How they describe themselves: Headquartered in Miami, Fortress Identity’s mission is to create deeper trust between companies, their employees, and their customers through the power of easily implemented, compound biometric user authentication solutions. The easily implemented Biometric Authenticator and other multifactor authentication tools provide step-up security to control access and protect sensitive environments, records, devices and transactions.
How they describe their product/innovation: Fortress Identity Biometric Authenticator™ — User Authentication made simple with Compound Biometrics.
Fortress Identity is simplifying everything about secure authentication by introducing a biometric API into the equation, delivered as the Biometric Authenticator™. Implement voice authentication directly in the browser and expand to include the user’s smart phone for true multi-factor authentication. Strengthen security, eliminate passwords and simplify verification of users with a mobile and web biometric user authentication solution.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Stuart Rudolph, VP Bus. Dev., [email protected], 305-906-1405
Press: Janet Ahlgren, VP Operations, [email protected], 305-906-1468
How they describe themselves: Flybits empowers financial institutions to connect with their customers more meaningfully through hyper-personalized experiences, powered by contextual data. With patent-protected AI and machine learning capabilities, Flybits’ end-to-end platform assembles data and allows teams to orchestrate experiences without data science or technical know-how. From driving product awareness to offering virtual concierge-style services, enterprises across the globe are using Flybits contextual recommendation engine to add value to the lives of their customers.
How they describe their product/innovation: Flybits will demo one of its patent-protected AI capabilities which brings in predictive models and puts them into the hands of our customers. We will show in a live environment how AI can be used by marketers and creative teams in a simple way that requires no knowledge of coding, data science or machine learning.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Sean Frigault, Global Head of Sales, [email protected]
Press: Justine Melman, VP Marketing, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Finzly is a growth stage fintech focused on delivering on the promise of digital transformation and open banking for banks and credit unions
How they describe their product/innovation: The Finzly Bank Operating System (OS) provides an app store model backed by microservice enabled Open APIs. When Finzly Bank OS is installed into a bank, we map our API adapters to the bank’s existing core providing a digital backbone that unlocks the bank’s digital potential. We enable a series of services by uploading to the Finzly App Store providing ready to deploy capabilities for your bank operations teams. Apps register with Finzly Bank OS to define how they interact with other Apps including entitlements, fees, and products.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Brian Anderson, VP Sales & Marketing, [email protected], 917-705-2183
How they describe themselves: Finscend is revolutionizing the way credit card disputes are processed. Its Bank Dispute Platform (BDP) has attracted wide interest as the first such solution that employs artificial intelligence and machine-learning technology to evaluate and recommend to the bank the most appropriate response for dispute. Finscend was selected by attendees at MoneyLIVE Europe 2018 as the start-up they were most likely to invest in and the start-up with the greatest chance of reaching scalability.
How they describe their product/innovation: Finscend is demonstrating its unique Banking Dispute Platform (BDP). The most technologically advanced solution of its kind, BDP was conceived and designed for banks, other financial institutions and credit card issuers by financial industry veterans who have a first-hand professional understanding of the challenges of dispute resolution. Its core is an AI-driven engine that streamlines the entire dispute process by offering real-time reporting, batch processing, fraud monitoring, and an enterprise user account area.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Izzy Bromberg, Head of Product, [email protected], 773-312-4800
Press: Reuben Eliaz, Media Relations Manager, [email protected], 773-312-4800
How they describe themselves: Faraday powers B2C growth with actionable AI.
The Faraday AI Platform enables users to optimize growth initiatives from demand and lead generation to customer engagement and retention with a range of predictive consumer insights.
Omnichannel lookalike targeting, real-time intelligence, LTV growth opportunity monitoring, and geospatial analytics are just a few ways companies grow intelligently with Faraday.
How they describe their product/innovation: The Faraday AI Platform includes all the ingredients you need to operationalize revenue-building AI in weeks, not years.
Turnkey integrations, third-party consumer data, algorithms, visualizations, and deployment products are all built-in and supported by Faraday engineers and data scientists.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Cory Alber, Account Executive, [email protected] & Riley Dickie, Account Executive, [email protected]
Press: Perry McDermott, Marketing Manager, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Exela is a location-agnostic global BPA leader combining industry-specific and multi-industry enterprise software and solutions with decades of experience. Exela is a business process automation (BPA) leader, leveraging a global footprint and proprietary technology to provide digital transformation solutions enhancing quality, productivity, and end-user experience. With decades of expertise operating mission-critical processes, Exela serves a growing roster of more than 4,000 customers throughout 50 countries, including over 60% of the Fortune® 100.
How they describe their product/innovation: Exela Technologies is a longtime leader in providing scalable, secure, and interoperable platforms and solutions in banking, finance, and financial services. At this year’s FinovateFall 2019, Exela will be demonstrating its ability to BOTH handle any payment in any payment media (i.e., any currency or payment method), move that payment as a Payments Facilitator, and analyze and reconcile any bank or corporate client’s payment transaction activity.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Francisco Liquido, VP Business Strategy, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Evident Systems delivers and operationalizes real-time payment (RTP) services for U.S. financial institutions, enabling them to offer these services to their account holders almost effortlessly. Banks and credit unions increase deposits and cash flow, reduce cost and risk, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Account holders always know what is safe to spend, increasing trust and satisfaction. Evident Systems is a certified RTP Third Party Service provider through The Clearing House.
