FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek Archives

FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: Okanii

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 14, 2019
Categories: FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek, Okanii

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

Okanii solves all of the problems of moving value around the world by creating the true internet of value.

Features

Cost – Okanii offers a 100x cost reduction that makes $0.01 micro-payments profitable
Security – Quantum proof hyper-tokenization, unbreakable, zero fraud
Scalability – easily supports all of the worlds’ transactions

Why it’s great
Okanii is the opposite of blockchain. Make payments/ transactions in any asset (181 currencies, stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate) across any use-case (P2P, B2C, B2B), instantly, securely, and at no cost.

Presenter

Grant Colhoun, CEO
Colhoun is a serial entrepreneur, payments expert, and a recovering investment banker.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: Circlys

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 14, 2019
Categories: Circlys, FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

Circlys is a social saving plan based on circles model (rotating savings and credit association /committees) with trusted users that have been risk accessed.

Features

On-time payment
Flexible plans
Long term saving benefits
Access to liquidity that fits any financial plans

Why it’s great
Circulate with Circlys and according to plan.

Presenters

Hanan Alanazi, Operations manager

Khaled Hassoun, CEO
Hassoun has eight plus years of experience in tech start-ups in which he undertook multiple roles in managing business aspects.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: fcase

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 14, 2019
Categories: fcase, FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

Fraud prevention has many layers, each with its own view. However, fraudsters attack across all layers. With fcase holistic fraud investigations, you can now manage all fraud from one mission control.

Features

Centralized fraud prevention automation
Holistic manual fraud investigations
Fraud mission control

Why it’s great
Built from the ground up to massively manage your fraud operations from one mission control, fcase is one golden source of fraud data, delivering a reduction in fraud, customer friction and improves efficiency.

Presenters

Bulent Ozkan, VP
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Barry Bowen, Global Head of Sales
Bowen has 25 years of experience building, implementing, and marketing fraud prevention systems.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: Hakbah

By David Penn Posted on November 7, 2019
Categories: FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek, Hakbah

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

Hakbah is an Islamic fintech startup with a mission to increase financial inclusion via its Smart Cooperative Saving Platform. The focus is on digitizing traditional financial habits (like Jamiya).

Features

Provide a smart and easy digital solution in a smart savings platform
Increase financial inclusion via savings products
Move the informal financial channel into a financial system

Why it’s great
Hakbah is capturing and digitizing the consumer’s traditional financial habits embedded within the financial system. The solution also offers savings products for underbanked individuals.

Presenter

Naif AbuSaida, Founder and CEO
AbuSaida has seven years of experience in banking, cash management, money transfers, operational risk, and financial risk. He has 13 years of experience in marketing and communications and corporate strategy.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: FinFirst

By David Penn Posted on November 7, 2019
Categories: FinFirst, FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

FinFirst is an end-to-end financial services aggregator that pairs businesses and consumers with banks and NBFIs and offers fully automated onboarding, credit assessment, and fulfillment.

Features

Serves businesses and consumers as an AI-driven aggregator of financial services
Supports financial inclusion and serving the underbanked
Offers alternative lending and alternative investing

Why it’s great
FinFirst is a one-stop shop for financial services.

Presenters

Omar Mehanna, Chief Executive Officer – UAE
Mehanna is an award-winning, commercially-minded business leader with over 25 years of banking and investment experience with leading international financial institutions and early stage/growth businesses.
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Abbas Hijazi, Chief Executive Officer
Hijazi has originated and executed landmark transactions in M&A and corporate finance. He has expertise in fintech, private equity, venture capital, real estate, and M&A.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: JuicyScore

By David Penn Posted on November 7, 2019
Categories: FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek, JuicyScore

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

JuicyScore provides next generation device authentication and data analytics. The company makes the internet safer via improving end-user security and alternative data engineering without using personal or sensitive data.

Features

Robust device authentication technology stack and wide output data vector
End-user security that does not utilize personal data
Worldwide accessibility based on open API principles

Why it’s great
Every online trace leads to valuable data which is safe, predictive, and extremely powerful for fraud prevention, risk management, and financial inclusion purposes.

Presenters

Alexander Akhlomov, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder
Akhlomov has extensive experience in product development and information services for financial institutions, together with expertise in risk management and portfolio analytics.
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Andrew Reddikh, Chief Technology Officer
Reddikh has extensive engineering experience in multiple areas such as travel, banking, and finance. He has worked with many backend and frontend tools including GoLang, Java, PHP, NodeJS, JavaScript, and ReactJS.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: DAPI

By David Penn Posted on November 7, 2019
Categories: DAPI, FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

DAPI is an API that connects applications to banks.

Features

Simple integration for MENA-wide bank connectivity
Access to end users financial information in their bank accounts
Payment initiation and automation

Why it’s great
A one-stop shop for fintech infrastructure in MENA, DAPI is the first unified banking API in the region.

