The visiting delegation will be spending time in Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds  in a schedule that will showcase the region’s businesses, universities, and economic landscape.

Each visiting firm is an innovative scaled-up FinTech looking to connect and collaborate with the UK tech and financial services ecosystem.

The Visiting FinTechs

Company: Assure Hedge

Established: 2016

Country: Ireland

Description: Assure Hedge has created the world’s first digital OTC solution for the selling and instantly pricing of OTC FX options. The company is regulated with the FCA and is subsequently now offering its services across all 31 EEA countries. The corporate objective of the business is to become the no. 1 provider of over-the-counter (OTC) currency options and forwards in the world

Relevant Services: Payments, Risk Management, Foreign Exchange, Aggregation Services

 

Company: Axyon AI

Established: 2016

Country: Italy

Description: Axyon AI leverages the most recent advancements in deep learning to create bespoke business applications for capital markets and asset management. Axyon SynFinance brings smart and predictive analytics to loan syndications desks of Corporate & Investment Banks. This gives clients a competitive edge in becoming the preferred arranger whilst realising productivity gains. 

Relevant Services: Banking, Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

 

Company: Braintri

Established: 2013

Country: Poland

Description: Braintri builds ingenious custom software and provides specialized consulting services to banks and payment institutions. We specialize in delivering solutions for the most exciting areas for innovation in banking technology: mobile applications, payments and big data. .

Relevant Services: Payments, Banking, Data & Analytics, Data Security, Authentication/KYC, Mobile Tech.

 

Company: CallVU

Established: 2012

Country: Italy

Description:CallVU’s Digital Customer Engagement Platform automates business processes and maximises digital assets to enhance customer experiences. As customers are able to complete more tasks in self-service, or with advanced agent collaboration tools, companies successfully improve their operational efficiency and increase their revenue.

Relevant Services: Banking, Mobile Tech

 

Company: Cappitech

Established: 2015

Country: Israel

Description: Cappitech is a leading provider of regulation technology for the financial services industry. Through Capptivate, our regulatory service platform, customers can easily automate regulatory reporting and analyze their daily trades to comply with international financial regulations. Our cross-regulation platform uses state-of-the-art technology to provide a unified experience for all regulatory reporting along with an industry leading analytics dashboard to process and audit review compliance reports. 

Relevant Services: Data & Analytics, Aggregation Services

 

Company: Describe Data

Established: 2018

Country: Ireland

Description: Describe Data have developed a proprietary analytics engine called Kompreno, specifically to assess complex insurance risks. We apply machine learning, natural language processing and artificial intelligence to traditional and alternative data sources. This enables us to generate unique insights into multifaceted risks. By combining client data with external data from reliable sources we can analyse an existing book of business and deliver key information that is often new to the client.

Relevant Services: Banking, Insurance, Capital/Liquidity Management, Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence.

 

Company: FinTech District

Established: 2017

Country: Italy

Description: FinTech District is an open ecosystem that seeds, fosters and drives innovation within the Italian fintech community, serving as its flagship brand in Italy and abroad. It nurtures sustainable growth within ecosystem participants, both individually and in close collaboration.

Relevant Services: Payments, Banking, Lending, Savings / Investments, Insurance, Pensions, Risk Management, Capital / Liquidity Management, Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, Foreign Exchange.

 

Company: Fortia Financial Solutions

Established: 2012

Country: France

Description: Fortia is a fast-growing Regtech offering innovative funds and product lifecycle management solutions for fund managers, banks and insurance companies. Our modular, reliable and AI-driven platform is key for automation and digitalization of financial processes. Our solutions enable the clients to thrive in a complex regulatory environment as the software helps them build a global and multidimensional vision of their funds and products lifecycle management. 

Relevant Services: Banking, Risk Management, Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

 

Company: ICARE Technologies

Established: 2016

Country: France

Description: Icare Technologies, created the ultimate smart ring that replaces your set of keys and your means of payments. This ring, called Aeklys, allows you to enter your home, access your office, unlock and start your car and allows you to pay just by waving your hand in a fully secured way. The use cases are multiple, and can be implementable for banking, for smart cities, for stadiums, for access control and identification… It’s a NFC technology coupled with the most efficient secure element on the market, giving you a beautiful form factor with the highest security.

