Building on DXC Technology’s global commitment to harness the power of outside-in innovation across industries and regions, the first fintech competition was launched in North & Central Europe in June 2019. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to expand DXC’s partner ecosystem of innovative fintech partners and collaborate to bring new value propositions to customers globally.

The objective of the fintech Invitational is to identify later-stage fintech partners that enable banking customers to leverage data to offer differentiating services and experiences to their customers.

The winners of the competition were:

• Araneum
• Bankify
• Dataiku
• Squirro

The technology solutions examined focused on a variety of capabilities:

• Profile customers based on behavior, individual data and external data
• Understand and predict customer journeys
• Make data insights available in banking operations
• Define a personalized banking experience
• Build new banking services targeted to customer needs

As with the previous DXC Invitational events, partner solutions were clustered into two categories:

• Digital Banking Ecosystem – Self-service-oriented technology to integrate through a DXC-owned banking platform offering
• Enriching the Banking Experience – Stand-alone solution to on-sell that provides advisory services, integration services and life cycle support

In collaboration with the Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator Plug-and-Play, a committee of DXC technologists and industry experts reviewed more than 45 candidates . After several rounds of livestream pitches and discussions, four winners were chosen based on the companies’ maturity, the relevance and newness of their use cases for the industry, and reasonable added value in a joint go-to-market effort with DXC.