These 7 fintechs want to fix our broken financial system
New solutions for today’s finance problems
Abroaden
Thanks to the pandemic, more and more workers are ditching their desks and packing their backpacks for the world of remote work abroad. According to a report from MBO Partners,4.8 million workers describe themselves as digital nomadsglobally, and a further 17 million aspire to one day become nomadic.
Taking meetings from the beach sounds pretty nice, right? Well, things like financial investing become a lot more complicated once you’re no longer a resident of your home country.
Enter:Abroaden, a Spanish wealth-building platform made for people living abroad. Abroaden works a bit like a financial adviser, using a combination of tech and human expertise to learn about customers’ goals, investment preferences, and risk tolerance — based on these factors, the service then designs an investment strategy tailor-made to the user. This service then seamlessly moves with you as you move from country to country, allowing you to build wealth as you go. Elliott Locke, CEO of Aboraden, says:
Finclude
According to Ioanna Stanegloudi, co-Founder & Chief Risk Officer of Finclude:
Fincludewants to revolutionize the notoriously opaque world of creditworthiness via an embedded finance solution. The pan-European fintech analysis uses transactional data and spending patterns, offering a more transparent option for affordability assessment. This, Finclude says, should provide a more holistic view of a retail credit applicant to creditors and lenders.
As a B2B, Finclude works as an embedded API to a business’ apps or websites, allowing it to seamlessly become part of the customer journey, increasing customer engagement digitally and ensuring a more inclusive path to creditworthiness.
B-Datagray
According to Angela Griggio, CEO ofB-Datagray, one of the biggest issues facing data privacy in Europe is that search engines rely on massive centralized server farms which are inflexible and oligopolize the market. Her company’s model is focused on tackling the exploitation of customer data for profit.
B-Datagray is an Ireland-based blockchain startup whose aim is to decentralize cloud computing, making it less reliant on oligopolized server farms. Thisblockchainbased system allows for more resiliency to outages (increasing cybersecurity) and provides a privacy-friendly solution.
To increase the cost effectiveness of the decentralized cloud computing infrastructure (Datagen Infrastructure), B-Datagray is leveraging the huge potential of crypto finance, starting with the creation of Datagen Infrastructure’s utility token, the DataGen token (#DG), minted in the Binance Smart Chain blockchain on March 21st, 2022.
Identyum
Privacy is one of tech’s big hot button issues —294m people in the US alonehad their identity stolen in 2021 — and no sector faces the pressure more acutely than fintech.
Croatia-basedIdentyumis a digital ID wallet allowing for customer identification, onboarding, data extraction, and legally valid document signing, giving users better control over their identity data.
How it works is that when a user creates their digital ID profile, their personal information becomes encrypted and locked via a PIN, making the ID data unreadable to others. Every time an app, for example, wants to read your data, you need to enter your PIN — and a secondary security factor — to decrypt it.
Users can use Identyum to do things like prove their financial capacity, conduct an identity check, or sign a document. Robert Ilijaš, CEO of Identyum explains:
Woli
Gen Z is still a hugely underserved market when it comes to banking — and a massively missed opportunity, considering they now make up32% of the population.
One of the new fintechs on the block looking to take a piece of the pie isWoli, a money management app and Mastercard for kids aged 10 to 18 years old. Co-managed by, and securely linked to parents, Woli does things like automating pocket money and teaching teens good financial behavior.
The cards are also prepaid, so users can never spend more than their balance, and parents can also set up chore-based incentives for kids — walk the dog, and that’s $1.80 straight into your account. According to Vasilis Zoupas, CEO and founder of Woli:
And this is backed by investor confidence as the company recently closed a700k seed funding round.
Togggle
Another data security fintech,Togggle, is on a mission to give users back control of their personal data. CEO Michelangelo Frigo explained:
Using the PIMS concept, the app allows users to see and manage which companies are collecting their data and who it’s being shared with. With this overview they can then completely decentralize where their data is stored.
Meanwhile, for companies, they offer an identity verification solution that is completely decentralized, avoiding data privacy risks.
Liridi
BNPL is one of the hottest trends to come out of fintech in recent years. It’s proven popular amongst millennials and Gen Z alike, but Liridi wants to take it to a new market.
UK-basedLiridiwants to bring this popular alternative payment method to small business owners in emerging economies, allowing them to buy the goods and services they need at their own pace.
Specifically targeting African and Asian entrepreneurs who have traditionally been locked out of funding, how it works is that an entrepreneur can buy the product they need for their business via the Liridi app, which ensures fair pricing and lets them pay in installments.
This, Liridi says, empowers underbanked entrepreneurs to grow their business sustainably.
Learn moreabout these and other up and coming fintechs ready to disrupt Europe’s financial sector.
Story byAndrea Hak
Andrea is TNW’s Branded Content Editor and, as a writer, she’s covered a wide range of topics from ClimateTech to AI and gender bias. She’s(show all)Andrea is TNW’s Branded Content Editor and, as a writer, she’s covered a wide range of topics from ClimateTech to AI and gender bias. She’s always on the lookout for stories that explore the social and political impact of emerging technology.
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