We provide the tools people need to build businesses. We make it possible for companies all over the world to accept payments online and let customers make a purchase with one touch. So an engineer in London can launch his latest mobile venture in Sydney. And a student in New York can pay her rent. We build the technology. You make it meaningful with your ideas and innovations.

Presentation

A Credit Card Form Walks into a Bar . . . (Making Beautiful Credit Card Forms)

Who ever said building a credit card form was complicated/boring? Increasing check-out conversion is part art, part science, part design, and part engineering. I’ll walk through some bad examples and show you how you can use some cool tricks, tips and best practices to decrease shopping cart abandonment. At the end of this talk expect to be able to make the most fun, enjoyable and seamless checkout experience ever.

What You’ll Learn

• Design patterns, tools, tips, tricks and other developer resources you can use to build a great checkout experience.
• Case studies on companies that made changes to their checkout flow that resulted in increased customer revenue.
• Examples of great checkout experiences and some not so great checkout experiences that we can learn from.

Presenter

Justin Woo, Developer Evangelist
linkedin.com/in/justinzw  |  @jzwoo  |  [email protected]  |  425.591.2367

Justin Woo is a Developer Evangelist at Braintree / PayPal and has been programming ever since he got his first IBM XT running DOS. He loves writing mobile applications (especially hybrid-HTML5 applications) and wishes everything could be done in LISP.

Craft Silicon is currently a leading force within the exclusive club of end-to-end technology solution providers in financial services. With the experience of managing some of Africa’s most volume-intensive and complex financial applications, the company is uniquely situated to take its expertise globally. In terms of technology initiatives, Craft Silicon is recognized as among the first companies to successfully bring innovative banking solutions with futuristic thoughts in Africa and other emerging markets globally. Craft Silicon has been the technology partner for many leading banks in all their transformational initiatives.

Presentation

Banking enabled through Multi Chat Platforms: An Innovative Step towards 0% Bank’s OpEX & 100% Customer Comfort

Don’t just serve customers; provide them with the safe banking experience in a space that they are most comfortable. Multi Chat banking solution enables the banking customer to achieve freedom and control over their everyday banking. During this session, Craft Silicon will be showcasing two innovative chat-banking solutions: Telegram/Twitter/WeChat/Facebook Banking platform and sample Uber bookings & payments via chat platforms.

What You’ll Learn

• How to reduce time and money on the banking infrastructure while keeping focus on customers, products, user experience, and quicker go-to-market strategy
• Sneak peek of these solutions
• Simple solutions with rich user experience

Presenter

Kamal Budhabhatti, CEO
@KBudhabhatti  |  [email protected]  |  254734600283

Kamal Budhabhatti is CEO of Craft Silicon, a 360-degree financial technology company. He is the mastermind behind the innovative banking solutions.

Accusoft provides a full spectrum of document, content, and imaging solutions as fully supported, enterprise-grade, client-server applications, mobile apps, cloud services, and software development kits. The company is focused on solving document lifecycle complexities through a customer-focused approach, continuous product development, proactive support, and forward-thinking leadership.

Founded in 1991, Accusoft has grown through persistent product innovation and strategic mergers and acquisitions into the best-in-class solutions provider it is today. The company has been awarded 30 patents and is recognized as a thought leader in the industry.

Presentation

Accelerate Your Secure Document Workflow Applications With Cloud Services

Accusoft will present the web services and technology that stack developers can use to easily develop and deploy solutions for secure document viewing and collaboration, including annotations and redaction. Developers can accelerate development and deployment of their applications by using Accusoft’s simple REST APIs and enterprise-grade cloud services technology stack.

What You’ll Learn

• What the Accusoft Cloud Services development stack is built on
• Why you can trust this technology as the backbone for your application
• How quickly you can build secure document collaboration with Accusoft Cloud Services

Presenters

Brandon Mount, Manager, Sales Engineering
linkedin.com/in/bmount  |  @bmount  |  [email protected]

Explorer, Technology Advocate and Web Compute Knowledge Broker at Accusoft.

Find me on www.about.me/bmount.

Michael Pardue, Sr. Software Engineer
linkedin.com/in/michael-pardue-3aa1a553

Michael is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead for Accusoft Cloud Services. He is knowledgeable in a number of technologies including node.js, microservice architecture, cloud computing, continuous integration, and unit testing. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from University of South Florida.

