FinDEVr 2014 – incomm

FinDEVr 2014 – incomm

InComm is the leading provider of prepaid and transaction technologies with 400,000 points of distribution, nearly $30 billion annual transaction volume and reaching over 1 billion customers weekly.

Presentation

Cashtie API – Rails for Cash Payments
Cashtie is an API that enables cash payments for bill pay, funding an account and money transfer at InComm’s retail network. The Cashtie API connects to a transaction-processing platform and is the rails for cash payments from its partners.

Workshop

Cashtie API – Democratizing Access to Retail POS
In this workshop, we showcase how we democratized access to the POS (Point of Sales) of some of the largest retailers in the world like Walmart, CVS, Rite Aid, Target, Family Dollar and many more. We demonstrate how to insert transactions as line items into the customer receipt including validating pre-tender transactions and completing post tender.

We also present various use cases of how the Cashtie API is used to digitize cash payments and touching on our different integration methods for developers.

FinDEVr 2014 – Kiind

FinDEVr 2014 – Kiind

Kiind helps businesses reward their employees and customers with gift cards. With Kiind, you can easily send personalized offers to multiple contacts, and Kiind’s technology allows you to defer when you pay for rewards and gifts, thereby saving you money.

Presentation

Making Gifting Easy
We touched on Kiind’s API and where it is headed as well as our marketplace.

FinDEVr 2014 – intuit

FinDEVr 2014 – intuit

The Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) is an open platform that enables developers to integrate with rich financial and transactional data through REST-based APIs and offers unparalleled reach to millions of small businesses through Intuit Apps.com.

Presentation

The Small Business Opportunity
The importance of small business to the global economy can’t be denied. With 600 million small businesses worldwide, the opportunity to drive their success is huge. Reach millions of small businesses by developing for Intuit QuickBooks Online, an open platform for developers that taps into the power of QuickBooks and the cloud. With partners from Square to American Express to Vend, QuickBooks Online allows Intuit and its ecosystem to simplify the business of life for millions of small businesses.

Workshop

Intuit’s Financial Data APIs: Getting Started With the Best Platform to Connect to Small Business and Consumer Financial Data
QuickBooks Online (QBO) has the largest small businesses audience in the world and the QBO API opens up this valuable market to partners and developers like you. The Customer Account Data (CAD) API is the same API that powers Mint.com giving you access to transaction data from over 19,000 financial institutions. In this session we will review the QBO and CAD APIs.

This session is best for developers looking to serve small businesses and accountants.

Key Takeaways:

  • What the QBO Platform offers to you as a partner and developer
  • How to start integrating with the CAD API so you can get started quickly

FinovateFall 2014 – Kapitall

FinovateFall 2014 – Kapitall

How they describe themselves: Kapitall is the fusion of investing and gaming. Its mission is to make the world of investing educational, fun, and rewarding. Kapitall liberates financial markets from out-of-date trading tools by providing users with a gamified trading platform. Kapitall’s do-it-yourself investment platform takes inspiration from video games to help anyone, from new investors to those looking to sharpen their investing skills, practice, compete, and make smarter trades in the stock market.

How they describe their product/innovation: Kapitall is launching its mobile trading application as well as its latest virtual stock tournament game at FinovateFall 2014. For iOS devices, Kapitall mobile users will have the investing and gaming functionality at their fingertips. Practice, tournament, and live brokerage portfolios will be available to help members of all ages and investing skill sets to learn, play, and invest.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Miriam Eaves, [email protected], 917-885-9057
Press: Taryn Langer, [email protected], 917-703-1146

FinovateFall 2014 – iQuantifi

FinovateFall 2014 – iQuantifi

How they describe themselves: iQuantifi is a virtual financial advisor that helps millennials and young families take control of their finances and achieve their goals. We are the first true “RoboAdvisor” that provides comprehensive, personalized advice based on the goals and resources of the user without the need to interact with a live person. Our proprietary system provides each user with a personalized financial plan and includes step-by-step advice to achieve each goal, including the type and allocation of financial products that are needed.

