You Had the Questions, We Have the Answers

You Had the Questions, We Have the Answers

While FinovateFall Digital attendees hunted for services and solutions to meet the needs of their firms’ biggest challenges, they tracked down Scavenger Hunt clues at the event, too! 

Attendees earned points by watching content, meeting with other attendees, exploring the platform, and finding buried easter eggs in the event map.

Without further ado, here are the winners and hunt answers.

#FINOVATEHUNT WINNERS

  • Grand Prize: Om Neelay, Silicon Valley Bank
  • Raffle: Andrew Chalas, Silicon Valley Bank
  • Raffle: Tim Boon, Mostly AI
  • Raffle: Lizette Epps, Vision

#FINOVATEHUNT ANSWERS

Speaker Questions:

  • When Greg Palmer said “Yip yip!” in his MC remarks, what kids’ show was he referencing? Avatar the Last Airbender
  • During his keynote, what did Jeremy Balkin mention as his favorite book? Millennialization of Everything: How to Win When Millennials Rule the World by Jeremy K. Balkin
  • Sarika Sangwan mentioned her favorite business book as part of her keynote. What is it? Conscious Capitalism by Raj Sisodia
  • What is Steven Ramirez’s favorite tech gadget? iPhone
  • What podcast did the Future Payments Stage chair, Louise Beaumont, say she’s listening to in her opening remarks? Breaking Brand by Message Heard

Cafe Question: In the Google Cloud Cafe, what was the main topic for the first poll from the Finovate analysts? APIs

Easter Egg locations on Central Park Map:

  • Juggler
  • Dinosaur skeleton next to Museum of Natural History
  • Carousel
  • ATM
  • Woman sitting alone on the bench
  • The Dakota
  • Grandma walking her dog
  • Dad playing frisbee with his son
  • Woman walking with stroller

Broker Barry Riddles:

  • If money really did grow on trees, what would be everyone’s favorite season? Fall
  • Why can’t the bank keep a secret? Too many tellers
  • A man pushes his car and stops in front of a hotel and immediately goes bankrupt. What is he doing? Playing Monopoly

Fintech Francesca Riddles

  • What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short
  • What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in? Keyboard
  • A man buys a horse for $60. He sells the horse for $70. He then buys back the horse for $80. And he sells the horse again for $90. In the end, how much did the man make or lose? Or did he break even? Made $20

Retired Rosetta Riddles:

  • Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has one brother. How many children does Mary have? 5 (each daughter has the same brother)
  • Dracula’s going to the bank to keep his money, but he seems a little more pale than usual. Which bank did he go to? Blood bank
  • A chicken was given $7, an ant was given $21, a spider was given $28. How much money was the dog given? $14 ($3.50 per leg)

Thank you to everyone who played and joined us for FinovateFall Digital!

Finovate Goes Digital

Finovate Goes Digital

Fintech has always had a digital backbone. Cashless payments. Security tokens. Robo advisors. Invoice financing. Mobile banking. And hundreds of other connectors, all building the path for a digital future, a future where companies are growing and innovating faster than ever.

From a buyer side, companies need technology to digitally do business. From a seller side, companies have to deliver these services and solutions. And all sides need confidence that Finovate’s fall events are going to run successfully to help them achieve their business needs. With all of that in mind, we’re embracing digital.

Now that the events have been moved online, you know FinovateFall Digital and FinovateWest Digital will take place. You can plan with 100% confidence, see more solutions, expand your reach, and access highly curated and produced content. These are all things Finovate is already known for. 

Because of Finovate’s quality standards, these won’t be like any other digital events you’ve seen before. Live and on-demand content will put your finger on the pulse of the industry. Live Q&A and polls will ensure you can engage directly with speakers. And 24/7 networking and an app packed with fintech enthusiasts will make it easy to start a conversation with the right person.

So if you’re a buyer, register now. And if you’re a seller, apply to demo at FinovateFall, FinovateWest— or both– to reach different audiences.

Demos will be live streamed throughout the events, plus available on-demand to 1,000+ senior fintech leaders. All demo companies will have virtual booths for Q&A, deeper product dives, and 1-to-1 meetings. Plus, we’ll deliver leads to everyone participating. Visit the event websites above for more information.

The future of fintech is digital, and we hope to see you digitally this fall.


Photo by Johnson Wang on Unsplash

Digital Demo Series: Momentifi

Digital Demo Series: Momentifi

As Finovate events return this fall, dozens of companies are getting ready to showcase their latest financial services technologies this September and November. And not surprisingly, many of these innovations are part of larger stories related to COVID-19.

