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The Startup Launchpad, is a dedicated networking and demo space at Fintech Connect specifically designed for early and growth-stage fintech startups to showcase their exciting new tech and solutions. Download the Startup Launchpad Sponsorship brochure today and find out how you can get involved.

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We create custom, precisely targeted campaigns to reach senior decision makers across the fintech ecosystem. Regardless of your marketing challenges — from branding, to lead generation, to customer retention —FinTech Connect offers a host of media solutions to tackle multiple objectives and lets you target our professional audience with precision and scale.

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Download the latest must-read report by Nordic API Gateway and see how you can crack the code to monetise open banking and build convenient services.

At FinTech Connect 2020, 7,000+ FinTech professionals from financial institutions to major challengers and innovators will come together to assess the very latest innovations that are fundamentally changing the way we transact, save, borrow and invest. Enquire about sponsorship opportunities for 2020. 

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Thousands of financial services leaders have already confirmed their attendance at FinTech Connect 2019 - including delegations from organisations such as Revolut, N26, Monzo, Starling Bank, Credit Karma, TransferWise, HSBC, Nordea and many more. They will be building relationships, assessing the most revolutionary fintechs on the market and making new connections during this rapid period of change.

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This year's show, taking place December 2-3 at the ExCeL London, is expecting 6000+ FinTech professionals from Financial Institutions to major challengers and innovators. Join the registration waiting list now to find out the moment registration opens, and the earliest attendee offers. 

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This year's show, taking place December 3-4 at the ExCeL London, is expecting 6000+ FinTech professionals from Financial Institutions to major challengers and innovators. Join the registration waiting list now to find out the moment registration opens, and the earliest attendee offers. 

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Download Five Ways to Benefit from Open Banking. In this booklet, Yolt Technology Services outlines the main benefits of open banking for a wide variety of businesses – and describes how a trusted third-party provider can help you get started and scale up.

Fintech is booming. Global investment in fintech at the end of 2015 stood at just over $19 billion, an increase of nearly 700% from 2011. Machine learning drives fintech. In lending, security, payment systems, insurance, compliance, and other fintech sectors, innovative analytics are essential to success. To compete with big banks and insurers, successful fintech entrepreneurs build cutting-edge machine learning into the products and services they offer.

In this paper, courtesy of FinTech Connect Gold Sponsor DataRobot, the DataRobot team explain how machine learning automation solves three key problems:

• The data science talent shortage
• The difficulty caused by long project timelines in satisfying clients and booking revenue.
• The headace surrounding provisioning machine learning platforms

Over the past 15 years the GAFA group (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) of companies have dominated the consumer domain, creating digital engagement across multiple verticals and touchpoints.

Central to this has been a customer first philosophy, delivering relentless value. As they enter the world of banking and fintech; let’s take a look at the potential impact they could have

Excuse me? That’s right! Splice together finance, technology, the body of a man and the head of a bull, and you get yourself a FinTech Minotaur.

Over the past 12 years, Northern Ireland has been establishing a reputation as a global hub for fintech, regtech and cyber. The region offers a combination of great infrastructure, competitive costs and supportive administration but above all a talented, well educated workforce with a superb work ethic. 

CardGenY launches its digital transformation toolkit at FinTech Connect. However, one aspect of the toolkit that always gains attention is our AR module that enables offline content to be seamlessly brought online.

When you think of an accountant, you probably picture the headlines about ‘Big Four’ audit failings, or perhaps someone in a crumpled suit, huddled over a spreadsheet, calculator in hand. If you’re new to this world, you’re probably not picturing your customer’s most influential business adviser. You’re probably not thinking about some of most influential agents of FinTech disruption either.

It’s been an unusual summer. England’s footballers reached their first World Cup semi-final in 28 years, while the heatwave has caused meteorologists to make comparisons with weather 42 years ago. Now the Office for National Statistics has identified another rare event: UK households have become net borrowers for the first time in almost 30 years.

In 2018, accountants don’t just advise on tax issues. They support their clients with business decisions, and that includes the tools and products they should use in their business. Accountants are now fundamental to any FinTech company wishing to secure the SME market.

One of our truly committed and experienced users is Adyen, a top-tier company in online payments all around the globe. Due to an ever growing client portfolio it is increasingly important for Adyen to use the right risk monitoring tools to stay on top of the news.

