FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Glean AI

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, Glean AI

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Glean AI's Strategic Accounts Payable (AP) platform helps companies save money through deep insights and automation.

Features

Identifies hard-to detect trends and uncovers areas of overspending Saves time by eliminating manual tasks with automated data extraction Compiles all vendor data in one centralized location

Why it's great

Glean AI’s algorithms proactively identify areas where money is being misspent (ex: excess licenses, incorrect pricing).

Presenter

Howard Katzenberg, Founder & CEO
Howard Katzenberg is a seasoned entrepreneur and early “FinTech” industry pioneer, with expertise in scaling venture-backed businesses through IPO, strategic planning, and financial leadership.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: QuickFi by Innovation Finance

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, QuickFi

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

QuickFi® allows business borrowers to obtain low, fixed-rate business equipment term-loans in minutes, instead of days or weeks. The borrower completes the loan process on a mobile device, 24/7/365.

Features

Includes flexible integrations for global manufacturers, serving direct, dealer & ecommerce sales channels Uses disclosed, fixed interest rates on borrower-friendly terms, with no hidden fees or costs Available 24/7

Why it's great

The QuickFi® platform dramatically improves the business borrower experience by enabling self-service, borrower-friendly, digital financing 24/7/365.

Presenters

Nathan Gibbons, Chief Experience Officer
Gibbons is CXO of QuickFi and oversees the platform’s customer experience strategy, leveraging automation and technology to enable dramatic improvements in the borrower experience.
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Jillian Munson, Technology Project Manager
Munson leads core technology projects at QuickFi. Munson develops seamless user experiences for both…

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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Coherent

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Categories: Coherent, FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Coherent Spark “API-ifies” business logic from Excel - no coding required. Instantly integrate, test, or update any XLS model to achieve ROI in moments, not months.

Features

Innovates products - accelerate speed to market and reduce cost Empowers teams - business and IT work together more efficiently Ensures quality - testing, governance, and auditability come standard

Why it's great

Coherent Spark empowers you to transform your business, without disrupting it, by unlocking value using a tool everyone knows: Excel.

Presenter

Peter Roschke, Chief Technology Officer
Peter Roschke is a senior transformation executive with 25+ years of experience navigating changing markets, leading large-scale programs, and delivering technology to achieve business results.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Cloudentity

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: Cloudentity, FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Cloudentity is a leading provider of Financial Grade API Authorization & Consent software, supporting open and embedded finance compliance with current and emerging global regulations.

Features

Fine-grained authorization and consent for Financial Grade APIs Instant compliance with various global open banking & finance regulations Available via public SaaS or customer deployment

Why it's great

Cloudentity is the only platform capable of providing authorization and consent compliant with all current globally recognized open banking regulations.

Presenter

Brook Lovatt, CEO
Brook Lovatt is Cloudentity’s CEO and a member of the board. Lovatt has over 20 years of experience in Identity and Access Management as an executive at IBM and security-focused consulting firms.
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Clearpay Helps U.K. Square Merchants to Offer Buy Now, Pay Later

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Daily news

Square is launching its first integration with ClearPay this week. Square merchants in the U.K. can now leverage Clearpay (known as Afterpay outside of the U.K.) to offer a BNPL payment option to their customers making purchases both online and in-person. The integration is the result of an acquisition between Square parent Block and Afterpay in January of this year for $29 billion.

Block's Square is launching its first integration with ClearPay (also known as Afterpay) in the U.K. this week.

The move will make ClearPay's buy now, pay later (BNPL) technology available clients making purchases at both in-person and online Square merchants. End customers will have the option to pay in four interest-free installments over the course of six weeks, while merchants will receive payment right away.

There is record demand for BNPL among U.K. consumers. The BNPL model is the region's fastest growing online payment method. Last year,…

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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: 3forge

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: 3forge, FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

3forge's Full Stack Enterprise platform has been in production across Tier 1 banks since 2014 with a focus on performance, flexibility and scale.

Features

Data agnostic, suitable for any industry Delivers workflow solutions quickly and reduces developer time by 90% World's fastest real-time grids and visualizations

Why it's great

Quickly build customized business critical web solutions with a focus on workflows, real-time visualizations and data discovery.