As a sneak peek, we recorded an early digital demo interview with Momentifi, who will also demo at FinovateWest. Along with Finovate VP of Strategy, Greg Palmer, Momentifi explores its CRM and sales system for remote workers. The company’s technology will continue to be pivotal as many regions still face stay-at-home orders and companies will not see offices at full capacity for many months.

To join Momentifi and other companies demoing this fall, visit the FinovateFall and FinovateWest (formerly FinovateSpring) websites. Hope to see you apply!

Digital Demo Series: WealthConductor

As Finovate events return this fall, dozens of companies are getting ready to showcase their latest financial services technologies this September and November. And not surprisingly, many of these innovations are part of larger stories related to COVID-19.

As a sneak peek, we recorded an early digital demo interview with WealthConductor, who will also demo at FinovateWest. Along with Finovate VP of Strategy, Greg Palmer, WealthConductor explores the retirement income crisis, now more dire than ever when unemployment is at an all-time high.

To join WealthConductor and other companies demoing this fall, visit the FinovateFall and FinovateWest (formerly FinovateSpring) websites. Hope to see you apply!

Looking Forward to Fintech this Fall

Looking Forward to Fintech this Fall

Finovate events have always been celebrations. Celebrations of innovation, celebrations of technology, celebrations of industry. But this spring was not a time for celebration, and our thoughts are with every single person and company impacted throughout the community.

As heard from our followers and in news recently, we are turning a corner and seeing the light. The fall season has always been a big time for product launches, and these will be more important now than ever as companies reemerge. And that’s something to celebrate.  

This fall for the first time, Finovate hits both coasts: FinovateFall in September in New York and FinovateWest (formerly FinovateSpring) in November in San Francisco. And we’re accepting applications from companies interested in demoing their technology at each.

Showcasing products and solutions – not just talking about them – is the best way to do business. It allows 1,000+ potential buyers, partners and investors to see how your technology works and how it can benefit them. Not convinced? Hear from some of our alums:

It’s one of the leading fintech conferences around the world, so there’s no better place to launch a product. With any conference, it’s about the return on investment — you never know if you’ll meet one person of five, but we’ve already met 10 potential partners that I’m really excited to work with.

Dana Budzyn, CEO & Founder, UBDI

It’s been successful here! We’ve already had around 30 to 40 people visit our booth and 15 requests from people saying, “Can you come and show us your technology?”

Ned Phillips, CEO & Founder, Bambu

I think we’ll be here every year – we met 90% of our clients at Finovate. We meet our clients; we meet our prospects. If you’re a bank or fintech and want to know about the trends and get a sneak peek into the future, this is the place.

Uday Akkaraju, CEO, Bond.AI

Finovate is the best place for our startup to get exposure to potential clients and investors, all under one roof!

Emil Tarazi, Chief Data Scientist & Founder, ETFLogic

Finovate is a great way to meet the right people at the right organizations! It was really exciting to have them approach us after seeing our demonstration on stage!

Mark Friedenthal, CEO & Founder, Tolerisk

For more information on demoing this fall, visit the FinovateFall and FinovateWest websites. Hope to see you apply!

‘Tis the Season for Product Launches!

‘Tis the Season for Product Launches!

Fall has become synonymous with product launches, and this year’s demoing companies will deliver.

This September at FinovateFall, see dozens of new fintech services and solutions, including: retirement tools for wealth management advisors, data breach response plans for businesses of all shapes and sizes, API libraries for digital banking, portfolio aggregators to help investors, colleague planning tools for financial advisors, chatbots to better engage customers, and more. All 75+ products will be showcased through live, seven-minute demos.

Learn more about the first wave of companies now. And remember that tickets to FinovateFall are available online and you can save a whopping $1,000 when you book by July 12.

