Heather Stowell, Author at Finovate

FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Highnote

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

Highnote is the world’s most modern card platform, providing all-in-one card issuer processor and program management services to help companies easily issue/process payment cards that accelerate growth.

Features

Full-stack card issuer-processer and program manager
Flexible and modular capabilities with Graph QL-based API
Purpose-built ledger for money movement visibility

Why it’s great

Highnote’s GraphQL API allows tailored, client-centric access to the platform and offers full-flexibility to build great brand experiences for customers that work with companies’ systems.

Presenter

Jody Soldo, Product Management Leader
With 10+ years of product management experience, Soldo is passionate about working with customers to help build innovative business solutions. She geeks out at payment processing and money movement.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Altro

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

Altro helps consumers build credit and financial power through the recurring payments and subscriptions they use every day. Build credit and financial power with the free Altro app.

Features

Boost existing credit
Increase financial literacy
Stabilize credit history

Why it’s great

One thing the audience should remember about the product: Altro doesn’t believe in barriers. Altro is in the business of empowering great people to do great things by helping them get their money right.

Presenter

Michael Broughton, Founder
Broughton is the co-founder and CEO of Altro, a free-to-use app that allows anyone to build credit using nontraditional forms of payments, including rent and monthly subscriptions like Netflix.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Finicity, a Mastercard company

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 21, 2022
Categories: Finicity, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, MasterCard

Mastercard takes the uncertainty out of digital payments with Smart Payment Decisioning Tools. Advanced data analytics and ML make payments faster, more convenient, and safe.

Features

Better onboarding experience
Reduce ACH returns, failure & fraud
NACHA Verification for WEB debit rule

Why it’s great

Mastercard’s Smart Payment Decisioning Tools reduce risk in ACH payments and optimize cost and speed through open banking.

Presenter

Serenie Gagon, VP Product Management
Gagon is an experienced product evangelist with deep expertise in the payments space. Gagon is responsible for strategic vision and payment enablement roadmap through open banking.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Illuma

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 21, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Illuma Labs

Illuma Shield voice authentication is integrated with Posh Technologies’ Conversational AI IVR for deployment in the contact center.

Features

Frictionless account access without PINs, passcodes, or passphrases
24/7 customer service with a user friendly, conversational IVR
Better security with biometric voice authentication

Why it’s great

The Illuma Shield voice authentication + Posh Conversational IVR integration improves operational efficiency, security, and customer experience for community banks and credit unions.

Presenters

Milind Borkar, CEO & Founder, Illuma
Borkar brings a background in R&D and more than 50 successful product launches to his role as founder and CEO of Illuma Labs.
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Scott Stinocher, Web App Developer, TruWest Credit Union
Stinocher is a Web App Developer with 10 years of experience in IT and five years of experience in the financial sector.
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Karan Kashyap, CEO & Co-Founder, Posh Technologies
In 2013, Kashyap began his journey at MIT, which included undergraduate and graduate degrees focused on AI, where he was named a Siebel Scholar for his research work.

While he was completing his graduate degree, he began AI and software consulting with enterprises across multiple industries, building a business foundation, and establishing a pathway to the beginning of Posh. ~~Posh now has more than 50 clients across the banking and credit union space with an ever-growing client base and employee roster.~~
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Rillavoice

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 21, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Rillavoice

Rillavoice offers conversation intelligence software for offline sales and service. Bank branch associates talk to customers face to face. The software records, transcribes, and analyzes their conversations with AI.

Features

2000x more visibility than in-store audits. 100x faster. At a fraction of the cost.
Makes branch managers 25x more productive at coaching.
Allows reps to improve conversion rates by 30%.

Why it’s great

Rilla is basically an AI coach that doesn’t sleep, eat, or get tired and is always there to give real-time feedback to in-store associates on how they can improve their conversations.

Presenters

Sebastian Jimenez, CEO
Jimenez is the Founder and CEO of Rillavoice. He graduated with a degree in Data Science from NYU and has worked in startups since. He was selected into the Forbes Next 1000.
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Michael Castellanos, Chief Data Scientist
Castellanos developed Rilla’s proprietary machine learning algorithms to analyze in- person audio. He used to work for the Department of Defense developing signal processing algorithms to detect enemy objects from sonar.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: txtsmarter

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 21, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, txtsmarter

txtsmarter, the only ecomms compliance surveillance service that collects, encrypts, and archives all iMessage, Android SMS/MMS, WhatsApp, and social chats in real-time mitigating compliance data leaks.

Features

Compliant with current e-comms regulations to avoid sanctions and fines
Allows employee e-comms supervisions to avoid comms related data gaps
Protects company’s brand and reputation from headlines

Why it’s great

txtsmarter is the only company that captures iMessage, Android SMS/MMS, WhatsApp, and others in real-time, retroactively at the root level, without using third-party apps or secondary number protocols.

