Heather Stowell, Author at Finovate

FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Finzly

By Heather Stowell Posted on May 3, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Finzly

Finzly allows the building of programmable banks by providing a financial infrastructure for banks, fintechs, and businesses to quickly offer and access financial services in an open ecosystem.

Features

Speed to market
Agility to assume new avatars
Freedom to innovate

Why it’s great

Speed, agility, and freedom culminate in innovation and the democratization of banking!

Presenters

Booshan Rengachari, CEO & Founder
Rengachari founded Finzly in 2012 with a vision to simplify transformation of financial institutions and democratize banking. Today, his brainchild – the award-winning nextgen platform, Finzly OS – is a testament to his vision, helping banks play an active role in the connected economy. He is a member of the U.S. Faster Payment Council Advisory Board, regular speaker at leading industry forums, and acclaimed for his thought leadership in bank transformation.
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Murthy Bulusu, CTO & Co-Founder
Co-founder of Finzly, Bulusu is instrumental in building the Finzly platforms and streamlining the customer implementation process. Bulusu formerly led technology teams at Wells Fargo, TIAA-CREF, Ford, and Chrysler. Working in tandem with the product team, he explores emerging technologies and appropriately uses them in Finzly products.
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Vijay Vardhan, VP of Products
Vardhan is the VP – Products at Finzly, leads product management, and helps to maximize the company’s customer-centric focus through the correct approach to product design. Innovation to solve real-world problems in the modern economy and working on the right product roadmaps is Vardhan’s forte. He has 4 patents in automobile technology, worked at GM & Chrysler, and has an MBA from Michigan State.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Banyan

By Heather Stowell Posted on May 3, 2022
Categories: BANYAN, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

Banyan demonstrates how banks, fintechs, and their retail partners can use item level data to drive everyday spend and top of wallet behavior.

Features

Better transaction categorization drives loyalty and everyday spend
Enhanced item level offers
New personalized ways for banks and fintechs to up-sell and cross-sell other banking products

Why it’s great

Banyan’s scalable data infrastructure is used to enrich transaction categorization and create product level offers that make banking apps more meaningful and rewarding to today’s digital consumer.

Presenters

Andrea Gilman, CMO
Gilman brings over 20 years of marketing expertise, including product management, product development, and digital transformation to Banyan. Gilman’s previous experience includes years with Mastercard and IBM.
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Wil Schobeiri, CTO
Schobeiri brings over 15 years of technology, product management, and leadership experience to BANYAN, including as CTO. He also had CPO roles at MediaMath and Revantage (a Blackstone company).
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Coinme

By Heather Stowell Posted on May 3, 2022
Categories: Coinme, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

Coinme, a leading crypto exchange in the U.S., offers an Embedded Crypto Finance product that “crypto-enables” fintechs and traditional FIs to offer digital assets to their customers.

Features

Excite customers by offering crypto
Generate new revenue
Boost platform engagement

Why it’s great

Coinme offers a proven turnkey solution for adding crypto to fintech and FI platforms to increase user engagement and revenues.

Presenter

Sung Choi, SVP Strategy & Business Development
Choi leads Coinme’s strategy and business development departments and spearheads the revenue operations of Coinme’s Embedded Crypto Finance product.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Solve Finance

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 28, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Solve Finance

Solve Finance automates better borrowing. Its Debt Optimizer combines real-time price transparency and enriched credit data with financial intelligence.

Features

Increase mortgage approval rates by optimizing credit usage (DTI) of potential borrowers
Tailored solutions with live market data
Free, prequalified leads for lenders in marketplace

Why it’s great

Grow customers with customizable roboadvice for borrowing.

Presenter

Sean Hundtofte, CEO & Co-Founder
Hundtofte has dedicated his 20+ year career to consumer finance, most recently as an executive at Better Mortgage, in research at the NY Fed, and with a PhD in household finance.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Polymesh

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 28, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Polymesh

Polymesh’s Polymath Token Studio is an easy-to-use interface to create, issue, and manage securities on the Polymesh blockchain.

Features

Quickly create regulated assets
Easily implement compliance criteria
Enable new financial products for low cost while tapping into global liquidity pools

Why it’s great

Every security will eventually live on a blockchain. Polymesh is an institutional-grade permissioned blockchain building tools that make it easy to create, issue, and manage securities.

Presenter

Graeme Moore, Head of Tokenization
Moore is the Head of Tokenization at Polymesh, a blockchain purpose-built for regulated assets. He is also an advisory board member at RedSwan, and the author of B is for Bitcoin.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: FlowPoint Technologies

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 28, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, FlowPoint

FlowPoint unlocks ways to rapidly spot risks for mitigation or opportunities for growth by making it easier to share, process, and analyze the operational performance of private companies.

Features

Time-series ingestion of business performance data
FlowPoint Smart Forms
Early warning system for compliance and risk detection

Why it’s great

FlowPoint helps bring businesses out of the information abyss.

