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Angry Aps III: Holvi.com

Where can you find a start up which has permission to run a bank? In Finland. Holvi.com is perhaps the most interesting start up over there offering handy banking services to the customers over the internet. Holvi.com is the future of banking. Why?

The idea of Holvi.com is fantastic. It brings together all the major functions which businesses, organisations and even events need when administering their finances. It offers
  • a online store fuctionality which can be used for instance in fundraising or selling tickets to the events
  • an electronic billing services through which companies can send out their invoices to their customers
  • an automaticed real time accounts for the incomes and expenses - this means that you have all the time real time and accurate book keeping made by your banking system. I wonder why banks did not invent that superb idea.
  • Holvi has also an intelligent account system which enables the user to administer all the accounts he has right to handle. In other words, as a user I could handle my company's and my voluntary organisations' accounts with one login. And it's safe.
Holvi.com revolutionises the banking.

Yesterday, I talked with an artistic director of Seikkisrock, a rock festival for kids and families. I noticed that they had taken Holvi.com as their ticketing system. I asked for a reason and found out that the benefit was to offer cheaper tickets for their visitors without hidden expences for the ticket buyers or royalties by an organiser to a ticketing company. In other word, Holvi makes it possible to offer better service for the clients - with more affordable price. Buy a tickets to the event - it will be a good show and you'll notice also how handy the service actually is.

Holvi is safe. It has the official license to run the bank - certified by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority. The service started in Finland and my guess is that it won't take long it will spread to new countries. Holvi revolutionises the way how the bank can handle the company's whole value chain from the sales and billing to money transactions and accounts. Brilliant!

And remember that it was me who said this will be a huge success.

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Writer has no connection with Holvi.com, but has met the founder in ALTParty and was impressed of the cool Land Rover he drove.

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