Cointelligence serves as the data layer for the crypto economy. But data on its own does no good when people don’t know how to use it. This is where the concept of “due diligence” comes in. By training crypto enthusiasts and potential investors on how to do their own research, it’s possible to give people the tools they need to protect themselves from fraud and bad decisions.

In recent years, any strategic conversation around the future of research usually begins, and often ends, with MiFID II. But the disruption of the research industry started long before those regulations were implemented.

Firm contributes proposal to FINOS FDC3 App Directory Working Group to further enterprise desktop app standardization.

Yuichi Honda, the CEO of Blockfanz, a community which provides marketing support and consulting services for those who aiming to spread blockchain projects in Japan and Korea. In this update, Honda will answer 5 questions about the Japanese and Korean cryptocurrency situation.

When considering new partnerships, onboarding customers and suppliers, or entering a new market, more certainty is always welcome. Access to the richest, most reliable private company information on the market can help you identify potential regulatory and reputational risks before they can impact your business.

The UK’s passion for innovation means it is now seen as a global leader in the development of financial services that are powered by prepaid technology, according to data released by Prepaid International Forum (PIF).

GlobalSign, a leading provider of identity and security solutions, today announced the company will be showcasing its cloud-based Managed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security solutions and its newly recognized Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP) capabilities at Fintech Connect, December 5-6, 2018

At this year's show, Profinit will be introducing a set of powerful predictive algorithms that offer financial institutions innovative ways to manage risk, battle fraud and improve customer retention. 

26/09/18

There is some pretty cool stuff going on with our company. We were just featured in a prominent magazine. The mag selected us as leaders in the Fintech industry to interview and do a story on. This was a real feather in our collective hats!

Nick Varnitski of Armada Labs has some stunning numbers for you to think about regarding modern-day healthcare patient financing. Are you ready? Here we go.

20/06/18

In the latest Rebank podcast, , Co-Chair of ‘s Open Banking & Payments Working Group and a member of the Open Banking Implementation Entitiy Working Group, Megan Caywood, Chief Platform Officer at Starling Bank, a UK digital bank differentiating through Open Banking, and Jamie Campbell, Head of Awareness at , a fintech leveraging Open Banking.

16/05/18

A telegraph research published in 2017, revealed that the UK ranks third on the most cashless countries in the world index. The top two countries are Canada and Sweden, while the other European countries that made into the top 10 are France and Germany.

23/04/18

Leading identity confirmation provider HooYu has partnered with Glint to verify customer identity and maximise the speed and success rate for customers wanting to open an account.

08/12/17

The 2017 UK FinTech Census was designed to gather key insights directly from FinTechs, charting key areas of growth, as well as potential challenges. 

17/10/17

Dejamobile, editor in software solutions specialised in secure mobile transactions, is accelerating its growth by raising €2.5 M from Newfund and M. François Enaud, former Chairman and CEO of the Steria group.

05/10/17

Aviva, the UK’s largest provider of general insurance and leading life and pensions provider, is to make a strategic investment in Wealthify.

06/11/17

Levels of financial technology (FinTech) adoption among consumers has surged globally over the past 18 months and is poised to be embraced by the mainstream, according to the latest EY FinTech Adoption Index.

26/08/17

Vision Banking was written by Vega in partnership with Investec Bank Channel Islands and handles Online and Back Office Intermediary and Private Client payment processing (including FX and batch processing), deposit and loan processing.

05/03/18

BBVA Open Talent, the world’s biggest fintech competition, will this year mark its tenth anniversary by working with more start-ups than ever before. 

08/01/18

Schroders is specifically targeting tech companies which have progressed beyond the conceptual or early-growth stage that offer solutions relevant to investment management. 

Solna is the smart invoicing tool that helps freelancers and small businesses get paid faster, and the first platform of its kind to be powered by credit-score data.

Based on a vision to create a fundamentally new model for banking – one where we only make money when our customers do – dozens offers a current account, a smart budgeting tool, an investment manager, and cash rewards for good financial behaviour - all in one app.

BlockFanz is a professional marketing community for blockchain projects based mainly in South Korea and Japan. We aim to gather fans from all over Asia for your blockchain project.

Complidata develop A.I.-driven Process Automation Solutions to streamline and optimize Compliance Processes and underlying operations across several vertical domains for FSIs.

Akoni provides cash management solutions for businesses, working both with banks and companies - leveraging Open banking to deliver personalised products. The platform algo matches two continually changing circumstances using data innovation, analytics and prompts.

