Interview with Rivi Varghese, CEO at CustomerXPs

Financial IT: Rivi, please tell us a little about CustomerXPs

2016 saw an incredible rise in P2P lending, with firms like Uber and Deliveroo firmly integrating their services within everyday life.

The UK’s sharing economy, or ‘gig economy’ has exploded in recent years becoming the fastest growing in Europe, increasing by 92% between 2014 and 2015 and transactions almost doubling to £7.4bn in 2015. It is set to expand at 30% per year over the next decade, generating £18bn of revenues for platforms and facilitating roughly £140bn worth of transactions per year by 2025.[1]

Financial IT: How would you describe Ohpen?

Angelique Schouten: Ohpen provides both incumbent financial services companies and new market entrants with a “bank-out-of-the-box” solution to fully outsource their investment & savings account operations. 

Consumers and financial organizations will gain various advantages from new mobile-ready ATM solution. That will become possible through software, hardware, and services. A large, 19-inch multi-touch display enables tablet-like interactions, where consumers can swipe, pinch and zoom their way quickly through transactions.

There is no question about it, data has become an integral part of our daily lives. The ability to access data as and when we need it from our mobile phones is now something that we all just expect and some of us even take for granted. The cost of data, especially in 2016, regardless of what mobile network you subscribe to has been a topic under great debate. Irrespective of whether you are a consumer, a business or a government, it’s a subject that affects millions of people.

Today, Fidessa group revealed that Prospector, its automated liquidity-generating module, has been voted Best New Product in the annual Fund Technology & Wall Street Letter (WSL) Awards. These grants recognize and reward providers, serving asset managers and institutional traders that have shown new, highly innovative product extension over the past 12 months. 

Payment Cloud Technologies (PCT), the London-based FinTech business, has today announced a contract with ULUS Group for the delivery of a digital community business bank for the UK’s SME businesses.

eSignature and Digital Transaction Management (DTM) pioneer and global standard DocuSign Japan and Shachihata Inc. (Shachihata), whose hanko seals are widely used by Japanese companies, announce today the launch of a new solution that digitizes business processes from end-to-end to achieve the paperless business. The integration of Shachihata's e-hanko with DocuSign's DTM platform enables the digitization of business processes that require the use of traditional seals unique to Japanese companies.

This month, AllthatSoft, a leading mobile security solution provider, with headquarter in San Francisco, introduces AppServo™, its novel mobile app protection solution. As a progressive technology supplier, the company participates in RSA Conference 2017, the world’s leading information security conference, and demonstrates its advanced mobile app code protection solution.

SWIFT announces today that global transaction banks are actively using SWIFT’s new global payments innovation (gpi) service, which opened for live payments in January 2017. ABN AMRO, Bank of China, BBVA, Citi, Danske Bank, DBS Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, ING Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, Nordea Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and UniCredit are live with SWIFT gpi, exchanging gpi payments across 60 country corridors. Numerous additional banks will follow in the coming months.