How they describe themselves: YUKKA Lab provides fact-based actionable insights to the financial markets.  With YUKKA Labs Augmented Language Intelligence – available as SaaS and via APIs – it generates a systematic and efficient overview of topics and trends observed in the financial media. YUKKA’s self-developed algorithms are leading edge, containing natural language processing and machine learning. Our solutions enable users from fields of asset management, market research, financial advisory, marketing and communication to handle the rapidly increasing amount of various financial data in real-time.

How they describe their product/innovation: Markets can often be anticipated by analyzing news. YUKKA Lab’s financial market sentiment is a real-time leading indicator. Our sentiment-technology anticipates trend reversals in advance, and thus, the news sentiments function as an early warning system. Our Newsflow Analyzer is based on pro-feeds of the largest European news agencies (such as awp, dpa-AFX). Users get insights about market-moving thematic contexts and learn about a market’s pain points and its success factors within a few seconds. This information is contextually visualized in fully reactive data graphs. The Newsflow-Analyzer presents an easy to grasp overview of sentiments in single markets, various regions, and indices, as well as industries and sectors.

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

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Oliver Berchtold, Chief Bus. Dev. & Co-Founder, [email protected]
Press: Ulrike Grandi-Haferstroh, Head of Marketing & Communication, [email protected]
Sales: Micha S. Behrmann, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Yoyo is Europe’s fastest growing combined payment and loyalty marketing platform. Through its omni-channel point-of-sale network, Yoyo delivers the most frictionless payment and loyalty experience for consumers, whilst providing retailers with the tools to better engage, reward and retain their customers.

How they describe their product/innovation: With open banking only just coming into force, Yoyo’s the first company to tap into debit/credit card payment data to instantly apply a retailer’s loyalty points, stamps and other offers, whilst pushing an itemised receipt back into the card’s user’s associated banking app.

Already taking advantage of Starling Bank’s PSD2 compliant API, Yoyo can uniquely match card transactions with a retailer’s till transactions in real time, linking a customer’s basket with their card payment. We then apply our loyalty engine to the matched basket and frictionlessly reward the customer as if they had paid using the Yoyo app.

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

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Michael Rolph, CEO, [email protected] CC: [email protected]
Press: Georgia Hanias, PR Manager, [email protected] CC: [email protected]
Sales: Michael Rolph, CEO, [email protected] CC: [email protected]

How they describe themselves: YellowDog was founded in January 2015 to offer Limitless Compute. Over the past three years, they have transformed the CGI rendering industry with their Limitless Compute Platform and amazing algorithms, dramatically reducing rendering times.

With over 1,000 businesses signed up to their platform in more than 30 countries, YellowDog is scaling up and out to disrupt the financial services industries with its award-winning technology.

Along with YellowDog’s strategic partners, which include the leading public cloud companies, YellowDog is transforming how fintech operates. Prospects now include some of the leading global investment banks, and this is only the beginning.

How they describe their product/innovation: YellowDog solves big batch processing problems in Financial Services.

YellowDog releases the huge latent potential in organisations’ existing computers securely and combines it with the option of public cloud, giving immediate and secure access to hundreds of thousands of cores with none of the hassle associated with multiple vendors.

The YellowDog Platform is securely installed within the current IT environment, allowing High Performance Computing clusters to securely extend to any underutilised compute. Need more compute? The YellowDog Platform can securely burst batch workloads to preferred public cloud providers to ensure batch processes always run on time.

This is YellowDog’s Limitless Compute.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Jamie Donald, [email protected]
Press: Gareth Williams, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Wealth Wizards is a true fintech company combining leading edge technology with expert financial planning. We’re building an ecosystem of online advice and guidance tools that are accessible to everyone, helping people plan and manage their personal finances.

We are pioneering the combination of fintech expertise, financial intelligence, AI and smart software technology to deliver expert advice at an affordable cost.

We partner with progressive financial services brands to run a white-label technology platform for their businesses. Our belief is that everyone deserves the opportunity to create a positive future and feel in control of their finances.

How they describe their product/innovation: Wealth Wizards are here to revolutionise the world of financial advice by working with advice businesses to reduce risk, costs and service a growing client base. The most recent breakthrough in our innovative journey is ‘turo’, the AI financial adviser.

Learning from past at-retirement Defined Benefit cases, ‘turo’ is able to provide fully regulated financial advice with super-human accuracy. In seconds, a client receives a verdict about whether or not to transfer their Defined Benefit pension.

