FinovateSpring is less than one month away. Our annual spring conference returns to the City National Civic building near the campus of San Jose State University for a first look at the financial technologies of 2015. If you’ve been thinking about joining us the 12/13 of March for two days of live demos and professional networking, now is a great time to pick up your ticket and save your spot.
Today’s Sneak Peek preview brings you another handful of companies that will be presenting their technologies live on stage at FinovateSpring 2015 next month. In this edition, we introduce you to:
Check out the previous three installments of our Sneak Peek series below. And stayed tuned for Sneak Peek #5 next week.
- Sneak Peek Part 1: Alpha Payments Cloud, CUneXus, DRAFT, FundAmerica, SayPay, StockViews, and TrueAccord
- Sneak Peek Part 2: Bento for Business, DoubleNet Pay, Karmic Labs, SizeUp, Stratos, TickerTags, and Trulioo
- Sneak Peek Part 3: 3E Software, Corezoid, Malauzai Software, PayActiv, PsychSignal, Someone With Group, and Trizic
Transform the way your business makes international payments with Currency Cloud’s Payment Engine featuring an enhanced API for maximum efficiency.
Features:
- Reach new customers
- Benefit from real-time wholesale rates
- Leverage a fast, secure payment network
Why it’s great
Powering global payments—Currency Cloud has built a technology-based payment engine that simplifies international payments and offers an easy integration for businesses of all sizes.
Presenters
Todd Latham, Vice President of Marketing
Latham has extensive experience in the technology and financial service sectors, and he is fascinated at how technology is transforming people’s lives for the better.
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Rachel Nienaber, Vice President of Engineering
Nienaber is fluent in Ruby and Java, carrying 10+ years of experience in bespoke development projects. She is also responsible for ongoing technology development.
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Accepting payments just got easier. Introducing Dream Payments, a next-generation mobile payment platform accepting all forms of payment.
Features:
- Sell anywhere; accept all payments
- Save time; grow your business
- Create customer experiences
- Safe and secure transactions
Why it’s great
Sell anywhere, anytime, in any format. Dream Payments enables merchants to accept payments anywhere, anytime, using mobile commerce solutions. Dream Payments are the future of mobile commerce.
Presenters
Christian Ali, Vice President, Business Development
Ali has been a trusted advisor to the North American payments industry for nearly 20 years and currently serves as vice president of business development at Dream Payments.
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Anant Tailor, COO
Tailor is the chief operating officer at Dream Payments where he is responsible for the daily operations of the company including product management; go to market strategy; and all customer engagements.
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Hip Pocket engages your mobile and website visitors by using social influence and personalized consultation to generate new, qualified mortgage leads.
Features:
- Unique peer-group comparisons
- Real-time integration and personalization savings estimates
- Results and call-to-action are customized to each user’s situation
Why it’s great
Hip Pocket allows your institution to provide an engaging, intuitive user experience that marries the emotional and logical decision-making processes.
Presenters
Mark Zmarzly, Founder, CEO
Zmarzly is a passionate innovator and thought-leader in the financial industry. He has delivered multiple TEDx talks and has presented for the ABA; BAI; and for JD Power & Associates.
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Todd Cramer, Head of Digital Experience and Design
Cramer holds an MBA and has more than five years of experience in branding, user experience and eCommerce for a $5B bank enterprise.
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The INETCO analytics software application provides financial institutions with the game-changing knowledge of where, when, and how customers interact with their channels.
Features:
- View transaction data on-demand, across all banking channels
- Reduce failed customer interactions and resolve issues faster
- Adopt data-driven strategies that improve customer engagement
Why it’s great
INETCO Analytics will accelerate your omnichannel strategy with powerful, on-demand insights into customer behavior.
Presenters
Marc Borbas, VP Product Marketing
With 12+ years of experience working with financial technology startups, Borbas drives the product strategy for INETCO’s real-time transaction-monitoring and customer-analytics solutions.
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As a responsible lender, LoanNow’s motivational lending platform helps deep subprime borrowers secure affordable credit, then actively reduce APR within the loan term.
Features:
- Repayment-motivation algorithm incentivizes good financial behavior
- Active reduction in APR during loan for positive behaviors
- LoanNow to debut new features to lower the cost of credit
Why it’s great
LoanNow allows people to be more than a credit score and to actively reduce their cost of credit through positive financial behavior and loan management.
Presenters
Harry Langenberg, CEO, Co-founder
Since graduating from the Wharton Business School, Langenberg has been a pioneer in bringing innovation to consumer finance. He’s founded Optima Tax Relief, SuperMoney, and Debtmerica.
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Miron Lulic, President, COO, Co-Founder
Lulic has spent his entire career at high-growth technology-driven companies. At LoanNow, Lulic leads product management, design, and marketing while also overseeing all other operations.
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Zahur Peracha, CTO
After more than a decade of building and launching new products for Silicon Valley startups and Amazon.com, Zahur now leads all technology at LoanNow.
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WealthForge has launched the Invest Button, transforming the way private capital is raised by making the entire process faster, cheaper, and more compliant than ever before.
Features:
- Simple, turnkey technology
- Straight-through processing
- Reduced transaction risk
Why it’s great
The WealthForge solution makes private placement transactions more efficient. The entire process has been reduced from months to weeks, costing nickels on the dollar, from risky to fully compliant.
Presenters
Arthur Weissman, Head of Sales and Marketing
Weissman is an industry expert in helping to lead the move of private investing from offline to online. Weissman heads sales and marketing helping to make raising private capital faster and more efficient.
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Mat Dellorso, Co-Founder, President
Dellorso is a leading innovator in venture finance and has worked directly with FINRA and the SEC to establish regulations for online private investing.
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A global financial technology leader, Yodlee’s cloud-based platform powers dynamic innovation and solutions for digital financial services.
Features:
- Provides actionable financial advice
- Makes personalized recommendations
- Leverages Yodlee’s advanced data network
Why it’s great
Yodlee capitalizes on its unique data network and key data-driven insights to fundamentally change the digital banking experience.
Presenters
John Bird, VP, Product Marketing and Alliances
Bird, as VP of product marketing and alliances at Yodlee, is responsible for the marketing of the Yodlee platform to financial institutions and startup financial technology companies.
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Katy Gibson, VP Product Applications
Gibson, as VP of product applications at Yodlee, is responsible for the creation and execution of product strategy for Yodlee’s suite of financial management applications.
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Utility companies have been an area of focus for Mint Bills for years. In addition to its new partnership with Questar Gas, Mint Bills is working with two other players in the natural gas world, UGI Utilities and New Jersey Natural Gas, providing multichannel billpay for more than two million households combined.
U.K.-based 
Garlinghouse (pictured) echoes one of Larsen’s favorite themes—the “Internet of Value”—in talking about Ripple’s unique contribution to financial technology. “The opportunity to define the actual framework for the Internet of Value is an order of magnitude bigger than anything else underway in payments today,” he said.