Bluerock Consulting, headline sponsor of Finovate Europe, has chosen seven companies to watch at this year's outing. Now in its second year and taking place in London on 7 February, the event allows 32 of the brightest and best financial technology companies to demo their propositions with a seven-minute pitch.

Bluerock’s top picks as follows:

Cardlytics

Aimia's advertising platform, powered by Cardlytics, enables banks to deliver rich, relevant rewards to their customers.

Handpoint

Demonstrating the first totally secure mobile chip and PIN payment solution for tablets and smartphones.

Luup

Luup will launch a mobile payment service for corporations and governments that is set to bring them cost-savings, efficiency and productivity gains.

miiCard

miiCard, My Internet Identity, is the first service that allows a consumer to prove their identity to the AML/KYC standard purely online.

Sandstone

Whilst demonstrating a new mobile banking application, Sandstone is also the firm that provides the technology behind Governor Money, the savings platform recently acquired by Family Assurance. The firm specialises in Online Financial Management (OFM) tools that deliver improved customer engagement. A privately-owned software firm based in Australia, it already has other small UK clients as well as Bank of China, Arab Bank and Rabobank on its client list.

Investment Bee

This service uses our innate curiosity about what others are doing and how we compare. It uses comparative data on UK consumers and market research on products to produce profiles of ‘people like you’, enabling consumers to see how they benchmark against their peers. The site is provided by DCisions, a data analysis business which is well grounded in financial services and consumer behaviour, claiming to have a database of some one million plus UK consumers on which to base their outputs.

Nutmeg

An FSA regulated business that aims to allow users to accumulate savings and investments for particular goals or a general ‘rainy day’ fund. Although still to launch, it aims to take the hassle of the ongoing management of an investment portfolio away from the consumer through tracking and rebalancing against the users stated goal and risk tolerance. The added twist is that users can accumulate ‘Nutmegs’, effectively points that result in a lower charging structure.

Further info on Finovate Europe at: http://www.finovate.com/europe2012/

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