Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 24 | Page 8

NEWS TradingView strengthens its presence in Italy FinTech ecosystem Turk Telekom rolls out Lifemote Wi-Fi analytics T radingView is now officially part of the Italian FinTech ecosystem and will gauge the potential of the region by exploring partnership opportunities it offers. TradingView, one of the biggest financial platforms for traders and investors, is joining the Fintech District in Milan, Italy, to increase its relevance and explore the regional FinTech ecosystem, in order to connect more easily with business partners in its mission to democratise the access to the financial tools that were once only available to high-end investors. The Fintech District represents a gateway to the Italian FinTech ecosystem that has over 130 startups and numerous collaborations with public institutions, investors, professionals, financial institutions, international innovation hubs, universities and corporations. TradingView’s free financial products, such as cloud widgets and hosted libraries, are already used by more than 10,000 partners around the world. “We want to become the standard for businesses, not only for consumers, and we’re sure the Fintech District can help us by facilitating our communication with companies both on an institutional and a startup level,” said Enrico Paccusse, Growth Director, Italy at TradingView. “We continuously learn what users like and we’re crafting the tools that make it possible for banks, brokers and financial outlets in general to address the customers’ needs when it comes to investing.” “As Fintech District, we’re growing fast: we’ve recently exceeded 130 startups in our community and we keep working on aggregating the Italian ecosystem by valuing quality over quantity in the various FinTech areas,” said Stefania Barbato, Community Manager at Fintech District. “Our business focuses on creating real and concrete partnership opportunities for each member of our community. We’re happy to have TradingView on board, which can enrich our ecosystem with its international relevance.” 8 INTELLIGENTCIO L ifemote, a leading vendor of cloud- based AI-driven Wi-Fi analytics enabling Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to proactively maintain their home networks, announced its system went live for Turk Telekom, one of the largest fixed-line service providers in Europe. Turk Telekom will start using Lifemote analytics in homes in 2019, with a full rollout planned starting in 2020. In order to fully comply with Turk Telekom requirements, Lifemote undertook a full integration of its system in the private Turk Telekom cloud earlier this year. Working closely with Turk Telekom engineering experts, Lifemote will continue building integrated interfaces of Wi-Fi analytics to deliver insight into all aspects of Turk Telekom home Internet infrastructure. Lifemote analytics proactively informs Turk Telekom systems about Quality of Experience problems each home user experiences during the day, such as those caused by poor software configuration, limited signal coverage, congested Wi-Fi and old or faulty hardware. “Optimising home Internet for the millions of homes is one of the greatest challenges we have undertaken so far,” said Dr Eren Soyak, Co-founder and CEO at Lifemote. “We are extremely excited to be working with Turk Telekom in this endeavour. ISPs all over the world are beginning to recognise Wi-Fi as the last frontier in delivering high-speed Internet to the home and Turk Telekom is one of the first to have taken such concrete steps in fixing the problem in a realistic way. We are grateful for the opportunity to tackle problems at scale with such a dedicated, capable organisation.” www.intelligentcio.com