Lune announced as Fintech Zone winner
For the sixth year running, EBAday hosted a dedicated Fintech Zone, where 16 cutting-edge fintech startups from across Europe and beyond pitched their proof of concepts or working products on the exhibition floor in Lisbon, Portugal.
Lune has been announced as the 2024 Fintech Zone winner and received their award from Geertjan Van Bochove, Co-founder, COO and CFO of iPiD, who were crowned 2023’s Fintech Zone winner at EBAday in Madrid in 2023.
Lune is on a mission to make every product climate positive by default through their API, helping companies embed climate action into their product. The company was represented at EBAday by Olivia Howlett, Lune’s marketing manager who pitched in the Fintech Zone, and Oliver Laxton, who looks after business development.
All 16 finalists attended EBAday with the opportunity to network and pitch their products to leading payment heads and banking executives on the judging panel during a dedicated five minute slot.
The judges panel of the EBAday Fintech Zone in 2024 were:
- Michael Knetsch, tribe lead instant payments, cash management, Deutsche Bank
- Kevin Brown, non-executive director, advisor & angel investor, Payments Industry Insights
- Paul Thomalla, non-executive director, Unifits
- Teresa Connors, managing director, Payment Matters
- John Mitchell, director, Sell IT Better
- Vincent Brennan, banking & payments advisor, Accenture
The 15 other finalists of the Fintech Zone were: Im-Par, Necto, nsKnox, Neterium, Lucinity, Abbey Cross, Movitz Payments, Equali, Bankish, ChainComply, Lemonero, Instarails, Kodex AI, TradeHeader, and Banxlocal.uk.
The shortlist of fintech start-ups this year showcased promising concepts in next generation banking, payments-as-a-service, instant payments and request to pay, identity services and fraud prevention, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), as well as cross-border payments.
Announcing the winner, Daniel Szmukler, EBA director, said: “Just a word on Lune and what the judges have felt was a really compelling proposition – and something we haven’t seen in the past six years. Lune is a climate impact company, and have developed an API that helps banks to track their climate emissions, but also gives them a much more horizontal perspective of bank offerings that are in their.”
Accepting the Fintech Zone winner’s trophy, Olivia Howlett said: “Thank you so much. It’s great to see climate embedded in finance. I want to say thank you to the other companies that pitched as well. This is the most fascinating stage for me – it’s great to see all the ideas.”
