Ephesoft Unveils Mortgage Document Capture Solution

Ephesoft Unveils Mortgage Document Capture Solution
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Ephesoft

Now that spring has arrived, families across the country have started the home buying process. However, the average time it takes to close on a house is 50 days, making it a long road to home. Aiming to speed things up, document capture and data analytics company Ephesoft launched Ephesoft Transact for Mortgage this week. This is the California-based company’s first vertical-specific product offering.

The cloud-based platform recognizes and classifies more than 600 mortgage document types. When lenders bundle Ephesoft Transact for Mortgage classification solution with the Ephesoft Transact flagship offering, they can increase mortgage processing speeds. In a statement, Ephesoft said that large organizations will see deployment times reduced by 80%, from several months to just weeks.

Ike Kavas, founder and CEO of Ephesoft, said that the company’s mortgage lendeing and financial services customers will “greatly benefit from the improved speeds provided by the Transact for Mortgage platform.” Kavas added, “We are continuously developing innovative, cost-effective solutions that solve real problems for our customers and with hundreds of different document types to classify, the mortgage processing industry is ideally suited for document capture innovation and automation.”

To get started, mortgage loan processors upload loan documents into a batch, then Ephesoft Transact for Mortgage automatically classifies and separates documents and exports them into the lender’s loan origination system. The system takes appraisal documents, lease agreements, tax returns, bank statements, and other documents necessary in mortgage applications, and deciphers which pages are necessary and which are simply blank pages, cover sheets, invoices, and disclosures. Once documents are classified, the high-value pages are prepared for data extraction and business insights, with the option to apply Ephesoft’s machine learning technology for further analysis.

In the press release, Ephesoft client, Jane Christie, COO of eDocument Solutions, said, “Customers have reported accuracy reports of 90% or higher, loan processing time reduction of 92% and savings of over $100 per loan. The combination of accuracy, consistency and speed for mortgage documents impacts their bottom line and improves customer satisfaction and retention rates.”

At FinovateAsia 2017, Ephesoft demoed how banks can use its cloud services to classify documents, extract their information, and automate business transactions. Last summer, the company earned a $15 million investment from Mercato Partners, its first round of funding since it was founded in 2010. In the fall of 2017, Ephesoft’s developers released version 4.0 of its Transact Mobile SDK.

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MoneyHub Integrates with Challenger Banks Starling, Monzo

MoneyHub Integrates with Challenger Banks Starling, Monzo
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Categories: Moneyhub

Financial management platform Moneyhub has integrated with the APIs of U.K. challenger banks Monzo and Starling, providing customers of these banks with “a holistic overview of all their financial assets through Moneyhub’s platform,” reported Tanya Andreasyan of FinTech Futures (Finovate’s sister publication).

Integration enables Monzo and Starling customers using the Moneyhub app to choose to link up current and savings accounts, credit cards, pensions, loans, mortgages, SIPPs, ISAs, and investments. Moneyhub said its technology features the most data links of any aggregation provider in the U.K.

Monzo and Starling users will have access to Moneyhub’s proprietary categorization engine and personalized Smart Nudges, the fintech says, “empowering them to make well informed monetary decisions across all assets held and fulfill their financial wellbeing potential”.

Moneyhub is authorized by the U.K. regulators as an account information service provider (AISP), under the new PSD2 and open banking rules. It works with banks, investment managers, pension providers, and employee benefit consultants to provide financial management white labeled solutions and APIs for their clients.

The company stated it is poised to work with all the nine CMA banks when they go live, and is currently integrating with the six that are ready for open banking.

Meanwhile, Yolt, a financial management app from ING, said it has reached 250,000 users in less than a year. The “smart thinking money app” was launched in June last year, and enables users to view their accounts and credit cards in one place.

Yolt, too, has integrated with Monzo and Starling, and also with RBS and Lloyds Banking Group via open API.

Frank Jan Risseeuw, CEO of Yolt, said the app reached 100,000 users in the first six months and onboarded another 150,000 in the following three months.

“We couldn’t have achieved this milestone without the feedback and suggestions from our brilliant Yolt community,” he stated. “We endeavor to listen to each and every one of our users as we continue with our aim to be the only money app that you need.

“We want to do all the hard work for our users, so they can get on with enjoying their lives.”

Headquartered in Bristol, U.K., MoneyHub demonstrated its Moneyhub Enterprise SmartAssist solution at FinovateEurope 2017. SmartAssist is a proactive intelligent messaging tool that helps users make better financial decisions. Moneyhub was acquired by South African insurance company, MMI Holdings, in 2014. Last month, the company sent its CTO Dave Tonge to mainland Europe to further the Moneyhub’s PSD2 strategy.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Coinbase, Ephesoft, Finastra, Fortytwo Data, Infosys, MasterCard, Moneyhub, ThreatMetrix

On Finovate.com

  • Ephesoft Unveils Mortgage Document Capture Solution.
  • Coinbase Acquires Earn.com; Adds Balaji Srinivasan as First CTO.