Relevant Services: Payments, Banking, Data Security, Authentication / KYC, Mobile Tech

 

Company: iDenfy

Established: 2016

Country: Lithuania

Description: iDenfy is an online identity verification company, that helps reduce fraud, makes your business smoother and more profitable. We provide a scanning terminal and facial recognition system that it makes it fast and easy to capture and verify peoples identity to meet KYC (Know Your Customer) and other regulatory requirements.

Relevant Services: Authentication / KYC

 

Company: IFTHENPAY

Established: 1998

Country: Portugal

Description: Payment system for online stores and invoice software

Relevant Services: Payments

 

Company: Investsuite

Established: 2018

Country: Belgium

Description: We are a EU wealthtech startup with two cutting edge products/solutions: a B2B robo advisory and a white labelled next generation retail trading platform

Relevant Services: Banking, Savings / Investments, Pensions, Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Tech

 

Company: modelfinance

Established: 2009

Country: Italy

Description: modefinance is a native Fintech company founded by two University professors, which provides ratings and financial risk management solutions, thanks to its own MORE methodology and its unique cross-skilled team, applying Data Science and Artificial Intelligence technologies to finance, with a global approach.

Relevant Services: Risk Management, Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

 

Company: NODALBLOCK

Established: 2017

Country: Spain

Description: Nodalblock is a company providing logical security and information certification services using blockchain technology. Nodalblock functions through a multi-device platform provided to customers and developers via a REST API (Representation State Trandfer Protocol). 

Relevant Services: Banking, Savings /Investments, Insurance, Data Security, Authentication / KYC, Mobile tech

 

Company: NS Knox

Established: 2016

Country: Israel

Description: nsKnox TxAuthority™, built with Cooperative Cyber Security technology, uses a distributed and zero-knowledge approach to create the most secure and effective payment protection currently available. TxAuthority™ exponentially increases payment system protection while securing both outbound and inbound payments from all kinds of risks and threats.

 

Company: ORCA Alliance

Established: 2017

Country: Lithuania

Description: ORCA is a personal finance management tool that offers users the ability to securely aggregate their banking and cryptocurrency information. This aggregated data is used to present insights into the user’s financial life and help them make better decisions.

Relevant Services: Banking, Lending, Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Aggregation Services

 

Company: PangeaMT

Established: 2000

Country: Spain

Description: AI-enhanced Natural Language Processing Ecosystem providing a single access point for all language needs: near-human neural machine translation (document re-creation via app or API), knowledge engineering (automatic classification, categorization, etc.), anonymization in several languages (GDPR compliance), sentiment analysis, summarization (custom-built with client data). 

Relevant Services: Insurance, Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence,

 

Company: Shield Financial Compliance

Established: 2017

Country: Israel

Description: Shield is a regtech compliance platform helping banks with regulations such as MiFID ii/MAR/GDPR and ePrivacy (and more) connecting trade and electronic communications such as email, chat, voice etc. Our proprietary text analytics engine helps correlate the data together in a user-friendly visual platform for purposes of trade reconstruction, investigation and business insight. 

Relevant Services: Banking, Risk Management, Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Security

 

Company: Upswot

Established: 2018

Country: Poland

Description: Upswot provides on banking premises loan onboarding product for SMEs, with automated underwriting (in less than 60 seconds), and continuous credit re-assessment, based on the data from cloud business systems SME use Upswot saves time for financial analysts by pulling and automatically analysing the data from public registries of 100+ countries, and cloud accountancy, CRM, eCommerce, eWallets, ERP systems your SME clients use. 

Relevant Services: Banking, Lending, Risk Management, Data & Analytics

 

Company: Welltrado

Established: 2016

Country: Lithuania

Description: Welltrado is a tool to track and manage investments across multiple P2P platforms. 

Relevant Services: Risk Management, Data & Analytics, Aggregation Services

 

Company: Wenalyze 

Established: 2018

Country: Spain

Description: Wenalyze is a Big Data Analytics platform that links open data and internal data of banks and insurance companies to find new selling opportunities and reduce fraud rates in real time for SMEs and individuals. 

Relevant Services: Banking, Insurance, Risk Management, Data & Analytics