Innovations at FinovateEurope 2014: Part 2

A week ago we introduced you to half of the companies that will be demoing their technologies on stage for FinovateEurope 2014.

Today we’re providing the second half of our scheduled roster for February.

For more information, and to get your tickets, visit our Finovate Europe 2014 page here.

Luxoft’s iStockTrack is an innovative iPad solution providing mobile banking services for private and premium banking clients.

Matchi is an innovative matchmaking platform for banks and innovators to establish collaborative relationships that deliver increased ROI for innovators and banks alike.

Meniga is Europe’s leading white-label PFM provider. The company helps banks improve their businesses through data-mining, cross-sales, and improved retention.

Mobino enables mobile payments for 5 billion people, from any phone, no credit card required.

The Moneyer is the future of online Personal Finance Management.

Money on Toast delivers independent and whole of the market, FCA-regulated financial advice online via its algorithm-powered adviser.

MyOrder provides a m-commerce mobile app that serves businesses in parking, catering, and entertainment.

myWishBoard is the first crowdfunding platform for personal dreams and wishes.

NF Innova’s Personal Experience Module, a part of iBanking product suite, enables banks to offer their customers a truly unique and tailored user experience.

Nostrum Group has built a virtual collection product that automates and optimizes the delinquency management process.

Nous.net’s Spark Feed is a real-time financial data service that helps you understand and predict the markets.

payworks is the provider of a mobile POS, Software-as-a-Service platform that lets developers quickly build payment functionality into their shopper and merchant apps.

PhotoPay’s technology allows users to extract data from any document, paper or electronic, enabling billpay on mobile devices.

Pixeliris’s CopSonic is the first universal contactless mobile payment system powered by our unique technology based on sonic communication.

Plutus Software’s KreditAja credit sc
oring system is designed to better serve the unbanked and underbanked in Asia.

SaaS Markets is an enterprise cloud marketplace company whose MarketMaker platform helps FIs deploy their own branded, cloud-based business app store.

SmartEngine stands for personalization and target marketing. As pioneers in the field of customer loyalty, Smart Engine is a driver of innovation and a leader in personalized target marketing.

SoftWear Finance’s HACU PLATFORM enables banks to provide customers with the best possible user experience on any platform or device.

SQLI’s Augmented Banking is a new take at Online Banking. It is aimed at positioning a bank at the very center of people’s digital lives.

Temenos’s Treasury Management Dashboard tablet app has been developed for Microsoft Windows 8 and enables the transformation of treasury operations.

Tink is a free personal finance service that allows you to follow your money, where ever you are.

Tootpay’s solution is a mobile financial solution for payments, banking, telecommunications, and remittance industries.

Top Image Systems has leveraged its deep recognition and imaging expertise to develop a powerful suite of image processing applications for mobile devices.

Topicus Finan is a software vendor specializing in enterprise-level financial analysis. Its solution enables banks to provide self-service business lending processes for SMEs.

Toshl Finance is a personal finance manager made fun. Find out where your money is going, keep on top of bills and spending, and set up budgets.

Truphone, the innovative mobile operator, introduces the only global network-based recording solution for the Financial Industry.

Trustev provides a new approach to fraud prevention through a real-time, online identity verification platform, which ensures that merchants know exactly who they are selling to.

Yseop Sales Force Productivity Suite and its email writing application (YseMail) support financial advisors through the entire sales cycle.

Tootpay’s mPod Mobile Payment Solution Helps Remove Barriers to Mobile Banking

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateAsia 2013.

Making their way to the stage next is the team from Tootpay with their mPod Mobile Payment Solution.

“Tootpay’s solution is based on an overlay chip for the customer’s mobile phone. The overlay chip is a stick-on solution that fits onto any standard SIM card of a GSM handset. A menu-based interface is deployed for simplicity and ease of use. It’s not internet or telco dependent and deploys with multiple authentication methods and end-to-end encryption to provide a high level of security for its mobile transactions. As such, barriers to mobile banking such as mobile phone handset incompatibility, dependency on telco service providers, non-existent mobile internet network coverage, fraud, and more are minimized.”

Presenting Balvinder Singh (MD) and Kok Hoong Choo (Application Development Director)

Product Launch: January 2011

Metrics: More than 500,000 mobile users of banks in Indonesia, Malaysia & Thailand are utilizing Tootpay’s mobile payment solution.

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

HQ: Singapore

Founded: November 2010

Website: tootpay.com

FinovateAsia 2013 Demo Companies Bring Global Innovation to Singapore

FinovateAsia is typically our most globally diverse show, and this year is no different. Two weeks from now, we will showcase 37 demos from companies spanning the globe that are innovating in everything from remittance to small business tools to back office solutions and much more. 

Given that diversity, we thought it would be fun put together a map showing the geographic spread of the demoing companies that will take the stage (click the map to enlarge).

Here’s the breakdown of the number of companies from each region:

• Asia: 12
• Europe: 11
• North America: 9
• Africa: 1
• Oceania: 2
• Middle East: 2

To refresh your memory, the list of the companies that we’ve hand-picked to show off their new technology at the Max Atria @ Singapore Expo on November 14, include:

Advanced Merchant Payments App Annie Arkalogic ArthaYantra Backbase BehavioSec BlueKite BRIDGEi2i CustomerXPs Software DragonWealth GMC Software Technologies

i-exceed IND Group Intuition Intelligence KlickEx Kofax LifePAD Luminous Mambu Matchi Mistral Mobile Mobexo Mobino Pangea

Payoneer Pixeliris Red Zebra SaaS Markets Serverside Smart Engine TIBCO Tootpay TradeNet TSYS White Label Personal Clouds Yodlee

To see live demos of the new technology, meet the entrepreneurs responsible, and network with others in the industry, get your ticket to FinovateAsia here. If you have questions about the show, check out who is attending or email asia@finovate.com.