First Wave of Demoing Companies


Stay tuned — more companies to be announced!
ALTR is a transformative data security platform that protects against insider and human threats to data using intrinsic security and integrity properties of blockchain.
ARM Insight‘s innovative data refinery engine securely monetizes data for financial institutions and payment processors.
Bambu‘s API library for digital wealth technology reduces the cost and time to market for financial services firms.
BidMoni‘s integrated end-to-end 401(k) solution targets the lack of fiduciary-focused 401(k) technology for financial execs and VCs
BlytzPay‘s text-to-pay solution is a mobile point of sale delivered directly to a customer’s phone that meets the need for real time payments and communication for all types of billers and payers.
Boost.ai‘s conversational AI solution uses intelligent virtual agents that can be continuously trained and improved and that seamlessly hand off conversations and customers to humans when appropriate.
Breach Clarity uses dynamic algorithms, a design-forward UI, and deep research experience as an expert witness in all large data breaches to demystify response plans to the current epidemic of data breaches for consumers and their financial providers to reduce their risk of becoming a fraud victim.
Chatbots.Studio‘s platform digitalizes communication between small enterprises, like coffee shops and barber shops, and their customers using a cloud marketplace of commercial bot templates for iMessage and other smartphone messengers.
Cinchy is a real-time Data Collaboration Platform used by enterprise financial service providers to solve data integration, data access, data governance, and solutions-delivery challenges. The results are accelerated projects, more secure services, and vastly reduced development costs.
College Aid Pro combats the student loan crisis using late stage college planning strategies to enable families and their financial planners make educated and financially responsible college decisions.
Datanomers‘ Customer Insight Manager uses AI to provide comprehensive customer insights and preemptively detect churn for banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions.
ebankIT uses out-of-the-box digital channels for bank and credit union digital transformation.
Edmit‘s Edstimate® algorithm targets the student loan crisis by pre-emptively estimating college cost and future earnings for high school students and their families.
Eigen Technologies‘ natural language processing software uses machine learning to analyze qualitative data for banks and other organizations.
Envestnet | Yodlee has developed a solution to solve for consumers managing complex financial lives, it enables FIs and FinTechs to provide their consumers with the ability to curate and create their own financial insights based on their individual needs, using comprehensive and accurate financial data, analytics, and conversational AI.
Flybits‘ easy-to-use digital experience platform solves the challenges of developing and implementing AI and machine learning capabilities for marketers, customer experience leaders and creative teams in financial services.
Glance‘s Mobile App Sharing utilizes in-app visual engagement to improve customer service and support within financial service mobile apps.
Glia‘s system of engagement uses a combination of technology and the human touch to solve complex online inquiries for large enterprises.
Illuma Access is a voice authentication service for identity and access management for finance and insurance applications relying on voice as an actionless, efficient, and privacy compliant implementation.
Insuritas‘ ilnsure platform builds a new source of value-added, annuitizing fee income for FIs and their retail and commercial customers that promotes customer share and retention through offering Property, Casualty, Life, Accident and Health Insurance.
Intellaegis‘ masterQueue software uses AI to solve the complexity of collecting debt for large financial institutions and their party vendors.
InterGen Data‘s personal financial health and wealth operating system uses AI-based machine learning and a digital advisor cash flow forecasting widget to preemptively measure the economic impact of major life events of banking industry clients so that they can make well-informed financial decisions.
JSOL‘s AI-based business forecasting technologies for financial institutions resolve the delay in analysing corporate credit ratings and growth and decline of businesses.
Kindur combats the modern retirement crisis by providing a variety of wealthtech, insuretech, and other cutting-edge fintech products for the baby boomer generation.
Meniga‘s SaaS solution increases the intelligent capabilities of data usage for banks to make people’s lives and world a better place.
NYMBUS‘ SmartLaunch enables financial institutions to rapidly transform into fully operational, digital-only banks without converting their legacy technology.
Persistent‘s Conversation Round-About technology solves the problem of frequent redirection of retail banking and insurance customers to call center human agents when they are chatting with a bot.
Plinqit Build Skills improves the financial literacy of millennials using relevant, paid, education-focused content.
Qwil Messenger is a global client chat platform that enables safe and compliant business conversations for all professional service organizations from one single app.
SalaryFits‘ platform tackles the issue of financial exclusion and abusive pricing for employees of big corporations and SME’s around the world using salary deduction technology that offers more sustainable financial products.
Stratifyd‘s unsupervised and supervised AI workflows analyze and automate omni-channel Voice of the Customer for financial experience and digital transformation teams.
SwapsTech‘s Galaxy Banking platform modernizes open banking by delivering treasury services to banks extremely quickly.
Trulioo‘s global solution solves cross-border compliance pain points with scalable, future-proof technology for banks and fintechs.
Utluna‘s web application collects, aggregates and analyzes data relating to multi-asset class, multi-currency, multi-broker portfolios using financial institutions’ and market data providers’ APIs.
ValidiFI’s Payment Risk Optimizer is a payment processing service for fintech companies that targets ACH returns and card declines.
VeriTran’s low-code, omnichannel and open platform lets users deploy faster and better digital applications for banking and payment solutions.

Interested in demoing? Reach out to fall@finovate.com.

Goldilocks and the Three Finovates

Goldilocks and the Three Finovates

With three Finovate conferences this fall, find the one that’s just right for your new finech.

