This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.
Finovate Blog
Tracking fintech, banking & financial services innovations since 1994
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateFall on September 23 through 25, 2019 in New York City. Register today and save your spot.
Digital Concierge from ebankIT is designed to be a true customer ally. Combining financial products and 3rd party services, Concierge provides customer journeys, delighting client needs at a swipe of a finger.
Features
Open Banking with 100+ APIs already integrated with top core banking systems
Personalized customer journeys to enhance loyalty and engagement
Digital banking transformation
Why it’s great ebankIT’s Digital Concierge generates new and effective customer journeys adjusted to clients’ preferences, enhancing their digital experience. Your client at the heart of your business.
Presenters
Pete Atkinson, VP of Global Sales Atkinson has spent much of his career operating at the convergent point of technology and consumers. LinkedIn.
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateFall on September 23 through 25, 2019 in New York City. Register today and save your spot.
Finscend’sBanking Dispute Platform (BDP) was conceived and designed by financial industry veterans who have a first-hand professional understanding of the challenges of dispute resolution.
Features
Provides seamless integration throughout the banking ecosystem
Works in tandem with Visa and Mastercard schemes
Reduces chargeback costs by an estimated 25% and increases cardholder satisfaction
Why it’s great Powered by an AI-driven engine, BDP streamlines the entire dispute process by offering real-time reporting, batch processing, fraud monitoring, and an enterprise user account area
Presenters
Aaron Lazor, CEO and Co-Founder A former banking executive, Lazor holds a degree in economics from the University of Illinois. LinkedIn
Moshe Teren, CTO and Co-Founder Teren holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois-Chicago, and an MSM/MBA from Boston University. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateFall on September 23 through 25, 2019 in New York City. Register today and save your spot.
The TelosTouchGuided Collaboration platform enables financial institutions to reveal client needs in real-time and deliver personalized and tangible advice at scale.
Features
Real-time connectivity to increase client-advisor engagement
Behavioral intelligence to segment and group clients with similar needs
Scalable capabilities to multiply and showcase evidence-based advice and impact to create and protect wealth
Why it’s great TelosTouch connects advisors with timely client insights to drive engagement, capacity, and business opportunities.
Presenters
Jad Chehlawi, Founder and CEO A wealth management domain expert, Chehlawi built and exited a fast growth financial services firm. He is a Harvard Business School and McGill alum. LinkedIn
Arsene Toumani, Co-Founder and CTO Toumani built an enterprise collaboration platform and mentored and led agile teams. He has delivered highly scalable and secure SaaS applications and has created apps for Fortune 500 companies. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateFall on September 23 through 25, 2019 in New York City. Register today and save your spot.
Flybits enables financial institutions to deliver hyper-personalized customer experiences, leveraging contextual intelligence and AI.
Features
Target the consumer journey beyond traditional financial touchpoints
Leverage real time insights on consumer experiences
Trigger new use cases based on prior experience insights
Why it’s great Flybits helps financial institutions become leaders in engaging consumers by providing a robust feedback loop to deploy, learn, and innovate on digital consumer journeys.
Presenters
Jason Davies, VP of Enterprise Innovation Davies has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, digital payments, and fintech. LinkedIn.
Katrina Shiu, Product Manager Shiu is passionate about helping financial institutions build consumer experiences into their digital strategies in order to drive business results. LinkedIn.
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateFall on September 23 through 25, 2019 in New York City. Register today and save your spot.
Founded in 2019, Breach Clarity empowers consumers and FIs in the fight against data breaches. The company’s patent-pending solution delivers breach-specific guidance to reduce fraud losses and bolster trust.
Features
Helps customers understand the real risks to their accounts and identities
Drives adoption of customer-facing controls (two factor authentication, alerts, etc.)
Reduces call center volume and improves satisfaction
Why it’s great When it comes to the security of their identities, consumers place the greatest degree of trust in their financial institutions. Breach Clarity helps banks and credit unions meet that expectation.
Presenters
Jim Van Dyke, CEO and Founder Founder of Javelin Strategy & Research, Van Dyke is an expert witness on the country’s largest data breach cases, serves on the board of the ITRC, and previously served on the board of the CFPB. LinkedIn.
Al Pascual, COO and Co-Founder Pascual is a recognized expert on identity fraud having served as Head of Fraud & Security at Javelin Strategy & Research. Prior to Javelin he served in fraud roles at FIS, Goldman Sachs, and HSBC. LinkedIn.
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateFall on September 23 through 25, 2019 in New York City. Register today and save your spot.
All of Us is the world’s first self-directed investing platform that introduces a radical new paradigm: Get Paid to Trade.
Features
Multi-sided investment platform, social channel and trusted financial advisor in one
Fully transparent insights for investors looking to grow their portfolios
Investors get paid to trade
Why it’s great All of Us aims to be the most honest, fair, and transparent option available for investors today, and the only option on the market for investors to get paid to trade.
Presenters
Alan Grujic, Founder and CEO Grujic is an experienced finance professional and engineer who co-founded the largest high-frequency trading firm in Canada with $100+ million in profit. He also founded a multi-million dollar algorithmic trading hedge fund. LinkedIn.
Iain Clarke, Founder and CTO Clarke is a technology strategist with vast experience in large global businesses and digital transformations at both Capgemini and Oracle. He is an innovator, product and architecture leader for Fortune 500 global companies. LinkedIn.
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateFall on September 23 through 25, 2019 in New York City. Register today and save your spot.
BidMoni designed FiduciaryShield as an online platform to create a more efficient 401(k) marketplace infusing technology into what was once a time-consuming and cumbersome process.
