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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Payment Data Systems/ Akimbo

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on May 1, 2016
Categories: Akimbo Financial, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek

Payment Data Systems/ Akimbo is launching Akimbo Gift—Send a virtual Gift MasterCard in real-time by email or text that can be used online and with mobile wallets like Apple Pay.

Features:

Virtual MasterCard delivered by email or text for use online or with mobile wallets
Great for gifts, rewards and promotions
Upgrade to reloadable account for more features

Why it’s great
Deliver gifts, rewards and promotions instantly with a virtual Gift MasterCard delivered by email or text that can be used online and with mobile wallets.

Presenter: Houston Frost, SVP, Prepaid Products
Houston co-founded Akimbo in 2010, which sold to Payment Data Systems in 2014. He worked at JPMorgan from 2007 to 2009 and earned a PhD at Northwestern University.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Silver6

By David Penn Posted on April 28, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Silver6

Silver6 is a financial video platform that helps companies deliver custom tailored communication to their audience by using Video Personalization. Videos are completely unique to each recipient.

Features:

Engage your audience with video content customized to them
Track the video, and use heat maps to determine what portion was viewed the most
Create unique video content on a large scale

Why it’s great
After the baseline videos are created, the process requires very little time and effort. You can create and deliver thousands of customized videos, with next-to-no work involved.

Presenters

Brock Traetow, COO
Traetow has spent many years working for both large and small digital media companies. He has a wide variety of expertise in lead generation, content marketing, and analytics.

Sudheer Pamuru, CTO
Pamuru has spent 20+ years leading and architecting a wide variety of technology projects and companies. The last 10 years have been specific to working with video platforms.

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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Sezzle

By David Penn Posted on April 28, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Sezzle

Sezzle Pay is making it easy for online merchants to accept low-cost ACH payments. We combine bank authentication technology with time-tested ACH to enable instant ACH transactions.

Features:

A new ability for merchants to accept low-cost, easy-to-use ACH payments
Rewards for end users to increase utilization
Simplicity for end users to improve the payment experience

Why it’s great
What they are seeing today with Sezzle is going to be the future of payments. The physical payment card will become a relic of the past, and Sezzle will be a larger part of our cardless future.

Presenter: Charlie Youakim, CEO
Youakim is CEO and founder of Sezzle, as well as founder and former co-CEO of Passport. He is engineering and business educated, using love of tech, strategy, and marketing to build great companies.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Roostify

By David Penn Posted on April 28, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Roostify

Roostify simplifies and accelerates the home lending experience.

Features:

Automated mortgage approval
An integrated borrower/lender/real estate agent experience
Consumer self-serve capability in the closing process

Why it’s great
You can give your borrowers a lending experience that’s fast, easy, and something they’re actually excited to tell their friends about.

Presenters

Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward, Head of Product
Sokoll-Ward is a former Google consumer-tech veteran taking on broken financial transactions.
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Jonathan Kirst, CTO
Kirst is a former Salesforce engineering maven taking on broken financial transactions.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Malauzai Software

By David Penn Posted on April 28, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Malauzai Software

Malauzai Software will show its latest mobile offering, MOX Pay, a set of mobile wallet apps for small businesses, powered by community financial institutions.

Features:

Empower small businesses to publish affordable, payment-centric mobile apps
Help local businesses get paid faster and cheaper
Use existing technologies and services in new ways

Why it’s great
It offers mobile wallet apps for small businesses, powered by community banks and credit unions.

Presenters

Robb Gaynor, Co-founder, Chief Product Officer
Gaynor is chief product officer and co-founder of Malauzai Software Inc., a provider of mobile and internet banking SmartApps for community financial institutions.
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Blake Pelletier, SVP, Chief Information Officer & Chief Information Security Officer, Redding Bank of Commerce
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Danny Piangerelli, Co-founder and CTO
Piangerelli leads the technology team and is responsible for all aspects of Malauzai’s technology infrastructure.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Finova Financial

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 26, 2016
Categories: Finova Financial, FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek

Finova Financial, a socially responsible lender, provides fast, affordable loans based on the equity in your car to the 70 million financially underserved Americans.

Features:

Costs 70% less than the current national average
Instant access to capital and a 12-month pathway back to financial health
Online/mobile 24×7

Why it’s great
Finova provides a same-day solution for emergency expenses to the millions of Americans who spend $5.3 billion annually on title loans at a cost 70% less than the current national average.

Presenter: Gregory Keough, CEO
Keough is an executive with global experience. He is a serial entrepreneur with an impressive track record of innovation in the technology and financial services arena.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: SaleMove

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 26, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, SaleMove

SaleMove enables organizations to engage online visitors the same way they would in person, using video, audio, chat, and co-browsing without any downloads or installations.

Features:

Increase conversions
Enhance customer experience
Improve contact center efficiency

Why it’s great
Businesses that use SaleMove are able to provide online customers with the same high-touch interactions that are possible face-to-face.

