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A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.
ID R&D’sIDLive Doc is the first product dedicated to protecting digital onboarding from document spoof attacks, where fraudsters present an image of an ID on a screen instead of one in their possession.
Features
Detects a variety of attacks, including screen replay
Needs only a single image; frictionless for the user
Works across all types of global identity documents
Why it’s great
Document spoofs are likely causing more fraud than companies realize. Businesses can help prevent these types of attacks with the first-ever product specifically designed for this purpose from leaders in liveness.
Presenter
Alexey Khitrov, CEO Khitrov has over 20 years of C-level experience at biometrics and financial services. In 2016, he launched ID R&D with a focus on developing innovative, best-in-class biometrics and liveness. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.
Stratyfy’sUnBias allows financial institutions and fintechs to uncover, understand, and undo bias in complex financial decisions that impact the lives of millions.
Features
Proprietary next generation transparent ML
Detailed reports with actionable recommendations
Results in as little as two weeks
Why it’s great
Addressing bias proactively means less risk, more diverse customers, and increased returns.
Presenter
Laura Kornhauser, CEO & Co-Founder Laura Kornhauser is the Co-Founder/CEO of Stratyfy. Previously, Kornhauser spent 12 years at JPMorgan, building and delivering risk and credit products. She has a BSE from Princeton & an MBA from Columbia. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.
NYDIG delivers Bitcoin products across industries, from banking and insurance to fintech and nonprofits. NYDIG fuses stringent regulatory standards with ironclad technology to make Bitcoin universal.
Features
NYDIG’s Bitcoin Savings Plan:
Integrates directly with a company’s payroll services
Allows an employee to seamlessly convert a portion of their paycheck to bitcoin
Offers new cutting-edge benefits
Why it’s great
For the BSP, there is little direct competition in the space. NYDIG’s value proposition is that employees are offered an easy-to-use way to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin without having to pay high fees.
Presenter
Rahm McDaniel, Head of Banking Solutions Rahm McDaniel is Head of Banking Solutions with NYDIG, partnering with banks and credit unions to serve their communities with innovative digital asset services, such as Bitcoin trading. Prior to NYDIG, he was VP of Strategic Solutions for Q2, helping to build Q2’s Banking as a Service business. He lives in Austin, Texas with his family. LinkedIn
With a little over a month to go before FinovateFall 2022 in New York City, our agenda for the autumn event is still being finalized. But there are a few highlights we can share with you this week to further whet your appetite for the fintech feast to come on September 12 through September 14. Today we’ll take a look at the mastermind keynote speakers we have scheduled for FinovateFall, each of whom was selected for their unique understanding of what’s driving innovation in financial technology today.
Day One will feature a Mastermind Keynote from Chris Cox, Chief Operating Officer of Apiture. Titled “Closing the Data Intelligence Gap”, Cox’s address will look at ways that financial institutions can better process and analyze available data while simultaneously (1) helping their businesses, (2) supporting their customers, and (3) maintaining regulatory compliance. Cox will examine ways that banks and credit unions can close the “expertise gap” that may be preventing them from innovating in the ways their customers want.
Before becoming COO of Apiture, Cox was General Manager of First Data’s digital banking business. He also led the mobile payment product development efforts at the company. He is a graduate of Miami University in Ohio, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, and of Duke University, where he earned an MBA.
Day Two will include a Mastermind Keynote from Claudio Cungi, Chief Product Officer, and Alice Menenti, Product Manager, both of Strands. Cungi and Menenti will present “Providing Actionable Insights to Create the Banking Platform of Tomorrow.” This address will review how enabling technologies have given banks the ability to dramatically increase the degree of personalization they can bring to their products and services. Cungi and Menenti will show how financial institutions can use the insights made available through more personalized engagement with customers to build better, more personalized business banking platforms
The final day of FinovateFall 2022 will feature a number of Mastermind Keynotes as part of our various tracks on Payments, AI, Customer Experience, Lending, Cryptocurrencies, and Digital Transformation. Among the day’s highlights are a discussion on the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) and its priorities for fintech in 2022 and beyond conducted by Thomas Ward, the organization’s current Enforcement Director. The day will also feature a presentation by Tiffany Kaminsky, co-founder and Chief Impact Officer for Symend titled “Upping the Ante: Using the Science of Decision-Making for Effective Customer Engagement.” This presentation will discuss the concepts of behavioral engagement and hyper-personalization and examines initiatives that financial institutions can take to integrate both into their current business strategies.
These are only a handful of the Master Keynotes scheduled for FinovateFall this year. For more information, visit our FinovateFall hub to learn more about our agenda, our speakers, and, of course, how to register today and save your spot at our upcoming fintech event. Pick up your ticket by Friday, August 12 and take advantage of big, early-bird savings!
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.
Finotta is a provider of embedded fintech for digital banking. Finotta’s Personified platform is a combination of products that help financial institutions better meet the needs of their customers.
Features
Personalized financial guidance
Predictive product recommendations
Gamification
Why it’s great
Finotta empowers its FI customers to deliver the right experience, service, or product at the right time to their users with a gamified Financial Health Level that helps improve their financial life.
Presenter
Parker Graham, Founder and CEO Parker Graham serves as Founder and CEO of Finotta. Graham began his professional career in the NFL. After working at BOK, Graham founded Destiny Wealth in 2018 and pivoted to Finotta in 2020. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.
ebankIT is an Omnichannel Banking Platform. This Finovate, ebankIT will demo new features, from crypto management to open banking, all while gathering user feedback.
Features
User Engagement Hub to transform FIs:
Knowledge based with in-app interactive demos of all features
Ability for users to vote on new feature releases
Features available through an early adopter program
Why it’s great
It’s all about agility and having financial institutions launch exceptional user experiences at a fast speed. ebankIT does it all through its Omnichannel Digital Banking Platform.