Presenter

Mohammed Aziz, Co-Founder and CEO
Aziz is an innovator, tech entrepreneur and fintech expert who built successful tech startups prior to cofounding DAPI, which he is building with the vision to disrupt the fintech landscape in MENA.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: Scientia Consulting

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 5, 2019
Categories: FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek, Scientia Consulting

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

FinTech Insights by Scientia is an innovative online platform that analyzes, measures, and compares all digital services of banks and fintechs in the UAE and worldwide.

Features

Analyzes digital banking and fintech services behind the login screens
Measures and presents functionality and UX across all channels of each bank
Allows head-to-head comparison of banks and fintechs

Why it’s great
FinTech Insights exhaustively analyzes all UAE and most prominent worldwide digital banking and fintech services behind the login screens using real bank accounts.

Presenters

Alexandros C. Argyriou, Managing Partner
Argyriou is the managing partner of Scientia Consulting Group and a recognized fintech and digital banking expert.
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Konstantinos Stivaros, Partner
Stivaros is partner in Scientia Consulting, mainly responsible for its international expansion. He has worked in banks and fintechs for 16 years and he holds a PhD in Computer Science.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: PointCheckout

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 5, 2019
Categories: FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek, PointCheckout

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

PointCheckout is a payment platform for loyalty points, allowing users to pay online and in store with their existing points and miles, and even a combination of their points from different programs in one transaction.

Features

Ability to pay with points online and in store
AI-powered analytics on user spend
Hyper-personalized redemption options

Why it’s great
With $700 million in unredeemed points in MENA, opening loyalty redemption options will result in a direct and measurable increase in credit card spend and double engagement with the bank channels.

Presenters

Bashar Saleh, CEO
Saleh is an entrepreneur, technologist, and the founder and CEO of PointCheckout, which is a payment method for reward points.
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Tarek Ghobar, Chief Commercial Officer
Ghobar is a three-time tech entrepreneur and aerospace engineer, with experience in turning technology into business and e-commerce.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: IN-D by Intain

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 5, 2019
Categories: FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek, IN-D by Intain

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

IN-D by Intain is an AI-powered platform that digitizes, classifies, and reads documents in image form. The technology sources data from digital sources, including unstructured documents, and automatically extracts data to accelerate decisions.

Features

Template-independent, artificial intelligence algorithms-backed engine
Zero cost to implement
Cloud or on-premise solution

Why it’s great
RPA products fail if there is a need for document to data to decision. IN-D has an artificial intelligence, algorithms-backed engine that automates these process to make the automation successful.

Presenter

Ashish Shekhawat, Product & Marketing Head
Shekhawat is leading product and marketing efforts at IN-D By Intain. He has a vast experience working with financial institutions and joined Intain to solve the organization’s operational challenges.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: Amber Labs

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 5, 2019
Categories: Amber Labs, FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

Amber Labs is a university-backed, automation-focused bitcoin exchange, wallet, and micro-investment app – all in the palm of your hand. It is optimized as an on-ramp today and evolving into a global Bitcoin bank tomorrow.

Features

Fastest retail-focused Bitcoin gateway in the world
Automated, programmatic purchases (eg; IFTTT, rules, recipes, etc.)
Bitcoin-denominated banking and financial products (payments, subs, loans)

Why it’s great
Amber is building a next generation bank and financial application on Bitcoin – an open, internet-based central banking protocol. This is being done whilst generating real revenue and profits today.

Presenters

Steph Verin, Marketing

Alex Svetski, CEO & Founder
Svetski is a university dropout, Bitcoin advocate, and a financial markets and tech entrepreneur. Privately, he is a writer and researcher in the fields of economics, physics, technology, anthropology, math, and engineering.
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FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peek: Neo Technologies

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 5, 2019
Categories: FinovateMiddleEast 2019, FinovateMiddleEast 2019 Sneak Peek, Neo Technologies

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.

Neo Technologies is a leading wealth services platform providing an end-to-end white label solution that enables banks and financial institutions to deliver on retail and affluent wealth opportunities.

Features

Digital onboarding of customers and front-end UI
Robo-advisory suite and digital distribution of investment products
Administrative tools to successfully manage a new business vertical

Why it’s great
Neo’s platform-as-a-service is enabling banks and FIs to deliver on affluent wealth opportunities by launching leading services in a fraction of the time, cost, and resources within a compliant framework.

Presenters

Fahad Al Bader, CEO
Al Bader has worked in roles across capital markets, corporate finance, and asset management in MENA over the past 15 years.
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Abdullah Razooqi, Head of Product
Razooqi has diversified experiences across traditional financial services and financial technology, currently overseeing product development and delivering innovative financial solutions.
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