Finovates are for public companies, startups, and established leaders with new financial services innovations. Past demos have included technology focused on customer experience, regtech, insurtech, proptech, healthtech, wealthtech, security, identity, biometrics, blockchain, crypto, investment, onboarding, open banking, digital banking, lending, payments, and more.

Demoing companies are at the core of the conference series, which is designed to give them the best return on their demo investment with a 360 degree approach:

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

So how do you know which conference is right for you this fall? By region — North America, Asia or Middle East.

Are you expanding services or solutions to one of these places? Announcing new partnerships or targeting key customers? Graduating from an accelerator with your sights set on raising funding or attracting clients? Apply to demo at the Finovate in the region where you want to do business.

The earlier you get on board the bigger the return on demo investment. So apply to an upcoming event now:

Moving Home: FinovateSpring Returns to San Francisco

Moving Home: FinovateSpring Returns to San Francisco

Like many millennials, Finovate’s west coast conference is moving back home. San Francisco is FinovateSpring’s birthplace, where it tested limits in infancy and navigated angsty adolescent years. Only after maturing and outgrowing its room, did FinovateSpring move out. But San Francisco has always been home.

Now considered the flagship Finovate format, the conference agenda on May 7-11 will include an exploration of artificial intelligence and customer service on the summit day, two demo days with 60+ financial services products, and a final day to bring everything together with a series of keynotes, panels and sessions.

Tickets for the summit day (May 7) and the main conference (May 8-11) are on sale at early-bird rates. And if you would like to enhance your FinovateSpring experience beyond simply attending, there are a few ways to get involved (see details below). In whatever way, we hope you’ll join us for our homecoming!

Demoing

Companies working on new technology in investment, insurance, compliance, customer experience, regtech, insurtech, wealthtech, security, identity, biometrics, blockchain, crypto, onboarding, open banking, digital banking, lending and payments should apply to demo. Don’t see your fintech’s concentration area on the list? Even better!

Showcasing your latest innovation is the best way to reach the greatest number of people who mean the most to your business in the least amount of time. It’s essentially a sales demo, press conference, analyst briefing, trade show, and business development meeting in just a few days. And unlike other events, our 360 degree approach means attendees vie for demoing companies’ attention, not the other way around.

The deadline to apply to demo is on Friday, February 1. More information is available on the event website and you can reach us at spring@finovate.com.

Sponsoring & Speaking

Sponsoring and speaking are terrific ways to raise your profile and showcase your thought leadership. The sponsorship team provides flexible and tailored solutions to maximize your time at the conference and ensure you meet your business goals. They routinely work with a variety of businesses, including banks and credit union, consulting companies, VCs and investment firms, educational institutions, law firms, and tech companies.

For more information, please contact sponsor@finovate.com.

The ABCs of FinovateEurope Innovation

The ABCs of FinovateEurope Innovation

As 2018 moves into the rearview and 2019 starts to take shape, financial services innovation shows no signs of slowing. At this rapid pace, there has to be at least one category of innovation per letter of the alphabet: A is for artificial intelligence, B is for blockchain, C is for compliance, D is for digital identity, E is for ethereum, F is for financial inclusion, and so on twenty more times. That’s a lot to keep up with.

Finovate’s mission has always been to cut to the core of innovation. We cover fintech for you by reviewing hundreds of services and solutions from across the fintech spectrum, then distilling them into 65+ demos featuring exciting technology with real-world applications. In just two days, you see what’s new, trending, accepted, and contentious.

The demoing companies that will take the stage in February at FinovateEurope reflect financial technology as of today and down the road. We hope you join us for this journey! Tickets to FinovateEurope are available online. Save £700 when you book before this Friday, November 30.

First wave of demoing companies announced

24sessions IQ allows financial services companies to have better banking conversations and maintain compliance using effortless video chat and artificial intelligence.

LEONUS blockchain-based banking digital platform supplies fast easy, modular and secure digital bank deployment without affecting legacy systems through the simplicity of a modular approach and the immutability of blockchain.

ApPello Loan Factory and ApPello Digital Lending Portal simplify the long and expensive credit process for retail, corporate banks, financial institutions and peer large industrial (non-financial) companies using a digital platform which allows 3rd party companies to develop additional features or submodules.

Aqubix‘s KYC Portal solves the operational challenge of due diligence with a state of the art end-to-end solution focused on automating the operational nightmare in such processes.

Avaloq‘s marketplace solves the innovation dilemma for fintechs, banks and bank clients using the avaloq.one ecosystem – “double marketplace.”

Blinking created a reliable, trustworthy, and secure way of creating, handling and confirming client digital identities for banks, telecoms, health providers and insurance companies by using blockchain technology and giving end-users complete control over their private data.

