2018 Sponsors
Lead Partners
Lead Partner
Lead Investec Partner
Specialized provider of private equity investments.
Founded in 1997, Schroder Adveq is a leading asset manager investing in private equity globally and since 2017, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schroders plc. Offering specialised investment solutions which enable our clients to access select private market segments through primary, secondary and direct/co-investments.
Schroder Adveq’s client base comprises institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies, located in Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Many of them are repeat, long-term clients with whom the firm has developed a role as a trusted partner.
Schroder Adveq has offices in Zurich, Frankfurt, London, Jersey, New York, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
Lead Partner
Lead Investec Partner
As a global investment manager,
we help institutions, intermediaries and individuals meet their goals, fulfill
their ambitions, and prepare for the future. But as the world changes, so do
our clients’ needs. That’s why we have a long history of adapting to suit the
times and keeping our focus on what matters most to our clients.
Doing this takes experience and
expertise. We bring together people and data to spot the trends that will shape
the future. This provides a unique perspective which allows us to always invest
with conviction. We are responsible for £447.0 billion (€503.6 billion/$604.7
billion)* of assets for our clients who trust us to deliver sustainable
returns. We remain determined to build future prosperity for them, and for all
of society. Today, we have 4,600 people across six continents who focus on
doing just this.
We are a global business that’s
managed locally. This allows us to always keep our clients’ needs at the heart
of everything we do. For over 200 years and more than seven generations we’ve
grown and developed our expertise in tandem with our clients’ needs and
interests. Explore our interactive timeline to see how we’ve been shaping
financial futures since our very beginnings.
Lead Partner
Lead Digital Transformation Partner
SoftServe is a global digital authority and consulting company, operating at the cutting edge of technology. We reveal, transform, accelerate, and optimize the way large enterprises and software companies do business. With expertise across healthcare, retail, financial services, software, and more, we implement end-to-end solutions to deliver the innovation, quality, and speed that our clients’ users expect.
SoftServe delivers open innovation – from generating compelling new ideas, to developing and implementing transformational products and services. Our work and client experience is built on a foundation of empathetic, human-focused experience design that ensures continuity from concept to release.
Ultimately, we empower businesses to re-identify their differentiation, accelerate market position, and vigorously compete in today’s digital, global economy.
Visit our website, blog, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter pages.
Supporting Partner
Supporting Partner
The Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) is an investment promotion agency with overall responsibility for attracting investment into the Kingdom and supporting initiatives that enhance the investment climate.
The EDB works with the government and both current and prospective investors to ensure that Bahrain’s investment climate is attractive, to communicate the key strengths, and to identify where opportunities exist for further economic growth through investment.
+973 17 58 99 99
Supporting Partner
Supporting Partner
Wales’s tech sector is worth
an estimated £8.5bn to the Welsh economy and continues to grow.
Almost 40,000 people are
actively employed within the Digital Economy here with main hubs focused around
Cardiff and Newport in the south, Swansea in the west and Wrexham in the north.
Wales is home to over 3,000 homegrown
and multinational technology operations, including
global leaders like CGI,
Backbase, Target Group, Equiniti, Admiral, Dell EMC and Sapiens.
Our thriving tech ecosystem
with its growing supply chain combined with our entrepreneurial universities provides
a firm foundation for fintech companies to thrive.
A vibrant innovation community
allows start-ups, investors and large corporations to meet and share ideas.
Key features of the Fintech
Sector in Wales:-
— Wales has emerged as
Europe’s centre for online insurance aggregators
— A global reputation
for cyber security innovation
— Home to the first
financial technology undergraduate degree
Find out what Wales can
do for your business.
Gold Sponsors
Gold Sponsor
BBVA is a customer-centric global retail financial group founded in 1857, that provides its customers around the world a full range of financial and non-financial products and services. BBVA enjoys a solid leadership position in the Spanish market, is the largest financial institution in Mexico (BBVA Bancomer) and has leading franchises in South America and the US Sunbelt (BBVA Compass). Additionally, it has a relevant banking presence in Turkey (through Garanti Bank) and operates an extensive branch network worldwide. The Group’s vision is defined as “Creating Opportunities", while the overall goal is to establish lasting relationships with our customers.
Gold Sponsor
Biocryptology’s Universal Identity Platform offers a complete, universal identity verification ecosystem for all kinds of online and offline access.
