How they describe themselves: Q2 is a privately owned and customer-owned technology company enabling community financial institutions with electronic banking software and services. Q2 was recently recognized as one of the fast growing private companies in America by Inc. magazine, debuting at 124. In the past two years, Q2 has converted over 200 community financial institutions. Focused on driving innovative technology and delivering unmatched customer service, the Q2 solution operates on a Microsoft.Net®-based platform that offers secure flexible deployment options for online, voice, and mobile banking applications. Q2 enables our customers to better compete what at the same time operational efficiency and the ability to drive down their total cost of operations.
How they describe their product/innovation: When it comes to securing the online channel, Q2ebanking features the only real time risk and fraud analytics solution for US community banks and credit solutions. Our innovative RFA (Risk, Fraud & Analytics) product was developed to assist our institutions in defending against account takeover for ACH, wire, and external transfers. While there is no silver bullet to fighting fraud, security experts recommend a layered approach – the very type of approach that Q2ebanking utilizes. At Q2, we understand the need to balance customer convenience while protecting customers from fraud. By integrating behavioral analysis and a real-time transaction modeling engine, Q2ebanking addresses the issue of online fraud with minimal operational impact to the customer.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Sales: Ward Howell, Director, 678-343-1009
Press: Mickey Goldwasser, VP Marketing, 860-508-2775
How they describe themselves: Widespread adoption of online receipts requires a ubiquitous solution with low barriers of entry for retailers. As such, Ready Receipts has built an online receipt platform that works for all retailers, from Joe’s Surfboard Shop to the proverbial high-volume Big Box store. This is possible through patent-pending technology and a company culture of simplicity and scalability of design. In an information rich society, access to organized data is power, for both consumers and business owners. With their patent-pending technology, Ready Receipts can provide access to Level 3 data without complicated POS requirements.
How they describe their product/innovation: Ready Receipts provides consumers access to their receipts online (or through mobile devices), all in one place from participating retailers. Consumers can use this product to facilitate returns, rebates, warranties, expense reports, and taxes. Retailers have access to consumers through a Promotion Portal to deliver offers and coupons to specific sets of consumers matching a desired profile. More importantly, they have access to the aggregate data through Ready Receipts about their customers for more impactful, effective, and targeted marketing and promotions. The receipt data can also be consumed by other businesses (such as financial institutions or card brands), creating new products and revenue streams.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Press: David Crossett, CEO, [email protected], 208-573-6541
Sales: Tauscha Johanson, Director Sales and Marketing, [email protected], 208-908-2580
How they describe themselves: RobotDough is a small software company focused on creating better analytical tools for individual investors. We recognize that, although there are many tools available to active traders – tools that focus on technical analysis, charting and attempts to predict the market – there are very few tools that help individuals perform detailed fundamental analysis of companies. Our goal is to take the best ideas from very expensive, professional-grade equity research tools and package them in a format that is suitable for any investor. We hope that our analytical tools help investors make higher profits while reducing their overall investment risk.
How they describe their product/innovation: RobotDough provides online analytical tools for stock market investors. These tools are focused on providing the thoughtful, value-focused investor with the tools they need to perform a complete financial analysis of investment candidates, without needing an MBA or CFA. In addition, RobotDough allows users to build, test, and share investment strategies. Our strategy builder has a backtesting tool that allows a user to test an investment strategy against historical financial and market data. Strategy builders can share their strategies with the rest of the community. Users who don’t care to build their own strategies can use the strategy marketplace to find strategies suitable for their risk tolerance, and then subscribe to them. RobotDough’s toolset covers the global market – we have over 45,000 companies in our database, covering 99% of the world’s market capitalization.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Wilton Risenhoover, CEO, [email protected], 323-230-0048
How they describe themselves: Silver Tail Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of predictive security analytics for fraud detection and prevention to identify and remediate online threats in real-time. Our products deliver complete visibility and control to protect e-commerce websites, online financial institutions, government and Web 2.0 websites. We are a known leader in a new generation of fraud prevention tools that help customers quickly discover and remediate exploits, saving considerable time and resources typically spent on analysis and clean-up of damaged webpages.