John Armenia, Director, SaaS & IS
linkedin.com/in/john-armenia-4087036

Since 2014, as the Director of the SaaS Product Group, John’s primary responsibility has included managing the development and delivery of our Cloud Services product. Before joining Accusoft, John spent 15 years in the healthcare information technology field building client-server, desktop, and SaaS-based software.

Avoka is a software-as-a-service company solving the problem of digital customer acquisition for banks and other financials. For opening checking accounts, applying for loans, or onboarding investment accounts, Avoka creates a frictionless experience on phones, tablets and desktops, then ties it to the branch and call center. The magic is time-to-market, since we deliver in weeks what the bank takes a year to build.

Presentation

Agile Design for Customer Acquisition

Avoka will demonstrate why frictionless customer acquisition for mobile and digital is so important and show how to deliver that user experience in a way that promotes rapid design, deployment, measurement and iteration. The agile design and delivery on the Avoka Transact platform will illustrate the creation of a customer acquisition experience, incorporating identity, social media and fraud detection in a way that beats time-to-market targets.

What You’ll Learn

• How to WOW your customer by creating a frictionless experience for financial account opening transactions
• How to create an agile customer acquisition experience, one that can be measured, iterated and optimized without impacting or changing back office or business processes
• A path to get to market FAST for digital and mobile customer acquisition, without getting bogged down in integration, infrastructure, business process or systems of record

Presenters

Kevin Atkinson, Sr. Architect
ca.linkedin.com/in/kevin-atkinson-84392a

Kevin is a senior architect at Avoka, designing and implementing digital customer acquisition systems for the largest financial institutions in North America.

Howard Treisman, CTO
au.linkedin.com/in/howard-treisman-11435a

As CTO of Avoka, Howard is focused on strategic product management, including market analysis and differentiation, product roadmap, competitive intelligence, and partner solutions. Howard ensures the Avoka product and platform meet customer requirements and is a market-leading technology.

The Beast Apps offers an Application Distribution as a Service (ADaaS) as a utility in a pay-as-you-go business model where one can Build-Test-Deploy their financial apps in the cloud within hours and days as opposed to weeks and months. The Beast App’s ADaaS has attracted financial institutions such as exchanges, IDB, ECNs/ATSs, analytics vendors, market data vendors as well as innovative startups, that leverage the platform to significantly reduce time to market in providing services to their clients through the cloud, and in many cases, capturing additional customers that they were not able to tap before.

Presentation

The Beast Apps – Application Distribution as a Service (ADaaS)

The Beast Apps will discuss why building and deploying applications for the financial industry is so difficult, time consuming and expensive. It will show how one can leverage Beast ADaaS to reduce time to market and offer a competitive solution leveraging cloud and mobility. The Beast Apps will also show how many institutions are leveraging its BeastExcel technology to solve workflow integration and deployment challenges.

What You’ll Learn

• Build-Test-Deploy Cloud Based Applications Now
• Application Distribution as a Service
• BeastExcel – Solve workflow challenges by accessing markets from spreadsheets

Presenter

Ashok Mittal, President
linkedin.com/in/ashok-mittal-8035982  |  [email protected]  |  646.688.7500

Ashok Mittal has more than 30 years of IT experience with last 20+ years creating a secure, robust, 24×7 application-distribution architecture with a primary focus on helping distribute pre-trade, trade, and post-trade applications in the financial industry.

How they describe themselves: Dynamics was founded and seeded in 2007 by Jeff Mullen, CEO and President. Dynamics produces and manufactures intelligent powered cards, such as advanced payment cards, and is focused on introducing fast-cycle and market-leading innovation to top card issuers.

How they describe their product/innovation: The company’s commercial applications are the world’s first fully card-programmable payment interfaces (stripe, EMV, NFC) for use in next-generation payment cards.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: [email protected]

Press: [email protected]

Sales: Will Keliehor, Head of Payments EMEA, [email protected],
Michael Gerome, VP Bus. Dev., [email protected],
Kyle Kunkle, Business Associate, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: DriveWealth is first FinTech company with the regulatory licenses and the cloud/API based technology to offer access to the US equities market to mass retail investors worldwide. Our core technology is a mobile first, full stack platform that we offer to our B2B partners, to enable them to offer a native investing platform to their large customer bases. Our partners are both foreign regulated banks/brokerages or foreign Consumer Facing Digital Finance companies, including e-commerce companies, P2P lenders, retail data platforms and social investing platforms. We have launched or are in integration with partners aggregating over 500 million customers, principally in the emerging markets.