No more need for usernames and passwords, car keys, credit cards, tokens and ID cards.
Furthermore, through a one-time only registration, Biocryptology eliminates the need to leave copies of personal documentation with third parties.
Gold Sponsor
DataRobot powers the AI-Driven Enterprise. Its breakthrough invention of automated machine learning empowers ordinary users throughout the organization to consistently make smarter, faster business decisions. The DataRobot platform intelligently evaluates hundreds of cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to discover, deploy, and customize the best predictive models for every situation. By providing the fastest path to data science success for organizations of all sizes, DataRobot delivers the most accurate business predictions at scale.
Gold Sponsor
Phrontier Software develops Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions for the Fintech industry.
Phrontier Software applies over two decades of systems development and cyber experience in the Defence sector to help Fintech companies: Capture requirements, trace use cases and test cases, demonstrate compliance with ISO 15288/89 & ISO 27001 cyber security and resilience assessments, prepare information systems submissions for investment presentations and funding rounds, provide independent IS assurance to investors during Mergers & Acquisitions.
Gold Sponsor
Quadient helps companies deliver meaningful
interactions with current and future customers. A Neopost Digital Company, the
Quadient portfolio of technology enables organizations to create better
experiences for their customers through timely, optimized, contextual, highly
individualized, and accurate communications for all channels. Our solutions
bring together and activate the entire organization in the name of customer
experience, through better collaboration and visibility into the customer
journey. Quadient supports thousands of clients and partners worldwide in the
financial services, insurance and service provider industries in their quest to
achieve customer experience excellence via mobile, digital, social media and
print technologies.
Gold Sponsor
Sage is the global market leader for technology that helps
businesses of all sizes manage everything from money to people. We do this
through Sage Business Cloud - the one and only business management solution
that customers will ever need, comprising Accounting, Financials, Enterprise
Management, People & Payroll and Payments & Banking. Across 23 countries we work with a thriving community of over
3 million entrepreneurs, business owners, accountants, partners and developers
to champion the success of business builders everywhere. A FTSE 100 business,
we are passionate about doing business the right way, supporting our local
communities through the Sage Foundation.
0845 111 99 88
Gold Sponsor
Siemens is a global powerhouse positioned along the electrification value chain – from power generation, transmission and distribution to smart grid solutions and the efficient application of electrical energy – as well as in the areas of medical imaging and laboratory diagnostics. As of September 30, 2016, Siemens had around 351,000 employees in more than 200 countries/regions. We operate in 289 major production and manufacturing plants worldwide. In addition, we have office buildings, warehouses, research and development facilities or sales offices in almost every country/region in the world.
Silver Sponsors
Silver Sponsor
Dejamobile is a Fintech and software solution provider specialised in Mobile Transaction Services. Our solutions allow the implementation of proximity communications and security technologies for mobile services in several domains: payment, ticketing, access control, gift cards, loyalty… At the heart of our offer, ReadyToTap Payment is a mobile payment white-label solution based on HCE (Host Card Emulation) and tokenization technologies. Compliant with Cloud-Based Payments specifications from CB, Pure, Visa and MasterCard, our solution allows issuers to offer a universal mobile contactless service unifying proximity and online payments.
Our headquarters and R&D teams are based in France; and we have offices in the UK and Ireland. Dejamobile’s teams own a large range of skills and expertise: software development, software and hardware security, smartcards, biometrics, contactless and proximity technologies (NFC, Bluetooth Smart, QR Code…), mobile payments, agile project management, R&D and innovation.
+33 2 14 74 75 00
Silver Sponsor
Nicolas founds DreamQuark in 2014 on the basis of this idea and with the unique vision of democratizing IA and bringing Deep Learning to financial institutions. To achieve this, Nicolas surrounded himself with the best data scientists and computer engineers to develop class leading algorithms embedded in Brain, the most advanced predictive platform accessible to everyone.
DreamQuark develops Brain, a software platform that democratizes the use of artificial Intelligence. Based on an advanced proprietary Deep Learning Technology, Brain quickly delivers unmatched and interpretable results to bankers and insurers. Brain covers all their main activities with applications, such as fraud, risk, compliance or marketing. DreamQuark clients include major players of the bank and the insurance sectors BNP Paribas and AG2R la Mondiale.
