Heather Stowell, Author at Finovate

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Chimney

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 31, 2023
Categories: Chimney, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

Purpose built for homeowners, Chimney Home provides data, tools, and portfolio insights needed to build lifelong relationships and generate more deposits and loans.

Features

Data to identify opportunities, monitor portfolios and speed up approvals
Proven digital engagement for mobile apps
Automated campaigns to cross-sell homeowners

Why it’s great

Homeowners can track home value, see available equity, and receive personalized offers within online and mobile banking, regardless of who holds their mortgage.

Presenter

Chase Neinken, Co-Founder
Neinken is a new dad. He’s also an award winning tech founder and passionate about saving the planet.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: True Digital Group

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 31, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, True Digital Group

The True Digital Platform helps banks and credit unions discover, qualify, implement, monitor, and troubleshoot vendors and their products.

Features

Discover, vet, and monitor vendors via FI-verified vendor data
Connect with peers for candid references
Compare tech stacks for integration compatibility

Why it’s great

The Platform is a conduit to collaboration in strengthening the relationships financial institutions have with technology, vendors, and each other.

Presenter

Patrick Sells, Co-Founder & CEO
Sells is an award-winning entrepreneur, Digital Banker of the Year winner from American Banker, and thought leader in the financial services industry. He is a catalyst for change in how FIs innovate.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: AI Squared

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 31, 2023
Categories: AI Squared, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

AI Squared is a platform for product owners, data scientists, and enterprise leaders. It empowers them to accelerate predictive and generative AI projects, measure their benefits, then iterate and improve them to drive significant revenue growth and cost reduction.

Features

Speed to Market: Faster model LLM integration into business applications driving increased adoption of foundational models and LLMs across the organization
Increased Efficiency: Increased foundation model & LLM accuracy using feedback from end users to auto-tune
Built-In Privacy and Security: Designed with financial services organizations in mind, protecting the data for their organization and customers

Why it’s great

Data is a competitive moat and AI Squared helps users harness it with both predictive and generative AI.

Presenters

Michelle Bonat, CTO
Bonat boasts two decades in finserv. Formerly an AI CTO and Head of AI Innovation at JPMC, she’s now shaping the next wave of financial AI innovation.
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Andre Llewellyn, Advisory Board Member
Llewellyn is an award-winning experienced marketing exec at AI Squared with previous roles at Instagram and P&G. He’s an expert in AI-driven marketing innovation.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Autobooks

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 31, 2023
Categories: Autobooks, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

Autobooks’ Tap to Pay on iPhone enables businesses and non-profits to accept contactless payments, directly from the financial institutions’ existing mobile banking apps.

Features

Contactless payment acceptance
Available directly from financial institutions’ mobile banking apps
Payments deposited directly into customers’ existing accounts at FIs

Why it’s great

To lock in customer deposits and relationships, financial institutions need to offer easy ways for businesses and non-profits to accept online and in-app payments.

Presenters

Steve Robert, CEO & Co-Founder
Robert helped found Billhighway, a financial platform for organizations, in 2003. After Billhighway was acquired in 2016, Steve founded Autobooks.
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Derik Sutton, CMO
Sutton is a product and marketing executive with a track record of helping to build, market, and sell products in the financial industry. Sutton joined Autobooks in 2018.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Nuance, a Microsoft company

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 31, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Nuance

Synthetic ID fraud is the fastest growing financial crime category. This demo will show how Nuance’s Gatekeeper detects artificial voices in real-time.

Features

By combining synthetic speech detection with voice and conversational biometrics, Gatekeeper provides a layered defensive countermeasure against AI-powered fraud attacks.

Why it’s great

Nuance has worked with the Microsoft Cognitive AI research team to detect the tiny differences that distinguish a computer-generated voice from a live human voice.

Presenter

Rachel Muench, Security & Biometrics Lead
Muench’s expertise lies in helping FIs leverage biometrics for authentication and fraud prevention while delivering better customer experiences.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: SRM Key Moments

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 31, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Strategic Resource Management

SRM Key Moments are customized experiences that load into existing apps to drive desired outcomes for card portfolios.

Features

Customized moments
Integratabtle into existing mobile apps
Configurable tech stack rules at every level

Why it’s great

SRM Key Moments is paying dividends for bank and CU issuers with 25%+ overall increase in transactions, $20-$40 per card per year in increased payment volume, and increased customer engagement.

Presenters

Chris Boncimino, Global Innovation Partner CEO, Key Moments
Boncimino has 20 years leadership in global payments, financial services and product development. He’s an executive member of the Visa Asia Pacific Leadership Team, responsible for global development and solution delivery.
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Bob Koehler, Chief Innovation Officer
Koehler has 20+ years of experience in card portfolio strategy. He’s successfully led multiple high-value projects for clients negotiating with signature networks and is steeped in revenue growth programs for FIs.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: FinTech Insights

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 31, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, FinTech Insights by Scientia

FinTech Insights is the premier competitive analysis tool for banks and fintechs that provides all the data they need to outsmart their competition in one powerful, user-friendly platform.

