{"id":51601,"date":"2018-06-22T11:04:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=51601"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:37:39","slug":"benzinga-fintech-awards-notes-from-the-conference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/benzinga-fintech-awards-notes-from-the-conference-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzinga FinTech Awards &#8211; Notes from the Conference (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong><b>nton Mozgovoy &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/humaniq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HumanIQ<\/a> &#8211; Listen to the Podcast interview <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/08\/tdi-podcast-fintech-tete-a-tete-part-3-565\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financial Inclusion &#8211; Provide social and financial services for those that are \u201cUnbanked\u201d. \u00a0People who don\u2019t have bank accounts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platform for extending credit to the unbanked.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provide initial capital to get the community started<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Allow those within the community to easily transfer funds and provide loans where banking is not readily accessible or available.<\/li>\n<li>Remote communities such as those in Africa, South America and other third world nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Humaniq&#8217;s Mission:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Humaniq exists to bring banking to everybody and digital currency to the many.<\/li>\n<li>Humaniq wants to open the 21st Century economy to all those shut out from its opportunities around the world.<\/li>\n<li>Humaniq aims to create new opportunities for entrepreneurs to offer services to those who currently are excluded from financial services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Atans Stoyanov &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/financeboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FinanceBoards<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FinanceBoards strives for investors to have a better way to generate Alpha through investments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is done through a Predictive Analytics<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finding which data points are best in current markets<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May be based in some cases on Fundamentals<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In some cases in Technicals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depends on the timing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using Artificial Inteligence Models to predict markets.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeks out previous iterations that happened to predict future trends.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Running through massive amounts of data to predict what the future may hold.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Philip Brittan, CEO &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruxinformatics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crux<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make Data Delightful<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They strive to find and make use of relevant data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Draw unique insight from conglomerating data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a Quant model to bring in and make data usable.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Used to be that the only way to get aggregated financial data was by buying it from Bloomberg, Reuters, etc\u2026<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, there are lots of alternative data and underground type sources which can be made useful with Crux.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crux does not sell or resell data, they are simply providing real estate to help companies make use of the data they have acquired.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are selling their process rather than finding data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are manipulating, cleaning and doing research on the data provided in order to improve businesses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crux sees most businesses spending 50-80% of their time trying to onboard, structure and transform\/ clean data.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crux provides this service so that you can then analyze the clean and usable data.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They do have data available through their Core Access Service however.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Mozgovoy &#8211; HumanIQ &#8211; Listen to the Podcast interview HERE Financial Inclusion &#8211; Provide social and financial services for those that are \u201cUnbanked\u201d. \u00a0People who don\u2019t have bank accounts. Platform for extending credit to the unbanked. 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