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TransferTo’s Mobile Money Hub Brings Efficiency to Remittances

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, TransferTo

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

TransferTo showed how its Mobile Money Hub enables consumers to send remittances directly to a mobile wallet:

TransferTo’s Mobile Money Hub provides a fully compliant single point of access for financial institutions and Mobile Money Hub’s operators worldwide. We are demonstrating the process that a customer performs when going online to send money directly to a mobile wallet. Believe it or not, those of us in the West are quite unfamiliar with the simplicity of mobile money-transfers. We are revealing the efficiency of remittance via Mobile Money Hub to the Finovate audience.

Presenters: TransferTo’s CEO Eric Barbier and EVP of Mobile Money Hub, Charles Damen

Product Launch: September 2015
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: San Francisco, California
Founded: 2005
Website: transfer-to.com
Twitter: @TransferTo

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Jack Henry & Associates Presents the Banno Platform to Enable FIs to Launch Mobile-first Accounts in 120 Days

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Jack Henry

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Our last presenter of this first session of FinovateFall is Jack Henry & Associates.

The Banno Platform from Jack Henry & Associates allows any financial institution to launch a modern, mobile-first account within 120 days. This solution empowers financial institutions to offer accounts that meet modern consumer expectations for account access, functionality, customer service, and user experience. The Banno Platform offers financial institutions a single source for product marketing, delivery, and service.

Presenters: Wade Arnold, managing director, user experience; Derik Sutton, director of product, user experience

Product Launch: September 2015
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions

HQ: Monett, Missouri
Founded: 1976
Website: jackhenry.com
Twitter: @JackHenryAssoc

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IDmission Presents INFORM, a Customer Onboarding and Engagement Framework

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, IDmission

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Our next presenter is IDmission with its suite of onboarding and engagement solutions.

INFORM is a fully configurable enterprise product that enables building of sophisticated user experiences without any programming. You can build your own forms with KYC, document management, image processing, biometrics, online calls, rules configuration, workflows, and payments integrated into them. INFORM is integrally connected to Ada, our cloud-platform infrastructure, enabling reuse of all Ada’s software components and connectivity to third-party systems.

Presenters: CEO Ashim Banerjee and CTO Sandeep Gandhi (not pictured)

Product Launch: March 2014
Metrics: 70 employees in the United States and India
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms.

HQ: Louisville, Colorado
Founded: February 2011
Website: idmission.com
Twitter: @idmissionllc

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Gro Solutions’ Account Opening Solution Limits Text Input to Reduce Abandonment

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Gro Solutions

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Gro Solutions demonstrated how its Account Opening solution reduces abandonment:

Gro Account Opening is the first and only solution on the market offering online, mobile web and native mobile app account-opening solutions for use by both financial institutions’ customers and employees. Gro Account Opening leverages an innovative, concise workflow along with a multilayered approach and other features to limit manual text input and reduce high abandonment rates. Whether online, on the go, or at the branch, financial institutions can open and fund new accounts in less than four minutes.

Gro presenters: CEO David Eads and CRO Paul Mackowick

Product Launch: November 2014
Metrics: In 2014, Gro Solutions’ parent company Mobile Strategy Partners (MSP) increased its year-end revenues by more than 200%. This increase was largely due to strong market adoption of its digital account opening solutions, which led to the launch of Gro Solutions. Gro Solutions has 30 full time employees and expects to have at least 46 financial institutions live by late 2015.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: Atlanta, Georgia
Founded: July 2015
Website: grobanking.com
Twitter: @grobanking

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Xignite Unveils CloudStreaming to Stream Any Data to Any Device with Zero Footprint

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Xignite

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Financial market data specialist, Xignite is our next presenter of the morning.

Xignite CloudStreaming is a zero-footprint streaming solution that enables implementing the next generation of innovative financial applications. Traditional streaming services require co-locations, physical servers, dedicated lines, scalable production infrastructure, and complexities around ingesting a full data-feed such as proprietary legacy protocols and replay-and-recovery logic. With Xignite CloudStreaming, you can stream to any device just the data that you want through a simple HTTP GET call.

