How they describe themselves: Speechpro is the US-based subsidiary of STC Group – the leading developer of voice and multimodal biometric systems, as well as solutions for audio and video recording, processing and analysis. With one of the largest R&D teams in the industry and more than 25 years of experience, STC Group is well-known for solutions implemented by some of the largest international companies in banking, security, telecom and public sectors.

STC’s global distribution network includes numerous resellers and partners worldwide. The products are utilized in over 75 countries.

By 2016 there are more than 400 employees working for STC Group.

How they describe their product/innovation: VoiceKey.FRAUD is a specialized solution for company security built on unique voice biometric technologies that search for and identify fraudsters among customers calling to contact centers.

VoiceKey.FRAUD automatically detects fraudulent voices in incoming calls made to call centers and immediately notifies the operator and security services to take action. It compares voices of callers with voices from fraud database in online and offline modes and creates its own fraudsters list.

This approach protects both the organization and customers, saving them from the cost of fraud, as well as reducing the cost of processing recorded conversations by security service employees.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contact

Bus. Dev.: Steve Eccher, Bus. Dev., [email protected], 919-728-9660
Press: [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Spacequant helps lenders create term sheets for commercial mortgages in minutes instead of weeks.

How they describe their product/innovation: Spacequant automates extraction, standardization and analysis of data from real-estate financial statements. The powerful and secure platform transforms massive amounts of property and local market data into fast property value and risk analysis for small- and mid- balance commercial mortgage underwriting.

SQ Mortgage is configurable to fit clients’ individual underwriting practices. The platform can be accessed through a standalone web application (no integration required), or through an API integration.

Spacequant enables financial institutions to dramatically increase the volume and quality of their commercial mortgage originations, slash underwriting costs and save data for risk assessment and compliance.

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

Contact

Sales: Laura Krashakova, CEO, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: RFM is a new company with a mission to transform risk management in financial services by bringing together decades of top-level expertise in quantitative finance, regulatory compliance, enterprise software development, and machine learning.

RFM is a joint venture between Silicon Valley-based Quantellia LLC, a pioneer of machine learning and decision intelligence solutions, and leading Australian financial risk consulting firm, Q-Risk Strategies. After nearly a decade of successful collaborations between the two joint venture partners, they have created the risk management framework that will become the benchmark for the industry around the globe.

How they describe their product/innovation: RFM is a paradigm shift in risk management, lowering costs and delivering sophisticated performance to organizations of all sizes.  CROs can monitor current status, and simulate future decision outcomes under various scenarios in a near-real-time “risk cockpit”.  Models are very flexible, seamlessly integrating with existing applications, and using advanced automation to satisfy regulatory documentation needs.  Using our revolutionary “model injection” technology, a large bank can deploy a PD model change that today takes many months, in only a few days.  We transform risk management from imposing constraints, to creating heightened situational-awareness along with tools for making the right decisions.

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

Contact

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Mark Zangari, [email protected], 303-717-4221 & Nick Stavrou, [email protected], +61 417 376 704
Press: Lorien Pratt, [email protected], 303-589-7476
Sales: Mark Zangari

How they describe themselves: Quantiacs empowers anyone to earn a fortune coding trading programs in their spare time.

As the world’s first marketplace for quantitative trading programs, Quantiacs is on a mission to democratize quantitative finance.

Freelance quants earn ten percent of the profits that their programs generate without having to invest their own money.

Institutional investors get access to the world’s largest collection of quantitative trading programs allowing for custom tailored solutions for every investment objective.

Quantiacs doesn’t charge any management fees.

How they describe their product/innovation: Quantiacs presents Quantinator:

Quantinator is an algorithm building tool that is accessible via web browser and mobile devices. Becoming a quant has never been easier. Quants can develop trading programs in several different programming languages. Quantinator provides an intuitive UI, sample trading algorithms, an optimization functionality, and tools to analyze the backtesting results.

