FinovateFall 2017 – Divy

FinovateFall 2017 – Divy

How they describe themselves: At Divy, smart investing matters. We believe that learning-by-doing and investing with purpose is the first step toward long-term saving. Divy’s open platform provides the tools and insights to make investing approachable and a pricing structure to make it accessible to all. Through Divy Equities, we offer dollar-based investing, allowing anyone to build a highly diversified portfolio for a fraction of the cost. Divy will enable a generation of first-time investors and savers, providing a foundation of financial literacy and social responsibility.

How they describe their product/innovation: Divy is an open-platform, investing app with a simple and engaging discovery experience.  We craft collections of stocks so you can browse and learn at your own pace.  Explore dozens of categories and thousands of search terms to turn your everyday thoughts and ideas into real investments.  Find brands and products you know – discover the companies you don’t.  Connect your existing brokerage account or open a new one through Divy Equities.  Divy enables users to buy portions of stocks in increments as small as $10 with the industry’s lowest commissions. In a world where everything is social, Divy is too.  Connect with family and friends in an easy exchange of of opinions and insight.

At Divy – The Market is Now Open.

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

Contact

Bus. Dev.: Marc Teren, CEO & Founder, Mimi Nguyen, Head of Finance and Licensing
Press: Marc Teren, CEO & Founder
Sales: Alex Ovalle, EVP Corporate Development

FinovateFall 2017 – Dynamics Inc

FinovateFall 2017 – Dynamics Inc

How they describe themselves: Dynamics Inc. is a global leading innovator and manufacturer of intelligent battery-powered payment devices and advanced payment platforms. Dynamics has revolutionized the payments landscape with smart technology, empowering issuers to optimally design a single card its customers can interact with to perform numerous payment functions, and securely transact across multiple networks with global acceptance at virtually any point of sale.  Founded in 2007, Dynamics operates from a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at its headquarters outside of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.  Dynamics also maintains fully network certified secured personalization and processing centers on multiple continents.

How they describe their product/innovation: Dynamics will continue to unveil the evolution of its next generation payment platforms either on the physical card level, processing, or the intersection of both.  With imminent new launches on multiple continents the product suite has expanded to fully incorporate regional and global standards.

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

Contact

Michael Gerome, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2017 – AI Foundry

FinovateFall 2017 – AI Foundry

How they describe themselves: AI Foundry uses AI and user-guided machine learning to transform enterprise operations by integrating information, people and processes. Our Actionable Intelligence Management solutions help banks and mortgage companies streamline and automate manual processes, seize new business opportunities and manage compliance, all while transforming the customer experience. By more accurately classifying documents, extracting relevant data and feeding downstream mortgage application workflows, AI Foundry provides increased insight, better analytics and improved decision-making. Our dedicated team of 35 professionals are in North America and the U.K.

How they describe their product/innovation: Wouldn’t it be great if applying for a mortgage was as simple as buying a book on Amazon? Being able to apply for a mortgage online and include the necessary images, documents and information is a start. But once you click the “submit” button, you have no idea where your application is in the bank’s overall process. What if you could use your virtual assistant to help? See how AI Foundry’s Agile Mortgage solution, with the latest in machine learning technology, can help streamline the mortgage origination process and enable the bank to provide a superior customer experience.

Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions

Contact

Bus. Dev.: Clark Brett, VP Business Development, [email protected]
Press: Alan Swahn, VP Marketing, [email protected]
Sales: Alex Levi, VP Sales, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2017 – AlphaPoint

FinovateFall 2017 – AlphaPoint

How they describe themselves: AlphaPoint is a financial technology company that powers digital asset networks and provides institutions a Distributed Ledger Platform to digitize, trade, and manage any asset. Its secure, scalable, and customizable platform enables customers to digitize assets and reduce operational costs with its blockchain technology. AlphaPoint powers digital asset networks on 5 continents, and is led by a seasoned team with over 200 years in financial technology. AlphaPoint has offices in New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

How they describe their product/innovation: The AlphaPoint Distributed Ledger Platform (ADLP), is a proprietary blockchain platform, built from scratch to optimize for high data throughput and low system latency. ADLP has been in live production since 2013, is subject to 5 pending patents.The ADLP Reconciliation Platform offers a breakthrough data fabric for reducing time and cost associated with manual, heavily-outsourced post-trade reconciliation processes. Taken as a whole, the Reconciliation Platform provides the technical basis for systems spanning pre- and post-trade workflows.The key ingredients of the Reconciliation Platform include blockchain-based asymmetric access controls and finite state machine-enforced domain compliance for order management and other activities.

