January 28, 2016 - 18:00
Fintech Storm – Online Lending & Peer to Peer Marketplaces Special 28 January 2016
Come meet the disruptive thoughtleaders that are imagining the future of banking.
Featured speakers
Robert Henker, Cashboard
Robert Henker is Certified Portfolio Manager with Deutsche Börse Group and received his MBA from ESCP Europe Paris. Before founding his first FinTech already 2010 he was management consultant with one of the big four and worldwide leading accounting companies. Since 2014 he is Co-Founder and CEO of the Berlin based FinTech CASHBOARD. CASHBOARD is the fastest growing robo-advisor in Germany and backed by top-tier VCs including Earlybird and 500Startups. The company won several national and international awards, e.g. the 1st prize at SevenVentures Pitch Day at the NOAH Conference London worth a €4m TV media budget.
Cashboard
CASHBOARD is the fastest growing robo-advisory and wealth management platform in Germany and the only one which combines traditional (Funds, ETF, stocks etc.) and modern (P2P-Lending, real-estate, crowdfunding, bitcoins etc.) investments on one free account. The platform enables retail clients to invest into a tailored and diversified portfolio. While others sell only ETF or products from one provider CASHBOARD serves as a dashboard combining various asset classes, financial products and online investment platforms in a one-stop-shop solution. The algorithms generate substantial added value for clients in terms of convenience, transparency and cost. Account opening is completely online using video KYC and electronic signature. Portfolio management, loss protection and basic tax optimization are done completely automatically. Clients benefit from the security of a personal bank account. The account, service and platform is completely free of charge. Clients pay only a fair profit share. The company has received numerous awards and is backed by some of the leading VCs from Germany, Europe and worldwide including 500Startups. 2014 CASHBOARD won the 1st prize at the SevenVentures Pitch Day from NOAH Conference London worth a €4m TV media budget.
Kautham Haran, Invoice Finance
Serving as the Chief Operating Officer of Funding Invoice, Kautham co-founded the startup back in just September 2015. Since then, he has helped to steer Funding Invoice to become the fastest invoice marketplace to reach the £1m lending milestone. Mixing the concepts of invoice finance and crowdfunding, Funding Invoice is able to offer immediate funding to its SME customers by allowing them to get their invoices paid early. Being one of the youngest COO’s in the FinTech arena, Kautham represents not only the shift of talent into FinTech but also the future of innovations in alternative finance as a whole.
Yatir Zaluski, Co-founder, Credible – Israel
Credible is an alternative credit scoring startup from Israel targeting online lending , crowd funding and p2p funding marketplaces.
Credible is an innovative fintech startup that sets a mission to enable financial inclusion worldwide through the use of alternative data.Credibles platform provides a hybrid approach of analyzing borrowers financial footprints from any legacy systems and taking its digital footprints from social media networks and comprising a psycholinguistic profile.our algorithms will scale those funnels of information and offer a score to the lender.
Credible’s solution is a Win-Win for both lenders and unbanked borrowers.borrowers gain from having the lender look not at their financial history but also other factors, lenders can increase their loan portfolio and revenue streams not just from interest and fees on loans but also from marketing aspects.
Credible’s next generation product is a B2B solution for SME’S, our main differentiator is the fact we analyze SME’S management by their social profile,their interactions in board meetings with regards to their psycholinguistic profiles and more.
This outstanding solution is not just for lenders but also can serve VCs or crowdfunding websites when conducting investment duediligence.
Elly Hardwick, ex CEO & Founder Credit Benchmark
Elly has spent the past 10 years in financial technology, most recently as founding CEO of contributed-data credit risk start-up Credit Benchmark. Previous experience includes Thomson Reuters, where she was Global Head of Professional Publishing, and stints at Morgan Stanley and the UK Government’s Communication and Information Industries team.
We invited the most innovative firms in Alternative Finance & Peer to Peer Funding Marketplaces industry
This is a Meetup not to be missed with talks and a round table where the movers and shakers of the hottest new industry – Fintech – will debate opportunities, and challenges of the new age bank!
Register here:
http://fintechstorm28january2016.eventbrite.com
What: Fintech Storm featuring disrupters
Meet the CEOs
See Product Demos
Join the Fintech Revolution!
When: 6:00pm-9:00pm 28 January 2016
Where: Rainmaking Loft, International House
1 Saint Katherine’s Way, London, E1W 1 UN
2 min walk from Tower Hill and 5 min walk from Aldgate Station
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