How they describe their product/innovation: User-specific monitoring has been added to our already-released Forensics product. User-specific monitoring performs behavioral analytics not only across a website’s total population, but on an individual user basis. Our Forensics product has been used extensively to protect banks and other online entities from attacks by organized crime and other online criminals. The addition of user-specific behavior analytics addresses additional types of attacks, makes the population-based monitoring of the Forensics solution even stronger, maintains a small hardware footprint, and still has a time-to-value measured in hours.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Laura Mather, Founder and VP Product Marketing, [email protected]
Press: Leah McLean, Supervisor, Voce Communications, [email protected]
Sales: Paul McGowan, VP Sales, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: TILE – The Investing Learning Environment – offers the first personal finance tool for financial advisors and parents to educate Gen Y (15-25 year olds) about Spending, Growing, and Giving their money. Consumers under age 30 represent the largest sector of the U.S. population, and they will inherit more than $1 trillion over the next 10 to 15 years – a tremendous challenge and opportunity for today’s wealth managers. Using financial tools, community, and content, TILE engages its members to develop their own financial identities. Its unique tone and interface is accessible, relatable, and focused on an attractive – and important – demographic.
How they describe their product/innovation: The TILE Financial Identity Profile page connects the world of finance to how young adults live their everyday lives – who they are, what they care about, and why money matters to them. Young adults use Facebook to express their social identities, and now they have TILE to help them understand and express their financial identities.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Sales: Amy Butte, Founder & CEO, [email protected], 212-905-6250
Press: [email protected]
How they describe themselves: TrustedID provides consumer identity protection services. TrustedID’s IDEssentials is ranked as the industry’s top product (Javelin Research, 2010) and protects customers’ credit and identity with more than a dozen safeguards.
How they describe their product/innovation: IDSafe is the first product designed to give consumers a way to reduce their risk of identity theft at no cost for free. IDSafe delivers a strong, core level of protection, including privacy monitoring, black market Internet scans, credit scores, a $50,000 limited service warranty, and more. IDSafe is an ongoing free service – there is no subscription time limit or requirement to purchase at anytime. In addition, the IDSafe Marketplace brings together best-in-class free services from partners that complement TrustedID’s protections, including five gigabites of backup, reputation monitoring and parental controls. TrustedID’s premium services are available to IDSafe users who wish to deepen or broaden their protection to include credit monitoring and online credit reports and more.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Sales: Eric Newman, VP of Sales & Business Development, [email protected], 650-631-2359
Press: Lyn Chitow Oakes, CMO, [email protected], 650-631-2379
How they describe themselves: SecureKey makes online shopping faster, easier and more secure. Leveraging today’s contactless chip cards, SecureKey lets cardholders complete online checkout forms with just a tap of their card. The solution is designed to benefit all parties. Users enjoy faster checkout while using a familiar behavior. Merchants experience increased conversion without requiring any site changes or integration. For card issuers, the SecureKey solution increases online card security, eliminates passwords, and makes their card top-of-wallet.
Although in its early stages, SecureKey already has partnerships with several payments brands and financial institutions globally.
How they describe their product/innovation: SecureKey offers banks and card companies a strong authentication solution that is attractive to consumers and transparent to merchants. This combination of benefits makes SecureKey a company to watch. Instead of requiring the customer to learn some new behavior, SecureKey leverages the cards that consumers already have in their wallet to make authenticating online as easy as paying in a store.
For high value and commercial banking clients, SecureKey also offers a touch screen SecureKey – providing a secure, easy-to-use terminal that simplifies the management of high value transactions while offering unprecedented levels of security.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Sales, Press: Chris Gardner, [email protected], 416-214-3624
How they describe themselves: Silver Tail Systems provides next generation fraud prevention to protect websites from various types of attacks. Silver Tail Systems’ products use behavior analytics to detect and alert on known threats and emerging threats like Man in the Browser, Zeus, and attacks by organized crime, then enable the business to disrupt these attacks in real-time. Founded by fraud prevention experts from eBay and PayPal, Silver Tail Systems significantly reduces online fraud losses, protects websites, and increases customer trust.
How they describe their product/innovation: Silver Tail Systems is debuting our new product: Forensics MT: the multi-tenancy version of our Forensics product.
Our Forensics product analyzes web session behavior to detect emerging threats. How can we make Forensics more powerful? Instead of monitoring the behavior of web sessions for one bank, monitoring the web session behavior across multiple banks makes suspicious activity even more obvious. This is the power multi-tenancy brings to our new product: Forensics MT. Since Forensics MT monitors sessions for banking aggregators, the analytics engine receives much more data, determines normal behavior more quickly, and identifies suspicious behavior immediately.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Press: [email protected]
Sales: [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Solidpass is the offshoot of Aradiom, focused solely on security software especially for the financial vertical. We have a presence in Atlanta, CA, Istanbul and Zurich with resellers in countries ranging from India, Romania, Spain, UK, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Azerbaijan. Solidpass is in the process of adding more regional resellers and building territorial alliances. Our software and mobile-based tokens have received plenty of interest from global players.
