How they describe themselves: R3 is a leading provider of enterprise technology and services that enable direct, digital collaboration in regulated industries where trust is critical. Multi-party solutions developed on our platforms harness the “Power of 3”-R3’s trust technology, connected networks and regulated markets expertise-to drive market innovation and improve processes in banking, capital markets, global trade and insurance.
How they describe their product/innovation: The R3 Sandbox for Digital Currencies enables central banks, commercial banks, exchanges, payment providers and more to collaborate with one another in a ‘ready-made payments ecosystem’ to evaluate CBDC use cases, learn, transact, and test roll-out strategies and designs.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Ricardo Correira, Head of Global CBDC Banking, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: QuickPenny is a free bank API that enables interbank peer to peer payment and merchant payment directly from the user’s bank application or website. With QuickPenny, people do not need to send money to external financial institutions like PayPal and Venmo. QuickPenny leverages the ACH payment rails, and it is cheaper to banks than Zelle. QuickPenny leapfrogs the physical card network and enables banks to earn more revenue than Visa and Mastercard debit cards.
How they describe their product/innovation: QuickPenny is a free bank API that enables interbank peer to peer payment and merchant payment directly from the user’s bank application or website. QuickPenny is differentiated from PayPal, Venmo and Zelle because it maps bank account numbers to URL addresses rather than to email addresses and cell phone numbers. QuickPenny is differentiated from PayPal and Venmo because payment happens directly from the user’s bank application or website. QuickPenny leapfrogs the physical card network.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Andrew Hendel, CEO & Founder, [email protected], 310-564-6521
How they describe themselves: QuickFi allows business borrowers to initiate and complete equipment financing that previously took days or weeks, in minutes … anywhere and at any time. QuickFi uses facial-recognition, blockchain, AI, and the latest mobile and cloud technologies to revolutionize the business equipment financing process. Global equipment manufacturers and banks can easily adopt the end-to-end, 100% digital, QuickFi platform to cut costs and dramatically improve the borrower experience.
How they describe their product/innovation: The QuickFi demo will show how a business borrower can create a QuickFi account, authenticate and credit score their business, and complete a term financing transaction to acquire new business equipment in about five minutes, from anywhere, at any time of the day or night.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Bill Verhelle, CEO, [email protected], 239-227-4662
Press: Joseph Vu, CMO, [email protected], 585-207-0279
How they describe themselves: Strands is a FinTech software company and part of the CRIF Group, which develops AI-driven solutions for banks and financial institutions to help increase customer engagement and generate new revenue through digital channels.
With the mission of improving the bank-client relationship, Strands draws on its more than 15 years’ experience in Big Data, Machine Learning, and AI, developing highly-personalized digital money management solutions that empower people to better manage their lives and their businesses, and to make smarter financial decisions.
How they describe their product/innovation: Financial control, foresight, and wellbeing for retail banking customers. Driven by Artificial Intelligence, Strands’ PFM means smarter money management for the customer, improved bank-user engagement and a greater share of wallet for the bank.
Strands PFM allows banks to know how people spend, then help them do it better. With all their accounts in one place and simple, categorized transactions, customers are more able to plan ahead and budget, creating financial goals for the future.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Leandro Gimeno, Global Head of Sales, [email protected]
Press: Marketing, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: The QuickFi mobile app allows borrowers to initiate and complete equipment financing transactions anywhere, at any time in three minutes. QuickFi automates and digitizes every step of the business equipment financing journey, including new-customer onboarding, and the entire end-to-end transaction process. QuickFi incorporates several rapidly advancing technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, facial recognition, and other emerging mobile, cloud, and data technologies.
How they describe their product/innovation: The QuickFi demo will show how a business borrower can create a QuickFi account, authenticate and credit score their business, and complete a term financing transaction to acquire new business equipment in about five minutes, from anywhere, at any time of the day or night.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Bill Verhelle, CEO, [email protected], 239-227-4662
Press: Joseph Vu, CMO, [email protected], 585-207-0279
How they describe themselves: Signal Intent is building first financial calculators built for the digital age. Whether you’re a bank, credit union, insurance, or mortgage company, now you can easily launch calculators your customers will love – no coding required.
We’re the only calculator provider that’s purpose built for digital growth, and we reimagining how calculators can be used as powerful data capture and conversion tools.
How they describe their product/innovation: At Finovate, we’re highlighting our entire product suite. We’re showing off our:
- Modern calculator templates that are purpose built for growth and conversion
- Our Calculator Answer Widget, which allows you to contextually launch calculator at scale.
- Customer data and business intelligence
- Our no-code Calculator Management Platform
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Chase Neinken, CRO, [email protected]
Press: Ellie A., [email protected]
How they describe themselves: SecureSave is a new type of workplace savings program, designed to help employees build and maintain an emergency savings account, and to support them during unexpected financial hardships.
With SecureSave, employees get a free emergency savings app that makes building an emergency fund easy, free and automatic. We partner with employers to make emergency savings a high impact new benefit to support their employees.
