If your organization has ever demoed its know-how at FinovateEurope, then we’ve obtained a chance for you!
Alumni Alley is our particular showcase solely for corporations which have demoed on stage at FinovateEurope. Held in London at FinovateEurope, March 14-15, Alumni Alley highlights these FinovateEurope alums who’re persevering with to innovate in areas starting from funds and lending to regtech and digital banking.
Go to our FinovateEurope Alumni Alley Showcase hub to study extra about this particular convention characteristic for FinovateEurope alums.
Fintech may not be the very first thing that involves thoughts if you consider Venice, Italy. However the so-called “Metropolis of Bridges” was the unique house for Finantix, a fintech that emerged on the scene as a developer of software program options to help client-facing workers in retail banking, wealth administration, and monetary advisory.
Demoing its Wealth Apps at FinovateEurope 2011, Finantix confirmed how its know-how helped monetary advisors transfer away from paper as their main “help software.” As a substitute Finantix’s know-how leveraged tablets, together with the iPad, to mix the simplicity of paper with the wealthy communication and graphic capabilities of recent handheld applied sciences. The corporate’s providing enhanced all areas of buyer engagement for monetary advisors, from prospect coordination and consumer onboarding to consumer and portfolio administration. FinovateEurope audiences have been impressed, awarding the software program firm with a Better of Present award.
Based in 1994 and bought by Motive Companions in 2018, Finantix in the present day is the Non-public Banking Division of InvestCloud (Motive Companions bought a majority stake in InvestCloud in 2021). InvestCloud gives a no-code software program platform for digital transformation and commerce enablement throughout the monetary business.
In 2020, Finantix launched new CEO Christine Ciriani. “I’m delighted to take up this management place at Finantix,” Ciriani stated when the appointment was introduced. “With an award-winning product providing, our progressive client-first tradition and really sturdy R&D, gross sales, and supply groups, we’re nicely positioned to capitalize on the investments made since Motive Companions acquired an curiosity within the firm.”
Netherlands-based BusinessForensics was based in 2008 and went stay in 2010, only one 12 months earlier than the corporate demoed its know-how on the inaugural FinovateEurope in London. A specialist in monetary crime preventing, BusinessForensics gives companies an built-in enterprise suite to assist them handle threat, fraud, and compliance. Working with banks and insurance coverage corporations, in addition to public organizations and authorities companies, BusinessForensics helps corporations spot fraudulent transactions with real-time monitoring of mission-critical operations. Absolutely built-in and customizable forensic case administration and reporting give companies the flexibility to simply deal with each exceptions and incidents.
Greater than a decade later, BusinessForensics’ providing, Consumer Threat Intelligence, consists of 4 modules – AML and sanctions surveillance, Know Your Buyer/Buyer Due Diligence (KYC/CDD), Fraud and Threat Surveillance, and Particular Investigations – which mix to supply a 360 diploma consumer threat profile.
BusinessForensics was acquired by Munich, Germany-based regtech cleversoft group within the fall of 2020. “To have the ability to fulfill the rising regulatory calls for (our clients) are confronted with, we needed to provoke a cooperation with a bigger regulatory compliance software program supplier and in addition to ignite additional development exterior of the Netherlands,” BusinessForensics CEO Tames Rietdijk stated. “With cleversoft we discovered a complimentary match that can assist us attain these targets by leveraging their organizational maturity, their buyer base, and supply our options within the DACH market.”
When StockTwits made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2011, the “neighborhood powered concept and knowledge service” for buyers and merchants had simply over 50,000 registered customers. At this time, the 14-year outdated firm has greater than six million registered customers on what has grow to be one of many largest social networks for buyers and merchants.
StockTwits was based by Howard Lindzon and Soren Macbeth as a strategy to leverage the quick rising social media app referred to as Twitter to prepare conversations between merchants and buyers about particular person shares. The corporate used “cashtags” with the ticker symbols of shares (as in “$AAPL”) as a means to assist index on-line evaluation, opinions, and commentary about particular person shares, making it simpler for buyers and merchants on apps like Twitter to supply the knowledge.
Final 12 months, StockTwits secured $30 million in funding, giving the corporate a valuation of $210 million. This 12 months, StockTwits launched its crypto buying and selling platform and launched performance to allow particular person buyers and merchants to purchase and promote equities straight from the StockTwits platform.
“With the addition of equities buying and selling to our present crypto buying and selling product, the StockTwits platform continues towards bringing a full suite of execution capabilities,” StockTwits CEO Rishi Khanna stated when the equities buying and selling performance was unveiled earlier this 12 months.
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