This is a ground-breaking example of how AI can augment a human adviser’s ability to produce robust and consistent advice at a fraction of the cost of traditional advice.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Simon Binney, Bus. Dev. Director, [email protected]
Press: Georgina Pickerill, Marketing Manager, [email protected]
Emma Harvey, PR, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Vipera is a leading-edge provider of omni-channel banking, payment and customer engagement solutions. Its digital solutions meet the daily needs of over 3million users, across Europe, the Middle East & Asia.  Vipera is quoted on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM and operates from offices in London, Milan, Zurich, Frankfurt, Madrid and Dubai.

Mastercard is a leader in global payments and a technology company that connects billions of consumers, thousands of financial institutions, and millions of merchants, as well as governments and businesses around the world.  We take an innovative, value-driven approach to the solutions we create and services we offer, making transactions faster, easier, and more convenient and secure.

How they describe their product/innovation: SME-Pay is a mobile payment solution designed specifically for SMEs.

Controls allow business owners to decide when, where and how all their business payment cards may be used: at ATMs, in-store, online and within set transaction limits.

Profiles can be created for different groups of staff: e.g. office staff may only make purchases online, field staff may only use their cards in-store.

The app takes photos of receipts and attaches them to the transaction record; transactions can be exported for expense reporting.

Using the dedicated mPos, cardholders can get paid directly onto their corporate card.

Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Vipera – Simon Pearce CMO, [email protected], +44 (0) 7795 105 376 | Mastercard – Dick Paul, VP Small Business Products Europe, [email protected]
Press: Vipera – Fergal de Clar, Head of Marketing, [email protected], +44 (0) 7425 886 907

How they describe themselves: We’ve created a secure collaborative engagement solution to help the world’s leading banks & financial services institutions deliver an in-person experience online. Over 100 banks and financial institutes already trust our solution and have made it part of their service delivery strategy.

We provide banks with technology to enrich the digital experience of their clients by extending their customer’s touch points (live chat, LiveView chat, video chat, voice chat, messenger, etc.) and assist/advice them in context with tools like Co-browsing and Document Sharing. The result is a better customer experience and higher sales revenues.

How they describe their product/innovation: We will use Finovate to officially launch unblu 5, the updated version of our customer engagement and collaboration solution for the financial sector.  We will be demoing our new Secure Asynchronous Messaging capability and the unblu Concierge, which supports automated customer engagement flows.

These new channels enlarge existing live engagement & collaboration capabilities and allow banks to give a much more personalized experience to their customers as they allow to provide a Whatsapp like end-user experience while ensuring the communication is secured at banking standards and complies with GDPR and other data privacy regulations.

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

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Paul Swaddle, Partner & Alliances
Press: Javier Puga, Product Marketing
Sales: Patrik Hug, CSO, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: W.UP is a next-generation digital banking software company, helping financial institutions to increase digital sales and personalise customer interactions by identifying key moments in the customer journey and turning those into a happy digital banking experience. We do this with a team of highly skilled fintech specialists who developed on-premise and cloud-based products using the latest advanced analytical and machine learning tools. Our 15+ years of experience allows for fast implementations, turning ideas into projects and projects into success stories – on time and on budget.

How they describe their product/innovation: Sales.UP is a personalised banking sales solution:

• Uses pre-built customer insights to create relevant, personalised and timely interactions with clients
• Makes big data, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning work for your bank to boost digital sales and client engagement
• Is a core system-agnostic, SaaS-based solution, with a 3-month implementation period to any legacy system
• Includes Data Universe, Insight Engine + Insight Store with pre-built actionable insights plus Campaign Management building on our 15+ years of frontend-developing experience

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Tamás Braun, International Sales & Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Tibor Mozsik, Marketing Manager, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Wealth Migrate is a leading global online investment marketplace offering international investors direct access to exclusive real estate investment opportunities in premier world markets, including the USA, Australia, the UK and South Africa for as little as $1,000. With regestered users from 105 countries and active investors from 42 countries, Wealth Migrate is helping investors from developing nations access currency stable developed market direct investments. By partnering with best-in-class developers and real estate investment companies, investors have access to premier real estate opportunities with experienced, on-the-ground partners.

How they describe their product/innovation: While anyone can invest through the Wealth Migrate marketplace, they are especially valuable to middle class investors in markets where there are currency fluctuations. By helping middle class investors in developing markets invest their wealth in currency stable markets, they are bringing vetted deal flow with the highest quality on the ground partners to investors throughout the globe, who otherwise would not have access. The inclusion of blockchain and their own cryptocurrency provides investors with increased greater protection, enhanced compliance, the inclusion of smart contracts, and decentralized confirmation of transactions. Our Global Investment Due Diligence Systems (GIDDS) is one of the most sophisticated and advanced in international real estate, and incorporates multi-levels to ensure global consistency in safety, wealth preservation and sustainability.