How they describe their product/innovation: iQuantifi is introducing two new features to make it even easier for users to create their own financial plan and achieve their goals. When a user does not have enough money to fund all of their goals, our “Cashfinder” analyzes their budget and recommends which expenses a user can reduce to cover the monthly shortage. Our “What if” feature allows users to adjust their goals to see the immediate impact on their financial plan. By comparing two different paths to goal achievement, a user can determine which plan best fits their lifestyle.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts:

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Brian Evans, CMO, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2014 – Larky

FinovateFall 2014 – Larky

How they describe themselves: Larky helps financial institutions boost loyalty, reduce churn, drive non-fee income, increase wallet share, and support local businesses. Larky is a unique web+mobile loyalty platform that enables banks and credit unions to delight users with frequent point-of-sale discounts at beloved local and national merchants. Our turnkey system sends users location-based and FI-branded smartphone alerts when they are physically near a merchant discount. Users save $1,000 or more every year, with no behavioral changes. Larky helps you deliver significant added value to your audience so they never again wonder if they should be banking somewhere else. Top of wallet, top of mind.

How they describe their product/innovation: We are unveiling our new Android app along with our new white-label mobile and web option.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Press: Andrew Bank, Co-Founder, [email protected], 734-531-8489
Sales: Jeff Pasieka, Bus. Dev., [email protected], 734-674-3640

FinovateFall 2014 – Linqto

FinovateFall 2014 – Linqto

How they describe themselves: Linqto is a Silicon Valley software development company specializing in Enterprise solutions for the banking and educational verticals.

Linqto combines its specialized background in financial applications with a deep experience in streaming communications technology. Linqto’s new omni-channel banking communications suite, Personal Banker (patent pending), is the latest of the company’s offerings.

Consumer trust in banks is at record lows. Linqto Personal Banker delivers the essential face-to-face human connectivity and relationship-building benefits your remote customers are missing.

How they describe their product/innovation: Linqto Personal Banker introduces real time face-to-face conversations into banking transactions, connecting live, on-duty bank representatives with their customers.

Linqto uses mobile technology to put the relationship back into personal banking. With live video tellers, your mobile device becomes your neighborhood branch. The customer experiences personal service with remote convenience.

Your bank employees are your most important asset. Give them the power to build stronger relationships with your digital customers using Linqto’s Personal Banker remote banking solution.

Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Dune Thomas, VP Mobile Banking Solutions, [email protected]
Press: Bill Sarris, CEO, [email protected]
Sales: Vicki Lawrence, COO, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2014 – LOYAL3

FinovateFall 2014 – LOYAL3

How they describe themselves: LOYAL3 offers a social technology platform that democratizes the investing process for individual investors and brand aficionados. Using the LOYAL3 platform, people can invest in IPOs and stock with small amounts and pay no fees. LOYAL3’s proprietary IPO platform allows companies going public to sell IPO stock to individual investors at the same price as Wall Street. LOYAL3 is democratizing the capital markets by making investing simple and fee free for the millions that don’t currently invest.

How they describe their product/innovation: The LOYAL3 iOS 8 Mobile App is the easiest way to buy or sell stock, with as little as $10 and no fees. LOYAL3’s app also allows users to quickly access account information, transaction history, fund transfers, and important notifications. For those participating in IPOs, the app makes it easy to view the status of the IPO, receive notifications about IPO pricing and allocation, and confirm or withdraw their IPO reservations right from their iPhone.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Matt Gidney, VP Corporate Marketing & Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Courtney Scharff, PR & Social Media Associate, [email protected]
Sales: Blake Schneider, VP Operations, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2014 – iBillionaire

FinovateFall 2014 – iBillionaire

How they describe themselves: : iBillionaire taps into the investment strategies of Wall Street billionaires and provides key insights into the financial data and investment decisions of leading US hedge fund managers. It provides access to unique and exclusive data on billionaire investors and their stock portfolios.