How they describe their product/innovation: Willis Towers Watson, HR Executive Magazine and Fidelity have all called emergency savings one of the top benefit trends of 2021, and SecureSave has the industry leading solution to this rapidly growing new category of workplace savings.
SecureSave gives employees their own emergency savings account, and automates the process of saving through payroll deductions. We work with employers, benefit brokers and financial services providers to make emergency savings an integrated offering and part of a holistic financial wellness program.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Devin Miller, CEO, [email protected], 206-992-9342
How they describe themselves: Quantum Metric helps organizations build better digital products faster. Our Continuous Product Design platform gives business and technical teams a single version of truth that’s automatically quantified and based on what matters most – your customer’s perspective. The result: teams are aligned, learn faster, and release with confidence. In January of 2021, Quantum Metric secured its place as the first tech unicorn of the year with an above $1 billion valuation and a $200 million Series B funding round.
How they describe their product/innovation: Quantum Metric helps retail banks differentiate on the digital experience, improve digital adoption, and improve internal efficiencies. With a simple and one-time deployment, we capture a rich set of behavioral, technical, and business level data. Machine intelligence surfaces anomalies in the customer experience and quantifies the business impact. Real-time insights and simplified workflows give all teams a common view of the customer and the ability to make data-driven decisions faster.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Scott Southwood, CRO, [email protected]
Press: Zoe McCook, Senior Director of Content & Communications, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Q2 is a financial experience company headquartered in Austin, Texas. As a key partner to financial institutions, fintechs, and other financial services providers, we offer a number of open banking products that enable rapid growth and success at scale. With CorePro, our cloud-based core processing platform, we can help your business grow in this new world of digital-first banking-where demand for outstanding experiences has exceeded expectations and must be met with a flexible approach.
How they describe their product/innovation: CorePro is Q2’s lightweight, cloud-based core processing platform that powers its Banking as a Service and Digital Bank-in-a-Box services. It offers simple, fast, and especially cost-effective ledgering-meaning FIs and fintechs can serve all market segments profitably. CorePro includes real-time updates (instead of the batch updates that define legacy cores) and is compatible with any frontend UI. Launch cutting-edge banking products or set up a digital bank of your own!
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Rahm McDaniel, VP Strategic Solutions, [email protected]
Press: Maria Abbe, Marketing Communications Professional, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: At Thread, we’ve created the first digital workspace designed for investment teams: a modular software toolbox to augment portfolio managers’ and analysts’ analytical and decision-making capabilities on top of or as a replacement of their existing decision toolkit. We have gathered together data, people, and insights to help investment teams source, build, and execute investment cases faster without compromising on the quality of the insights.
Our promise is simple: to reduce by up to 50% the time portfolio managers spend writing investment reports.
How they describe their product/innovation:
- We centralize all productivity tools (financial data, storage, productivity suite).
- We streamline communication tools (chats, comments, document sharing) to make them more efficient.
- We provide the highest-quality financial data on over 30,000 list companies and peers. We review, restate, and standardize accounting standards with accounting experts.
- We use Artificial Intelligence techniques to highlight all the extra-financial risks that a company is reporting or failing to report.
- We automatically create investment summaries.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Keith Bortoluzzi, CEO, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Surfly enables digital interactions for financial services at any point along the customer journey through fully compliant co-browsing, video chat, document editing, and real-time e-signing technology. As part of the FIS Fintech Accelerator, we learned that customers want a remote digital journey that mimics the in-person experience. Using Surfly, you can quickly enable these secure and compliant collaborations with your customers across the websites, portals, apps, or platforms that already make up their digital journey.
How they describe their product/innovation: Surfly’s co-browsing enables you and your customers to securely surf the full web together, all from one browser tab. Onboarding a new customer, opening an account, or completing complex financial transactions used to occur face-to-face, but not anymore. Customers want a remote and personal digital journey that mimics the in-person experience. Using Surfly, Financial Institutions can quickly enable secure and compliant collaboration via co-browsing, video chat, and more across the websites, portals, apps, or platforms they already invest in.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Tariq Valente, VP Sales, [email protected]
Press: Brendan Jackson, VP Marketing, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Stylopay is an innovative player in the Financial Services and mobility market. We have built a payment platform conforming to MasterCard, Visa and China Union Pay International specifications. The platform is capable to provide eWallet and prepaid card APIs to businesses as well as launch a B2C payment products. We provide our platform to businesses along with Issuer, processor, network, perso and compliance relationships. This enables the businesses to easily launch B2C card programs.
How they describe their product/innovation: Corporate Cards make payroll and payout convenient. But getting a multi geography program with small volumes is tough. It is long-drawn, cumbersome, and expensive.
Zoqq is a self-service card application and management portal for corporate card programs. Zoqq enables card program application in 30 minutes, approval in under 7 days, low costs, getting and managing programs in different countries and currencies and low card volumes. Free admin and card user portals are included.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Avishek Singh, CEO, [email protected] & Sanjit Ghanti, COO, [email protected]
Press: Avishek Singh, CEO, [email protected]