Presenter

Robert Cooke, CTO & Founder
Robert Cooke is a software engineer with a life dedicated to the study of human/data interactions. After his tenure within the financial industry, he directed his efforts to create 3forge.
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Point and Shoot: Rippleshot and Flashpoint Team Up to Fight Card Fraud

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, Rippleshot

Fraud detection and prevention specialist Rippleshot announced a partnership with risk intelligence company Flashpoint to help fight payment card fraud. The partnership will combine Rippleshot's network of more than 4,500 FIs with Flashpoint's fraud mitigation technology to help firms detect data breaches and fraudulent activity faster. A 2022 Finovate Awards finalist, Rippleshot is based in Chicago, Illinois. The company made its Finovate debut in 2014.

Fraud detection and prevention solution provider Rippleshot has teamed up with risk intelligence firm Flashpoint to help financial institutions take more proactive steps to fight payment card fraud.

Rippleshot's technology relies on a data consortium of more than 4,500 financial institutions - as well as AI/ML, automation, and data-driven strategies - to quickly detect data breaches and determine when and where the breach occurred. Combining Rippleshot's compromised and high-risk merchant data and insights with Flashpoint's payment and credit card fraud mitigation solution will enable financial…

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The Conversation Continues: Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast’s Summer Series

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: David's column, Podcasting

Greg Palmer's Finovate Podcast continues to be the source of many of fintech's most compelling conversations.

From discussions with innovation experts to deep dives with veterans of the VC world, the Finovate Podcast is a great way to learn about the trends that fintech enthusiasts are most enthusiastic about.

Here's a rundown of recent episodes you might have missed over the summer.

Find the Finovate podcast at Soundcloud and follow Greg Palmer on Twitter for the latest in programming news and updates.

Michael Butler, President and CEO, Grasshopper Bank

Finovate Podcast host Greg Palmer talks with Grasshopper Bank President and CEO Michael Butler on surviving and thriving as a neobank, and lessons for the broader fintech ecosystem. Episode 142.

"(Grasshopper) is a company that is focused on providing digital financial solutions to the business and innovation economy, mainly SMBs that are focused on technology and are technophiles by nature.…

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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Pidgin

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, Pidgin

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Pidgin makes faster payments possible across different use cases – whether it’s paying a friend back for dinner, accepting payments from customers, paying employees or paying vendor invoices.

Features

Pidgin supports:

Sending and receiving faster payments Routing payments directly from one financial institution to another Flexibility when routing payments across different networks

Why it's great

Pidgin allows financial institutions and their account holders to securely send and receive faster payments with lower fees.

Presenter

Abhishek Veeraghanta, Head of Pidgin
Abhishek Veeraghanta is head of Pidgin and Senior Vice President at VSoft, where he is responsible for overseeing the company’s growth strategies.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: PayQuicker

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, PayQuicker

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

The PayQuicker Payouts OS platform intelligently determines and facilitates the quickest and most cost-effective way for clients to send payouts to businesses and consumers globally.

Features

Turnkey integration with single REST API that plugs into multiple banks & global payment rails Pay to 200+ countries, 40+ currencies Routing intelligence based on client's desired payout parameters

Why it's great

Payouts OS is rooted in PayQuicker's time-tested technology, designed to deliver global payouts faster and with more flexibility, increasing efficiency for HR, technology and treasury teams.

Presenters

Charles Rosenblatt, President
A seasoned innovator in the payments industry, Charles Rosenblatt has held executive leadership positions at major global banks and prominent FinTech organizations and is now President of PayQuicker.
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James Legan, Chief Technology Officer
With over 20 years of experience…

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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: MeasureOne

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, MeasureOne

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

MeasureOne is a consumer-permissioned data platform that enables businesses to request any data that lives in consumers' online accounts — including income, employment, insurance, and education.

Features

MeasureOne is the only one-stop-shop for consumer-permissioned data:

Access to any consumer data Automated manual verification processes (e.g. VOIE) Dramatic cost savings over The Work Number

Why it's great

MeasureOne is the only domain-agnostic consumer-permissioned data platform, which means any data type that lives in a consumer's online accounts can be requested and shared for a business transaction.

Presenter

Yaron Oren, Chief Revenue Officer
Yaron Oren is a veteran startup leader and entrepreneur with a specialization in PaaS/API-driven businesses that disrupt legacy workflows and unlock innovation for consumers and businesses alike.
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