How they describe their product/innovation: Evident Cloud RTP has real-time payment (RTP) services that seamlessly onboard financial institutions onto The Clearing House’s RTP network. This includes turnkey services to connect core banking systems to the network with a comprehensive test infrastructure. Once live, ongoing monitoring provides financial institutions full auditing capabilities for transactions. We’ve removed the barriers of integrating into the RTP network while enabling secure, transparent real-time payment services.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, licensed
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Bobby Calderwood, CEO & Founder
Press: Tracey Mustacchio, Marketing
How they describe themselves: Eigen Technologies is a machine learning company based in London and New York specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Our mission is to help individuals and organizations make the right decisions, and we do this by unlocking the value of their qualitative data.
How they describe their product/innovation: Eigen automates the extraction of information. Our simple, flexible NLP product accurately extracts information from diverse types of documents at scale and can be integrated into our clients’ workflows. We use state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to recognize patterns in text and give accurate answers to unique questions. This enables our clients to use data in new ways to make the right business decisions: driving down costs, finding opportunities, calculating risks, and meeting regulatory requirements.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Omar Divina, Chief Commercial Officer, [email protected], 646-331-1262
Press: Thomas Cahn, Director of Communications, [email protected], +44 77 8858 1652
How they describe themselves: Founded by recognized university leaders, Edmit’s award-winning software provides personalized insights and advice to help families make smarter college financial choices leading to less debt and better earnings outcomes, saving thousands of dollars.
How they describe their product/innovation: Edmit for Enterprise is a co-branded, premium version of Edmit’s digital college financial planning software designed for financial institutions and employers that want to be part of the solution to the student debt problem by advising families about the cost and ROI of college before they make their decisions.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Nick Ducoff, CEO & Co-Founder, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: ebankIT is an international company that develops a leading Omnichannel Digital Banking Platform with capabilities to enable Financial Institutions to run lean, run smart and innovate fast.
We are helping our customers to be one step ahead at a fraction of the cost, time and effort.
Operating in over 20 countries, ebankIT is leading the digital banking revolution and helping banking businesses to realize their full potential, strengthen customer relationship while minimizing costs and increasing revenues.
How they describe their product/innovation: ebankIT will showcase how Banks and Financial Institutions can become more than financial services providers and emerge as truly customer allies.
With Open Banking integrations, ebankIT solution allows the creation of new and effective customer journeys adjusted to clients’ preferences enhancing their digital experience.
In ebankIT’s DNA is imprinted the continuous investment in R&D. We are always looking for innovation inside and outside the Financial sector to provide, each and every day, the latest news and solutions to our clients.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Pete Atkinson, VP Global Sales, +44 77 4030 0606 &
LuĂs CĂ´rte-Real, International Sales Executive, +351 964 040 897
Press: Sara Castro, Head of Marketing, [email protected], +351 965 141 488
How they describe themselves: Horizn helps financial institutions get ready for the digital customer in an environment where digital transformation and rapid launch of innovation are the norms. The award winning platform focuses on equipping both frontline employees and customers directly with the knowledge needed to improve the customer experience and dramatically increase digital adoption across all channels.
The Horizn Platform learning technology and distribution methodology help banks improve the customer experience and share product knowledge across physical touch points in-branch, in call center customer conversations as well as direct to customer in digital channels like your bank.com, SEO and other marketing activities.
How they describe their product/innovation: Horizn, the number 1 Digital Adoption Platform combines proprietary micro-learning simulation methodology with both gamified principles and advanced measurable analytics.
The Employee Platform will demonstrate how to empower your entire workforce, in-branch and in the contact center get ready to talk digital with customers.
The In-Branch platform is being used to enable hip-to-hip digital demos in-branch with frontline employees and customer on mobile devices, tablets, and kiosks. Also demoing new digital tools designed specifically for banks digital ambassador programs.
We will demo the Customer Platform that reaches out directly to bank customers in digital channels like your bank.com, SEO and other marketing activities.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Steve Frook, VP Sales, [email protected]
Press: Robert Rubenstein, MD, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Glia creates digital-first moments that simplify and transform communications between businesses and their customers. Fortune 500 companies that have high-consideration sales and support experiences need to deliver choice, continuity, and speed to their customers. We know that digital-transformation is not easy for large organizations. That is why our digital communications platform is modular in its design and built to deliver value at each step of the journey. We do not believe in ripping out legacy systems – we believe in agile solutions that can truly transform the customer experience. Glia transcends the channel discussion to focus on what matters – customers.
How they describe their product/innovation: OmniGuide provides the framework to deploy one or multiple conversational AI engines across an enterprise. With conversational AI, agents & customer support reps can reach customers in real-time using bot-powered logic in the form of suggested responses. By employing an easy-to-use interface, there can always be a human fallback when a bot “fails”. Bot powered assistance for human agents includes integrated surveys, built-in data/regulatory compliance features, statistics and reporting. With OmniGuide, sales and support teams have the insight and capabilities to meaningfully evaluate customer interactions. Once activated, OmniGuide drives efficiency and customer satisfaction across your chosen customer engagement channels.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Jordan Christopher, SVP Global Sales, [email protected]
Press: Julie Aronson, Marketing Manager, [email protected]