Showing Our Age: A Look at FinovateAsia 2013 Demo Company Launch Timeline

At Finovate, we’ve seen how great innovation comes from companies of all ages. All we have to do is look at the Best of Show winners from FinovateAsia 2012. The founding dates of the winners ranged from 1858 (NAB, the parent company of UBank) to 2012 (SocietyOne).

We don’t know who will win Best of Show at FinovateAsia in Singapore this year, but looking at the launch date of the 37 companies taking the stage November 14, we found a 28-year spread. 

Here they are in reverse chronological order with funding amounts, if disclosed:

2013- 2012

• Arkalogic: 2013

• BlueKite: 2013
  Total Funding: $1.5 million Seed funding

• Dragon Wealth: 2013

• LifePAD: 2013

• Matchi: 2013

• White Label Personal Clouds: 2013

• ArthaYantra: 2012 

• Intuition Intelligence: 2012

• Mistral Mobile: 2012

• Pangea Payments: 2012
  Total funding $1 million Seed funding

2011-2008

• BRIDGEi2i: 2011

• i-exceed: 2011

• KlickEx: 2011
  Total Funding: $1.3 million

• Mambu: 2011
  Total Funding: $2 million Series A

• Mobino: 2011

• Red Zebra: 2011

• SaaS Markets: 2011

• SinoLending: 2011

• Smart Engine: 2011

• Tootpay: 2011

• Mobexo: 2010

• Advanced Merchant Payments: 2009

• App Annie: 2009
  Total Funding: $22 million

2007 or earlier

• Payoneer: 2007

• CustomerXPs Software: 2006
  Total Funding: $4 million Series A

• Backbase: 2003

• Serverside: 2003

• TradeNet: 1999

• Yodlee: 1999
  Total Funding: $124 million

• BehavioSec: 1998
  Total Funding: $2 million (€1.5 million)

• IND Group: 1997

• TIBCO Software: 1997
  Public NASDAQ: TIBX

• GMC Software Technology: 1994

• TSYS: 1993

• Pixeliris: 1989

• Kofax: 1985
  Public LON: KFX

To learn more about each of these companies, check them out here and come see their live demos in Singapore on November 14.

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All numbers and funding information sourced from Crunchbase.com

What to Expect at FinovateAsia this November

You may have seen the list of FinovateAsia demoing companies we released a few weeks ago. Here are more details on the 32 companies demoing November 14 at the MAX Atria @ Singapore Expo. Get your ticket here to be part of the crowd.

Stay tuned for our Sneak Peek series next month featuring a behind-the-scenes look at each company and chance meet the innovators.

Advanced Merchant Payments’ innovative loan management solution enables banks to offer profitable, unsecured, short-term loans to small businesses

ArthaYantra provides personal financial advice online to everyone irrespective of what they earn

Backbase brings social media to the bank, and the bank to social media

BehavioSec has extended its award-winning BehavioMobile solutions to offer policy-based behaviour authentication

BellaDati is the agile business data analysis with human touch

BlueKite’s international bill payment service improves an immigrants’ ability to care for family back home

BRIDGEi2i is a trusted partner that enables organizations to achieve accelerated outcomes by embedding analytics in their DNA

CustomerXPs Software is a leading product company offering real-time, Enterprise Fraud Management & CEM products to banks globally

GMC Software Technology is a leading software developer of solutions that transform the customer experience

i-exceed has created a Unified Application Development Suite for smartphone, tablets, desktops and laptops across operating systems

IND Group is a leading innovator and developer of digital banking, PFM and payments technology

Intuition Intelligence delivers the right offer at the right moment to the right client via digital channels

KlickEx is a Global Clearing System for commercial and central banks. The Clearing System extends to Retail, as well

Kofax is a leading provider of smart process applications that simplify the business critical First Mile of information-intensive customer interaction

Luminous is a boutique innovation company that has become synonymous with innovative banking around the world

Mambu enables financial institutions to rapidly deliver state-of-the-art banking services through a cloud-first Software-as-a-Service solution

Matchi is a matchmaker for innovation

Mistral Mobile powers your mobile financial services to serve anyone

Mobexo is a scalable, value-added payment ecosystem that allows transactions to be executed between smartphones

Mobino enables mobile payments for 5 billion people, from any phone, no credit card required

Pangea Payments’ multiplatform solution will allow you to send money to anyone, from anywhere, at any time, using mobile and retail locations around the world

Red Zebra brings together consumers, banks and retailers, with targeted rewards based on spending patterns

SaaS Markets is the enterprise app store company for financial organizations looking to leverage cloud-based applications for their employees or customers

Serverside Group is the global technology leader in digital card designs and a provider of innovative artwork solutions that create meaningful results

SinoLending is the leading online lending platform in China

Smart Engine’s Multichannel Loyalty Platform benefits financial institutions, merchants, web shops and users

TIBCO Software creates real-time, event-enabled solutions for the 21st Century

Tootpay’s mobile payment solution works independently from network and operator. It is encrypted, using a standard mobile phone

TradeNet provides an equity trading customer channel for retail customers in emerging markets at $5 a month

TSYS focuses on people-centered payments

White Label Personal Clouds’ Website Welcomer eliminates username/passwords and enables seamless, private transfer of information between organisations

Yodlee is the platform for financial innovation, powering the world’s largest collection of transactional data

To learn more about FinovateAsia, visit the event page, check out the FAQ, or email asia@finovate.com.