Presenter: Daniel Michaeli, Co-Founder and CEO
Michaeli is a Univeristy of Pennsylvania graduate, originally from Guatemala. His career has focused on Venture Capital, Tech/Strategy Consulting and Start-Ups.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Linqto

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 26, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Linqto

Linqto is the link between fintech developers and financial institutions. The App Store for Banks automates the process of mobile app branding and delivery. Choose your fintech from an online store.

Features:

Connect with and attract millennials
No long term contracts
Monetize without charging the consumer

Why it’s great
The App Store creates a revolutionary new marketplace where banks and credit unions can brand new software and use it with their customers. Automatically. In an online store. In minutes, not months.

Presenters

Bill Sarris, CEO of Linqto
Sarris is a recognized expert in the field of collaborative technology and has delivered major enterprise software applications for Microsoft, Intuit, Digital Insight, NCR, Stanford and other clients.
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Kim Fraser, SVP Business Development at Wallaby
Fraser has extensive experience in business development, partnership and GTM strategic experience, driving recurring revenue growth, consumer acquisition and end-user engagement.
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Matt Kirchharr, Innovation Development Coordinator at LEVERAGE
Kirchharr is experienced in innovation development, vendor due-diligence of prospective partners, implementation planning, and is a subject-matter expert for all new product lines.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Sberbank

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 26, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Sberbank

Sberbank, one of Europe’s largest banks, created an omni-purpose communication platform for people and companies.

Features:

A smart search tool that finds relevant people and businesses based on data
Chats with payments and transfers
New way to find and serve clients

Why it’s great
At the heart of the product is the smart-search engine that suggests contacts of people and businesses based on the user’s data that includes habits, preferences and perceived needs.

Presenters

Vladimir Stasevich is the executive director of Sberbank’s Bank XXI department.
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Katerina Frolovicheva is managing director of technology innovations for Sberbank.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Student Loan Genius

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 26, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Student Loan Genius

The co-founders of Student Loan Genius graduated with a combined total of $275,000 in student loan debt and are now helping employees turn their student loan payment into a wealth-building activity.

Leveraging existing frameworks for retirement savings, the 401(k) Contribution Feature helps employees save by using student loans to activate unused 401(k) dollars and helps employers retain talent.

Why it’s great
No matter the retirement provider, the Student Loan Genius 401(k) Contribution Feature can help eliminate one of the biggest barriers for employees to invest using their existing student loan payment.

Tony Aguilar, CEO
A former financial adviser turned startup CEO, Tony is committed to helping millennials improve their financial picture and secure freedom from student loan debt.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: Qumram

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 26, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, Qumram

Qumram provides a fully compliant, digital audit-trail by recording every digital interaction (web, social, mobile) securely and transparently in accordance with global regulatory requirements.

Features:

100% recording for 100% compliance
Indisputable evidence for conduct risk and fraud detection – internal and external
Complete, end-to-end view of every customer’s digital journey

Why it’s great
For peace of mind, ensuring that your digital business is 100% compliant, and by recording indisputable evidence of every digital interaction, Qumram is the only answer.

Presenters:

Simon Scheurer, Co-Founder and CTO
CTO Scheurer is a strategic technology advisor and entrepreneur. With Masters degrees in both mathematics and physics, Scheurer loves solving technical challenges.
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Nicola Cowburn, CMO
CMO Cowburn is an accomplished financial services marketing executive, experienced in developing high-growth SMEs into successful global enterprises.
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Patrick Barnert, CEO
CEO Barnert (and board member) is a visionary business leader and global entrepreneur. As SVP at OpenText, Patrick was responsible for $800 million in revenue.
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FinovateSpring Sneak Peek: savedroid

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on April 26, 2016
Categories: FinovateSpring 2016 Sneak Peek, savedroid

savedroid is the algorithm-based mobile app for end-2-end savings: We turn your everyday activities into automated savings and cut your monthly bills to make your wishes come true.

Features:

Lifestyle saving rules: go for a run +$5; hit snooze +$1; shop at Amazon +5%
Smart contract optimization: Based on your consumption, savedroid finds the best-value cell phone, electricity, internet, insurance contract

Why it’s great
savedroid is not just another savings app; savedroid is end-to-end savings. We are the very forefront of algorithm-based saving tools using big data to create significant value for our users.

Presenters

Yassin Hankir, Founder & CEO
Yassin is a fintech entrepreneur and enthusiast. He initiated savedroid, is co-host of FinTech Meetup Frankfurt, and co-founded robo-adviser vaamo; previously, he worked as engagement manager at McKinsey.
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Marco Trautmann, Founder & COO
Marco has deep experience in strategy and banking IT. Before co-founding savedroid, he worked for McKinsey setting up innovative digital business models for banks and bringing them to market.
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