BlueRush, a customer-centric platform, works to address the poor engagement and conversion rates for leading financial institutions with proprietary interactive personalized video software.

Cantab Predictive Intelligence‘s loan approval engine provides profitable and quick lending to customers who are not clients of the bank, with no credit history for retail banks.

CREALOGIX‘s TimeWarp — a unique, interactive and powerful tool — addresses the lack of predictive decision making for all bank customers using cutting-edge UX design and AI technology.

CybiWealth offers a simple international investing solution for forward-thinking individuals.

Dateio solves the hassle associated with today’s loyalty programs for retail customers and banks using in-house developed technology and know-how.

Denizen — a borderless platform for banking — deals with the hassles of international banking for world travelers, expats, immigrants and other global populations using a real time, truly global bank without extra fees.

Dorsum‘s My Wealth mobile app uses a hybrid approach to answer the needs of the new type of investor for wealth managers and investment providers.

Dynamics‘ Wallet Card, an all-digital telecommunications connected loT payment device, uses edge-to-edge paper-thin flexible electronics to address lack of customer loyalty, card fraud and costs associated with physical card issuance for any issuer’s cardholder.

eurobits technologies created a single digital access point that securely connects with every online financial and fiscal data source in Spain for digital services providers that require high-quality real-time data.

FCase is a fraud orchestrator mission control fixing the fragmentation of fraud management and delivering rapid benefits, such as fraud reduction and enabling compliance.

FI.SPAN‘s cloud-based services management platform uses APIs to connect customers and fintechs for financial institutions in the U.S. and Canada.

Five Degrees, a complete end to end retail bank in the cloud, solves time to market, digitisation and operational cost challenges for banks.

Icefire‘s Modularbank aims to solve the resource-heavy challenge of setting up new financial institutions and rapidly launching new products using a module-based integration platform.

IMburse Treasury 4.0, a “transaction as a service” platform, enables financial services companies to efficiently manage and provide payments using cloud-based deployment strategies.

iGTB‘s CBX ‘Contextual Banking Experience’ resolves customer dissatisfaction with the corporate banking experience for transaction banks worldwide using ‘best next offer’ point-of-need bank product offerings.

InnoValor‘s Read ID identity document verification technology solves the lack of mobile onboarding using NFC.

iProov‘s mobile palm authentication supplies a highly usable, strong customer authentication for banks and financial institutions using unique liveness and anti-spoofing technology.

ITMAGINATION redefines the modern investment experience with our advanced financial analytics platform for individuals and institutional investors by leveraging cloud-based tools to build simple and accessible financial analysis.

ITSCREDIT is a credit platform that improves credit processes using an end-to-end product covering all steps.

Launchfire‘s Lemonade combats lagging user adoption rates of digital banking products using game-based learning, production simulations, and role-play scenarios.

LOQR uses an integrated and centralized one-stop-shop approach to manage customers’ digital identity lifecycle in the financial world.

Microblink‘s next-generation identity document scanning and data extraction software targets poor user experience in a growing number of customer onboarding processes.

Minna Technologies is a subscription management platform using open banking APIs and machine learning and integrates into banks digital channels resulting in better customer experience, retention and new revenue streams.

Modular Banking‘s API increases access to, security for, and compliance with cryptocurrency for retail banks using a decentralized network development expertise and proprietary code.

Monobank‘s Mono Pay is an app with state of the art functionality and technology that solves the lack of control of poor outdated payment solutions for modern adults with high demands.

Neo‘s cash management platform supplies access to automated multi-currency accounts for medium to large corporations using restful API code.

Nine Dynamic‘s advanced financial analytics platform redefines the modern investment analysis experience for individuals and institutional advisors by leveraging the latest cloud-based tools and architecture to build simple and accessible financial analysis tools.

Nordigen Report utilizes a transaction-based categorization platform to streamline the global credit-scoring based loan decision making process using existing user data categorization and scoring models.

Qwil Messenger is a global client chat platform that enables safe and compliant business conversations for all professional service organizations from one single app.

REACH offers a SaaS solution to solve poor customer experiences, extended onboarding, delayed transaction cycles, and KYC challenges in the digital age for financial services organizations using a completely web based platform.

Salt Edge‘s Open Banking API Hub solves the interoperability problem between different APIs identifying Payees for payment for licensed third parties (banks, lenders, fintechs) using a single API gateway.

Secfense is a cyber security solution targeting phishing problems for the banking and fintech industry using a 2FA method available on any application.