Around the web

  • ThreatMetrix introduces its first product integration with LexisNexis since the company was acquired in February.
  • Finastra makes its mortgage lending solutions available via the cloud courtesy of partnership with Microsoft.
  • Ambassador Michael Froman joins Mastercard as vice chairman and president of strategic growth.
  • Moneyhub opens its API to U.K. challenger banks Monzo and Starling.
  • Coinbase acquires Cipher Browser to support its decentralized mobile browser offering.
  • Fortytwo Data appoints Luca Primerano as chief AI officer.
  • Coindesk: Mastercard Eyes Blockchain for Fighting Fake Identities.
  • Infosys to acquire Creative and Consumer Insight Agency, WONGDOODY.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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Finovate Global: Fintech News from Around the World

Finovate Global: Fintech News from Around the World
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Categories: ACI Worldwide, Efigence, Finovate Global, Sberbank

As Finovate goes increasingly global, so does our coverage of financial technology. Finovate Global: Fintech News from Around the World is our weekly look at fintech innovation in developing economies in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe.

Africa

  • Block Commodities, Walla, Dala, and FinComEco partner in new initiative to leverage cryptocurrencies to fund loans to African farmers.
  • Standard Chartered opens fully licensed bank in Côte d’Ivoire.
  • Nigerian fintech startups to compete for annual mCash Prize for Innovation in Fintech, sponsored by the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NBSS).

LATAM

  • Santander unveils new blockchain-based international wire transfer service for Brazilian consumers.
  • Digital bank Wanap goes live in Argentina (in Spanish).
  • El Financiero looks at the potential impact of a Mexico-like fintech law on fintech innovation in Costa Rica (in Spanish).

CEE

  • OTP Bank in Hungary partners with ACI Worldwide to power its digital transformation.
  • Sberbank and SAP team up to complete cloud-based digital transformation project.
  • Efigence powers concept, UX, and design for BGŻOptima Bank’s new portal.

Asia

  • Fintech Malaysia lists its 14 Names You Should Know to “highlight some of the movers and shakers within the fintech space in Malaysia.”
  • Ernest & Young executive predicts sharp rise in number of Vietnamese fintechs and “heightened investor interest.”
  • Research agency BMI says infrastructure, growing affluence, and high mobile and broadband use suggest Malaysia could be world leader in Islamic financial technology.

MENA

  • MENA Research Partners estimates the value of the MENA Fintech market at $2 billion, with an annual growth of $125 million over the next four years.
  • Daily News Egypt discussed Egypt’s commitment to digitize its economy with Visa CEO Alfred Kelly.
  • Emirates NBD integrates blockchain technology into cheques to fight fraud and forgery.

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Stash Teams with Green Dot to Become a Challenger Bank

Stash Teams with Green Dot to Become a Challenger Bank
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Stash

 

Mobile financial services company Stash first revealed its plans to launch banking services in October of last year, positioning itself as a challenger bank with mobile-centric investment and retirement capabilities. And, as with all U.S.-based challenger banks, Stash will house the funds at a traditional bank. Today, the New York-based company announced it has selected Green Dot and its subsidiary bank, Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC, to keep user’s funds safe.

Through the partnership with Green Dot, Stash will deliver debit cards with no overdraft fees and provide access to a network of free ATMs across the U.S. The app will also share insight into clients’ financial health, with actionable advice on spending, saving, investing, and retirement via Stash Coach. But don’t get too excited– Stash has yet to go live with the banking services and hasn’t hinted at its timeline or anticipated pricing.

In a statement, Brandon Krieg, CEO and cofounder of Stash, said: “Layering Green Dot’s robust Banking as a Service platform with Stash’s full suite of offerings will provide innovative, affordable tools to teach healthy financial habits, relieve financial stress, and help our clients save and invest more money.”

Founded in 1999, Green Dot debuted its own mobile-first banking service, GoBank, at FinovateSpring 2013. The account offers mobile banking, check deposit, and P2P money transfer services.

“Stash is committed to being a true partner and source of support for our clients, and for those who have systematically been left behind,” said Krieg. This sentiment is reflected in Stash’s updated mission which states, “We started Stash to simplify investing, but our true mission runs deeper. Today, your financial products too often fail you. We believe everyone should have access to financial education, technology, and services that help them achieve their life goals.”

Founded in 2015, Stash serves two million customers on its mobile investment platform, which allows users to choose from a selection of over 40 curated ETFs. The company doesn’t collect add-on commissions or trading fees, and charges $1 per month for accounts under $5,000. Users with portfolios over that threshold pay 0.25% per year. Stash’s growth bodes well for future banking developments– the company currently has 40,000 new clients joining each week.

