FinovateFall 2021 – Veritran

FinovateFall 2021 – Veritran

How they describe themselves: At Veritran, we believe in improving our clients’ business by making their customers’ lives better.

Through our enterprise Low-Code platform, we speed up and simplify the development of future-proofed immersive digital channels that create a top-notch user experience.

We are innovation drivers serving companies worldwide, reaching millions of users, and running billions of secure transactions annually.

How they describe their product/innovation: We are demoing the power and efficiency of using exponential technologies such as Low-Code to build a White-Label Digital Wallet while meeting and exceeding customers’ expectations and accelerating time to market.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Press: Cassia Di Roberto, Sales Director, [email protected] & Karla Guzman, Bus. Dev. Director, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2021 – Velocity Solutions

FinovateFall 2021 – Velocity Solutions

How they describe themselves: Founded in 1995 and servicing the transaction accounts of over 30 million consumers and business owners, Velocity Solutions is the leading provider of revenue-driving solutions for community banks and credit unions. Our Velocity Intelligent Platform® powers all of Velocity’s solutions, using machine-led intelligence that delivers powerful analytics and drives revenue, loans, account holder engagement and non-interest income to our client financial institutions.

How they describe their product/innovation: Akouba™ by Velocity Solutions is a secure, cloud-based digital lending platform for retail and commercial lending. The Akouba platform was built to reduce end-to-end time of loan origination, increase profits and give both borrowers and financial institutions a streamlined experience. Akouba is the only small business loan origination platform endorsed by the American Bankers Association.

Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: [email protected]
Press: Beth Planakis, Director of Marketing, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2021 – Veem

FinovateFall 2021 – Veem

How they describe themselves: Trusted by more than 300,000 businesses in over 100 countries, Veem offers a suite of domestic and international payment services to establish and strengthen partner and supplier relationships. With automated KYC processes and two-way verification, Veem is safe and easy to use, licensed and regulated in each country and state it serves.

How they describe their product/innovation: The Partner Connect Product by Veem is a minimal code integration that allows banks to provide their clients with an all-in-one, global payments platform built for small and mid-sized businesses. Delight clients with access to multiple functions, including accounts payables and receivables, and provide a unique experience with your bank’s branding at the forefront.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Olivier Veyrac, Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Maggie Lastayo, Marketing Manager, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2021 – unitQ

FinovateFall 2021 – unitQ

How they describe themselves: unitQ’s leading product quality monitoring platform empowers fintechs and banks to take a data-driven approach to product quality so they can fix the right quality issues faster.

How they describe their product/innovation: unitQ’s approach to product quality is why category-leading brands like Chime, NerdWallet, and Greenlight Financial have better product quality, retention, engagement, and are beating the competition.

Our AI-enabled platform determines what’s impacting their product right now, and helps teams efficiently identify, prioritize, and fix quality issues that matter.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Anthony Heckman, Head of Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Jason Wu, Director of Marketing, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2021 – UNest

FinovateFall 2021 – UNest

How they describe themselves: UNest is the leading provider of financial planning, saving, and investment tools for parents to help their children achieve their dreams. Over the past 2 years, UNest has experienced levels of growth that place it as one of the fastest-growing fintech apps of all time. UNest gained popularity by helping families add to their savings in three easy ways: Gifting, Rewards, and Referral bonuses. UNest partners with credit unions and employers to offer our best-in-tech child savings account solutions to their members and employees.

How they describe their product/innovation: UNest will demo our financial planning, saving, and investment app for parents and kids. We will show how we effectively eliminate the complexity and limitations of legacy 529 and custodial products with a paperless approach that takes less than 5-minutes to set up. Our gifting and rewards features will be highlgihted to illustrate how easily our customers are growing their investment accounts. Furthermore, we will show how partnering with UNest allows Credit Unions and employers to offer UNest as a benefit to their members and employees.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Mike Van Kempen, COO, [email protected]
Press: Chloe Etsekson, VP Communications, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2021 – Unblu

FinovateFall 2021 – Unblu

How they describe themselves: Unblu empowers banks and insurance companies to connect with their customers across the omnichannel. Unblu’s Conversational Platform is a secure, collaborative engagement solution that helps over 160+ of the world’s leading financial institutions to deliver an in-person experience online. Unblu transforms the customer journey, empowering advisory, sales, and support teams to increase online conversions, deliver better customer experience and build successful business relationships.

How they describe their product/innovation: We will showcase how the Unblu Conversational Platform allows banks and insurance companies to provide customers with a seamless customer experience. Using a retail banking use case, we will demonstrate the most innovative features of the Unblu 7 platform, including: AI Client Conversation, Meeting Scheduler: ability to schedule a digital meeting, Collaboration Suite: A range of collaborative capabilities, Archive entire engagement inclusive of audio/video and screen sharing content, Ecosystem Integration: store all elements of engagement in CRM.

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

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Lisa Joseph, President, North America, [email protected]
Press: Allison Sands, North American Marketing Director, [email protected]

FinovateFall 2021 – U.S. Bank

FinovateFall 2021 – U.S. Bank

How they describe themselves: U.S. Bancorp is the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association and serves millions of customers locally, nationally and globally through a diversified mix of businesses: Consumer and Business Banking; Payment Services; Corporate & Commercial Banking; and Wealth Management and Investment Services. The company has been recognized for its approach to digital innovation, social responsibility, and customer service, including being named one of the 2021 World’s Most Ethical Companies and Fortune’s most admired super-regional bank.