Taxnology Innovations provides an online tool supplying tax return preparation in various countries for cross-border operating companies.

UX Design Agency‘s user-interface design based on user-experience engineering addresses the complexity and lack of human-centricity in financial products.

W.UP‘s Sales.UP — a digital banking sales and engagement tool — targets financial institutions’ need of customer insights and personalized automated marketing campaigns based on transactional and non-traditional data using Insight Store, Marketing Automation and Data Universe.

Finovate Heads East this Fall

Finovate Heads East this Fall

For the first time, Finovate heads east for three events this fall. Each event features a unique agenda focusing on regional financial services trends and technology, plus insights and analysis of fintech on a global scale.

With FinovateFall less than a month away, the complete roster of 80+ demoing organizations, including stealth companies, is now available online. With the amount of interest in AI right now, you can expect to see many products and services focusing on chatbots, virtual agents, and business intelligence on stage. 

The FinovateAsia demo lineup has recently grown to include two stealth companies and other exciting additions. See a preview of their efforts here.

Additional demoers and speakers will be announced throughout September. In the meantime, check out key speakers from Alipay, WeLab, ANZ, Startupbootcamp and more.

This week we’re also happy to announce the first wave of demoers for the launch of FinovateAfrica. From insurance coverage for crops using satellite imagery to a move for open banking, these companies illustrate the unique fintech emerging from Africa to address equally unique needs.

More information on these fall events and how to get involved is available at Finovate.com.

Shaping the Future of Financial Services in Asia: First Wave of Demoing Companies

Shaping the Future of Financial Services in Asia: First Wave of Demoing Companies

This October, Finovate reunites with HK Invest to headline Hong Kong Fintech Week.

The celebration kicks off with the third annual FinovateAsia over the first two days, merging live product demos and insights on the latest regional trends and macro issues affecting financial technology. Fintech Week continues days three and four, hosting speakers to examine key themes in fintech, then crosses the border to Shenzhen, China’s Silicon Valley, for the first time, to continue its fintech exploration.

Each year, Hong Kong Fintech Week highlights the individuals and companies shaping the future of financial services. Trends and themes this year include AI, blockchain, payments, lending, open APIs, and open banking. All of these are areas in which Finovate’s presenters are innovating.

The first wave of demoing companies for FinovateAsia 2018 are problem solvers. Here are some of the issues they are tackling:

Remember, tickets to FinovateAsia are available online. Save $400 when you book before this Friday, August 3.

If you’re interested in demoing at the event, visit the demo page or email us at asia@finovate.com. And if you’d like to get involved as a demoer, speaker, or sponsor with our launch event in Cape Town, South Africa this November, let us know at africa@finovate.com.

Ninety-Nine Problems But Innovation Isn’t One

Ninety-Nine Problems But Innovation Isn’t One

We’ve asked our FinovateFall demo companies to use a Mad Libs fill-in-the blank format to describe themselves in order to get to the heart of the matter: What have they built? What problems are they solving and for whom? And, finally, how do they do it?

The demoing companies that will take the stage this September at FinovateFall 2018 reflect some of the most impressive innovations in financial technology today. And we can’t wait to tell you more about them. Remember that tickets to FinovateFall are available online. Save $600 when you book before this Friday, July 20.

