Register for Fintech Storm - Payments Special 15th September 2015 at http://fintechstormseptember2015.eventbrite.com

In continued tradition of our stupendously successful Fintech Storm Series

Genius Incubator Presents

Fintech Storm - 15 September 2015 - Payments Special

Come meet the disruptive thought　leaders that are imagining the future of banking.

We invited the most innovative payment firms.

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://fintechstormseptember2015.eventbrite.com

What: Fintech Storm featuring disrupters

Meet the CEOs

See Product Demos

Join the Fintech Revolution!

When: 6:00pm-9:00pm 15 September 2015

Where: Rainmaking Loft, International House

1 Saint Katherine's Way, London, E1W 1 UN

2 min walk from MOORGATE and 4 min walk from Liverpool street stations

Tuesday 15th Sep Fintech Storm Payments Special debate features :

Steve Emecz Powa Technologies, Mark Gerban Innogames Howard Charles Allen Payfriendz Sasa Skevin Microblink

Topics for discussion by the Payments Panel : The payments landscape is the most competitive and most innovative. What is the frontier next for this industry in Europe & Emerging markets. Who will win in this war for customer's wallet? How are merchants adapting to this payments wave? What are the merchants & retailers still missing? How is the value chain changing with the advent of Apple Pay? 

We will discuss the contextual payments, security, authentication, trust, evolving payment gateways, challenges faced by retailers and SMEs, how each of the payments firms is solving the above problems etc. 

and the various issues affecting Payments ecosystem :

Tokenisation,Trust, Security, Merchant adoption, friction, Payment Services Directive II, Multilateral Interchange Fees, Mobile payments, Online Fraud in real time payments, Blockchain disruption of payments industry etc..

Join us 6pm Rainmakingloft for the only one of its kind debate! 

Powa is an international commerce specialist that creates technologies to seamlessly integrate the physical and digital world.

The management team behind the Powa vision have over 15 years’ experience. Over that time they have seen and addressed the issues raised by early adopting consumers.

The Powa suite of commerce solutions is made for a world where consumers hold the future in their hands – be it a laptop, tablet or mobile. With increasing choice, transparent pricing, dwindling loyalty and a multitude of buying channels it becomes ever harder for retailers to entice, satisfy and retain the newly empowered shopper. Powa removes the final barriers to instant global transactions. We’re here to serve the customer AND the merchant.

PowaWeb is a SaaS cloud-based commerce platform that is flexible enough to always evolve with the market. 
PowaPOS is a hardware and software platform that customises the payment experience in store and on the move.
PowaTag transforms consumer shopping behaviour by eliminating the wait between impulse and purchase online or offline.

Sasa Skevin, COO Microblink (erstwhile Photopay)

MicroBlink is a text recognition technology company that has been developing a powerful engine for mobile phone cameras for the past two years. The startup is in the business of selling its core technology to companies who might find it useful.

“We are not an educational company, we are promoting our machine vision technology with PhotoMath,” co-founder and CEO Damir Sabol told me in a phone interview before Disrupt.

Before PhotoMath, the company worked on PhotoPay, a service to simplify bill payments. Whenever you receive a paper bill, you can scan it and your bank will automatically pay it for you. MicroBlink licensed PhotoPay to 14 different banks around Europe.

So how is this text recognition engine better? First, it works in real-time, meaning that you will get instant feedback on what you are scanning. Second, the company worked a lot on accuracy. While it doesn’t work with handwritten text, MicroBlink believes that the company’s accuracy is simply amazing. Finally, the startup provides ready-to-use SDKs for particular use cases, such as bill payments or equation solving.

“We started developing our technology three years ago. Now, our technology is mature enough, so we are going to develop broader usages with it,” Sabol said.

Mark Gerban, Head of Payments, INNOGAMES

InnoGames is one of the worldwide leading publishers and developers of online games, with over 100 million registered players.  Mark overseas the payment operation, where he is responsible for conversion optimization, local payment methods, and fraud systems.  He was previously Director of Business Development & Payment at gamigo AG, where he was responsible for the account management, business development and payment operations.  Mark is originally from the United States and is a former World-Class athlete.



Howard Charles Allen, CFO & Development Director

Payfriendz Ltd. is a fintech startup founded in Berlin & London in 2013. 

Payfriendz is building an alternative to sharing cash between friends. Anytime, anywhere in the world, across currencies. All you need is your smartphone and your phone contacts.

Making a financial transaction a social transaction! Think Whatsapp with a secure financial transaction.

Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm Series

Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm Series

Read what the Londoners have to say about http://FintechStorm.com the spectacularly succesbrand monthly series Arifa Khan has built, here.

Arifa Khan is a former investment banker in Private Equity led Leveraged Buyouts Mandate M&A transactions, a seasoned finance, strategy and operations executive based in the city of the London, with over 15 years experience in finance, specialising in Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products & Credit. She has worked with two suisse banks Credit Suisse & UBS. She has deep sector expertise in finance, operational insights, and the business acumen to forge big strategic partnerships.

Arifa has independently advised companies of all sizes from pre revenue to deal sizes of GBP300m on venture capital funding, scaling, international expansion, strategy etc. As an investment banker she has executed LBOs of sizes upto several billion USD across Europe across verticals such as Healthcare, Media Telecom & IT, Financial Institutions. She is a thought leader on innovation and disruption in financial services and a sought after speaker on payments and fintech at international conferences such as ICBI’s Payments International in London Mar 17-20, and will be speaking at Women’s Economic Forum Goa May 7-11. She currently architects Wharton Distinguished Dinner Series for Wharton UK Alumni Club as a Wharton Club Committee Member, and is currently the Chairperson London Chapter for All Ladies League.

Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras in Chemical Engineering. She is passionate about fintech and Blockchain. See her vision of Blockchain here.

Read a review of Fintech Storm's recent event Open Bank / Marketplace Banking held on 22nd July here : "A tale of APIs.." By Arifa Khan

Read "besotted with blockchain.." By Arifa Khan

Read an article "war for your wallet.." on Payments and mobile wallets by Arifa Khan on Linkedin 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/war-your-wallet-arifa-khan?trk=prof-post

Don't miss our Payments Special on 30th September with an unmissable line up of Founders of Satoshipay, Applied Blockchain etc.. 

http://fintechstorm30september2015.eventbrite.com 30 September 2015 6-9pm at Rainmaking Loft. Join the only one of its kind live debate on Blockchain enabled Payments.

Proudly sponsored by Powa Technologies

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