Luxembourg's
first FinTech awards drew nearly 80 applications from around
the world, including lending and crowdfunding platforms, RegTechs,
digital banking products, robo-advisors, and big data solutions.
The winner of the grand prize (€50k, four months' hosting
at
the Technoport, and a one-year membership at the
KPMG Hub for Entrepreneurship) was Governance.io, an oversight
and control product for investment fund professionals. I sat down
with CEO Bert Boerman to get a closer look.
Tell me about Governance.io. What's it all
about?
Well, for fifteen years I was a banker in charge of depositary
bank activities and investment fund oversight, so I was dealing
with a lot of fund industry challenges. And, basically, that
experience gave me the idea for the software that became
Governance.io. I implemented an earlier version of the
system at my bank in order to fix my own problems and make my job
easier. In 2014 I decided to leave the bank and to focus
exclusively