Presenters: Stephane Dubois, CEO and founder; Anand Vidwanathan, developer

Product Launch: September 2015
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: San Mateo, California
Founded: 2006
Website: xignite.com
Twitter: @xignite

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InforcePRO Debuts a Real-time Policy Review Tool for Life Insurance Distributors

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, InforcePRO

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

InforcePRO debuted its real-time policy review:

The real-time policy-review tool allows life insurance distributors to run policy reviews instantly. InforcePRO has legacy rate tables, contractual knowledge on legacy products, new quotes capability, and extensive analysis algorithms to identify sales and service opportunities on ANY policy sold in the last 30 years.

Presenters: Karan Kanodia, founder; Cameron Jacox, co-founder

Product Launch: August 2015
Metrics: $1 million raised, 22 employees, 1,000 registered users
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: Austin, Texas
Founded: November 2013
Website: inforcepro.com
Twitter: @inforcepro

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Yseop’s Smart Business Intelligence Turns Data Into Written Reports

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Yseop

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Yseop showed how its business intelligence transforms data:

Yseop Smart BI is a Self-Service BI Tool that makes data speak. Businesses have automated data collection, storage, and visualization, but despite all of these investments, they still cannot draw insight from data in real time. Visualizations show you trends, but they don’t tell you what actions to take and why. This conventional process is too slow for the market, too expensive, and too laborious as data reserves grow. Yseop Smart BI turns data into written reports with just the click of a button. These Yseop-generated reports not only explain trends, identify outliers, and offer context, but also go further by offering advice and explaining why the advice was given. Yseop Smart BI turns big data into big revenue instantly.

Presenters: Arden Manning, SVP, global marketing; Mathieu Rauscher, director, pre-sales engineering

Product Launch: September 2015
Metrics: Yseop is a privately owned company with offices in New York, Dallas, London, Paris, and Lyon servicing clients globally. Yseop’s largest customer has more than 12,000 staffers using Yseop’s software on a daily basis.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B); licensed

HQ: Dallas, Texas
Founded: 2010
Website: yseop.com
Twitter: @yseopai

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Travel Notes Notifies Banks of Customer Travel Plans to Prevent Card Declines

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Travel Notes

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Travel Notes showed how it works on behalf of consumers to make travel easier:

As our core technology, the Travel Notes Fraud Platform automatically notifies financial institutions of their cardholder’s travel plans when they purchase airline tickets, so their card is not declined when traveling. We leveraged this technology to offer Travel Notes Flight Compensation, which helps you compete for the top-of-wallet position by putting money back in the pockets of your cardholders who have been affected by a delayed, canceled, or overbooked airline flight. We have partnered with legal experts who handle all of the compensation paperwork and communication with the airlines on behalf of your cardholder so that your cardholder has a seamless experience.

Travel Notes presenter: CEO Hudson Chilton

Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions

HQ: Covington, Kentucky
Founded: September 2014
Website: travelnotes.io
Twitter: @travelnotenow

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North Side Launches VerbalAccess to Bring Natural Language Technology to Online Banking

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, North Side

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Next up is the team from North Side.

VerbalAccess enables online banking through speech or typing, and goes beyond single commands or questions, supporting conversations and enabling customers to clarify their intent. Verbal Access is like a telephone banker, investment advisor, or claims processing specialist rolled into one, accessible any time, from anywhere. The customer’s ability to use their own words to ask questions, or say what they want is the key to discovering and using the full functionality of financial applications, increasing customer satisfaction. The customer knowledge gleaned from individual conversations enables your institution to personalize the services it offers, and sell individual customers the products they need.

Presenters: North Side CEO Eugene Joseph and Christian Lemieux, technology evangelist

Product Launch: September 2015
Metrics: Privately owned, 7 employees, invested $20M+ in proprietary Natural Language Understanding technology.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B); through financial institutions; through other fintech companies and platforms; licensed.