Features

See exactly what competitors are doing right now
Identify unmet market needs in a matter of seconds
Find out how product enhancements would change bank market positioning

Why it’s great

Most digital banking teams develop with a limited view of the market, and FinTech Insights allows them to quickly identify unmet customer needs and market opportunities.

Presenters

Nickolas Belesis, VP of Growth
Belesis is a fintech growth and digital banking specialist, assisting C-Suite executives in utilizing FinTech Insights to skyrocket their digital banking and maximize their NPS scores.
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Konstantine Pappas, Account Executive
Pappas is an experienced fintech executive who is empowering digital banking teams to improve their UX and product offerings.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Bud

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 29, 2023
Categories: Bud, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

Bud makes financial decisions simple by turning transactional data into rich customer insights. It enables lenders to get an accurate picture of a borrower’s income, expenditure and credit in realtime.

Features

Hyper-personalized insights fueled by generative AI
Strategic, smart segment growth unleashed
Efficient decision-making grounded in realtime data

Why it’s great

Supercharge personalization, deposits and growth with generative AI for financial services.

Presenter

Edward Masaveckas, CEO & Founder
Maslaveckas is CEO and Co-Founder at data intelligence fintech Bud Financial (Bud). Under his leadership, Bud has grown to some 120 people and secured more than $100M in investment.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Jaid

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 29, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Jaid

Jaid is a powerful artificial intelligence SaaS platform that drives intelligent automation of diverse business communications, increasing the speed of resolution to client inquiries.

Features

Increases speed of resolution by up to 95%
Reduces employee attrition rates by up to 50%
Transforms critical data from diverse communications into meaningful actionable business insights

Why it’s great

Jaid delivers solutions, not AI tools, empowering teams to focus on higher-value tasks and what matters most.

Presenters

Dan Kramer, CEO
Kramer has 30 years+ experience in driving strategy and execution in financial services, including previous roles at BNYMellon Asset Services, JP Morgan, and Calastone.
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Ken Dummitt, CRO
Dummitt has 30 years+ experience in global enterprise B2B software sales with a proven record in driving revenue and expansion at high-growth technology companies.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: interface.ai

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 29, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Interface.ai

interface.ai’s Sphere is a generative AI-powered multimodal ChatGPT-like AI assistant for financial institutions. It provides both customers and employees with unparalleled banking experiences.

Features

Universal channel to enhance customer and employee experiences
Personalized and proactive guidance to achieve financial wellness
Increased revenue via upsell & cross-sell

Why it’s great

ChatGPT-like universal channel that replaces online mobile banking with an AI assistant providing intelligent guidance, innovative plugins, and personalized AI assistance.

Presenters

Srinivas Njay, Founder & CEO
Srinivas, Founder & CEO at interface.ai, has 10+ years of experience in AI research and led a digital strategy from scratch for a financial institution to scale it to several billion in assets.
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Bruce Gillooly, Sr. Sales Engineer
Gillooly has 30 years of problem-solving experience in banking. He has led teams and understands the pain points organizations face from both a member-facing & employee-facing standpoint.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Bits of Stock

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 29, 2023
Categories: Bits of Stock, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

Bits of Stock enables community financial institutions and credit unions to reward in fractional shares of stock. Their purpose is to empower their customers to engage and build loyalty with younger generations.

Features

Engage the next generation of account holders
Establish the easiest path to financial wellness
Embed directly into current digital banking experiences

Why it’s great

Bits of Stock wants users to imagine if they had the opportunity to start earning stocks as a reward in the brands they loved when they turned 16 . . .

Presenters

Arash Asady, CEO & Co-Founder
Asady is a relentless and gritty entrepreneur who holds no punches. He’s a USMC Veteran, recovering Wall Street derivatives trader, and boxing aficionado.
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Steve Bishop, EVP & COO (OMB Bank)
Bishop joined OMB in September 2020, overseeing its physical and digital operations. Preceding OMB, Bishop had two separate stints at Jack Henry & Associates, most recently as Director of Client Services.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: MacroMicro

By Heather Stowell Posted on August 29, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, MacroMicro

MacroMicro offers premier macroeconomic investment platform services with over 350,000 registered users globally.

Features

Data-driven services with data aggregated
AI-driven services to help navigate and analyze
User-driven services with community and user-generated content

Why it’s great

Investors and decision-makers easily can make informed decisions through interactive and clear automatically updated charts on MacroMicro’s platform.

Presenters

Rachel Chen, CEO & Founder
Chen has 10+ years of experience in financial market analysis. She’s the Founder and CEO of MacroMicro, the first macro investing platform in Asia. Chen holds a Master of Economics degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada.
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Emilia Wei, Global Project Manager

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