Sedicii’s ground breaking technology allows parties to prove to each other that they both have exactly the same information without sharing it. Verifying identities without compromising privacy enables full process digitisation. Building this trusted Identity layer on top of any blockchain will eliminate identity fraud and provide anonymity with accountability.

Sensibill works with innovative financial institutions to help small businesses and freelancers manage paper and digital receipts. The solution integrates with digital banking channels to drive net new engagement in online and mobile banking. The service is white-labeled, designed to meet bank requirements, and live with global financial institutions today.

TransferX uses a completely new concept for foreign (cross-border) remittances. Our objective; provide a more efficient solution for transferring funds into under-banked emerging markets, by leveraging ‘Distributed Ledger Technology’. DLT allows TransferX to achieve much faster yet cheaper payments, and our digital platform avoids the need to use agents.

Cygnetise is a decentralised application that makes the process of managing authorised signatory lists efficient and secure. Using blockchain technology, organisations including PwC, Ogier, Vistra and many more, significantly mitigate the risk of fraud and save over 90% of their admin time and costs.

Facesoft is an innovative, SaaS start-up, providing facial identification and verification solutions in the security, banking and access control markets, via a cloud-based API solution. The company’s face recognition algorithms have been found to be amongst the best in the world, with accuracy levels of greater than 98%.

Finlight.com is the only tech solution that family offices need. Designed by and for family officers, it supplements their investment due diligence and risk management processes by combining into one application an AI-powered virtual analyst, Alfred, who eliminates information quality issues, with decision analysis tools and access to peers-rated experts.

ID-Pal is a frictionless digital ID&V solution that maximises customer acquisition rates across all channels. A customer’s identity and address are thoroughly verified in seconds using a combination of biometric, document and database checks. ID-Pal is a SaaS solution that can be instantly customised and configured in minutes without any setup fees or development costs.

Paytweak is a FinTech start-up company which provides secure and unique services for online-payments through links, which can be sent by Emails, SMS, chats and bots. Paytweak is connected to more than 500 banks and PSP around the world to accept all payment means and issues electronic Bank transfer & direct debit authorizations.

DataChemist delivers on a simple promise. Making meaningful, correct data and insights available across the enterprise. We find and expose real-world relationships between entities and we do it at massive scale. We quickly bring you on a journey from disparate, unstructured data to a unified view of your enterprise knowledge. DataChemist delivers on a simple promise. Making meaningful, correct data and insights available across the enterprise. We find and expose real-world relationships between entities and we do it at massive scale. We quickly bring you on a journey from disparate, unstructured data to a unified view of your enterprise knowledge.

The advent of PSD2 and other open banking initiatives is creating a vast number of APIs spread around the globe, creating a fragmented landscape. Interconnectivity Solution by Neonomics solves this issue by helping you reach thousands of banks via one unified API - affordably and efficiently.

Scanovate, Creating Cyber Identity for financial institutions using a comprehensive platform that transforms compliance to a frictionless, profit generating process.

biid is a “mobile identity” platform that secures and protects digital infrastructures while allowing users to easily authenticate online, authorise transactions, sign legal documents and provide consent, in accordance to new EU and UK directives and regulations such as eIDAS, GDPR, PSD2 and Open Banking.

OroPay are an e-Money Wallet provider. The OroPay wallet is easy to setup, easy to get funds into, and convenient for customers to operate. For Merchants we offer a cost effective way to receive payments for online services.

Phronesis is a company based in Bath that provides a platform to small and mid-size companies that helps give certainty to the complex task of validating mobile customers, reducing fraud and improving customer experience.

PiP iT Global is a unique B2B platform powering international CASH payments so that our partners and their customers can: Accept CASH cross-border bill payments, Load CASH to eWallets, Accept CASH for eCommerce orders, Lodge CASH to bank accounts across borders.

bibimoney are London based, using our patented SIM-Skin technology, to provide secure, mobile payment wallet services, working on any phone, any mobile network. Without the need for data, we enable our partners to create Financial Inclusion in high growth, large population, developing countries, by delivering an interoperable, mobile money solution.

DebtCase helps SMEs collect their overdue invoices quicker, more efficiently and potentially free of charge. Once you connect your accounts package we match you to a collection agency who operate a no collection, no fee policy and add their commission to the debt, meaning you could receive then entire balance.