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

Contact

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Ted Pendleton, SVP Business Development, [email protected]
Press: Jennifer Day, Head of Marketing, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2017 – Asseco

FinovateFall 2017 – Asseco

How they describe themselves: Asseco Group operates in more than 50 countries. It employs over 22,000 people worldwide including over 4,000 experts in the banking sector. The group’s companies are listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange and the US NASDAQ Global Markets. The software developed by Asseco has been changing the banking sector for over 25 years. It has helped banks and financial institutions to become more creative in service and product development. Asseco Group has conducted over 800 implementations in the global banking sector. We provide services to over 50% of banks in Poland and Israel and more than 75% in the Balkan region.

How they describe their product/innovation: We would like to introduce the Asseco Advisory Banking Platform, a platform providing a competitive advantage to banks. This platform takes branch service to a whole new level, setting a new standard in modern banking. Asseco ABP uses modern technology, including beacons, biometrics and mobile devices, to service customers in a more efficient and modern manner. A unique insight into customer situation and needs is provided thanks to the integration of multiple data types from traditional legacy systems, social media and AI usage. Please see our dedicated website: abp.asseco.com

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

Contact

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Marek Lulek, Sales Director, [email protected]
Press: Ewa Kryj, Press Spokesperson, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2017 – Averon

FinovateFall 2017 – Averon

How they describe themselves: Averon is the world’s first & only mobile authentication platform deeply integrated with wireless carriers, providing revolutionary benefits for the financial sector/FinTech, among other Enterprise and Consumer verticals. Our Direct Autonomous Authentication frictionless solution is radically reshaping identity and authentication while reducing fraud with our patented, award-winning, turnkey API solution that verifies identity in real-time via mobile carrier packet data. Averon also integrates seamlessly with blockchain. We’re a team of 15 with deep experience in tech, starting with Wendell Brown (Founder/CEO).

How they describe their product/innovation: DAA is the easiest, fastest, most secure solution for identity and authentication. DAA improves conversion rates, reduces fraud, minimizes churn. Averon uses the real-time data packet from mobile carriers. These carriers know where each data packet originated and use the SIM/eSIM chips to securely identify users. Using the security of these networks, Averon provides instant direct authentication on mobile, PC or tablet. Averon integrates with blockchain. Our solution is 100% frictionless for improved user engagement; replaces hackable legacy methods – SMS, app downloads, email codes; eliminates password hacks and securely manages user access.

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

Contact

Bus. Dev.: John Burman, Market Development Manager, [email protected], Lea Tarnowski, COO & Co-Founder, [email protected]
Press: Taro Gold, Chief Creative Officer, [email protected], Lea Tarnowski, COO & Co-Founder, [email protected]
Sales: Hans Theisen, CRO, [email protected],  John Burman, Market Development Manager, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2017 – BILLSHARK

FinovateFall 2017 – BILLSHARK

How they describe themselves: BILLSHARK is a bill reduction service that saves customers time and money by negotiating or canceling their subscription services. Americans, overspend on wireless, TV, Internet, and home security services to the tune of $50B per year.  Over 75% of consumers do not negotiate their monthly bills due to lack of awareness or effort, despite their belief that they are being “ripped off.” An average household loses out on $50,000 of future net worth.

Customers can start the process in less than 2 minutes. The service is risk-free: if BILLSHARK doesn’t save the consumer money, there is absolutely no fee.

How they describe their product/innovation: We are demonstrating Shark Connect, our bill reduction API. Shark Connect enables financial institutions, fintech companies and other platforms to integrate bill reduction capabilities into their applications. Through our API, our partners can inform customers how much they can save on a specific bill, the probability and most importantly, the capability to enroll. The API enables a closed loop communication with your consumer through the end of negotiation. The API also informs partners and their customers when savings expire to kick off renewal negotiations, so consumers keep saving money.

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

Contact

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Steven McKean, CEO, [email protected]
Press: Victoria Assa, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2017 – Adobe

FinovateFall 2017 – Adobe

How they describe themselves: Adobe recently announced the launch of the Adobe Experience Cloud this March at our annual customer conference, Adobe Summit. Late last year we also launched Adobe Sensei our Artificial Intelligence capability that spans across our content, document and digital marketing offering. The integration we are show casing is also completely new and even ties in our Adobe Stock offering. Financial services is a relationship business, the industry is must be able to develop one-to-one relationships through screens as human interaction is happening less and less in branches. This solution is a big first step being sought after by the entire industry.

How they describe their product/innovation: Dynamic Personalization in Real-time and at scale.

The unique combination of Adobe Solutions, leverages Artificial Intelligence to instantaneously pin point specific user data and dynamically assemble personalized imagery to that individual. This would be a live demonstration of our solution using our Experience Cloud interface showing how a marketer from a fictitious retail bank can hyper-personalize experiences across multiple digital properties simultaneously.  This through a combination of our personalization engine, the ability to pull in multiple data sources to an individual profile, artificial intelligence and Adobe Stock (for all the various images).

