Madeline Clines, Author at Finovate

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Mall IQ

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2022
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, Mall IQ

Mall IQ is a privacy-first location intelligence platform, empowering FIs to increase card and loan revenue and prevent fraud with real-time, personalized mobile engagements via proprietary location tech.

Features

Generates privacy-compliant first-party data: accurate, timely, actionable & scalable
Increases activation, wallet-share & retention
Includes store-level accurate global coverage without hardware in 1M+ stores

Why it’s great

Generate incremental revenue from current customers with precise location technology with real-time engagements before a payment or loan need to become top-of-wallet. Minimum effort needed to integrate and operate.

Presenters

Batu Sat, CEO
Dr. Sat has been a business and tech leader for 20+ years. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an expert in ML/AI & Location Tech. He previously worked at Cisco and Microsoft.
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Firuze Duygu Caliskan, COO
Caliskan has an M.S. Degree in Engineering Management from Missouri University of S&T. 15+ years experience in strategic marketing and revenue expansion activities across the globe.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Gridspace

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2022
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, Gridspace

Gridspace is a voice technology and artificial intelligence software company. The company provides natural-sounding virtual agents and voice observability software to contact centers.

Features

Performance – Gridspace runs neural networks directly on its own softswitches
Security & Trust – HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC-2 & PCI Level 1
Unified platform – Human & virtual agents in one place

Why it’s great

Gridspace is a true, full-stack provider of conversational AI – building and integrating its own enterprise-grade softswitch, conversational ASR, search engine, neural TTS, dialog systems and more.

Presenters

Evan Macmillan, CEO
Before Gridspace, Macmillan co-founded Zappedy, a payments technology company that was backed by Eric Schmidt and acquired by Groupon. He has an engineering bachelor’s from Stanford in Product Design.
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Adam Miller, Principal Engineer on Monophone
Prior to Gridspace, Miller worked on the Search Webanswers team at Google and studied computer science at UIUC.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Bankjoy

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2022
Categories: Bankjoy, FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek

Bankjoy’s new Business Banking platform makes it easier for community banks and credit unions to deliver truly feature-rich digital banking technology to their business customers.

Features

Use one portal for multiple business accounts
Manage users & control permissions
Send transfers to multiple recipients & more

Presenter

Michael Duncan, CEO & Co-Founder
Before founding Bankjoy, Duncan managed software development for a large credit union in Michigan, including the development of their mobile banking app.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Apiture

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2022
Categories: Apiture, FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek

Apiture’s embedded banking tools allow financial institutions to embed financial services into non-bank partners’ software, extending these services to new users and giving more convenient banking options.

Why it’s great

Embedded banking enables financial institutions of any size to create new revenue streams by attracting users outside of their existing geographic footprint and cross selling in new ways.

Presenters

Daniel Haisley, EVP of Innovation
Haisley leads Apiture’s innovation efforts encompassing Data Intelligence and API Banking solutions. He has an extensive background in product and design management and, prior to his time at Apiture, Haisley held product leadership roles at Live Oak Bank and 1st Source Bank. He brings 10+ years of experience driving innovation in technology for financial institutions.

Haisley is a graduate of Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, where he earned a B.S. in Financial Counseling & Planning, and the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI.
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Danielle Eriksson, Director of Product Management
Eriksson is responsible for leading the API Banking and Embedded Banking initiatives on the Innovation team. She has experience in capital markets, building financial products for retail and institutional investors, as well as building financial technology solutions to help financial institutions improve cost efficiencies, engage customers, and ultimately grow the balance sheet.

Eriksson graduated from Tufts University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Quantitative Management and Business Analytics from the Fuqua School of Business.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Instnt

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 17, 2022
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, Instnt

Instnt’s fully-managed Customer Acceptance Platform helps businesses sign up and accept 50% more good customers with zero fraud loss for good, with continuous, portable identity assurance.

Features

One-click frictionless customer acceptance
Day 0 to Day N continuous identity assurance
Decentralized, reusable KYC verification

Why it’s great

Instnt provides frictionless customer acceptance experiences without compromising on security, risk and compliance.

Presenters

Sunil Madhu, CEO
Madhu is a serial entrepreneur operating in Security, Risk & Compliance for over 30 years. Recently, he founded and was the CEO of Socure.
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Justin Kamerman, CPO
Kamerman has over 20 years of experience designing and building high performance distributed systems in the telecommunications, IPTV, identity verification, social media analytics, and IIoT industries.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Illuma

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 17, 2022
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 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/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 Labs
Borkar brings a background in R&D and more than 50 successful product launches to his role at Illuma Labs.
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Karan Kashyap, CEO & Co-Founder, Posh
Posh is a conversational AI fintech working with FIs. Kashyap is an alumni of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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Chad Rogers, EVP & COO, Connexus Credit Union
At Connexus Credit union ($4.9B in assets), Rogers leads a talented senior leadership team delivering exceptional experiences to ~420K members nationwide.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: EqualFuture

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 17, 2022
Categories: EqualFuture, FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek

EqualFuture’s Super App reimagines financial wellness through a simplified, integrated way to empower people to plan, simulate, and make smarter decisions.

