UK-Thailand : The FinTech Master Class
UK-Thailand :
The FinTech Master Class
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Participating companies & background
CUBE – Headquartered in London, CUBE is a global RegTech provider that empowers regulated financial institutions to meet cross-border compliance challenges head on. They support global financial services customers from operational hubs in the US, UK and Australia. Founded in 2011, they remain a privately-owned company funded by customer revenues and strategic growth funding.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | FI’s, Banks Tier 1, Consultants (PWC, Deloitt KPMG) Insurance |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Deep Dives, Power Pitch, Discussions, Roundtables |
Featurespace – Headquartered in Cambridge, Featurespace is a provider of adaptive behavioural analytics software, designed to prevent financial crime and fraud. Its customers include HSBC, Danske Bank, Vocalink, Worldpay, and TSYS. They raised £30 million in a venture funding round in May 2020, with total funding raised so far of more than $100m. The new funding will be used to support Featurespace’s “continued growth.”
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia |
Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, Australia
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| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? |
Having local partners is crucial. Support from banking associations in order to increase publicity and regulators is also important in order to be a recognised technology brand.
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Finboot – Headquartered in London, pre-Series A. Finboot facilitates and simplifies the adoption of blockchain technologies into daily business operations. It received investment from global energy giant Repsol as part of its latest fundraise, in addition to securing a commercial contract with the company. The funds will be used to support the enhancement and extension of Finboot’s product offering in line with the company’s growth strategy.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | SE Asia |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Enterprises |
FundApps – Headquartered in London, no public announcement of fund raising. Since 2010, FundApps has been committed to making compliance simple by providing a client-focused service to automate monitoring of regulatory requirements. With offices in London, New York and Singapore, the company monitors over USD 11 trillion in AuM with 1000+ users from compliance teams at asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks around the world.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | APAC |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Investment firms regtech/ compliance automation workflow and teams |
GPS – Headquartered in London, Global Processing Services, which provides the backbone card processing tech for a host of fintech startups and challenger banks in the UK, raised £44 million to fund plans for international expansion in 2018. Certified by Mastercard and Visa to process and manage any credit, debit or pre-paid card transaction globally, GPS currently counts 100+ clients including Starling Bank, Revolut, Pockit, Volt Bank, Loot, Stocard, Glint, Osper and Curve.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Specifically the social (inclusion) element of the sustainability theme – e.g. virtual roundtables, meetings with potential partners/corporates/innovators |
Napier – Headquartered in London, no public announcement of fund raising. AML and trade compliance tech provider, transforming compliance from legal obligation to competitive edge. The platform, which can be delivered via public cloud, private cloud or on premise, is powered by four key proprietary technologies.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | SG, MY, HK, Aus, IN |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Government/Regulators/Law Enforcement Prospects (Compliance Officers) |
Onfido – Headquartered in London, identity verification and authentication company Onfido raised $100m in April 2020 (Series D). Funding focused on international growth and development.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Philippines, Malaysia, New Zealand |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Fintech founders |
Railsbank – Headquartered in London, raised $10m Series A for Singapore expansion in September 2019. Railsbank is an API based financial innovation and growth platform, designed for developers and product managers to rapidly conceptualise, prototype, build, launch and scale a financial services business, whether it be in one country, or around the world.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Indonesia |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Industry groups, Media publications, New customers/partners (banks, Fintechs, Corp), Regulators, investors. Ideally media events, round tables, introduction services. |
Regulativ – Headquartered in London, formed early 2020. Regulativ.ai products transform the cyber security functions across the eco-system (Regulators, Financial Institutions, 3rd Party Supply Chain and SME entities), to make them more efficient by automating the cyber security self-assessment processes & 3rd party supplier risk assessments, saving significant time & cost.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | We would like to present our solutions to the largest Commercial & Investment Banks, Domestic Banks and Regulators in the South ASEAN markets of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam as we feel we can offer them a valuable product in the area of Cyber Security Regulatory Compliance. This can help both the regulators and the regulated entities within their jurisdictions. In addition, access to regulators in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and Japan would also be of significant interest to us. |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Connections with the local regulators, global and domestic financial institutions would be the most valuable for us at this stage. |
Revolut – Headquartered in London, payments Fintech Revolut raised a $500 million led by TCV at a $5.5 billion valuation. It added another $80 million as part of its Series D, extending that funding round to $580 million, though the valuation remains the same.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Banks, Payment Services providers, Regulators |
Solidatus – Headquartered in London, metadata management firm Solidatus took a strategic investment from Citi is the first major investor in the company in August 2020, to fuel Solidatus’ expansion across the US and Asia Pacific region, as well as increase penetration of its enterprise data platform across non-financial sectors.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam (Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan) |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Connections and access to decision makers and influencers would be most valuable. Speaking slots (potentially for a co-founder) or roundtable/panel discussions for me. |
SO-SURE – Headquartered in London, insurance disruptor SO-SURE raised funding in 2017 for international expansion. Developed a model and technology to deliver 10x better consumer experience while improving underwriter returns.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | We are interested in Thailand and Indonesia in particular. |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Telco operators, insurance companies, retailers (who might be selling mobile phones) |
Thought Machine – Headquartered in London, Thought Machine, the cloud native core banking technology firm, raised $83 million Series B in March 2020 to drive the next phase of its growth. Some of the funding is used to drive Thought Machine’s global expansion into Asia Pacific.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Virtual roundtables to connect with regulators, potential strategic partners and most importantly tier 1-2 banks; Deep-dive sessions to understand the local markets & speak with key influencers/movers-sharkers of the various localities. Any B2B match-making sessions between Tier 1-2 banks (in serious & urgent need of digital transformation) and Thought Machine, would be most welcome in the near term. Plus, one day physical events for 2021 sounds interesting too to develop in-market opps & continue the dialogue with regulators and banks we may have already met in 2020 through the program. |
Tradeteq – Headquartered in London, Tradeteq, a platform which connects trade finance originators with institutional investors, raised $6.3m in a Seed fund extension round in 2018. It is currently working on a project with the Singapore Management University (SMU) to develop a quantum computing-based credit scoring methods for companies.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and Australia |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Connections to banks, strategy consultants and system integrators. |
Transferwise – Headquartered in London, Transferwise raised additional funding at a valuation of $5 billion in July 2020 – a 43% increase to its last funding round.
| Markets of most interest in APAC / SE Asia | Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. |
| What activities / connections are most valuable in this Series? | Virtual roundtables to connect with the SE Asia FinTech ecosystem, especially with the regulators. |