Presenters

Stephen Pollack, CEO
Pollack is an author, serial entrepreneur, and technology specialist with strong background in helping companies find their path to success in a variety of sectors and in a variety of roles.
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Brad Johnson, Director, Product
Johnson has 15+ years of technical leadership experience. His recent role validated how reporting and monitoring can improve risk management thereby validating FlowPoint’s mission.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Lokyata

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 28, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Lokyata

Lokyata digitizes and automates credit decisioning for consumer and auto loans. BankAnalyze assesses the applicant’s bank statement and instantly provides a credit decision based on configured rules.

Features

Real-time income & expense analysis results in more accurate scoring
Full financial profile to effectively de-risk and increase eligible applicants
Go live in 10 days

Why it’s great

Allows lenders to see the value of using permission-based data to comfortably lend to all borrowers — especially to “near and sub prime” borrowers. We’ll prime your near and sub prime applicants.

Presenter

Steven Bireley, CTO
Bireley is Chief Technology Officer at Lokyata, a company focused on delivering AI-powered digital credit solutions that scale. Bireley has 30 years of enterprise and B2B SaaS product engineer experience.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: QuickFi

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 28, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, QuickFi

QuickFi is a 100% digital, self-service, mobile equipment financing platform. QuickFi employs facial recognition, drivers’ license authentication, AI/ML, blockchain, and other advanced technologies.

Features

SPEED: QuickFi allows financing in minutes, not days or weeks.
COST: QuickFi costs 2/3 less vs. traditional lending.
TRANSPARENCY: Low, fixed rates without hidden costs.

Why it’s great

QuickFi is available 24/7/365, and QuickFi also offers borrowers live support (via chat or telephone) anytime of the day or night (also 24/7).

Presenters

Nate Gibbons, Chief Operating Officer
Gibbons was a VP of Operations at First American Equipment Finance before becoming one of the founders of QuickFi. He oversees the customer experience strategy at QuickFi.
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Jillian Munson, Technology Product Manager
Munson graduated from Oswego State College with a degree in Computer and Information Science. Prior to joining QuickFi, she was a Systems Analyst at First American Equipment Finance.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Axway

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 28, 2022
Categories: Axway, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

Axway Open Banking provides secure, pre-configured open banking APIs for rapid adoption and rich intuitive developer experience to attract collaboration and pre-configured consent management integration.

Features

Developer Portal
APIs built to common open banking standards
Identity and consent management
Powered by a robust API management platform

Why it’s great

Axway Open Banking accelerates the secure sharing of financial data across ecosystems enabling financial institutions to unlock data from their existing infrastructure.

Presenter

Eyal Sivan, Head of Open Banking
Sivan is the Head of Open Banking at Axway. He is also the host of the Mr. Open Banking podcast.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: DocFox

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 26, 2022
Categories: DocFox, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

DocFox is the leading provider of automated business account opening software and is used by over 250 financial institutions worldwide including banks, fintechs, and credit unions.

Features

Omnichannel account opening – digital or in-branch
Customized, configurable workflows
Open API architecture, allowing for integration with other systems including core, LOS, CRM, and treasury

Why it’s great

DocFox is a cloud-based SaaS application that automates the process for opening any business account, no matter how complex, across any channel.

Presenters

Dean Benjamin, Account Executive
Benjamin is in sales leadership at DocFox. Prior to DocFox, Dean was a banker at Investec for over 4 years in London, Johannesburg, and Sydney and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: VGS

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 26, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Very Good Security, VGS

VGS is a one-stop shop for data security infrastructure, compliance acceleration, and payment optimization.

Features

Own data without liability and cost
Get to market faster
Reduce PCI cost by 75%

Why it’s great

Companies can maximize the value of sensitive data without the cost and liability of securing it themselves.

Presenter

Nithin Bose, VP of Customer Success
Bose is the VP of Customer Success at VGS, responsible for sales engineering, onboarding, success management, and renewals of VGS customers.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Cion Digital

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 26, 2022
Categories: Cion Digital, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

Cion Digital has developed the world’s first blockchain orchestration platform that helps businesses transact in cryptocurrency both through payments and lending.

Features

Standalone or integrated payments and lending platform
First crypto loan marketplace
Tools to extend traditional lenders into crypto lenders

Why it’s great

Cion Digital has developed the world’s first crypto lending marketplace.

Presenters

Abir Bandy, Senior Director of Product Marketing
Prior to joining Cion Digital, Bandy led the financial services marketing team at Talkdesk. He also has had a 10+ year career in financial services with Cappello Capital, Disney, Salesforce, and more.
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Fred Brothers, President & Co-Founder
Prior to starting Cion Digital, Brothers served as the EVP and Chief Innovation Officer at FIS. He also has had a 30+ year career in financial services with eCom, Checkfree, and more.
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