W2 Global Data provides real time identity verification technology. Our wide range of SaaS screening tools enable organisations to conduct regulatory Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Fraud prevention due diligence. Our services include ID, document and Age verification, PEP and Sanctions screening, affordability checks and source of funds.

Compatible with all email accounts and incredibly easy to use, StayPrivate enables businesses to send and receive sensitive data in a convenient, secure and compliant manner.

Qwil Messenger solves the challenge of making chat safe and compliant when it matters most: between staff, clients and partners. Their single, global chat app enables participants in any location to engage in branded, professional conversations with their companies whilst meeting the most stringent security and regulatory requirements.

Paybase covers payments, compliance and risk - all under one unified API - allowing you to focus on your core business.

BankZee offers a family banking solution for financial service providers. Their white label, business-to-business service helps your bank to onboard and keep Generation Z as customers.

With BankZee’s wide range of software and hardware products, kids improve their financial literacy and grow up to be conscious bank customers.

Credas provides award winning identity verification technology across multiple markets and sectors via an easy-to-use mobile platform.

Instanda is a leading-edge cloud software that enables you to easily create, manage and distribute your insurance products. It provides insurers, brokers and MGAs with a software tool to move from product concept, to binding online, in a matter of weeks. There’s nothing that remotely looks like an off the shelf, one-size-fits-all model. No templates. No limitations. You get the benefit of insurance software that allows you to work the way you want to. A number of the world’s best-known carriers are now enjoying the benefits of flexible, agile product management, where rates, questions, documents can be amended in minutes.

kompany provides Business KYC, AML & EDD Solutions for global corporates. Our live and real-time international company search and verification service covers +100mn private companies in more than 150 countries and jurisdictions. Operating under government licenses, we provide audit-proof documentary evidence and enabling cross-border UBOdiscovery using live relationships between companies in real-time, using data extracted from authoritative documents expanding the UBO Family Tree.

MYPINPAD is a global leader in payments software authentication solutions. Our patented technology creates a trusted and hardened environment to protect sensitive consumer data on devices such as smartphones and tablets enabling bank grade, multifactor authentication through the use of card PIN and Biometric credentials for financial transactions, secure sign-in and consumer on-boarding.

Particeep is a fintech that provides financial institutions a turnkey technology to market online their financial services and products. The company offers banks, asset management companies, insurers and their distributors an API technology that integrates a full range of ready-to-use financial micro-services to quickly launch their online distribution business.

Rubean is a specialist developer of MOBILE payment solutions for Merchants, Consumers, and Card Issuers (Credit, Debit, Prepaid & Gift). Our software is fully patented and built to industry best practice with partners such as Huawei, Intertrust, etc.

SteelEye's cloud-native platform is designed to help regulated firms not only comply with their regulatory obligations but also gain deep insight from the traditional dormant data they must collect for regulatory purposes. This helps them trade with greater efficiency, profitability and control. SteelEye is the only platform to offer communications, transaction reporting, record keeping, trade reconstruction, best execution and data analytics in a single comprehensive solution visible through a single lens.

Wealthify is an online investment service that makes investing easy and affordable for everyone. Get started in under 10 minutes and with as little as £1. Our experts will build you a global investment portfolio and manage it for you, every day.

Union Digital is an innovative vendor dedicated to providing digital financial systems to financial service providers like lenders, leasing and factoring providers, credit unions, currency brokers and client score providers to improve their client retention, automation, profitability and corporate governance. Union products are all based on union digital core.

Stefan K. Persson is Chief Executive Officer at Precise Biometrics, a market-leading supplier of solutions for convenient and secure authentication of people’s identity. In his past career, Stefan was Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President for Bang & Olufsen, and Chief Operating Officer of Medicom Innovation.

Fintech Connect’s Carly Greene catches up with Lex Sokolin on AI, the future of finance and tips for the start-up community looking to develop the next big innovation.

Abba is CMO at proptech start-up Habito. She is a seasoned marketing consultant working with both Google and Youtube on their accelerator programmes. She has worked on both sides of the marketing industry, as a Managing Partner of Media Strategy at McCann and Director of Advertising Strategy at News UK. 

Fintech Connect’s Carly Greene catches up with Alexandre Rispal on the broadening ecosystem, Moon-Shot Internet and the key technologies paving the way for bleeding edge services in insurance.

Carly Greene, Content Director for Fintech Connect, catches up with Carlos Belsué of Armillion, a Swiss company that created the first ultra luxury contactless device, a jewel that fuses functionality, exclusivity and luxury like never before.