unblu goes live on the Temenos MarketPlace

At its inaugural Meet the MarketPlace event, Temenos (SIX: TEMN) announced the addition of two new providers to its MarketPlace platform, which aims to bring banks and fintech companies.

The two new MarketPlace members are Metaco, which provides a platform for banks and wealth managers to offer custody, payments and tokenization services for digital currencies, and unblu, which provides a customer collaboration suite for making online experiences more personalised, including features such as secure co-browsing to facilitate remote advice and assistance.

"unblu provides a customer collaboration suite for making online experiences more personalised, including features such as secure co-browsing to facilitate remote advice and assistance"

The timing of the announcement coincides with the first in a series of Meet the MarketPlace events where, in addition to the latest news and developments about MarketPlace, Temenos customers see demos from some of the most innovative providers on the platform. The event in Singapore, which was attended by representatives from more than 12 Temenos customers, featured presentations from NetGuardians, Inpher, EdgeLab and EZMCom – as well as unblu and Metaco.

Commenting on the news, Ben Robinson, Chief Strategy Officer at Temenos, said: “Unblu and Metaco both provide highly innovative products that bring real business value to Temenos customers. We continue to invest significant efforts into curating the best fintech providers and enhancing the platform so our customers can procure these solutions as quickly and securely as possible. Today’s event is about bringing innovation to our customers and fostering a more engaged community around MarketPlace, which represents an increasingly important part of our sales and go-to-market strategy.”

About the Temenos MarketPlace

Launched at the start of 2016, the Temenos MarketPlace is a platform for facilitating the exchange of value between fintech providers and financial institutions. Its value proposition is based on curating the very best fintech solutions from around the world, certifying and integrating these solutions with the Temenos Suites, and making these solutions as easy to provision as possible. Today, MarketPlace is the world’s largest fintech store, with over 100 applications from more than 50 fintech providers.

Temenos Group AG (SIX: TEMN), headquartered in Geneva, is a market leading software provider, partnering with banks and other financial institutions to transform their businesses and stay ahead of a changing marketplace. Over 2,000 firms across the globe, including 41 of the top 50 banks, rely on Temenos to process the daily transactions of more than 500 million banking customers. Temenos customers are proven to be more profitable than their peers: over a seven year period, they enjoyed on average a 31% higher return on assets, a 36% higher return on equity and an 8.6 percentage point lower cost/income ratio than banks running legacy applications.