Features
401k marketplace with a transparent, fast, and simple provider selection process
Ongoing automated fee analysis and monitoring
Process documentation as required of fiduciaries by ERISA
Why it’s great Offers a 401(k) marketplace allowing users to easily shop for plan providers and enables ongoing fee monitoring and analysis of service providers as required by ERISA.
Presenters
Stephen Daigle, CEO Over the past decade, Daigle has assisted 401(k) plans with vendor selection witnessing incredible inefficiencies and conflicts of interest which lead to BidMoni‘s founding. LinkedIn.
Kendall Dixon, CTO Dixon carries a strong business and technology background with over a decade of experience consulting with and designing software for SMBs within the financial sector. LinkedIn.
A new initiative now makes Finovate’s historic Best of Show awards just one of two ways that our conferences recognize exceptional achievement in fintech innovation.
The Finovate Awards, launched this year, leveraged the insights of fintech experts, analysts, and professionals, to produce what we believe is a true winners circle of our industry’s most impressive and accomplished companies and individuals.
“Finovate has always been a place where innovative fintech companies come to showcase their latest tech, but that tech alone isn’t enough to drive advancement,” said Greg Palmer, Finovate VP and one of the primary organizers of the inaugural Finovate Awards.
“It also takes hard work from financial institutions, accelerators, marketers, and a host of other professionals to bring something from the workshop into the market. We established the Finovate Awards to recognize the important work being done by the entire industry and to celebrate the companies and individuals who are leaders in the space.”
The judges of the first inaugural Finovate Awards
Much of the credit toward making the Finovate Awards possible goes to our cast of judges (pictured above) – a baker’s dozen plus one of some of fintech’s most astute and discerning analysts and observers. It was their task to sift through 192 nominations in 19 different categories to find which companies and individuals were making the biggest mark in their respective field.
“Judging was a tough gig,” tweeted Ghela Boskovich, founder of FemTechGlobal and one of the 14 judges of the Finovate Awards this year. “(A) great list of finalists.”
There are just two weeks to go before our Finovate Awards finalists learn which of them will take home top honors in categories ranging from digital banking and customer experience to financial inclusion and regtech. Here’s the order in which the Finovate Awards will be presented at the Edison Ballroom on September 24:
Best Digital Bank
Best Fintech Partnership
Best Back-Office/Core Service Provider
Best SMB/SME Banking Solution
Best Customer Experience
Best Consumer Lending Platform
Best Digital Mortgage Platform
Best Alternative Investments Platform
Best ID Management Solution
Best RegTech Solution
Excellence in Financial Inclusion
Best Use of AI/ML
Best Use of Blockchain
Best Accelerator/Incubator
Top Emerging Tech Company
Influencer of the year
Woman of the year
Executive of the year
Innovator of the year
Tickets for the Finovate Awards are still available. To reserve your table and join us in New York at the Edison Ballroom on Tuesday, September 24th, visit our Finovate Awards page today!
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.
Noonum solves information overload by summarizing and contextualizing unstructured data, powered by the connected intelligence of a continually evolving semantic knowledge graph generated using artificial intelligence and natural language processing.
Features
News intelligence and concept exposure
Value chain
Bring your own data
Why it’s great Get ambient and hidden intelligence to know what you don’t know. Combine external insights with internal data with bring your own data. Complete business and market research faster.
Presenters
Shankar Vaidyanathan Vaidyanathan has more than 20 years of experience at Microsoft as an engineering leader driving the success of cloud, data, and machine learning products. He holds more than a dozen patents. LinkedIn
Darian Parrish Parrish has a background in engineering and an MBA in finance. Most recently he ran a systematic hedge fund. He enjoys working for agile startups and solving challenging problems for customers. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.
Finzly (formerly SwapsTech) is focused on enabling digital banking transformation for banks of all sizes. The company is dedicated to freeing banks from the limitations of their core systems and vendors.
Features
Open, hyper-scalable, flexible bank operating system
App store ecosystem with a range of valuable banking applications on a single platform
Modern, omni-channel digital user experience
Why it’s great Finzly BankOS makes it easy for banks to modernize their customer offerings and take advantage of the latest cutting edge technology with open, API-driven, digital online banking.
Presenters
Brian Anderson, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Anderson has over 25 years of experience helping financial institutions discover, implement, and profit from the latest in fintech. LinkedIn
Terry Howell, Chief Technology Officer Howell is a technology leader with 20 years of experience guiding brilliant engineering teams to deliver innovative, valuable solutions to customers. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.
BreachRx’s platform provides automation across the enterprise, enabling organizations to respond to cyber incidents efficiently and in compliance with relevant regulations, policies, and contracts.
Features
Incident response that is automatically tailored and up-to-date
One platform for all business silos that are responsible for incident response
One system of record for audit and regulators
Why it’s great BreachRx will change data breach response from a crisis to a routine business process.
Presenter
Andy Lunsford, CEO Lunsford is a privacy law expert with a decade of experience in large-scale commercial litigation. He first began working on data security issues when his firm represented ChoicePoint in 2004. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateMiddleEast on November 20 and 21, 2019 in Dubai. Register today and save your spot.
In a complex, post-pension world, Kindur’s signature retirement paycheck helps modern retirees simplify managing retirement income and helps make their savings last longer.
Features
Analyze customers’ financial pictures
Use proprietary technology to build a personalized retirement paycheck
Sequence retirement income withdrawals to lower taxes
Why it’s great Based on your retirement needs and goals, Kindur builds you a retirement paycheck- the ultimate simplification of managing retirement income- so your savings last longer.
Presenter
Rhian Horgan, CEO Horgan is the CEO of Kindur and a financial industry veteran. She is on a mission to eliminate modern retirees’ number one fear– running out of money. LinkedIn
