Madeline Clines, Author at Finovate

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Flybits

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 24, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Flybits

Flybits is an award-winning personalization platform, enabling financial institutions to deliver best-in-class personalized digital banking experiences across mobile, web, and the metaverse.

Features

Deliver hyper-personalized experiences
Bring the person back into personalization by contextualizing digital touchpoints and interactions
Become a leader by creating interactive VR experiences

Why it’s great

The Flybits Cardholder Lifecycle Management Solution is an always-on solution that elevates cardholder experiences at every lifecycle stage, personalized for every moment while driving business results.

Presenters

Hossein Rahnama, CEO & Founder
Rahnama is a visiting MIT professor, co-founded the DMZ, and has 40+ publications/patents.
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Chris Pinkerton, CGO
Pinkerton has over 15 years of experience working with companies like Google, 3M, and Microsoft to apply insight to their acquisition and monetization models.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: DataVisor

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 23, 2023
Categories: DataVisor, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

DataVisor delivers sophisticated AI-powered solutions to keep companies and their customers safe from fraud and abuse.

Features

DataVisor’s Real-Time Payments Fraud Solution is

Designed for real-time payments fraud scenarios
Provides real-time alerts and mitigates threats without delays
Includes generative AI powered automation

Why it’s great

The only fraud platform with embedded generative AI powered automation.

Presenter

Ryan Nichols, Solutions Engineer
Nichols is grounded in software development and cloud solutions architecture. His expertise lies in crafting solutions for Cybersecurity, AML, and Fraud SaaS platforms.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Bankjoy

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 23, 2023
Categories: Bankjoy, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

Through its digital banking platform, Bankjoy empowers Panacea Financial, a neobank serving medical professionals, to offer more value for customers.

Features

Enables digital banks and neobanks to target specific markets with a superior digital banking experience
Integrates with a variety of core platforms and third-parties for a feature-rich UX

Why it’s great

Bankjoy’s intuitive digital banking platform, which integrates with a variety of core platforms and third-parties, is an excellent fit for neobanks aiming to offer more value to their customers.

Presenters

Michael Duncan, Co-Founder & CEO, Bankjoy
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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Dr. Ned Palmer, Co-Founder & COO, Panacea Financial
In addition to founding Panacea Financial in 2020, Palmer is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and an Attending Physician at Boston Children’s Hospital.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Pangea Technologies

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 23, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Pangea Technologies

Pangea Prime by Pangea Technologies gives companies’ one central place to manage global FX operations. With Pangea Prime, users can store foreign currency, send foreign currency, and hedge their FX risk.

Features

Hedge: Hedge over 30+ currencies covering the U.S.’ top trading partners
Store: Over 50 different currencies in Pangea’s FX smart wallets
Send: Over 170+ currencies to 195 countries

Why it’s great

Companies and their clients can manage foreign currency risk at scale on one single platform, protecting themselves against foreign market volatility.

Presenter

Aeron Sullivan, CEO
Sullivan led two startups prior to Pangea, one where he was named to Inc. Magazine’s 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Wysh

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 23, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Wysh

Life Benefit by Wysh is an innovative value-add that embeds micro-life insurance into deposit products, providing differentiation, cost management, and financial inclusivity.

Features

Attracts, retains, and differentiates deposits
No opt-in, underwriting, or sign up
Seamless integration in under 30 days

Why it’s great

Life Benefit brings protection to each company’s deposit strategy while also cultivating a way to differentiate among a sea of indistinguishable deposit offerings.

Presenter

Alex Matjanec, CEO & Head of Vision
Matjanec has dedicated his career to empowering people to have the full confidence of financial protection.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Uprise

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 23, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Uprise

Uprise empowers financial companies to embed high quality human+AI-powered financial advisory, unlocking new revenue and a higher level of service with holistic financial planning.

Features

Offers a more affordable financial advisory experience (10-30x more in some cases)
Delivers more revenue for partners (4x more per customer in some cases)
Provides cross-selling opportunities with users adopting 1-2 new financial products per plan

Why it’s great

Uprise is making the most affordable financial advising experience ever and embedding with innovative companies to bring it to their users.