Features

Includes “Someone Like Me” features that help users create their profiles
Supports goal/scenario-based financial decisions through interactive, gamified tools
Uses cashflow modeling to stay on track

Presenter

Joyce Phillips, CEO & Founder
Joyce Phillips is an awarded leader, innovator, and marketer. Phillips brings significant global financial expertise, previously holding executive leadership roles with iconic corporate brands.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Debbie

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 17, 2022
Categories: Debbie, FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek

Debbie is the Noom for debt loss, utilizing behavioral psychology and rewards to motivate and incentivize people to crush their debt, for good.

Features

Utilizes behavioral psychology through a guided debt loss program to help users unwind habits
Provides time trended credit data to pre-qualify users for refi
Offers users micro-rewards for improved behavior

Why it’s great

Debbie users pay down on average $450/month of debt, while setting aside savings of $100/month consistently. For folks in $5k-$10k of debt who are making $50k/year, this is significant.

Presenters

Frida Leibowitz, CEO
Ex-Credit Risk at Marcus by Goldman. Immigrant, first-gen student from a single parent home. Passionate about financial security because she’s experienced crushing debt while attending NYU.
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Rachel Lauren, COO
Former VC at BDMI and software equity research analyst at Credit Suisse. Passionate about financial behavior after seeing her family struggle with money management and financial shame.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: SESAMm

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 17, 2022
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, SESAMm

SESAMm specializes in big data and AI. At FinovateFall, the company is demoing its ESG Monitoring and Alerting product that detects controversies and positive impact events on web data.

Features

ESG controversies and SDGs positive impact topics identification on 5+ million companies
Event monitoring on private and public companies
Delivery methods: Daily emails, cloud and CRM integration, among others

Why it’s great

SESAMm’s ESG and SDG Alerts leverage AI to give firms the ability to monitor millions of public and private companies worldwide, providing more objective indicators.

Presenter

Sylvain Forté, CEO
Sylvain Forté, CEO and Co-Founder of SESAMm, created the company in 2014 based on his passion for artificial intelligence and finance after receiving a double degree in engineering.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Agent IQ

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 12, 2022
Categories: Agent IQ, FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek

Agent IQ’s Lynq personal engagement platform improves communication between financial institutions and their customers, leading to happier, more loyal, and more profitable relationships

Features

Allows customers to select a personal banker
Includes configurable, built-in AI that supports a company’s banker to be more efficient
Provides real-time insights into what customers are talking about

Why it’s great

Agent IQ helps its customers create relationships in the digital world that are just as personal as they are in the physical world, but even more enhanced.

Presenters

Matt Phipps, CMO
Phipps has over a 20 year career in global marketing and branding in which he led digital marketing across Asia Pacific out of Melbourne, Australia for a multi-billion dollar life sciences company.
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Soren Bested, COO
Bested’s industry tenure has spanned six countries across four continents and primarily been focused on FinTech services, biotechnology, healthcare and international strategic collaboration.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Teslar Software

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 12, 2022
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, Teslar

Teslar is a configurable lending process automation platform that helps community financial institutions balance portfolios, optimize profits, and effectively serve their customers.

Features

Allows banks to work with business customers to provide financing for mutual customers
Expands lending opportunities
Customizable to the bank’s risk management practices

Why it’s great

Expand lending opportunities while the consumer benefits by having the convenience and ease of working directly with the retailer or dealer for financing. Quick and reliable financing.

Presenter

Joe Ehrhardt, CEO and Founder
Ehrhardt began his career as a teller and now has over 20 years’ experience in the industry. Having built Teslar from the ground up, today he leads Teslar’s strategic vision and upholds company culture.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Turnpool

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 12, 2022
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, Turnpool

Turnpool is an on-chain marketplace for commercial debt on crypto rails. The product enables borrowers to raise debt efficiently, compliantly, and securely, giving lenders opportunities to earn yield.

Features

Borrowers tap into a revolving line of credit
Crypto investors get stable yield that is uncorrelated with crypto markets

Why it’s great

The goal is to bridge the world of DeFi with real-world assets. Breaking down the barriers of entry, driving adoption, and driving more inclusive capital-efficient access to financing.

Presenters

Jwalin Joshi, Engineer
Joshi is a graduate of UC Berkeley and is interested in the applications of financial technology. He has served as one of the lead engineers and architects of Turnpool’s debt marketplace.
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Mary Gooneratne, Co-Founder
Mary Gooneratne, Co-Founder of Turnpool, previously co-founded and sold a successful defense staffing business and then proceeded to hold various engineering positions at Google. She has expertise in product development, AI, and quantitative finance.
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