Media Relations, [email protected], 706-644-3110
Sales: Chris Colson, Innovation Product Director, [email protected], 770-663-2926

How they describe themselves: QuantConnect gives engineers free access to a stock market backtester with high-resolution data for designing trading algorithms. Engineers can design strategies and have them distributed to working capital.

How they describe their product/innovation: We are demonstrating our cloud-powered backtester, capable of simulating years of stock data in minutes. Users can design strategies in a C# IDE, compile them online and run them across 14 years of tick data (up to 8 TB data).

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Jared Broad, Co-Founder, [email protected]
Press & Sales: Shai Rosen, Co-Founder, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: rplan is a financial planning and investment management site that helps its members take control of their investments.

Focusing on simplicity, rplan helps investors create their own investment portfolio based on key metrics such as risk and goals, then helps them keep track of their progress with powerful analysis and actionable feedback. Members can also share their experiences with the rplan community.

rplan is creating a set of powerful, simple tools that help the majority of UK investors make the best possible investment decisions for themselves, without overcomplicating or oversimplifying. Investing is made clearer, more accessible, and more attractive to mainstream customers.

How they describe their product/innovation: Portfolio analysis aims to help investors answer three fundamental questions:

• What have I got?
• How well am I doing?
• What can I do to improve?

It shows users how much they have invested and where, but also tells them how they are doing based on risk, cost, performance, and goals. Finally, it offers in-depth analysis based on asset allocation and fund analysis, alerting users to how they can improve their portfolios.

Portfolio builder helps users create an investment portfolio based on key criteria such as goals and risk. It allows users to narrow down from 2,400 available investments to those that are applicable to them, giving them feedback on their investment decisions as they go in areas such as asset allocation and fund selection.

The key to both these features is simplicity, giving mainstream investors the knowledge, tools and confidence to manage their own investments.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Andy Creak, CEO, [email protected]
Press: Martin Campbell, [email protected],
Andy Creak, CEO, [email protected],
Nick Curry, CPO, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: SAGE SA is a Swiss-based software publisher with headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland and offices in Dubai and Singapore.

Our vision is to reinvent the relationship between financial institutions and their client. We’re getting there by offering clever software solutions precisely fitted to the needs of the wealth management industry.

BlackSwan Financial Platform, the product we’re demonstrating, is part of a complete suite of investment management tools currently used by major financial institutions worldwide.

How they describe their product/innovation: BlackSwan Financial Platform is a risk management and portfolio optimization tool. It is addressed to investors and relationship managers to help them make better investment decisions but more importantly build trust with their clients. The platform allows them to visualize the risk held in a portfolio and perform what-if scenarios. Investors can intuitively understand the consequences of their decisions.

Using fat-tailed distribution and minimizing the expected tail loss allows the system to take into account extreme events such as market crashes or other collective behavior when suggesting the most appropriate asset allocation for the client’s profile.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Jean-Luc Freymond, CEO, [email protected]
Press: Sabine Glotin, [email protected]
Sales: Cecile Escobar, Sales Manager, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: SumUp’s vision is to change commerce on a global scale starting with a real and existing payments problem. Today, millions of small businesses are missing out on customers because they cannot accept card payments. Traditional card terminals are expensive, with high monthly fees and long contract durations. SumUp offers the easiest way for small businesses and sole traders to accept card payments securely, even on-the-go. Using only a portable card reader and an app for iOS and Android, merchants can accept card payments on their mobile device, with a transparent fee of only 2.75% per transaction.

The company is creating a cashless point-of-sale solution that will radically simplify the way people pay in everyday life.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Jan Deepen, CCO, [email protected]
Press: [email protected]
Sales: Marc-Alexander Christ, CSO, [email protected]
UK Sales: Florian Richter, Country Manager UK, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Temenos software provides banks with a single, real-time view across the enterprise, enabling banks to maximise returns while streamlining costs. We provide front to back office solutions to retail, corporate, universal and private wealth banks and other financial institutions. We are pioneers in the banking technology world, being one of the first companies to fully utilise SOA technology, and being the first vendor to implement a core banking product in the cloud with live customers. Temenos recently acquired edge IPK, providers of edgeConnect, a leading user experience platform (UXP) to the financial services market, which will be demoed at Finovate.

How they describe their product/innovation: edgeConnect is the industry’s most dynamic user experience platform (UXP). edgeConnect provides a single, consistent platform that enables superior user experiences to be delivered across multiple distribution channels, for any product, any user, in any language and optimised for each device. A major new editor within edgeConnect will be demoed at Finovate called ‘LiveDesigner’ – this is a game changer in application design. It allows designers to change the look and feel, layout and behaviour while an application is executing, so that they can make changes and see the effects on dynamic application pages prior to live deployment.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Des Noctor, Sales Director, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: TESOBE is an agile funky team of software engineers, project managers and designers based in Berlin. We specialise in web and mobile application development, open data and APIs.

The Open Bank Project is an open source powered API for banks that enables account holders to interact with their transaction data using a wider range of applications and services. The OBP API supports transparency options (account holders can share configurable views of their transaction data with trusted individuals and even the public), data blurring (to preserve sensitive information) and data enrichment (users can add tags, comments and images to transactions).

How they describe their product/innovation: The world’s first Singing Bank! demonstrates three principles of the OBP API:

1) It encourages innovation (niche markets, interfaces, languages. etc.).
2) It supports *public* views on transaction data whilst preserving sensitive information.
3) It results in lower barriers to entry, better security and lower cost.

The OBP Transparency/Social Finance application is for organisations that want to practice wider transparency and/or generate a real time dialogue around their finances.

The OBP App Store allows vendors to showcase and consumers to find and rank apps.

The OBP Virtual Machine allows CTO’s to easily evaluate our technology.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Ismail Chaib, Project Manager, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: The Currency Cloud makes international trade and cross-currency business management easier than ever for businesses. We leverage the Cloud to deliver a low cost, simple and automated international payments platform that transforms the world of foreign exchange and currency management. Businesses can access our capabilities through our own online applications, XBP Client and XBP Control, through their own apps and services via our XBP Connect API, or through a 3rd party service, such as an accounting solutions provider or an IFA, that has embedded our capabilities within their customer application or is using our white-label platform to extend an international payments offering to their business customers.

How they describe their product/innovation: We are showcasing the power of integrated international payments for businesses. Accounting solutions are ubiquitous in business, yet the break in the workflow when having to make international payments to suppliers is inefficient, time consuming and prone to operational risk. Using The Currency Cloud’s XBP Connect API, the first truly effective applications that enable international payments to be managed directly from Sage and Salesforce.com are being launched at FinovateEurope 2013. The applications enable a business to initiate and manage their international payments just as they would their payments to domestic suppliers – directly from their ledger. Paying international suppliers becomes significantly easier and lower in cost and the business accounting function drastically more productive.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Nasir Zubairi, Product Marketing Director, [email protected]
Press: Ben Leong, Hotwire PR, [email protected]
Sales: Stephen Lemon, Sales Director, [email protected]