Silver Sponsor
EValue is the UK’s market leader in the
provision of digital, personal finance advice products and services. These
products combine expert actuarial knowledge, pioneering asset modelling and
risk management. EValue’s software solutions cover all financial planning needs
with versions for use by consumers and advisers.
Silver Sponsor
Bronze Sponsors
Bronze Sponsor
Andromeda is an industry-first data-visualisation platform that speeds up fraud investigations, helping fraud investigators discover hidden links between businesses, addresses and people. Created by the leaders of 192.com, Andromeda lets you see the bigger picture, providing you with the answers to complex queries in a matter of seconds.
Many traditional platforms are either out-dated or too hard to use, often presenting information in a list form or a cluttered, complex graph, resulting in investigators missing key connections. Andromeda’s unique 360-degree view instantly displays all information you need to know in a digestible and easy to understand graph.
Incorporating hundreds of millions of records, Andromeda provides you access to:
- 170 million names and addresses from redirection and suppression data
- 493 million Edited Electoral Register records (2001-2017)
- 8 million company directors and 6 million company shareholders
- 14 million UK businesses
Plus an array of other data sources that provide you with business and personal records, CCJ records, insolvency records, property information and mortality records.
Andromeda helps investigators conduct smarter, more informed investigations; decreasing the time it takes for to complete their inquiries.
Bronze Sponsor
ApPello is a leading software solution provider specialized in front-to-back-office banking solutions, covering all phases of the Credit Risk Management and Cash Management processes.
The company is headquartered in Budapest and represented in other cities such Bucharest, Dubai, Prague and Vienna. ApPello develops and implements next generation solutions to improve its clients’ productivity and efficiency. Our innovative approach is demonstrated in solutions such as our Web Development Platform which provides unparalleled opportunities to create and change business logic (data model, screens, business rules, workflow and reports) by parameterizing only, without development, even by bank staff.
Bronze Sponsor
Since 2002, Armada Labs
has been delivering premium services to help companies in the Financial
Services and Fintech industries. We provide custom software development
services for many verticals as well, including CRM systems, e-commerce, wealth
management, healthcare, real estate, education and telecommunications. With
technology solutions that range from system integrations and data conversions,
to complete infrastructure planning, we have a highly successful track record
of designing, developing, operating and supporting profitable point-specific
industry solutions.
As an Amazon AWS
Consulting Partner for nearly a decade, we have intimate knowledge of cloud programming
for Amazon. With that familiarity, we able to optimize the features and
benefits of AWS Services for your business applications.
Armada Labs works with
start-up companies to billion dollar corporations, and has the proven results,
as well as the ability and scalability to take on a project of any magnitude.
Bronze Sponsor
At HooYu, we’re creating a new approach to identity verification that goes beyond basic identity document or identity database checks to connect you with the living person your company is about to do business with.
We believe that one form of identification is simply not enough when verifying someone’s identity. A multi-layered defence is what is needed to help pass all of your customers during the on-boarding process.
Organisations today need an identity verification solution that can easily verify customers from all over the world but that also uses multiple identity technologies to defend against well-equipped fraudsters.
HooYu’s approach is to blend identity technologies and multiple sources of identity information such as digital footprint analysis, identity document verification, facial biometrics, and database checks to confirm customer identity.
Bronze Sponsor
Profinit are a consulting, software
services, product development & outsourcing business. With our technical
facilities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia we presently provide services to
over 50 customers across Central Europe and the US. Our service portfolio:
Product and Software Development - Services Application Maintenance &
Support Services - Information Management Services - BI/DWH Architecture
Consulting We work in the banking, insurance, telecommunications, general
commercial and ICT services sector. Technologies our teams use and are
certified for: Java, .Net, Liferay, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, Teradata, Postgres,
Talend and Informatica.
Bronze Sponsor
Wirecard, a global technology company, is
an authorised and registered E-money Institution with the ability to passport
cards throughout the Single Euro Payment Area and enable international payment
acceptances and methods with supplementary fraud prevention solutions.
From the issuance of prepaid cards
throughout the UK and Europe, to BIN sponsorship, white label co-branded cards,
customer management, acquiring, processing and risk management, the Wirecard
portfolio is comprehensive and can be customised to meet your specific needs.
0191 227 5472