The company offers a comprehensive suite of technology and investment products and solutions including a mobile app, web platform, and market index, the iBillionaire Index. The iBillionaire Index has been licensed to Direxion for the creation of the iBillionaire Index ETF, launched August 1, 2014.

How they describe their product/innovation: The iBillionaire app was born out of a mission to democratize Wall Street by providing users access to the investment strategies and financial data of those who have, historically, played the market best: billionaires.

iBillionaire provides access to billionaire investment portfolios, strategies, and stock picks and is a source of unique and exclusive data on trading activity and investment trends. It sends real-time alerts of buys, sells, and prices and is a source of up-to-the-moment billionaire news.

With iBillionaire, users can create their own portfolios and compare with billionaires. They can also access the iBillionaire Index, which tracks the 30 stocks in which billionaire investors have allocated the most funds.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Raul Moreno, CEO & Co-Founder, [email protected]
Press: Emily Stewart, Head of Communications & Content Strategy, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2014 – Kabbage

FinovateFall 2014 – Kabbage

How they describe themselves: Kabbage has pioneered the first financial services data platform to provide small businesses financing in fewer than 7 minutes. Kabbage leverages data generated through business activity such as online sales, shipping, business software, checking account and dozens of other sources to understand performance and deliver fast, flexible funding instantly.

How they describe their product/innovation: Kabbage is launching the only fully automated consumer marketplace lending product in the industry to complement its leading position in SMB lending.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), technology licensing and services

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Pete Steger, Head of Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Victoria Treyger, CMO, [email protected]
Sales: David Green, Head of Sales, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2014 – Luxoft

FinovateFall 2014 – Luxoft

How they describe themselves: Luxoft Holding (NYSE:LXFT US) is a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base consisting primarily of large multinational corporations. Luxoft’s software development services consist of core and mission critical custom software development and support, product engineering and testing, and technology consulting. Luxoft’s solutions are based on its proprietary products and platforms that directly impact its clients’ business outcomes and efficiently deliver continuous innovation. Luxoft serves financial, automotive, telecommunications, technology, travel and aviation, and energy industries, and its areas of expertise include agile, mobile, big data, UX/UI/HMI and more.

How they describe their product/innovation: In our big data world it is the critical data that gives the competitive advantage. Luxoft’s Horizon creates a “Visualization Layer” on top of your data marts to provide visual simplicity and supports more informed, timely, and strategic decision making. The framework provides a system that allows you to mine your data with macro and micro perspectives that range from overviews to exact client performance and risk measurements by business line. Horizon is a next generation Visualization Framework, providing an innovative and graphically rich User Interface: app-based approach, high performance, secure, 100% mobile (accessible from any device: iPad, iPhone, Android etc.), and highly customizable.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Pierre Castagne, MD Financial Services, [email protected]
Fabrice Aresu, Head of Business Support Group, [email protected]
Press: Patrick Corcoran, Public Relations Manager, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2014 – Knox Payments

FinovateFall 2014 – Knox Payments

How they describe themselves: Knox Payments aims to reduce interchange fees and cart abandonment with a very cost-effective and fast checkout system. Knox leverages the ACH network to facilitate transactions online, making everything from syncing bank accounts to e-commerce payments online faster, easier, and cheaper.

How they describe their product/innovation: Knox Payments facilitates payments for merchants online, allowing them to transact with their customers/users, who never have to create accounts or enter their bank routing and account numbers, let alone input their address and other information when transacting online. End users simply login to their online banking to make a payment, and we instantly verify their account, all for just $0.18/transaction (paid by the merchant). Knox means less cart abandonment, more security, and increased conversion, all while saving on payment processing fees.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Laura Spiekerman, Head of Bus. Dev. & Partnerships, [email protected]
Press: Tommy Nicholas, Co-Founder & Head of Product, [email protected]