Once a trading program is built it can be submitted to Quantiacs’ marketplace where it gets thoroughly tested on live market data and becomes available to institutional investors.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, licensed

Contact

Bus. Dev.: Martin Froehler, CEO, [email protected], 415-687-3731

Quovo is a data platform providing insights and connectivity for millions of financial accounts across thousands of institutions. With industry-leading APIs and modular applications, Quovo helps deepen relationships by better connecting you to your clients’ financial lives. Today, hundreds of institutions, thousands of advisors, and millions of end-users rely on Quovo’s technology for account aggregation, bank authentication, and ongoing insights to build better financial futures.

SoFi is a new kind of finance company taking a radical approach to lending, wealth management, and insurance. Whether our members are looking to buy a home, save money on student loans, ascend in their careers, or invest in the future, the SoFi community works to empower our members to accomplish the goals they set and achieve financial greatness as a result.

Presentation

How Quovo & SoFi Perfected Bank Authentication

Interacting with consumer financial accounts can be a time-consuming, painful process for developers. Thousands of institutions and differing access methods can make it difficult to connect and fund new accounts, or even transfer money between existing accounts. That’s why Quovo developed an easy-to-use Authentication API for SoFi, capable of authenticating financial accounts at 200+ financial institutions — including banks, credit unions, and more! In our presentation, we will demonstrate how SoFi integrated Quovo’s Bank Authentication API to enable the secure authentication of financial accounts while streamlining their user experience. Additionally, we will highlight the Quovo + SoFi partnership, providing insight into how fintech firms can work together to co-innovate new products and services.

What You’ll Learn

• Developers will gain unique insight into how SoFi uses Quovo’s Authentication API to connect and verify account information in preparing of ACH payments and transfers.
• Developing new APIs requires deep partnerships as you build, test, and iterate. We’ll provide developers with guidelines for successful co-innovation with other fintech companies.
• Minimizing friction in user experience is more important than ever. Our presentation will demonstrate how SoFi simplifies the process of funding accounts so their users can get to investing quicker!

Presenters

Michael Del Monte, CTO & Co-Founder, Quovo

linkedin.com/in/michael-del-monte-439973b9

Michael received a mechanical engineering degree from University of Texas and a JD from Tulane Law. Michael founded Tennyson Maxwell Information Systems, which sold web crawling software, and helped implement the Army’s Global Broadcast System. Michael has worked on sensitive data projects for the FBI, CIA, numerous banks and companies.

Stephen Sikes, Head of Strategy, SoFi Wealth

linkedin.com/in/stephensikes

Stephen is responsible for strategy for SoFi’s financial advice, wealth, and insurance products. Prior to joining SoFi, Stephen was a Sr. Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company focused on digital and growth strategy within financial services. Stephen began his career as a cavalry officer in the US Army.

Simility has developed a fraud prevention solution to solve the constantly mutating problem that plagues today’s evolving digital businesses for developers, analysts, product managers and business managers across industries like Banking, Payments, FinTech, Marketplaces, and E-commerce using advanced artificial intelligence that can be quickly adapted to specific scenarios.

Presentation

Fraud Mutates – Detect, Understand and Block It

Fraudsters are conjuring up new techniques to compromise systems, and today’s digital businesses are constantly evolving. In this environment of change, you need a fraud prevention solution that can effectively adapt to both the changing and evolving threat vectors as well as take into account the evolving business scenarios.

In this session, we will demonstrate how a combination of flexible data ingestion and signal analysis bolstered by advanced machine learning models in combination of human analysis can provide an adaptive fraud prevention solution.

What You’ll Learn

• Understand fraud trends in your business.
• How to do feature engineering and build real-time fraud detection pipelines. Leverage Simility’s rich ML model library or build your own.
• Using Simility’s platform to prevent fraud across issues like account takeover, new account origination, wire transfer, money laundering and overall user risk.

Presenters

Kedar Samant, CTO & Co-Founder

linkedin.com/in/kedarsamant | [email protected]

As CTO of Simility, Kedar Samant and his co-founders are leveraging their experience and artificial intelligence to build a platform that adapts to mutating fraud. Prior to this, Kedar was Sr. Manager of Google’s Fraud, Trust and Safety team, where his team developed a sophisticated, scalable and flexible fraud prevention platform.

Ravi Sandepudi, Head of Engineering

linkedin.com/in/sandepudi | [email protected]

At Simility, Ravi manages engineering. His specific interests lie in device and user behavior analytics. Ravi was a lead engineer at Google’s Trust and Safety team where he built a large scale offline click fraud detection/prevention system and log analysis.