Krieg debuted Stash Retire at FinovateFall 2017. In November of 2017, KPMG and H2 Ventures named the company on its 2017 Fintech 100 list. In February of this year, Stash raised $37.5 million and unveiled custodial investment accounts to allow Stash clients to open new accounts for minors. This is a smart move from a customer acquisition standpoint. Young users exposed to the Stash app early will be more likely to matriculate as customers of Stash’s investment and (eventually) banking services.

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PeoplesBank Partners with Gro Solutions to Enhance Mobile and Online Customer Experience

PeoplesBank Partners with Gro Solutions to Enhance Mobile and Online Customer Experience
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Categories: Gro Solutions

Pennsylvania-based PeoplesBank will rely on the Digital Sales Platform from Gro Solutions to implement its new online banking strategy. The bank sees the fintech’s digital platform as key to helping it provide a streamlined and mobile onboarding experience, reduce application abandonment, and provide a better overall mobile and online experience for customers.

Putting speed and simplicity at the top of the bank’s list, Communications and Digital Marketing Specialist for PeoplesBank Heather Noll said, “We really like the fact that with Gro our clients can open an account online in under five minutes. We want to give our clients the best experience possible, and we’re excited to be able to provide that extra ease of use for them.”  PeoplesBank plans to make the new Gro services available later this year.

Gro Solutions CEO David Eads underscored both factors in his statement on the partnership. “Reaching today’s bank customers requires not only a fast, easier digital process, but also the ability to fine-tune the details of their product offerings and risk profile,” Eads said. “We welcome the opportunity to help PeoplesBank fulfill that need for its customers and look forward to collaborating with the bank to support its digital banking growth initiatives.”

PeoplesBank is a Codorus Valley Company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Codorus Valley Bancorp Inc. the largest independent FI based in York County, Pennsylvania. Serving customers in South Central Pennsylvania and Central Maryland, PeoplesBank has more than $1.7 billion in assets and provides consumer, business, wealth management, and mortgage services.

Gro Solutions demonstrated an extension of its Gro Digital Sales Platform at FinovateFall 2017. More recently, the Atlanta, Georgia-based company, founded in 2015, announced a partnership with Congressional FCU ($900 million in assets) that will bring its Digital Sales Platform to the 47,000-member institution. Also this year, Gro Solutions teamed up with Michigan-area 4Front CU ($488 million in assets) to deploy its Gro Checkout solution. The company began the year with another Gro Checkout deployment, this time with $106 million Surety Bank based in Florida.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Bluefin, Braintree, Entersekt, Green Dot, Gro Solutions, Lending Club, PayPal, Stash

On Finovate.com

  • PeoplesBank Partners with Gro Solutions to Enhance Mobile and Online Experience.
  • Stash Teams with Green Dot to Become a Challenger Bank.

Around the web

  • Lending Club announces Bahman Koohestani as Chief Technology Officer.
  • Yahoo partners with PayPal to make Braintree available to online sellers using Yahoo Merchant Solutions and Yahoo Stores platforms.
  • Main Street Softworks adds support for Bluefin’s Decryptx PCI-validated P2PE Decryption-as-a-Service.
  • PYMNTS.com features a conversation with Entersekt Chief Commercial Officer Dewald Nolte.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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Mortgagetech Company Lender Price Receives Funding from Regions Bank

Mortgagetech Company Lender Price Receives Funding from Regions Bank
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Funding, Lender Price

With housing markets across the country at an all-time high, banks are paying more attention to the mortgagetech space (and maybe you should, too). And, as evidenced in its new partnership with Lender Price, Regions Bank is no exception.

Along with the partnership agreement Lender Price inked with the $124 billion-asset bank, the California-based fintech will also receive an undisclosed amount of equity funding as part of the deal. This announcement comes just days after Lender Price unveiled an integration with Ellie Mae.

For its part, Regions aims to leverage the partnership to enhance its digital lending efforts by:

  • Simplifying interactions between bankers, borrowers, and the bank
  • Sending fewer information requests to consumers
  • Integrating additional data sources for approvals and confirmations
  • Offering faster responses

The Alabama-based bank serves customers across the Southern and Midwestern U.S., and has approximately 1,500 branches and 1,900 ATMs. Logan Pichel, Head of Regions Enterprise Operations said, “This investment in Lender Price and our working agreement provides important growth capital for Lender Price, aligns our mutual interests in digital transformation and continues to move us toward the goal of making banking easier for our customers.”

The funding portion of this agreement reflects the uptick in fintech investments as a whole in the first quarter of this year, when 26 alums raised $1.32 billion. That’s quite an upward trend when compared to the $230 million raised in the first quarter of 2017.

