After winning the Wired Money special award and the Financial Inclusion category respectively, the Israeli company Paykey and the Dutch firm Musoni were the grand winners of BBVA Open Talent Europe 2016.

Expectation is building among the 17 shortlisted Latin American candidates that will be pitching their projects during the BBVA Open Talent Latam 2016 final. Today, Monday, they will be working long and hard on fine tuning their project presentations, with help from BBVA experts. The winners will be announced tomorrow, Tuesday..

Derek White, Global Head of Customer Solutions for BBVA, presided over the European final of the 2016 Open Talent competition. He took advantage of his time in London to analyze the challenges banks are facing and the role of the fintech ecosystem in financial services.

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Paykey, the system that enables users to make payments through any message service or social network thanks to a virtual keyboard, and Musoni, the cloud-based microfinance software, are the two winning startups of BBVA Open Talent Europe 2016.

BBVA Open Talent 2016 landed today in the British capital to announce the winners of its European final, in a special event that will take place tomorrow Wednesday as part of Next Money London, the world’s leading fintech conversation.