FinovateFall 2018 Demo Lineup

  • Access Softek uses AI and machine learning to enable financial institutions to combat the growing and evolving risk of fraud.
  • Adobe‘s integrated solution leverages AI and facial recognition to remove friction from accessing money while improving security for retail banking channel executives.
  • AI Foundry‘s end-to-end mortgage origination solution uses AI and machine learning to extract relevant data and classify documents to improve data sharing and comparing for banks and mortgage origination companies.
  • aixigo‘s digital wealth management technology provides high-performance front-office functionality for retail banks, financial advisors, wealth and asset managers via a modular, predefined API-first high performance platform.
  • Ak Bars Digital Technologies‘ video validation system allows retail businesses to accept payments by leveraging highly accurate recognition models.
  • Alpharank uses debit and credit card data to map offline social networks enabling financial institutions to identify synthetic fraud.
  • Arcanum Technology‘s authentication solution uses a patented dynamic virtual interface leveraging proprietary DARC Cipher to combat password/data breach/hacks and password fatigue for financial institutions and services.
  • Averon‘s login solution solves the lengthy, difficult (and oftentimes frustrating) login process for the financial community (all areas).
  • Ballooning Nest Eggs‘ gifting platform allows parents to share their kids’ slew of celebrations and subtly prompt and easily enable their network to gift directly into the kids’ (pregnancy to age 13) investment accounts.
  • Banzai‘s financial literacy solution uses a choose-your-own-adventure simulation allowing people to make decisions and experience consequences in a fun, safe environment.
  • Billshark‘s API powers a white-label bill reduction solution for consumers and small businesses.
  • Biometric Signature ID uses biometric passwords drawn with a finger or mouse to help financial institutions prevent imposters from stealing passwords and committing fraud.
  • BlueRush‘s DigitalReach software creates and distributes interactive and personalized digital experiences to improve engagement and conversion rates for advisors (wealth, insurance, and mortgage).
  • Bond.ai‘s ’empathy engine’ — a human-centered AI platform — closes the gap and disconnect between banks & consumers.
  • Bucket Technologies‘ digitalization of coins at the point of sale aims to eliminate the wasteful cycle of physical coins
    for retailers & cash-paying consumers.
  • Bumped gives easy access to the stock market for over half the population who doesn’t traditionally invest by allowing them to own the brands they love.
  • CashDirector‘s Virtual CFO application uses an automated accounting platform integrated with online banking to improve SME lending & cash management.
  • Cashoff enhances customer engagement with its loyalty program offering cash back by big-name brands.
  • Cloud Lending Solutions‘ configurable digital engagement platform allows financial institutions to provide online experiences to their borrowers without writing any code.
  • Crypterium‘s mobile app solves the challenges of using cryptocurrencies for payments for the millions of people across the globe who recognize the advantages of cryptocurrencies over fiat money.
  • Digital Onboarding‘s SaaS platform uses guided digital journeys, SMS reminders, and machine learning algorithms to remedy poor customer/member activation rates for banks and credit unions.
  • DualAuth secures payments through the use of mutual authentication via mobile and beacons.
  • ebankIT uses out-of-the-box digital channels for bank and credit union digital transformation.
  • ecosystem.Ai‘s Computational Social Science Platform uses a Client Pulse Responder to solve financial behavior analytics for transaction clients.
  • Enova Decisions has solved the “cold start” problem in algorithmic decision making for businesses entering new markets with digital decisioning technology, machine learning, big data, business rules management and optimization.
  • Enterprise Engineering has developed the next generation of data aggregation to solve the security, ownership, transparency and data management challenges of of open banking.
  • Envestnet Yodlee‘s Business Intelligence Solution allows financial institutions, wealth management firms and fintech companies to understand and sell new products and services to customers at the right time using breadth and depth of financial data coupled with AI-driven consumer apps and robust and easy to understand data analytics.
  • ETFLogic‘s “Quant-in-a-Box” Software Solution solves questions around the liquidity and risk of ETFs using Quant Tools and Analytics that traditionally have been difficult to understand or calculate.
  • exagens Personal Banker: autonomous digital banking assistant with proven results increasing conversion rates & retention while lowering costs.
  • Experian has developed an enterprise-grade SaaS platform to enable precise customer decisions across the life cycle using a unique blend of best in class data, analytics and decisions strategies. This includes helping financial institutions make lending decisions with less risk.
  • FI.SPAN‘s cloud-based services management platform uses APIs to connect customers and fintechs to financial institutions in the US and Canada with over $5bn in assets and significant commercial and business banking.
  • Fortr3ss‘ Oracle service to Corda and Ethereum blockchains uses intelligent voice biometrics and artificial intelligence to solve the identity of node players in smart contracts for financial and healthcare institutions adopting blockchain.
  • Fraternitas looks beyond credit scores to promote financial inclusion in underserved communities and among individuals with little credit history.
  • Golden‘s financial assistant app helps the 75 million baby-boomer adults managing the finances of 50 million senior parents.
  • Horizn‘s Knowledge Platform solves digital adoption and digital transformation for financial service employees and their customers using proprietary micro-learning and engagement methodology.
  • ID R&D‘s biometric authentication solutions use scientific breakthroughs, proprietary research and frictionless UX.
  • ieDigital‘s financial health tool gives credit unions an opportunity to deepen their connection with customers by offering them a solution to manage their day-to-day cash flow.
