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 &
Luís Côrte-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]

How they describe themselves: Fortress Identity turns mobile, web, and server applications into biometric fortresses.

Our mission is to strengthen trust between organizations, their employees, and customers. To achieve this, we have developed a series of products that enable developers to easily incorporate active and passive biometric authentication to their mobile iOS and Android applications, Microsoft Active Directory environments and Citrix applications.

How they describe their product/innovation: We will be making a major announcement to 2 new features of our SDK  – Digital Onboarding and Identity Score

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Stuart Rudolph, VP Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Janey Ahlgren, VP Operations, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Flybits helps banks exceed customer expectations for personalized experiences that address their day-to-day needs and life goals. Our contextual recommendation engine transforms digital channels by proactively delivering hyper-personalized products, services and content when their customers need it most. Leveraging unique and patent-protected AI and machine learning capabilities, experiences created through Flybits become increasingly effective in delivering success. From driving product awareness to offering virtual concierge-style services, enterprises across the globe are using Flybits to add value to the lives of their customers and preparing themselves for the new data economy.

How they describe their product/innovation: With AI embedded at the core of our platform, financial institutions can rely on us to help them understand their customers better, in order to truly present the right offers at the right place and at the right time. This is because our technology focuses on behavioral data and combining data sets from various locations to achieve a deeper understanding of the customer based on their collective experiences. By learning from each experience, the platform is able to provide users with campaign suggestions to ensure every interaction with a customer is effective. As such, organizations can act with the confidence of knowing that they’re providing a truly personalized offer that can rise above the noise.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, licensed

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Stephanie Papagni, Director of Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Justine Melman, VP Marketing & Communications, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: With a vision of driving innovation in global capital markets to achieve global capital market integration, Finhaven is building a full-stack capital markets infrastructure for the issuance, trading, and recording of digital securities. The company’s platform will provide for the issuance and trade of digital securities such as stocks, bonds, investment funds and tokens that can be deemed as investment contracts, providing issuers and investors with an established, regulatory compliant secondary marketplace for digital securities.

How they describe their product/innovation: The Finhaven Investment Platform is an end-to-end technological infrastructure for the issuance, investment and recording of digital securities. Using proprietary cryptographic ledger technology, the investment platform solves for inefficiencies of traditional capital markets for security issuers, investors and regulators. Finhaven will demonstrate a private security issuance to the actual live private market trading of that security. This will include our innovative approach to negotiations between buyers and sellers and the consequent real-time settlement. Finally, the Finhaven team will demonstrate the FIN wallet and how investors are custodians of their own securities, innovating the current custodianship experience.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Dohyung Kim, CEO, [email protected]
Press: Anna Dabrowski, Analyst & Marketing, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Faraday helps B2C companies find, convert, engage, and retain more customers with real, actionable AI.

How they describe their product/innovation: Faraday is the end-to-end machine learning platform for the B2C tech stack.

The platform integrates with dozens of customer data sources, streamlines predictive modeling from data enrichment to model deployment, and delivers powerful predictive insights to hundreds of marketing and sales destinations.

With Faraday, you can reach lookalike audiences across your online and offline channels, prioritize and personalize lead engagement initiatives in real time, grow LTV with personalized recommendations, and proactively prevent churn.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Cory Albert, Financial Services Account Executive, [email protected]
Riley Dickie, Financial Services Account Executive, [email protected]
Press: Perry McDermott, Marketing Manager, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Extend is a card distribution platform that redefines how credit cards are issued. Visa and Mastercard certified, Extend partners with banks and instantly integrates with their legacy systems to provide them and their customers with modern virtual credit card features. Extend offers an app for business customers that want to instantly equip staff members with virtual credit cards, and APIs for fintechs to leverage virtual credit cards.

Founded by Andrew Jamison, Guillaume Bouvard, and Danny Morrow, each with 20 years of experience in payments or technology, NY-based Extend is backed by top investors including Point72, Reciprocal, and Plug&Play.

How they describe their product/innovation: Companies don’t give all employees and contractors a credit card to make business purchases.  As a result, companies face multiple challenges: shared credit cards being misused, personal cards being used, onerous reimbursement processes, reconciliation issues, missed credit card rewards, poor employee experience, etc. With Extend, businesses can securely send virtual credit cards to anyone instantly, allowing for better controls, visibility, and security over company spend.

Additionally, Extend’s powerful APIs allow fintechs to apply our technology and bank connections to tackle new problems. We’re just discovering the wide range of applications that the Extend platform API is capable of!

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Phil Roberts, SVP Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Liang Zhao, [email protected]; Kirsten Anderson, [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.

How they describe their product/innovation: Exela’s core banking and financial solutions enable our customers to leverage a single platform that drives down costs, improves accuracy, consolidates data, and automates workflows.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Cisco Liquido, [email protected]
Press: Nick Rosetti, Communications Manager, [email protected]