Presenters
Pete Atkinson, Vice President of Sales Atkinson has spent much of his career working at the convergent point of technology, business, and consumers. He is VP of Sales at ebankIT and for the last 15 years has helped FIs to digitally transform. LinkedIn
Joana Lucas, Sales Development Representative Financial industry enthusiast, experienced in Financial Markets, Banking, and Fintech space. Current mission: help FIs humanize their digital banking worldwide via ebankIT’s omnichannel capabilities. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.
autologic was founded in 2021 and lets non-technical people build highly complex logic to power automated decisioning and digital experiences across any division of a financial services organization.
Features
Build complex rules & calculations with no code at the cost of spinning up a server on Google
Deploy into any application (custom or third party) that supports JSON in minutes
Why it’s great
UNO (a mortgage broker) maintains pricing, underwriting, servicing, documentation and policy information for 20 lenders with 1 non-technical person.
Presenter
Vincent Turner, CEO 4x Founder, 2 exits across Australia and US. Built technology used by 90% of Australian banks. Founder of UNO Home Loans, #1 Online Mortgage Broker in Australia. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.
Cable was founded in 2020 to provide automated assurance of financial crime controls, enabling real-time, continuous monitoring for regulatory breaches and control failures across all of a business’ accounts.
Features
Reduces remediation projects with real-time regulatory breach or control failure detection
Automates and centralizes partner bank oversight of fintech partners
Increases ROI of other compliance tools
Why it’s great
Why manually test 100 accounts when you can automatically monitor 100%? Scale efficiently and compliantly with Cable by ensuring your controls’ effectiveness as you grow.
Presenter
Natasha Vernier, CEO Before founding Cable, Vernier was Head of Financial Crime at Monzo Bank, one of the first UK fintechs to become FCA-authorized and regulated. LinkedIn
It’s August, which means that FinovateFall officially kicks off next month. The summer heat may have you in vacation mode, but in a matter of weeks it’ll be time to switch gears and get ready for our three-day event, taking place in New York City, September 12 through 14.
Book your spot at this year’s conference by August 12 to save $600. FinovateFall is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, so you know it’s going to be big!
Because I know you’re busy submitting your final vacation request for the summer, I’ve distilled the agenda down to a few highlights.
Day 1
Demos It wouldn’t be a Finovate event without the 7-minute demos. We’ll have three demo sessions on the first day of the event. Check out our list of who is demoing so far.
Panel: The Fintech Ecosystem & Strategic Partnerships – From Competition To Collaboration & Co-Creation Moderated by American Banker’s Penny Crossman, this panel features Josh Williams, CBO & Head of Partnerships at Seattle Bank; Maria Gotsch, President and CEO at Partnership Fund for New York City; Mike Vostrizansky, Growth Equity Investor at FTV Capital; and Franklin Garrigues, Vice President, External Ecosystems at TD Bank Group.
Startup booster The Startup Booster offers a chance for fintech founders to network with early stage fintech investors. This new session helps fintech founders gain insights and connections from investors through pre-booked one-to-one meetings. See if you qualify to participate in our Startup Booster program.
Day 2
More demos We’re featuring four demo sessions on the second day of the conference and will announce the Best of Show winners at the end of the second day.
Keynote Address: What Wins Deals in Fintech – What Are The Essential Success Factors for Winning More Deals, Better Deals, Faster Deals? Sam Kilmer, Managing Director at Cornerstone Advisors, will talk us through how to get deals done in fintech.
Power Panel: Why Reinventing Banking & Reimagining Customer Experience Is Vital For Banks To Compete In The New Normal Oak HC/FT Co-Founder & Managing Partner Patricia Kemp will moderate this session, with participation from Beyond the Arc CEO Steven Ramirez and Quavo Fraud & Disputes SVP and Revenue Executive Brittany Usher.
Day 3
Analyst All Stars Hear from Daniel Latimore, Chief Research Officer and Member of the Leadership Team at Celent; Alyson Clarke, Principal Analyst at Forrester; and Philip Benton, Senior Analyst of Financial Services at Omdia, on key opportunities and trends in the financial services space.
Fintech Fight Club Cage Match Edition Watch three industry leaders duke it out over some of the most challenging questions facing financial services. This is not another panel, but a cage match of ideas and opinions. This year’s participants include Jason Henrichs, CEO of Alloy Labs; Mary Wisniewski, Editor of Bankrate; and Lindsay Davis, Head of Markets at Atomic FI.
Fireside Chat: Climate Change & Financial Services – An Existential Threat Or The Biggest Opportunity In A Generation? I get to sit down with OakNorth President and COO Peter Grant to discuss how fintechs and financial services companies can find opportunities amidst a growing climate crisis.
There is, of course, much more to this year’s FinovateFall event. Check out the whole agenda, take a look at the speaker lineup, and be sure to register to be part of the 15th FinovateFall.
Every summer there’s that one song playing across radio stations, at the beach, from your kids’ earphones, and in the club. This year, it’s likely “Jiggle Jiggle” by Duke & Jones and Louis Theroux.
As we announce the first wave of demoers at FinovateFall, the chorus comes to mind: “My money don’t jiggle jiggle, it folds.” This September, see 60+ innovative solutions that will make sure your money continues to fold.
Curated to reflect fintech’s state of play, this year’s demo lineup hits all the high notes:
Embedded finance and payments
Expanded AI and machine learning
Financial inclusion and literacy
Employee benefits
ESG-focused initiatives
Consumer debt and financial literacy
Fintechs as data organizations
Blockchain, crypto, and Web3
All of these serve to improve bottom lines, bring in new customers, help retain existing customers, lower operating costs, and make sure your money doesn’t jiggle jiggle.