How they describe their product/innovation: U.S. Bank Card as a Service (CaaS) empowers Fintech/Partners or clients to extend corporate credit digitally and create a custom virtual payment experience in their ecosystem through API integration. Using precise spend limits, tokenization and encryption, cards can be pushed to users’ mobile wallets, real time, with the touch of button. Extensive controls enhance card security, making fraud or misuse nearly impossible.

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

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Bradley Matthews, SVP & Head of Middle Market Bankcard Product & Marketing, [email protected], 703-628-9929
Press: Teri Charest, Head of Communications, [email protected], 612-303-0771

FinovateSpring 2021 – Vymo

FinovateSpring 2021 – Vymo

How they describe themselves: Vymo is the Distribution Excellence Cloud for 60+ financial service firms like AIA, AXA, Allianz, Generali, VP Bank & HDFC. Vymo helps frontline reps report data and learn how to engage customers. It helps managers make data-backed preemptive interventions and improve the team’s outcomes, and it helps leaders with insights that help plan and resource for the business.

Vymo has 100,000 users globally, is recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, and is a notable mention in the Forrester Sales Tech Report.

How they describe their product/innovation: Our product can be classified as a solution portfolio. We are able to adapt our value proposition based on what the customer in question needs at the time. This can range anywhere from lead allocation and management systems to activity capture for advisors.

Vymo can act as a stand-alone CRM, but can also act as a layer of intelligence and automation on top of a pre-existing CRM.

Vymo also has its own analytics and reporting tool for managers to surface metrics unique to their business.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Press: Atul Vidhu, Demand Generation, [email protected], +91 973 902 2584

FinovateSpring 2021 – U.S. Bank

FinovateSpring 2021 – U.S. Bank

How they describe themselves: U.S. Bancorp, with 70,000 employees and $554 billion in assets as of December 30, 2020, is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States. The Minneapolis-based bank blends its relationship teams, branches and ATM network with mobile and online tools that allow customers to bank how, when, and where they prefer. U.S. Bank is committed to serving its millions of retail, business, wealth management, payment, commercial and corporate, and investment services customers across the country and around the world.

How they describe their product/innovation: U.S. Bank Instant Card is a mobile app for employees and nonemployees alike that supports:

  1. Companies and their employees working from home, or site leaders tasked with re-opening offices, factories, and stores with the ability to procure home office equipment or essential PPE and cleaning supplies.
  2. Remote staff or contractors needing supplies to set up/maintain their home offices, pull permits to keep construction projects or utility field crews moving forward, open new facilities or simply as a means for replacing petty cash.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Laretha Elliott Hulse, VP Product Development, [email protected], 816-522-0834 & Jon Zimmerman, VP & Group Product Manager, [email protected], 612-436-6192
Press: Teri Charest, Media Relations, [email protected], 612-303-0771 & Dan Endy, Media Relations, [email protected], 763-742-2468

FinovateSpring 2021 – Urjanet

FinovateSpring 2021 – Urjanet

How they describe themselves: Urjanet is the world’s leading utility data aggregator, delivering data from more than 6,500 utility, telecom and cable providers across 47 countries. Urjanet’s cloud-based platform and powerful suite of APIs provide a secure and scalable way for businesses to access consumer-permissioned data. Equifax, a global data, analytics, and technology company, is a key partner in helping to bring Urjanet’s consent-based data to market.

How they describe their product/innovation: Developed in partnership with Urjanet, Equifax’s new Payment Insights solution promotes greater financial inclusion by empowering consumers and small business owners to share utility and telecom payment history with banks or lenders when applying for loans and other services. Applicants simply provide consent to connect their utility accounts from a lender’s branded experience, and up to 12 months of data is immediately delivered directly from the utility provider to the lender in tradeline format.

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

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Press: Erik Becker, SVP Corporate Development, [email protected]

FinovateEurope 2021 – WUA

FinovateEurope 2021 – WUA

How they describe themselves: We help you to structurally listen to your customers when optimizing online service and sales journeys. All based on validated customer experience research.

How they describe their product/innovation: The Digital Experience Dashboard lets you discover what you can learn from the best-in-class websites globally, boost online sales and accelerate digital growth by prioritizing your CX improvements to create maximum impact. The Dashboard gives you detailed insights on how consumers engage and experience your websites and apps versus your direct competition. At both local and global levels, on desktop, smartphone, and per customer (sales) journey.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Roos Rieu, Head of Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Matthijs van den Broek, Head of Thought Leadership, [email protected], +31 6 4837 8932

FinovateWest 2020 – Zeta

FinovateWest 2020 – Zeta

How they describe themselves: Zeta® is a modern banking tech company providing a full-stack, cloud-native API-ready core banking and transaction processing platform for issuance of credit, debit, and prepaid products that enable legacy banks to launch modern retail and corporate fintech products.

How they describe their product/innovation: Tachyon is a modular credit, debit, prepaid and loan processing platform with integrated Mobile app. It helps Financial Institutions launch a neobank experience with lower cost-to-income ratio, lower fraud rates, higher engagement and NPS.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Press: Gary Singh, President US, [email protected]