Heather Stowell, Author at Finovate

FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: tuo

By Heather Stowell Posted on May 5, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, tuo

Tuo is a leading alternative data credit services company that creates industry-leading credit underwriting and servicing solutions to truly support the underbanked.

Features

Increase credit application conversions with the white-label Tuo Credit Builder that allows users to build credit on autopilot.

Why it’s great

A true “SET IT and FORGET IT” credit building solution. Tuo does the work. Their customers get the credit.

Presenters

Adam Finke, CEO
Finke is a consumer finance expert and purveyor of financial inclusivity for all.
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George Ulmer, CTO
Ulmer is a premier full-stack developer with dynamic coding and successful founder experience.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Pendo

By Heather Stowell Posted on May 5, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Pendo

Pendo’s product experience and digital adoption solutions help companies become product-led and deliver digital experiences users love.

Features

Pendo Adopt includes:

Behavioral analytics
In-app messaging and guides
Actionable feedback

Why it’s great

Pendo Adopt can be deployed across an entire portfolio of workplace software, from proprietary software built by internal teams to customized off-the-shelf solutions

Presenter

Clay Miner, VP of Sales & Value Engineering
Miner has a strong history of developing, implementing, and selling world class enterprise software.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Hawk:AI

By Heather Stowell Posted on May 5, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Hawk:AI

Hawk:AI’s AI-based, real-time AML and fraud surveillance detects patterns that purely rule-based systems miss.

Features

AI is explainable and auditable
Allows users to detect and prevent financial crime faster
One interface for maximum efficiency

Why it’s great

Efficient, effective, and explainable AML & fraud detection, powered by AI.

Presenter

Steve Liú, General Manager, North America
Liú is a veteran in the fraud and regtech industry, with years of experience directing teams in operations and global expansions across the U.S. and APAC.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Basis Theory

By Heather Stowell Posted on May 5, 2022
Categories: Basis Theory, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

Basis Theory is a data tokenization platform used by organizations to quickly, securely, and compliantly use their sensitive data.

Features

Search encrypted data without decrypting
Build secure applications and workflows in minutes
PCI Level 1 compliant and SOC 2 certified environment

Why it’s great

Accelerate time-to-market and time-to-compliance.

Presenters

Colin Luce, CEO
Luce brings over a decade of experience building and operating various fintech companies, including Yodlee, Klarna, and Figure. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Basis Theory.
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Brandon Weber, VP of Engineering
Weber is an experienced engineer and leader with over 20 years experience in software development, cryptography, and network security at organizations ranging from the Air Force to Dwolla.

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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Fundica

By Heather Stowell Posted on May 5, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Fundica

The Fundica funding search engine serves as a powerful business client acquisition tool for financial institutions by enabling them to truly democratize access to funding.

Features

Easily generate new business leads and retain clients with a complementary funding search engine
Gather firmographics and funding needs
Automatically promote diversity, equity, and inclusion

Why it’s great

Fundica makes financial intuitions a better and more complete funding destination by effortlessly extending their service offering at scale.

Presenter

Mike Lee, CEO & Co-Founder
Lee is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fundica. He has held leadership roles in technology organizations, secured over $350 million in government funding, and holds Engineering, MBA, and CFA designations.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Keep Financial Technologies

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

Keep is introducing a new form of employee compensation called Cash Vesting Plans that works like a 0% interest loan from the employer to the employee.

Features

Cash bonus given to employees and vests over time
0% interest loan given against bonus
Employee financial freedom while improving retention and hiring

Why it’s great

Keep is aligning employer and employee incentives and disrupting the way compensation works.

Presenter

Rob Frohwein, CEO
Frohwein was the Co-Founder and CEO of Kabbage, a global fintech acquired by American Express. With Keep Financial, Frohwein is now disrupting how compensation works.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Incognia

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

Incognia is a privacy-first, location identity company that provides frictionless mobile authentication to banks and fintechs for reduced fraud losses.

Features

Delivers highly precise risk assessment for mobile apps for less fraud
Recognizes trusted users based on location behavior
Enables zero friction, zero-factor authentication

Why it’s great

With identity fraud losses hitting $52 billion in 2021, today’s fraud prevention is not working. Incognia’s privacy-first, location identity delivers highly precise risk assessment for mobile apps.

Presenter

Andre Ferraz, CEO & Founder
Ferraz is an expert on location technology and a strong advocate for user privacy. Originally from Brazil, Ferraz founded his first company while a university student in computer science.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Horizn

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

Horizn’s award-winning platform helps banks globally accelerate digital banking knowledge, fluency, and adoption with both customers and employees.

Features

Overachieve digital banking customer growth objectives
Call center and branch efficiency and profitability through digital
Support ongoing agile product/feature launches

Why it’s great

Using Horizn, banks experience a more than 300% increase in product/feature launch effectiveness and success, 20% reduction in volume of digital banking support calls, and 45 second reduction in support call time (average).

Presenter

Steve Frook, SVP of Sales
As SVP of Sales at Horizn, Frook works closely with financial institutions to significantly increase adoption and awareness of new and existing innovations.
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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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