How they describe their product/innovation: DriveWealth is the first company to launch real time fractional share trading to our global customer base. We will enable customers to buy and sell US listed equities in fractions (going to 1/100th share) in the same manner and pricing as if they were trading round lot securities – all trades will be filled with best bid pricing, with fractional dividend payments, and full control over their securities in real time. No batching of trades, no limited trading windows, no hidden high fees. Our product will be dollar based investing worldwide, creating self directed portfolios using fractional, in a mobile, frictionless environment.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Michael Fitzgerald, Head of Corporate Strategy, +1 973 816 2419

Press: Nicole Dugan, Strategic Marketing +1 973 559 6754

Sales: Mark Smedley, Head of Business Development, +1 973 532 5003

How they describe themselves: The CREALOGIX Group is an independent Swiss software house and the Swiss market leader for Digital Banking. CREALOGIX develops and implements innovative fintech solutions for the digital bank of tomorrow. The focus is placed on customer-oriented mobile-first solutions, scaled security products and financial advisory solutions.

How they describe their product/innovation: The CREALOGIX digital banking hub offers with its API-Layer the possibility for banks to embed content more easily throughout the online channels. APIs help to support unanticipated future uses of financial services in a new context , creating everyday relevancy. With CREALOGIX Digital Banking Hub, banks stay future-ready for new and innovative technologies by ensuring that banks unlock their digital banking systems potential.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Marc Staehli, VP Sales & Marketing, [email protected]

Press: Patrycja Pielaszek, Group Communication Officer, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Capitalise makes it easy for SMEs and their advisors to find, compare and select funding. With so many lenders in the market, Capitalise simplifies the search process and uses the latest technology to generate objective, intelligent matches, giving businesses the power to choose the most appropriate funding product. We’ve established a marketplace where lenders, SMEs and their advisers can join forces in comparing and executing loans. Capitalise is based on the belief that every company should not just get a financing offer, but receive the right one, with the highest likelihood of approval. In turn, SMEs using Capitalise are twice as likely to get funded.

How they describe their product/innovation: Our platform uses behavioural data, based on past successes, to match and rank lenders while our algorithms currently compare over 2500 data points (and growing) to find the most suitable funding solutions and improve the likelihood of success. In addition, our advanced platform allows businesses to collaborate with their accountants or advisors in the application process. They can submit information and documents to lenders and even manage the loan process on behalf of a business.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

How they describe themselves: Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Capitali.se is a financial technology company founded by a team of passionate developers with vast experience in the fintech arena. The company vision is to redefine trading automation and provide an innovative alternative suitable for financial professionals and consumers alike. Financial institutions receive access to a unique technology that promises to attract more customers to trade actively and increase their lifetime value. The company is ready to onboard selected financial partners that want to start benefiting from this financial innovation.

How they describe their product/innovation: Capitali.se is the innovative and magical way that lets you use natural language to make your investment ideas come to life. Capitali.se simplifies the investment process by taking simple words and converting them into executable and optimized investments. We bridge between the simplicity of common words and the complex world of automated trading. Capitali.se delivers portfolio management automation based on written investment scenarios. With Capitali.se you can instantly optimize your investment ideas to analyze, predict and improve investment performance. Visit us at www.capitali.se to see how we magically turn your words into investments.

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

Contacts:

Press & Sales: Shahar Rabin, CEO & Co-Founder, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Capital Preferences is introducing the newest technology and first scientific approach to risk profiling. Our platform is built upon the groundbreaking research in decision science and game theory of Shachar Kariv – our Chief Scientist, and Chair of the Economics Department at University of California Berkeley. With over a year of focused development and a decade of global testing we are ready for a revolutionary launch of our enterprise investment advice platform for the financial services sector. With a global team located in the US, Europe and Asia we are ready to provide the financial services sector with a true understanding of their client’s risk preferences.

How they describe their product/innovation: We have developed the future of preference analytics. We utilise revealed preference theory to quickly recover a client’s Economic Fingerprint™ through a simple game – letting you precisely develop and deliver financial advice with a scientific basis. Our enterprise platform provides financial service firms insight into their clients’ financial risk preferences – improving the quality of advice, reducing compliance risk, and allowing powerful marketing segmentation. We move the power to the firm. Firms will truly know their clients, helping to provide targeted products while increasing efficiency in their advice process and providing the means to actively engage with clients.

Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions

Regional Contacts:

North America: Vince Bakshani, [email protected]

Europe: Claire Mellon, [email protected]

APAC: Jamie Murray, [email protected]