On November 10, SDK.finance was presenting demo at Bank Innovation Israel 2015 DEMOvation challenge.
Bank Innovation is a great event for all FinTech startups. The event was full of ground-breaking insights and ideas for tech innovators. The main goal of Bank Innovation Israel was bringing together global leaders to discuss the future of FinTech, with a focus on local entrepreneurism.
Speakers at the conference included Vikram Pandit, former CEO, Citigroup; Tom Glocer, former CEO, Reuters; and Ruth Polachek, Head of Citi Accelerator & External Innovation, Innovation Lab, Citi Israel.
Interesting and actual topics were covered there. Bank-Startup collaboration, the challenges with investing in fintech, cybersecurity, big data, fraud and flexibility were the hottest topics.
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DEMOvation
During DEMOvation, there were demos of new technologies, as well as startups that won slots in Bank Innovation DEMOvation Challenge, as determined by a team of judges, followed by discussions of the demos and a brainstorm session to cultivate a more dynamic future for banking innovation.
SDK.finance was one of these new startups. We were presenting our demo in front of more than 350 attendees of Bank Innovation Israel at the Dan Tel Aviv on Nov 10.
The jury consisted of:
- Dorel Blitz, Innovation Manager, Bank Leumi
- Duena Blomstrom, Knower, Duena Blomstrom Consulting
- Jeremy Bornstein, Head of Payments Innovation, RBC Royal Bank
- Phil Ryan, Senior Editor, Bank Innovation
- Matthew Wilcox, SVP Marketing Strategy & Innovation, Fiserv
SDK.finance demo was one of the most long-expected presentations. Duena Blomstrom wrote in her Twitter account:
Now up #biisrael2015 @sdkfinance – been looking forward to this
— Duena Blomstrom (@DuenaBlomstrom) November 10, 2015
Freda Gray, connector at Matchi.biz, was also waiting for SDK.finance pitch:
@matchibiz Looking forward 2 ur pitch @sdkfinance 4 #BIIsrael15 @BankInnovation https://t.co/27BKu6oLQd — Freda Gray (@FredaGray) November 10, 2015
SDK.finance is very grateful to the conference audience for their support during our presentation. We hope that in spite of some technical issues we have managed to bring the main idea of our product.
Next Duena’s tweet gives us confidence that we’ve done everything right:
#biisrael2015 @sdkfinance “talk to your clients not to developers” cc @opinionmachine pic.twitter.com/cKj9837hTV
— Duena Blomstrom (@DuenaBlomstrom) November 10, 2015
JJ Hornblass, President & CEO, Royal Media, has described SDK.finance idea in such words:
https://t.co/r9WHYGeiJx: Fintech-startup-in-a-box: and we are talking about any fintech. #biisrael15 — JJ Hornblass (@hornblass) November 10, 2015
Leumi Tech, Israel FinTech banking company, have also commented our demo:
Good job @sdkfinance @MalyshevAlexey @BankInnovation ! DEMOvation sessions at #biisrael By SDK Finance . pic.twitter.com/s2az2nWvJq
— LeumiTech (@LeumiTech) November 10, 2015
It was a great event for all FinTech community. SDK.finance is grateful to the organizers of the Bank Innovation Israel for the opportunity to be part of it. We are proud that we had an opportunity to present SDK.finance as a back-end software to build core banking software products in the shortest terms.
About us
SDK.finance has a proven track record of providing financial services companies with the digital banking functionality that they need, using its secure, robust, and configurable API platform as a one-stop-shop solution.
Contact us to learn more about our banking solutions. We are open to talk about how SDK.finance can be useful for your business.