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27/09/2021 Banking Innovation

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The Amazon of financial services for SMEs

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STEP 4 business is the first fully-fledged digital marketplace of financial services designed for SMEs, using state-of-the-art technologies and integrating via APIs the best fintech digital solutions.

The platform leverages PSD2, open banking and IT innovation in order to disrupt the SMEs financial services market through a one-stop-shop entirely dedicated to small and medium enterprises that can find in the STEP platform some core financial products and services such as:

- account aggregation

- digital CFO based on predictive analytics

- e-invoices tool integration

- instant lending

- invoice discounting

- FX/international payments

- merchant acquiring

The STEP management team has got a robust international experience in financial services and is already working in a global scale-up.

Uniqueness of the project

- STEP aims to be the first global fully-fledged marketplace of financial products and services entirely dedicated to Small and Medium Enterprises

- STEP leverages the most innovative and advanced technologies such as open banking, predictive analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning, API integration etc.

- STEP management team is natively global, and will deliver a full speed international scale-up (three countries live within 1 year after launch)

- STEP business model, efficient and with low fixed transactional costs, will reach break even in year 3 via cross selling of third party products into the SMEs customer base and a proactive digital sales strategy

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