UBS «The Future of Finance Challenge» 2015 (Photo:UBS)
Zurich – The UBS Future of Finance Challenge was launched in August. On November 11th the finalists of the regional final in Zurich have been announced. Among them were eight Swiss start-ups. Two of them, Biowatch and Embotech, are now in the global final. With a first prize of US$50,000, the competition offers the winners a share of over US$300,000 cash prizes and support, over 300 hours dedicated coaching and mentoring from experienced technology and business leaders, and also a chance to further commercialize and scale their ideas and technologies with help from UBS resources and support.
The global finals will take place in Zurich on 10 December.
BIOWATCH, biowatch.ch, Zurich
BIOWATCH, a wearable that fits on your watch for secure and seamless access to e-banking & m-payment apps.
Embotech, embotech.com, Zurich
100x faster than IBM’s product, our backend software for mathematical optimization enables real-time, interactive portfolio optimization on mobile devices.
Wayerz, wayerz.com, Zurich
Wayerz provides an integrated bank-to-bank platform that includes a navigation-like system used to optimize international money wires, correspondent inter-bank reporting, and reconciliation.
WealthForge Holdings, Inc., wealthforge.com, New York
WealthForge provides an integrated solution of risk management, standardized processing and automated technology for issuers and intermediaries.
Stratos, stratoscard.com, New York
StratosCard acquires and rewards high wealth and corporate clients by offering a connected card with enhanced security, one of a kind features and services.
HealthcareTTU, Inc (HTTU), healthcarettu.com, New York
HealthcareTTU transforms the uncertainty of unpredictable claim payments into the certainty of immediate liquidity for healthcare organizations, improving banking relationships.
Cryptosense SA, cryptosense.com, http://www.cryptosense.com London
Cryptosense lives cryptographic security dashboard for financial institutions.
Aesthetic Integration Ltd., aestheticintegration.com, London
Aesthetic Integrations’s technology automatically analyzes financial algorithms (e.g. dark pools and blockchain smart contracts) for glitches and unfair behaviour.
AimBrain Solutions Ltd., aimbrain.com, London
AimBrain provides the best-in-class context-aware mobile biometric security authentication framework to any mobile website or application.
SayPay Technologies Inc., saypaytechnologies.com, Singapore
SayPay biometric voice solutions create a simple, secure and seamless customer experience across the bank’s digital banking enterprise.
Capital Preferences, capitalpreferences.com, Singapore
You can understand your clients more deeply, in half the time, by their decisions not their words. That’s an Economic Fingerprint™
Mesitis (Canopy), canopy.sg, Singapore
Canopy extracts, aggregates and visualizes a customer’s entire wealth across all asset classes, markets, custodians from data in any format, anonymously.