  • iGTB‘s “Contextual Banking Experience” targets customer dissatisfaction with the current, traditional corporate banking experience using APIs, AI, machine learning, “best-next action” recommendations and “best next offer” point-of-need bank product offerings.
  • ING Bank‘s Invoice Financing solves the challenge of irregular liquidity gaps for entrepreneurs and SMEs using a quick and self-explanatory online platform.
  • Interactions‘ omnichannel Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) uses a blend of AI and human understanding to solve frustrating customer experiences with banks.
  • ITSCREDIT‘s Instant Credit Express solution creates new payment methods with better conditions for both customers and non-customers of financial institutions.
  • James Finance is a one-stop shop for credit risk management allowing lenders to easily create, validate, deploy, and monitor regulation-ready, high-performing predictive models.
  • Launchfire’s game-based platforms motivate and change customer & employee behavior to drive adoption of digital banking products.
  • Lendindex provides innovative lending and credit scoring solutions for small businesses and investors.
  • LoanScorecard‘s non-agency automated underwriting technology solves portfolio and non-QM lending challenges for financial institutions.
  • Meniga targets lack of customer engagement and loyalty and uses internal and 3rd party data to drastically improve the digital banking user experience for bank and financial institution customers worldwide.
  • Modelshop‘s automation platform enables great agility for financial service firms creating intelligent business applications.
  • MuniRisk solves information fragmentation for municipal market participants.
  • Namaste Credit‘s automated credit assessment memo tool improves SME application review time and accuracy using image enhancement, OCR and advanced analytics.
  • NestReady‘s machine learning predictive analytics model gives visibility into the homebuying customer lifecycle for mortgage lenders so that they can analyze their portfolio and take action in a timely manner.
  • Nordigen Solutions‘ data analytics solution equips banks and alternative lenders with a better understanding of their customers.
  • Ocrolus‘ underwriting AI uses human empowered automation to help alternative lenders solve issues of human variation and inefficiency.
  • Onfido‘s AI-enabled technology uses facial biometrics and document checks to help global financial services businesses with digital identity verification.
  • Paper.id‘s automated invoice financing system helps SMEs get access to credit when they have a limited number of tangible assets that can be used as collateral.
  • Partner HUB‘s white-label platform resolves the integration of e-invoicing and payments for banks as backbone of a globally interoperable e-invoicing network.
  • PasswordPing‘s compromised credential screening solution uses secure APIs tied to a salted and strongly hashed backend database of billions of compromised credentials from the dark web to stop authorized authentication by cybercriminals.
  • Prisma Campaigns‘ omnichannel marketing campaigns orchestrator uses machine learning to deliver real time segmented and personalized offers and solve cross-selling challenges on digital and non digital channels for financial institutions of all types and sizes.
  • Relay‘s CX Builder leverages the automated creation and delivery of proactive, prescribed digital solutions to solve crucial moments in the customer lifecycle for digital and CX focused leaders in banking and financial services.
  • RightCapital‘s financial planning API linked to its financial planning software allows financial advisory firms to provide planning advice for prospects and clients throughout their relationship.
  • Round Pegs‘ platform channels the agility of startups for businesses undertaking digital transformation.
  • Salemove improves customer engagement and experience using instant live video chat and guided browsing with no downloads and no installations required.
  • Saylent Technologies‘ customer engagement platform translates data into actionable insights using experience, data science and machine learning.
  • SecuredTouch balances security and user experience by using behavior biometrics for authentication and fraud detection.
  • Sezzle‘s payment platform solves the lack of credit available to young consumers using gamification and progressive credit profiling to give them purchasing power when they need it.
  • Simpler Trading‘s charting software gives both early and expert traders insights into investments.
  • Sitehands combines the right skills, tools, instructions, and material to deliver IT field services for its customers, partners, and technicians.
  • Spreedly‘s single API connects into a complete, flexible payments infrastructure that supports new business models and new markets.
  • Stealth Security‘s network defenses use invisible (to criminals) detection and deceptive mitigation to guard against web, mobile & API bot attacks.
  • Systelos‘ discovery and collaboration platform eases the friction in exchanging value between financial advisors and their clients.
  • Tala Security targets advanced security attacks against web apps as well as PC and mobile web users.
  • TESOBE‘s developer friendly and modern APIs move banks into the digital age.
  • Tinkoff Bank‘s “Stories” feature delivers best targeted offers and increases transactional activity and financial awareness for customers.
  • Tolerisk‘s SaaS tool solves the problem of weak, one-dimensional risk tolerance assessments for investment advisors.
  • unblu helps the world’s leading banks to increase revenue and reduce costs by delivering an in-person experience online that helps them provide a better user experience to their prospects and customers.
  • US Bank‘s Cadre uses push provisioning, AI and chatbot technologies to solve the challenges of business travel and expenses for employees without corporate cards.
  • Vments‘ enterprise digital banking platform & ecosystem brings banks and financial services into the modern, secure era using non-crypto blockchain-based virtual fiat money and scalable/flexible smart transactions.
  • Vymo‘s intelligent personal assistant uses automation and AI to increase sales productivity for enterprise teams.