Presenters

Chris Goodmacher, Co-Founder
Goodmacher is the Co-Founder of Uprise, a platform that empowers companies to embed high quality, AI-powered financial advisory. He was previously an early Justworks employee.
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Nantha Muthusamy, Co-Founder & Head of Engineering
Muthusamy is the Co-Founder & Head of Engineering for Uprise, which empowers companies to embed high quality, AI-powered financial advisory. He was previously at Facebook.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Cashy

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2023
Categories: Cashy, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

Cashy engages financial institutions’ Gen Z customers through gaming and education. Simulating real-life scenarios, players compete to grow their assets while remaining happy.

Features

Engage Gen Z: Cashy’s average monthly engagement time is 80 minutes
Build trust: Experience is co-branded
Convert: Personalized rewards get 5x industry average CTRs

Why it’s great

Cashy helps companies engage Gen Z like no other product. Teenagers and young adults literally jump from their chairs while playing.

Presenter

Mart Vainu, CEO
Vainu is a serial entrepreneur who, after having taught finance to over 3,000 students, saw that to reach 30 million, it had to be as entertaining as TikTok.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Apiture

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2023
Categories: Apiture, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

Apiture delivers award-winning digital banking solutions to financial institutions throughout the U.S., including consumer/business banking as well as innovative data intelligence and embedded banking.

Features

Apiture’s AI-based tool, Sensei, provides

Real-time insights and recommendations about financial standing
Insights based on customer data
Greater customer stickiness

Why it’s great

Sensei from Apiture empowers financial institutions to establish highly personalized, consultative relationships with their customers in the digital environment.

Presenter

Daniel Haisley, Executive VP of Innovation
Haisley leads Apiture’s innovation efforts encompassing data intelligence and API banking solutions.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Peach

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Peach

Peach helps users pay off their loans and accelerate their debt-free timeline.

Features

The Peach app is a debt management tool that allows users to

Easily understand their loans
Monitor their credit
Set up a plan to become debt-free

Why it’s great

Peach is a consumer fintech app committed to rewriting the way credit is assessed and managed, enabling Americans to achieve their financial goals.

Presenter

Puneet Thiara, COO
Prior to Peach, Thiara worked in asset management and investment banking, specializing in analytics, research, and sales roles. She has her BA in Economics from Northwestern and her MBA from Wharton.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Debbie

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2023
Categories: Debbie, FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek

Debbie is the rewards platform for debt payoff, using behavioral psychology to help incentivize debt payoff and savings. The organization is launching Rate Crusher, their credit card refinance marketplace for credit unions and other financial institutions.

Features

Connect with highly motivated and young borrowers
Further incentivize deposits
Boost engagement and reduce debt

Why it’s great

Debbie’s solution targets the underlying root cause of negative financial behavior and incentivizes good habits. Their users are primed to succeed.

Presenters

Rachel Lauren, COO & Co-Founder
Lauren has built up the Debbie userbase to over 20k people. She was previously a venture capital investor at BDMI and equity research associate at Credit Suisse.
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Frida Leibowitz, CEO & Co-Founder
Leibowitz is responsible for the product vision and execution at Debbie. She previously worked in credit risk at Marcus by Goldman Sachs.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Wealth Access

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, Wealth Access

Wealth Access is an enterprise customer data insights platform that works with financial services’ existing books and records to enrich and unify data.

Features

Overcomes siloed processes by integrating records
Enables hyper-personalized experiences across multiple business lines without borders
Provides actionable insights to uncover complete customer stories

Why it’s great

Wealth Access intelligently unifies records across multiple systems and enables service teams to bolster customer loyalty, resulting in high ROIs that are 15x their spend.

Presenter

David Benskin, CEO & Founder
Under Benskin’s leadership, Wealth Access has sustained profitability and a robust core business CAGR of 37% over the past four years.

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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: HappyNest

By Madeline Clines Posted on August 22, 2023
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, HappyNest

HappyNest, a revolutionary commercial real estate investing and savings mobile app, grants access to quality real estate projects to all Americans with a minimum investment of $10.

Features

Offers accessible real estate investing at a low minimum entry
Rounds up purchases to invest them into real estate
Provides amazing personalization for investors

Why it’s great

HappyNest is a fast-growing real estate company that provides access to high-quality commercial real estate investment opportunities to non-accredited investors starting with $10.

Presenter

Jesse Prince, Co-Founder & CEO
Prince, a combat veteran, CEO of HappyNest, and a seasoned commercial real estate entrepreneur, is passionate about making real estate investing accessible to everyone.
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