Product distribution strategy: B2C, B2B, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Machiel Lucas, Global GM, [email protected]
Press: Denise Nel, CMO, [email protected]
Sales: Jason Vorster, Sales Manager, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: WeInvest is Asia’s first B2B digital wealth management solutions provider. Founded in 2015, WeInvest is headquartered in Singapore. We are serving Banks, Brokers, Wealth Managers, AMC’s and Insurance Companies in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, UAE & MENA.

We enable our clients with a digital advisory platform to control the entire value chain from front to middle and back office systems to execution and custody. Our product suite consists of a Retail Robo Advisory Platform, RM Assisted Robo Advisory Platform and an aggregation tool that enables a comprehensive view of a client’s assets & financials across multiple institutions.

How they describe their product/innovation: AdviseWealth is a comprehensive RM suite with end-to-end portfolio analytics, powerful financial planning tools capability to manage core and satellite portfolios.

A digital platform for an advisor to understand and optimise his client portfolios, generate relevant ideas, expedite execution and collaborate with his clients anytime, anywhere. It has a plug and play capability to introduce digital wealth, giving your Relation Managers the access to strategies & products with personalized strategy selection & filtering to identify and cross-sell portfolios.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Preeti H Bhambri, Head of Business Development & Marketing, [email protected], 6582372977

How they describe themselves: ZagTrader is a specialized Financial Technology company and service provider that provides its clients in the brokerage, investment banking, capital markets, and asset management with sophisticated solutions to run their business effectively. The solutions include a fully integrated platform for front-office, middle-office, and back-office, trading, order management, global feeds, online trading, mobile trading and access to global markets through routing networks.

How they describe their product/innovation: Our main products are the Execution Management System and the Brokerage Management System. ZagTrader Brokerage Management System is a true three-dimensional platform (Multi Asset Class, Multi Market, and Multi Currency), that supports Equities, Futures, Forex, CFD’s, Derivatives, Bonds, Options, Funds and ETFs, with connectivity to more than 200 markets worldwide. The platform also provides its clients with an advanced real-time analytics, market intelligence insight and smart algorithmic trading giving the traders the edge they need to achieve the best execution and to enhance their performance.

Our platform is easily integrated with any 3rd party or a core banking system, making the whole installation process simple and done with ease.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Daniel Fakhoury, [email protected], +971-55-148-023

How they describe themselves: Uniken makes connecting safe. We have redefined the current security model of “connect then verify” to “verify then connect”, dramatically reducing your threat surface by bringing amazing security and a phenomenal client experience. We completely eliminate the risk of credential compromise, harvesting, phishing, spoofing, and Man-in-the-Middle attacks with frictionless security across all your channels and can reduce your fraud to zero. We secure over 9 million users, 20 million endpoints, 300 million interactions, and secure $500B+. The best statistic however, is ZERO – ZERO identities compromised, ZERO network intrusions, and ZERO financial and data loss.

How they describe their product/innovation: REL-IDverify is the next generation of the product that resonated so well at FinovateFall 2017 in NYC. This release enhances our SDK and brings transaction verification for all your channels including phone, chat, call center, web, voicemail, and email to financial services. REL-ID is not just another security layer or authenticator, but rather a new security protocol that is mobile first and will take your transaction fraud to ZERO, meet all your regulatory and internal compliance guidelines, all while delivering a frictionless and phenomenal client experience.

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

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Robert Levine, COO, [email protected], 917-324-0399
Press: Julie Suter, VP Marketing Communications, [email protected], 212-520-2557
Sales: Bimal Gandhi, CEO, [email protected], 212-220-8512

How they describe themselves: Financing is a major pain point for corporates: traditional models of trade financing are constrained and do not address the need for more inclusive and straightforward funding.

At the same time, investors are seeking uncorrelated assets with attractive risk-return profiles.

Velotrade uses technology to empower investors and corporates: our online marketplace matches corporates looking to get financing by selling their trade receivables to investors looking to gain exposure to this new asset class.

How they describe their product/innovation: Technology allows us to streamline the procedures and offer a scalable solution to a very real funding problem.

Sellers and investors are KYC’d and on-boarded through an efficient and seamless digital platform.

The creation of the auction to sell receivables is a process that takes just a few minutes and a few clicks. Our e-verification tool allows for a swift and effective mechanism to prove the existence of the receivable and therefore reduce disputes. Receivables can also be offered with an insurance protection and fractioned so to minimize default risk. The platform provides all the necessary information for the investor to make an informed decision.

All operations can be reproduced on a mobile device.

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

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: [email protected]
Sales: [email protected]