Presenters

Nuri Otus, CEO & Founder
As CEO and Founder, Otus drives the overall strategic, business, and financial direction for txtsmarter and all interaction with partners, shareholders & investors.
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Sabine Zimmerhansl, COO
As COO, Zimmerhansl focuses on running the company’s operations, including product development, legal and compliance, finance, and strategic marketing, and eComms.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: FinGoal

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 19, 2022
Categories: FinGoal, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

FinGoal’s insights platform sits atop digital banking and personal financial data. Premiering at Finovate, their Aggregator Switch Kit allows fintech developers to switch data aggregators in minutes.

Features

Coverage: The best, most enriched and open data in the industry
Access: Data is shared easily across ecosystems
Cost: Better cost structures for aggregation, enrichment and account verification

Why it’s great

Fintech developers should not be hostage to their aggregation provider.

Presenters

Ariam Sium, VP Product
Sium leads Product at FinGoal and uses the tenets of focus and value to govern each product decision made in the rapidly adapting world of fintech.
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Jenn Underwood, Product Analyst
Underwood brings an expertise in personal finance to our product development. Her passion for equitable financial services and value-based savings greatly enriches the UX.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: LemonadeLXP

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 19, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, LemonadeLXP

LemonadeLXP is a digital growth platform that helps FIs and fintechs turn frontline staff into digital experts and support customers as they switch to digital banking.

Features

Turn staff into digital experts with addictive microlearning
Support staff and customers with technology walkthroughs
Optimize digital customer experience, grow digital banking business

Why it’s great

LemonadeLXP is the fastest and easiest way to provide staff and customers with the training and support they need to become experts on digital banking capabilities.

Presenters

John Findlay, CEO
Findlay is a serial entrepreneur, a lifelong innovator, and an expert in digital engagement. Outside of work he’s a dad, husband, athlete, musician, and geopolitics nerd.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Palturai

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 19, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Palturai

Palturai BusinessGraph is a leading Knowledge Graph Platform, adding a new dimension of network analytics to businesses. Make more informed decisions and identify hidden opportunities and risks.

Features

Sales & Marketing – discover new leads in business networks
Risk, Fraud & Compliance – identify trouble spots in business ecosystems
Investigations & Forensics – uncover hidden legal structures

Why it’s great

Palturai BusinessGraph is pre-loaded with 66M+ companies, 60M+ people and 211M+ relationships. The solution is actively deployed at Tier-1 financial services and public sector institutions.

Presenters

Bernhard Ritz, Regional President, North America
Ritz is the Regional President for Palturai in North America. He spent two decades at SAP and held various management roles in Corporate Strategy and Strategic Business Development.
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Noel Billingsley, Head of Business Operations, North America
Billingsley leads operations for Palturai in North America. A former career banker and serial entrepreneur, he brings unique experience in guiding the introduction of Palturai to the NA market.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: OpenAlt

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 19, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, OpenAlt

OpenAlt offers a capital raising and custodial platform for private businesses and their investors, including private offerings marketplace, due diligence, transaction processing, and data reconciliation solutions.

Features

Private market investment research and due diligence
Transactional automation
Seamless custodial integration and reporting

Why it’s great

OpenAlt bridges the gap between financial advisors and investable private businesses to allow for better diversification of the investment and retirement portfolios.

Presenters

Nikita Brodskiy, Co-Founder
Brodskiy has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and FinTech. He holds an M.S. in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Anton Charnotski, Co-Founder
Charnotski is a seasoned software architect, platform builder, and engineering leader. He has extensive experience in the custodial space and holds an IRA Services Professional certification (CISP).

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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Engage People

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 14, 2022
Categories: Engage People, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

Engage People is the only loyalty network that enables program members to pay with points directly at checkout. The global technology provider connects loyalty programs with global payment systems.

Features

It is a convenient, frictionless, and cost efficient tech solution that enables conversion of loyalty points to currency increasing consumer engagement and interaction.

Why it’s great

It offers easy integration with existing platforms and programs.

Presenter

Len Covello, CTO
Covello is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Engage People, leading the long-term technology vision of the company. He is responsible for driving continued innovation in the loyalty sector.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Goalry

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 14, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Goalry

Goalry is a unified “Money Mall” experience that converges personal finance management (PFM) with shopping to help members reach goals in one immersive space.

Features

Everything to achieve goals and comparison shop with a single login
Virtual real estate for embedded tech
Interactive and future-proof design

Why it’s great

Goalry’s platform improves the customer journey by providing a full funnel experience for everything finance and shopping in one virtual, immersive space.

Presenter

Ethan Taub, CEO & Founder
Taub has 20 years of executive experience ranging from billion-dollar brands to startups. His mission is to unify a disconnected finance landscape to create efficiencies.
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