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

FinovateFall 2017 – AFS

FinovateFall 2017 – AFS

How they describe themselves: AFS® combines financial expertise with technological innovation to provide the financial industry with the ability to transform their business to compete and prosper. By anticipating industry trends and taking into account the total customer experience, AFS integrates into financial institutions credit process enabling them to be competitive and grow market opportunities. We are the only provider that has an out-of-the-box commercial lending solution geared for growth-AFSVision-that is mobile and digital, operating completely in real-time. With AFS, financial institutions have the best ability to deliver the ultimate customer experience with a faster path to growth and profitability.

How they describe their product/innovation: AFSVision’s real-time processing capabilities are scalable from the smallest commercial loan to the largest, most complex, multi-investor, multicurrency loans. Commercial loans fall into many segments with an assortment of siloed solutions managing these segments. AFSVision, the ONLY real-time, mobile-enabled commercial loan solution allows a bank to run its ENTIRE commercial loan business on one common platform anywhere. AFSVision provides real-time access to data and critical functionality by any stakeholder, in the loan whether it be the Borrower, the Banker, or an Investor for a very small loan ($100,000) and for a large syndicated multicurrency loan with many investors ($5,000,000,000).

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contact

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Gary Harrell, Managing Director, [email protected], 704-887-5225
Press: Rene Baron Coady, Marketing Director, [email protected], 484-875-1120

FinovateFall 2017 – Digital Onboarding

FinovateFall 2017 – Digital Onboarding

How they describe themselves: Digital Onboarding Inc. is a SaaS technology company focused on helping banking customers activate financial services products. For banks and credit unions, Digital Onboarding provides a fully automated customer onboarding solution that is more efficient and effective than traditional phone calls, emails, direct mail, and print brochures, driving profit by increasing new customer activation rates.

How they describe their product/innovation: Digital Onboarding replaces the physical new customer “Welcome Kit” folder with an instant text message to a digital journey that walks each account opener through the steps required to activate a financial services product and get the most out of the banking relationship.  Account openers are entered into an automated messaging thread to keep on top of the activation process.  The bank’s onboarding staff benefits from a trackable view of the customer activation funnel and suggested actions to improve conversion rates.

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

Contact

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Ted Brown, CEO & Co-Founder, [email protected], 732-996-8394

FinovateFall 2017 – BLUERUSH

How they describe themselves: BLUERUSH primarily targets financial services in reimagining financial tools and customer experiences. We assist in simplifying complex conversations and creating a more engaging experience for consumers and advisors so that individuals move into more active decision making which drives more growth for financial services.

How they describe their product/innovation: INDIVIDEO is a platform that creates personalized, real-time, dynamic videos with big data visualization as its core.

Given the push to educate, engage, and empower smarter financial conversations, INDIVIDEO is meant to recreate an experience by merging video and data to mimic as if a financial advisors was with the user. By doing so, individuals are more engaged with their financial options as the complex data is simplified and told in a more compelling way, more aware of what they should be doing, and ultimately build that personal trust and confidence to take control of their financial options. For businesses, this means reduced costs of acquisitions and conversions, while deliver a more competitive customer experience.

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

Contact

Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Matt Wrobel, 416-203-0618, ext. 230

FinovateFall 2017 – bpm’online

FinovateFall 2017 – bpm’online

How they describe themselves: Bpm’online provides unique synergy of BPM technologies and CRM for sales, marketing, service to empower organizations to accelerate time-to-strategy execution of their business strategies. The beauty and the core value of bpm’online products is the agility to change processes faster than ever and align marketing, sales and service on a single platform. Bpm’online is a global software vendor that serves thousands of customers worldwide with more than 650 dedicated employees in 7 global offices (Boston, London, Kiev, Moscow, Almaty, Singapore and Melbourne) working on bringing the technology of tomorrow into today’s market. Bpm’online has been widely recognized by key industry analysts, receiving multiple awards.

How they describe their product/innovation: Bpm’online financial services is an innovative process-driven CRM designed for corporate and retail banks and financial institutions to streamline customer-facing processes and enhance customer experience. Its core advantages for users are intelligent business process management capabilities and a single platform for all customer-facing operations. Bpm’online consistently updates its tools for business process management to enable users to change and optimize processes faster than ever. It enables users to specify a custom sequence of steps for case stages as well as create several case flows for one section. In addition, intelligent Natural Language Processing tools enrich customer profile with the most accurate data from incoming emails.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contact

Bus. Dev.: Andie Dovgan, Global Sales Director, Americas, [email protected]
Press: Gregory Rosa, PR Specialist, [email protected]
Sales: Andie Dovgan, Global Sales Director, Americas, [email protected]