Softjourn is a technology services provider operating since 2001, with 150+ employees, two R&D centers, one in Ukraine and one in Poland, and headquarters in California, U.S. The product that Softjourn will demonstrate, SJ Coins, we see growing into a platform to be used by employers who want to give their employees the opportunity to participate more frequently in CSR projects, to vote for and feel ownership in the projects being supported. This could be donor-based organizations, such as NGOs, whose members will have transparent access to information about who is donating funds. Since blockchain has very practical implications for the nuts and bolts of payment solutions, Softjourn intends to be part of the future of this currency and to apply it where it can do good.

Presentation

Engaging in Social Responsibility through Blockchain

The presentation will highlight the main reasons Softjourn decided to implement an in-house loyalty program and why we chose Eris (Monax) blockchain cryptocurrency over other platforms. We will look at the combination of hardware, blockchain, and smart contracts, and how these actually work together in our project. We will close with a look at what’s next for this project, using SJ Coins to help fund local projects in our city.

What You’ll Learn

• The many ways to apply blockchain and why choose Eris (Monax) over other platforms to develop an in-house bitcoin
• How to use smart contracts to develop your in-house loyalty program and engage employees in CSR
• How to use smart contracts to donate to social projects as part of your CSR development strategy

Presenters

Yuriy Kropelnytsky, Project Manager

linkedin.com/in/yurakropelnytskiy | @maky55 | [email protected]

I started my career in telecoms setting up and adjusting billing systems; first as a developer, then as a manager. Ten years ago I switched to IT, and now I’m a project manager at Softjourn working in financial services, card-processing and blockchain cryptocurrency.

Emmy Gengler, CEO

linkedin.com/in/emmygengler | @emmygengler | [email protected]

Over 25 years in the software engineering industry. As CEO of Softjourn, an engineering services company with offices in California, Ukraine & Poland, I am passionate about what software can do, how it can bring ideas to life and getting it done so that our clients can actually launch that new service and see results.

TokBox, a Telefonica company, develops and operates OpenTok Live Video, a global cloud platform for embedding live video, voice, messaging and screen sharing into websites and mobile applications. OpenTok is a high-scale, API-driven communications platform as a service (CPaaS) that gives developers the creative freedom to build rich, personalized communications experiences, from one-to-one interactions to multi-party video chat to interactive broadcasts to huge audiences.

TokBox is trusted by leading organizations focused on new customer experiences, including Royal Bank of Scotland, Esurance, Livewire, unblu, Fox Sports, Major League Baseball, Double Robotics and innovative emerging companies across social, entertainment and gaming markets. For more information, tokbox.com.

Also see the FinDEVr article at TheStreet.com titled “When Banks Develop Snapchat Envy, This Firm Is Ready to Help.”

Presentation

Social Banking: More Customer Experiences at Less Cost

Web and mobile banking has been established for well over a decade. New fully automated bank branches with video interactions and no local staff are already appearing. Millennials today laugh at anyone not conducting all their financial transactions, from moving money to depositing checks, in their bedroom on their phone. So, what will the future bring? Over three billion people around the world today expect one-click global video/voice communications from the palm of their hand. More and more people perform financial transactions inside social chat applications. Rich social and visual experiences are growing exponentially. This session explores the challenges of banking in the social age and asks whether a dramatic increase in live customer experiences can be delivered at lower cost?

What You’ll Learn

• Financial Services organizations must develop a framework for looking at the impact of the global explosion of social media and live video experiences on consumer banking expectations.
• Virtual banking can lower costs using live video and online messaging to separate customers and their financial advisors across space and time, providing this targets and optimizes customer workflows.
• The open availability of communications platform as a service (CPaaS) makes it easy to quickly build and deploy new video and social experiences, experiment, and then scale them massively.

Presenter

Puneet Shetty, Product Management

linkedin.com/in/puneet-shetty-710a2512 | @tokbox

Puneet plays a product leadership role defining the capabilities and direction of the OpenTok Live Video cloud platform, enabling global mobile and web developers to create richer user experiences. Puneet previously worked at Telefónica, BT and Cisco, has an MS in EE from USC and an MBA from IE Madrid.

Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, provides the most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business performance. www.riverbed.com

Teneo is a specialist integrator of next-generation technology, helping customers to think differently about the performance and security of global networks and applications. We help some of the world’s largest enterprises to architect technology in a way that results in it being a differentiator. As one of the first partners to engage with Riverbed in 2004, we hold Riverbed Elite Partner status, specializing in consultancy and managed services for all Riverbed Performance Platform areas. www.teneo.net

Presentation

Holistic Application Performance Monitoring for the Modern Financial Services Enterprise

Financial services use case for end-to-end application performance visibility. See how performance visibility can be enhanced and coordinated across the application life cycle from development, QA, to production.

Riverbed gives you enterprise-wide insights to spur innovation, reduce the cost of running your business, and boost productivity at every level.

What You’ll Learn

• Learn how Riverbed gives you a holistic view of performance and diagnostics across applications, networks, infrastructure and end user experience.
• Hear how to best leverage application performance management and monitoring to gain real-time visibility into the end-user experience, infrastructure and applications.
• Understand and diagnose application performance problems down to the offending code, service function, network, or system resource in development and production environments.

Presenter

George Karamanoglou, Director, Advanced Business Solutions, Riverbed Technology

linkedin.com/in/georgekaramanoglou

George Karamanoglou has over twenty years’ experience leading technical teams with focus on advanced application infrastructure. He brings expert knowledge in introducing and discussing emerging disruptive technology. As Director for Advanced Business Solutions at Riverbed Technology, he provides thought leadership, vision and strategic guidance on Riverbed’s Application Performance Platforms & Solutions.

The Symphony Software Foundation is an independent non–profit organization formed to sustain the open governance, open source development and adoption of Symphony as the industry standard secure messaging platform. The Foundation makes it easier and safer for organizations in regulated industries to communicate and collaborate behind and across the firewall, while maintaining full compliance. The Symphony Software Foundation hosts an ecosystem of open source projects, enabling industry-wide open collaboration in financial services.

Presentation

The Symphony Challenge: How to Deliver a Compliant Open Source Bot or Integration on Symphony within Minutes

Through its cloud-based Open Developer Platform (ODP), the Symphony Software Foundation offers a best-of-breed open source development and delivery process, suitable for regulated industries to collaborate in the open, safely and compliantly. The ODP, combined with the recently open sourced Symphony integration framework, redefines productivity when solving real intra- and inter-firm collaboration business cases on the trading desk and beyond, leveraging the Symphony platform. In this session, we’ll introduce ready-to-use Symphony integrations with Salesforce, Github, JIRA, Zapier and Trello, available on the Foundation open source repository (github.com/symphonyoss), and discuss how you can deliver your own integration in a matter of minutes by developing in the open.

What You’ll Learn

• Grow productivity and time-to-delivery by engaging in open collaboration with other Foundation members and the community on the Open Developer Platform, overcoming cultural and compliance limitations
• Use out of the box Symphony integrations in your firm and build your own open integrations in our open source repository to solve use cases of intra/inter firm collaboration
• Improve your internal development and delivery processes to use and consume the best-of-breed open source tools and software provided by the Foundation, while ensuring security and IP compliance

Presenter

Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director

linkedin.com/in/columbro | @mindthegabz | [email protected]

Gabriele brings more than 10 years of technical and business expertise to the Foundation. As Executive Director, he is currently responsible for building the governance and contribution model and driving the open strategy of the Symphony open source software. He is an open source enthusiast and release manager for Apache Chemistry OpenCMIS.

How they describe themselves: Tink is an independent PFM application for consumers available in the Swedish market. As of Q1 2017 the company is transforming the industry by being the first in Europe to offer a true virtual bank experience. Tink also offer Enterprise solutions built on their back-end to selected Financial Institutions.

How they describe their product/innovation: Tink will showcase the power of combining aggregation and account information with payment initiation services. And by doing so creating a true virtual bank experience, all in accordance with the new PSD2 directive.

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

Contact

Bus. Dev.: Tashi Sylten, Commercial Director, [email protected], +46 736 34 14 20