“Balance Street shows consumers how much their debt costs them (as well as the high costs of debt settlement companies), then provides an easy way for them to enter delinquent credit card debt, save money for settlement, and make, accept, and counter offers from creditors. It’s a free, secure and easy way for consumers to settle delinquent debt that also provides creditors with critical information to help them recover more debt faster.Creditors can also benefit from making large, lump sum settlements with blocks of consumers, saving millions in customer service, mail, fax, email and money transfer costs. Furthermore, Balance Street will introduce and sell diverse metrics to the credit industry, derived from the unique transaction engine it built to help struggling consumers and overburdened creditors.”
InvestorBee Uses Wisdom from the Crowd to Help Users Make Smart Investment Decisions
“InvestorBee puts data at consumers’ fingertips so they can make smart, confident investments.
- It’s fact, not opinion. Users can tap into the database to learn from the experiences of other investors.
- It’s an investment health check. Users can compare their portfolios and multi-asset products with fact-based, relevant benchmarks to understand whether they receive fair value.
- It’s simple investing without guesswork. Users can choose an objective risk-based strategy to track what’s right for them in a few easy steps.
Our users extract wisdom from the crowd to make better, simpler investment decisions – all for free at InvestorBee.”
Access Development Launches PowerDeals
“Access is proud to debut PowerDeals, a micro-redemption rewards engine that increases engagement and loyalty while lowering the cost per point for financial institutions. Studies show that the more frequently consumers transact with rewards programs, the more loyal they become. However, the costs associated with driving this behavior have led many FIs to implement lower earn rates, higher redemption hurdles, and expiration strategies.
PowerDeals allows consumers to redeem their loyalty currency for deals at thousands of in-store and online merchants for a fraction of the face value. By presenting highly attractive, relevant offers with low redemption hurdles, PowerDeals produces more transactions – thereby boosting the program’s impact on loyalty – while the low cost per offer to administrators can help to dramatically reduce program costs and accrual liability.”
The Thomson Reuters App Store Enables Financial Institutions to Create Market Monitoring Apps
“Thomson Reuters is pleased to introduce their new App Store solution that enables access to the latest innovative capabilities and tools for use across the digital enterprise.
The Thomson Reuters solution enables financial institutions and 3rd party developers to effortlessly create pioneering market-monitoring and investing apps. By seamlessly integrating the combination of Thomson Reuters content assets with a firm’s customer account data and other data sources, Thomson Reuters is helping institutions leverage the providers of financial insight to deliver a differentiated experience for their customers while lowering both development costs and time to market.”
Klarna Demonstrates an Easy Payment Process
“Smooth and frictionless payment process is the trademark of the Klarna experience. No one approaches payments the way Klarna does. In less than a second, Klarna performs an extensive analysis of the buyer and assesses the specific risk of fraud and default for that transaction.”
SoMoLend Debuts its P2P Lending Platform
“SoMoLend is debuting its peer-to-peer lending experience by which business borrowers can raise capital by securing loans from friends and family, customers, and community supporters.
Simultaneously, lenders can invest in the industries they care about most in their own neighborhood, fueling local economy and doing well by doing good all while earning a return.”
FutureAdvisor Announces its Premium Beta
“FutureAdvisor is demoing FutureAdvisor 401(k) Advice, which supports more than 100 of the largest 401(k) plans in the country. With company-specific data about which 401(k) Plans have which specific investment options, FutureAdvisor is able to algorithmically give step-by-step investment advice to investors that takes into account their investment goals, their existing investments elsewhere, and their 401(k)’s limited plan options.
Though other companies have tried to tackle the problem of advising users on their IRA or taxable accounts, no free web service has been available to give specific, actionable advice on investors’ 401(k) accounts because of the complexity involved, until now.
With FutureAdvisor’s step-by-step advice that takes an investor’s 401(k) and other accounts holistically into consideration, investors will be able to save on hidden fund fees, better diversify, and improve their tax efficiency.”
Pindrop Security Helps Financial Institutions Prevent Fraudulent Calls
“Pindrop Security’s Phone Fraud Call Analyzer is the first technology of its kind to uniquely identify callers, regardless of spoofed Caller ID data or other deception attempts. Pindrop is able to provide a “call thumbprint” based on over 160 characteristics of the call, to provide accurate and actionable information on where the call is coming from and the type of device. In addition, the call is matched against Pindrop’s database of over of over 40,000 known fraud callers and matched. This information can allow financial institutions to improve identification of fraud callers, block or reroute calls and save time and money in call centers.
Pindrop Security’s Phone Fraud Intelligence Service (PFIS) provides access to the most accurate and complete database of phone numbers associated with fraud. The PFIS is used by fraud investigation teams, law enforcement, and intelligence to quickly evaluate call provenance as part of their anti-fraud decision process, including supporting caller validation, caller investigations and fraud forensics. This allows organizations to look for ongoing attacks from known fraudsters as well as to prevent future attacks.
The data is accessed via the PFIS portal, which provides detailed information both on specific number queries and on the worst offenders on a variety of criteria. PFIS can be accessed via a web-based portal or integrated into your systems through our API.”
Serverside Group Makes Personalized Card Design Easy and Social with Facebook Integration
“The app uses card customization as a new and unique way to leverage Facebook in an exciting and engaging way that can drive real brand value, loyalty, and engagement from a bank’s customers. Customers can design a card using an image from one of their Facebook photo galleries. Once the design is approved, it is posted to the user’s wall where all their friends can view it and click on the link to design their own card and thus create a viral marketing effect!”
Clover Network Demonstrates Mobile Payment Solutions
“Clover empowers payment processors and value added resellers to provide merchants with the best customer checkout experiences.”
inStream Shows How it is Changing the Financial Planning Software Industry
Afterwards, inStream demonstrated its innovations within the financial planning software industry:
“inStream is changing the market standard for what is generally referenced today as “financial planning software” through multiple innovations highlighted below.
- Financial services coordination via lead generation puts the advisor in the center of the client relationship.
- Leveraging community-generated planning metrics effectively creates a best practices knowledge base of wealth management services for clients.
- Proactive planning made easy through rules-based planning (setting alerts for every-day planning), milestone-based (setting alerts based on key life milestones), and touchpoint based planning (pre-set client communication plan based on personal client interests).”
Applause Learning Demos Coindexter Club, a Financial Literacy Program for Kids
Next, Applause Learning introduced the Coindexter Club, a program that gamifies earning, saving, spending, and investing to help kids learn personal finance:
“The Coindexter Club is a financial literacy program for children ages 6 to 12 that includes many dynamic features. The program can be licensed by financial institutions or accessed directly by parents through our simple online subscription process.
The foundation of the Coindexter Club is the virtual city of Econopolis found at www.Coindexter.com. Econopolis is a game-based virtual world that teaches children how to earn, save, spend, and invest money. The autonomous, non-linear learning environment of Econopolis allows children to learn at their own pace and develop strong financial behaviors that translate seamlessly from the virtual to the real world.”