FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Mall IQ

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

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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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Gridspace

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

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
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Bankjoy

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

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

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

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…

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Currencycloud and Future FinTech Labs Team Up to Launch Remittance App Tempo

Currencycloud teamed up with Future FinTech Labs (FTFT Labs) to help the New York City-based fintech launch its Tempo app. Tempo is designed to make it easier, more secure and more effective for U.S. immigrants to send money overseas. Acquired by Visa in 2021, Currencycloud has processed more than $100 billion in cross-border money transfers since inception in 2012.

Global payments solutions and infrastructure company Currencycloud has partnered with Future FinTech Labs (FTFT Labs) to help the NYC-based fintech launch a new remittance solution for U.S.-based immigrants. The new offering, an app called Tempo, will help immigrants living in the U.S. send money securely to North America, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, India, and the Philippines.

Tempo will gives FTFT Labs customers access to a multi-currency wallet that makes sending money internationally easier and more cost-effective compared to other high-fee remittance services. Tempo app users will be…

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Finovate Global Latin America: Geopagos Raises $35 Million; Paystand Acquires Mexico’s Yaydoo

Active in 15 countries in Latin America, payments infrastructure provider Geopagos has secured an investment of $35 million. The equity funding round was led by Riverwood Capital and featured participation from Endeavor Catalyst. The sum represents the company's first institutional financing and will be used to fuel the development of new embedded payments solutions and help the firm expand throughout Latin America.

Geopagos provides financial institutions, fintechs, retailers, software companies and other organizations with end-to-end digital solutions to help them launch or grow their payment acceptance businesses in the area. These solutions include terminals that enable mobile phones to operate as point of sale devices as well as technology that turns websites into e-commerce platforms.

With clients including Santander, BBVA, Banco Estado de Chile, and Finovate alum Fiserv, Geopagos processes more than 150 million transactions and more than $5 billion in volume a year. The Buenos Aires-based company was…

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More from the Masters: A Sneak Peek at FinovateFall’s Top Keynote Speakers

Earlier this month we highlighted a handful of the Mastermind Keynotes scheduled for FinovateFall 2022 in New York, September 12 through 14.

This week, we take a look at more of the fintech entrepreneurs, analysts, and experts who will share their knowledge and insights into the fintech industry at FinovateFall next month.

Day One will feature Joe Lichtenberg, Global Head of Product and Industry Marketing for Intersystems, with his Mastermind Keynote address: How Next Generation Architectures Empower Financial Services Firms with Trusted Business Insights. Lichtenberg's morning presentation will introduce a new architectural approach that is providing business decision makers with a consolidated, accurate, and real-time view of their business.

Personetics President of the Americas Jody Bhagat will deliver a Mastermind Keynote: How Mid-Market Banks Can Find Their Sweet Spot with Digital Plus Human Interactions in the afternoon of Day One. Bhagat will discuss how mid-market banks can evolve…

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Alliant Credit Union Selects Upstart for Lending-as-a-Service

Alliant Credit Union announced a partnership with lending-as-a-service fintech Upstart. The agreement will make Alliant part of the Upstart Referral Network. Upstart SVP of Lending Partnerships Michael Lock said the move will help Alliant "grow its membership while providing greater access to affordable credit."

Alliant Credit Union announced it has selected Upstart to help it offer customers personalized loans.

Alliant Credit Union first partnered with Upstart in May 2022. With today's announcement, Alliant becomes part of the Upstart Referral Network. Under this agreement, Upstart offers qualified loan applicants tailored loan offers in around five minutes. When the applicant decides to pursue the loan opportunity, Upstart transitions the client from its own user interface to an Alliant-branded experience, where they finish the online member application and close the loan.

"As part of the Upstart Referral Network, Alliant will be able to grow its membership while providing greater access to…

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Teslar Software to Streamline and Automate Lending for Missouri-Based The Seymour Bank

Teslar Software announced a partnership with Missouri-based community bank, The Seymour Bank. Courtesy of the deal, The Seymour Bank will use Teslar's lending process automation platform to modernize and streamline its commercial lending business. Teslar Software made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2015 in San Francisco.

The Seymour Bank, a Missouri-based financial institution with more than $137 million in assets, has selected Teslar Software to enhance its commercial lending strategy. The bank will use Teslar's lending process automation platform to reduce reliance on manual processes and boost efficiencies..

"With Teslar, we will become more accessible to our customers, delivering a portal that allows them to easily and quickly monitor the status of their loans and securely communicate with us," The Seymour Bank vice president Heather Johns said. "Plus, Teslar's automated workflows will save time for our employees, resulting in a better, more efficient experience."

In addition to the digital…

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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Instnt

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

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

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

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
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