HQ: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Founded: Natural Language R&D since 2001; Fintech since June 2014
Website: northsideinc.com

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Empyr’s Online-to-Offline Ad Platform Seamlessly Rewards Consumers

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: Empyr, FinovateFall 2015

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Empyr launches its online-to-offline ad platform:

Ninety three percent of commerce, over four trillion dollars, is still offline. With Empyr’s online-to-offline ad platform, publishers earn revenue on every offline transaction driven from their website, app, or email, while simultaneously rewarding their consumers with cash back or points, and driving more business to offline advertisers. It’s frictionless because it leverages something we all use: credit and debit cards. There are no coupons, loyalty cards, or apps for consumers and no hardware to install for offline advertisers. All of this can be easily implemented using the Empyr API, and monetized through Empyr’s growing base of offline advertisers.

Empyr presenters: Jon Carder, CEO, co-founder; Jarrod Cuzens, CTO and co-founder

Product Launch: Fall 2015
Metrics: 70 employees, $35M
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C); Direct to Business (B2B); through financial institutions; through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed

HQ: San Diego, California
Founded: March 2010
Website: empyr.com

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Flybits’ Context-aware Apps Deliver Personalized Experiences

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Flybits

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

Our first presenter of FinovateFall is Flybits showing how it uses user context to personalize apps:

Context-aware apps that deliver personalized experiences have always required lots of custom development. The sheer variety of interfaces usually leads to complex apps that are hard to change. Flybits solves this problem with a simple, integrated way to incorporate all aspects of user context—including location from beacons, wi-fi, etc.—and personalize app behavior. Our SDKs let you Flybits-enable any app and transform it. Our visual Experience Studio gives you unprecedented agility in changing live apps as you refine your customer-engagement strategy. Flybits runs in the cloud for ease of use, scalability, and elasticity.

Presenters: Hossein Rahnama, founder and chief product officer of Flybits, and CEO Jerry Rudisin

Product Launch: September 2015
Metrics: $4.75M in Series A financing raised to date, 26 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: Palo Alto, California
Founded: October 2012
Website: flybits.com
Twitter: @FlybitsInc

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FinovateFall 2015: Be Part of Our Record-breaking Audience

By David Penn Posted on September 15, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015

Who knew the leader of the Roman Catholic Church was a fintech fan?

Okay, maybe Pope Francis is in New York City for reasons other than our annual autumn conference. But with news that FinovateFall 2015 has reached a new attendance record of more than 1,500, perhaps you’ll forgive us for thinking that “Il Papa” might be joining us as well.

It’s still early here on rehearsal day. But from what we’ve seen on stage so far, we are very excited to share with you the fintech innovations of 72 companies from as far away as Israel and Sweden, and as near as a few blocks from our venue at the Hilton Midtown Manhattan.

So with the first demo of FinovateFall 2015 less than 24 hours away, here are a few tips and reminders to help you get ready for the show.

Get connected with Bizzabo

First, for registered attendees, Bizzabo is a great way to network with presenters, sponsors, partners, and your fellow Finovate attendees. You can download the social networking app—available on both iOS and Android, as well as via the online web interface—at Bizzabo.com.

Once you’ve downloaded the app, search for “Finovate,” select “join” and you’re set. (Please note, only registered Finovate attendees can join the community/networking section of the app.)

Tweet this!

And even if you won’t be here in New York to join us in person, there are a bunch of great ways to enjoy—and participate in—FinovateFall 2015. Near the top of the list is our Twitter feed.

Our Twitter handle is @Finovate, and by marking your tweets #Finovate you’ll be part of our smart and tech-savvy community of more than 22,ooo followers on Twitter.

It’s a fun way to both follow along with the show, as well as get interesting (and sometimes irreverent) insights from one of the most fintech-friendly audiences you’ll ever find.

We hope you’ll join us! The show begins at 8:55 a.m. on Wednesday, and tickets are still available. Be sure to check our our FAQ page for any questions or send us an email at info@finovate.com.

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