How they describe their product/innovation: Solidpass will demo their suite of security tokens, and the latest advancements in that space including transaction data signing using 2D barcodes from mobile phones and embedded tokens in mobile applications like mobile banking. These advancements have finally brought usability to the highest forms stronger security including transaction signing for both online and mobile banking.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Selahaddin Karatas, CEO, [email protected], +90 212 254 4895
Press: [email protected], +90 212 254 4895
Sales: [email protected], +90 212 254 4895
How they describe themselves: StockTwits is a real-time, open, community-powered idea and information service for investments. Users can eavesdrop on traders and investors, or contribute to the conversation and build their reputation as savvy market wizards. The service takes financial related data and structures it by stock, user, reputation, etc. With premium content from the StockTwits blog network, StockTwits TV, data products from the StockTwits Store and official company news from verified corporate accounts, no one brings you more raw, real-time trusted financial ideas than StockTwits.
How they describe their product/innovation: The StockTwits Blog Network will provide all members of our community with a platform to share longer form financial content, and build their personal financial brand. At first, users will be able to apply for a blog on the network, but we will quickly follow that up with a downloadable blog kit that automatically adds your blog to the network.
StockTwits will also be demoing StockTwits Connect, which provides a set of APIs that enable the developer community to leverage our APIs in forming customizable social experiences on their financial sites.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Sales: Ben Weiss, VP Business Development, [email protected], 917-620-7624
Press: [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Strands Personal Finance (SPF) is a leading provider of PFM solutions to global financial institutions and consumers. Strands PFM provides banks an ability to further engage customers and help users manage their money efficiently. The application allows users to analyze spending, set budgets, compare themselves to a peer community and save money with targeted recommendations. The application allows banks to strengthen their customer relationships, gain valuable customer data, and develop enhanced cross marketing opportunities. Strands PFM technology also powers the 2010 Webby award winning consumer PFM site, moneyStrands. SPF has offices in San Francisco and Barcelona. Web: spf.strands.com or moneystrands.com.
How they describe their product/innovation: Strands Personal Finance Business Intelligence solution (SPF BI) is a web based application that utilizes the user data from a Strands PFM solution and allows banks to easily gain insights and take action to improve the adoption, ROI and profit of PFM solutions. SPF BI will include a dashboard for banks to: (1) quickly and easily access the data from the PFM, (2) visualize key metrics, (3) personalize and customize the PFM and (4) measure ROI and/or key KPIs. These features are designed to provide banking executives with powerful customer information and link data to customer behavior. This increases the opportunity to provide targeted marketing.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Sales: Edward Chang, VP Strategy & Business Development, [email protected]
Press: Alla Oks, Marketing Director Personal Finance Products, [email protected]
Sales: [email protected], +90 212 254 4895
How they describe themselves: Striata is a global eDocuments, eBilling and eMarketing software and services specialist. Striata’s Secure eDocument Delivery and Email Bill Presentment and Payment solution sets deliver an enhanced customer experience, rapid reduction in operational costs and quicker payments. Registration requirements are eliminated by emailing feature rich, interactive, encrypted documents directly to the inbox with innovative one-click electronic payment from within the document itself. Direct email delivery dramatically increases customer adoption of eDocuments, paper turn off and ePayments. Striata’s clients achieve rapid ROI by complementing existing self-service portals and significantly reducing paper output.
How they describe their product/innovation: Utilizing the “killer app” email; Striata will demo a next generation interactive PDF eBill with revolutionary one-click payment functionality for computer and mobile recipients. This model of ‘Biller Direct Push’ boasts the highest customer adoption rates against any other eBilling model on the market today because it delivers the maximum in customer convenience. Our solution is quick to implement, sold as software as a service and delivers strong ROI. Striata’s clients have seen a positive ROI within three months. Furthermore our solution offers mobile presentment by default ensuring that we are future-proofed to meet the growing demand for mobile solutions.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Sales: Michael Wright, CEO (Europe), [email protected], +442072683941
Garin Toren, COO (US), [email protected], 646-448-8369
Nicola Els, Head of eBilling (Africa), [email protected], +27 11 530 9600
Keith Russell, Sales Manager (Asia), [email protected], +852 2159 9450
Press: Tamara Hanley, Global Marketing Manager, [email protected], +442072683941