Founded in 2015, Lender Price demoed its mortgage origination automation at FinovateSpring 2017. The company’s technology contributes to banks’ efforts to compete with digital-only mortgage originators such as Quicken Loans’ Rocket Mortgage and SoFi. In fact, Bank of America announced today the rollout of its own digital mortgage service.

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Agreement Express Lands Funding from Frontier Capital

Agreement Express Lands Funding from Frontier Capital
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Agreement Express, Funding

Account onboarding specialist Agreement Express received its second round of funding today. The growth equity investment comes from Frontier Capital, which pulled the funds from its $700 million Frontier Fund V closed in 2017. The amount of today’s round was undisclosed, but boosts the Canada-based company’s funding over its previous $1 million raised.

The funds are aimed to help Agreement Express accelerate growth by expanding sales and marketing efforts, hiring more employees, and bolstering technological innovation efforts. As part of the deal, Richard Maclean, co-founder and managing partner at Frontier, along with Frontier’s Managing Partner and Vice President, Dave Pandullo, will join the Agreement Express board.

In a statement, Agreement Express CEO Mike Gardner highlighted on the company’s growth since it was founded in 2001, attributing it to the company’s replacement of complexity with simplicity. “We feel the optimal time has come to take Agreement Express to the next level, and are excited to work with the talented and well-respected team at Frontier as our partner in the next phase of our journey as a growth company. We believe their experience helping transition SaaS businesses such as ours into market leaders will help us propel our innovation and enhance value to our customers in their race to digital sustainability, differentiation, and enhanced profitability, ” Gardner said.

Agreement Express helps financial services companies create and manage a consistent onboarding experience across channels, as well as leverage consumer data to create a personalized user experience. At FinovateFall 2016, the company debuted the newest version of its wealth management offering, an onboarding solution that helps advisers interact with clients in a nonintrusive, compliant manner. Among the company’s clients are National Bank of Canada, Questrade, and M&T Bank.

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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: NuData Security

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: NuData Security
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Categories: FinovateSpring 2018, FinovateSpring 2018 Sneak Peek, NuData Security

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateSpring on May 8 through 11, 2018 in Santa Clara, California. Register today and save your spot.

End friction on all legitimate customers that share one account. Come see how NuData Security’s solution analyzes device intelligence and passive biometrics to build a single entity of one or more legitimate users.

Features

  • Build a trusted entity with one or more customers who access the same account
  • Recognize customers invisibly, wherever and however they log in
  • Remove unnecessary friction on all legitimate customers

Why it’s great
Offers a frictionless experience to all authorized users of one account

Presenter

Ryan Wilk, VP, Delivery
Wilk has a wealth of experience in fraud detection, prevention, trust, and safety with globally recognized organizations such as StubHub and Universal Parks and Resorts and, currently, NuData Security.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Baker Hill

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Baker Hill
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Categories: Baker Hill, FinovateSpring 2018, FinovateSpring 2018 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateSpring on May 8 through 11, 2018 in Santa Clara, California. Register today and save your spot.

Baker Hill’s online loan application and auto decisioning solutions are powered by Baker Hill NextGen, the expert solution for lending, risk management, and analytics.

Features

  • Ensures financial institutions meet customer expectations for convenience, speed, and transparency
  • Supports profitable loan growth
  • Optimizes the lending process

Why it’s great
With Baker Hill’s online loan application and auto decisioning solutions, financial institutions can deliver a faster, more convenient lending experience while driving portfolio profitability.

Presenters

Mike Horrocks, Vice President of Marketing 
With 20+ years of industry experience, Horrocks boasts an extensive blend of financial and technology expertise. At Baker Hill, he guides the development and marketing of the company’s solutions.
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Eric LaPlante, Sr. Product Manager 
With nearly 20+ years of industry experience, LaPlante builds client relationships at Baker Hill by researching consumer needs and crafting optimally designed products around them.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Kyndi

FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Kyndi
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Categories: FinovateSpring 2018, FinovateSpring 2018 Sneak Peek, Kyndi

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateSpring on May 8 through 11, 2018 in Santa Clara, California. Register today and save your spot.

Kyndi is building the first Explainable AI platform for financial services, government, and healthcare.

Features

  • Structures unstructured internal text data with proprietary artificial intelligence technology
  • Provides fully explainable automated reasoning
  • Is a software product, not a consulting project

Why it’s great
Because Kyndi’s software logs every step of its reasoning process, you can transform regulated business functions with AI, and rest assured that you will also be able to justify decisions when necessary.

Presenters

Ryan Welsh, Founder and CEO 
Welsh is founder and CEO of Kyndi, an artificial intelligence company that builds Explainable AI products for critical government and commercial institutions.
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Lorne Kligerman, Senior Product Manager 
Kligerman is Kyndi’s Senior Product Manager with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and releasing products. He was previously a product leader on the Google Cloud Platform.
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