How they describe themselves: Banno provides and powers solutions that help financial institutions harvest behavior-driven banking data to stimulate growth and retain business. Its Banno.com-powered websites, mobile banking, account aggregation and enriched transactions provide segmented customer analysis based on anonymized data that can be used for actionable product offerings. Banno.com architecture is built with Open APIs to allow simple integration with existing digital channels.
How they describe their product/innovation: Banno will unveil Grip’s ability to provide insights before the transaction with its new, seamlessly integrated decision-support features and overhauled user interface.
Contacts:
Press: Heather Sugg, William Mills Agency, [email protected],
Office: (813) 374-6362, Cell: (954) 854-6203
Sales: [email protected], (877) 884-3327
Partnerships: Wade Arnold, CEO, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: BCSG creates, distributes and supports value-adding products and services to small businesses through financial institutions. BCSG solutions help more than 150,000 small businesses survive and succeed, while simultaneously providing financial institutions with opportunities to differentiate their proposition to enhance customer loyalty and grow wallet share.
We believe that successful product launches in banks are as much about product excellence as sales process excellence. A key part of our value proposition is a full range of services to help our partner banks sell successfully: from sales training in needs-based selling, to assistance in marketing collateral development, to full support for bank staff and end users.
How they describe their product/innovation: Business Hub is a cloud-based package that incorporates the most important tools a small business owner needs. For $25 per month, small businesses get access to online accounting software, a website builder, a business planning tool, a legal document creator and online training.
Business Hub is delivered via a fully customizable online platform, allowing business owners to manage key functions in one place with a single username and password. The exact suite of applications can be customized for each bank.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Sales: Tom Platt, Commercial Director, [email protected]
Press: Carole Wood, Marketing Manager, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Billhighway is the foremost provider of cloud-based financial management solutions tailor-made for nonprofit, donor and member-based organizations.
- Billhighway Connect integrates nonprofit data from CMS or payment processing with accounting, payroll and banking systems or CRM databases.
- Billhighway Enterprise integrates accounting, payment processing and online banking systems.
- Billhighway is recognized for over 96% customer loyalty and industry-leading data security.
How they describe their product/innovation:
Billhighway Give is the best mobile fundraising app on the planet… do more good, faster.
Designed specifically for donor-based nonprofits, Give provides a better way to collect donations. “We’re excited to have been selected to debut this important innovation, which resides at the intersection of philanthropy and technology,” notes Vincent Thomas, CEO and founder of Billhighway. “With an overall theme of ‘They Give, You Grow,’ our mobile application is fast, smart, and delights — a great example of technology used for good.” Additionally, Give includes a number of innovations specifically developed for NPOs recognizing their unique needs such as branding, campaign tracking and motivational tools.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Vince Thomas, CEO, [email protected], (248) 273-0074
Marketing: Michelle Lange, CMO, [email protected], (248) 273-0074
Sales: Tracy-Ann Palmer, CGO, [email protected], (248) 273-0074
Press: Julie Rogier, Sr. Public Relations Specialist (Markit Strategies & PR) [email protected], (248) 252-1173
How they describe themselves: Blackhawk Network, a subsidiary of Safeway Inc., is a leading provider of prepaid and financial payments products for consumers and businesses. The company’s Gift Card Mall™ offers the industry’s most popular prepaid gift card and telecom products from leading brands. Gift Card Mall, with access to 165 million unique customer visits each week, is available through a network of leading grocery stores, big box, convenience, pharmacy, specialty stores and Internet retailers including GiftCardMall.com.
How they describe their product/innovation: Blackhawk Network’s GoWallet technology provides a direct-to-consumer platform and interface that lets customers manage all of their prepaid cards in one place. The digital technology also allows consumers to purchase and personalize gift cards from their mobile device. The app will provide consumers with mobile access to their account information, special offers and coupons.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Sales: Tim Attinger, GVP of Strategy, [email protected]
Press: Alexia Oswald, Director of Public Relations, [email protected] &
Miya Walker, Account Supervisor, MWW (PR agency), [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Bolstr is a crowdfunding platform that empowers communities to invest in local small businesses. We believe that local investment is the key to economic growth. Through Bolstr, we have created a marketplace where individuals can invest in and support the local small businesses that make their communities home.
Through step-by-step guidance, Bolstr helps Small Businesses create a professional pitch, determine fair deal terms, and source investment capital from their network and community. In essence, Bolstr’s innovative platform democratizes and demystifies the process of raising investment capital.
How they describe their product/innovation: Bolstr is the first crowdfunding platform focused on adding liquidity to main street small businesses and the only platform able to legally operate pre-JOBS Act. We have worked tirelessly along with our legal counsel to create a model that works within the current regulatory environment.
Bolstr’s proprietary, compliance engine navigates small businesses through the complicated state-by-state regulatory rules. The technology automatically calibrates to a small businesses raise, taking into consideration a multitude of variables to ensure each business raises capital within the rules.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Press, & Sales: Charlie Tribbett, Co-Founder, [email protected],
Larry Baker, Co-Founder, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: C.K. Mack brings the returns generated by rental real estate to the online investing market. With the beta launch of our investment platform, accredited and institutional investors will be able to sign up, log in, and invest as little as $25 in the cash flow of rented property. This opportunity will be open to all investors as soon as we have SEC approval. Our website offers investors several high-equity properties, along with due diligence information so investors can balance anticipated return on investment with a comfortable risk level. C.K. Mack’s new web platform opens the historically-popular field of real estate to a broad audience, allowing unprecedented diversification and stellar returns.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Press: Chrissie Schicktanz, COO & Founder, [email protected], (406) 281-2408
How they describe themselves: Cachet Financial Solutions is a leading provider of remote deposit capture (RDC) solutions for financial institutions, credit unions, and service organizations. With our industry-leading platform, Cachet has simplified the process for delivering, implementing and servicing RDC. Cachet offers commercial and consumer solutions for Mac, PC, and Mobile, providing our clients and their customers greater flexibility and freedom.
How they describe their product/innovation: Our Patent-Pending CheckReview Solution is a proprietary technology that helps financial institutions to identify potential check fraud by giving them the ability to view and validate the digital image of the check in real time. In the past, financial institutions could only view a check image after it had been cleared for deposit. By allowing access to the images before clearing, Cachet gives clients greater control in mitigating check fraud.
Contacts:
Press: Manon Ibes, Marketing & Design Coordinator, [email protected]
Sales: David Cohen, Director of Sales, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Carta is a next-generation payment processing platform, focusing on prepaid, mobile, and emerging payments. With a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model, Carta delivers advanced transaction processing, along with an extensive range of services that allow corporate clients to easily deploy innovative payment products using mobile, NFC, e-commerce and smartcard technology.
Carta is a certified Third Party Processor and Service Provider with Visa and MasterCard and fully compliant with the highest level of payment industry standards, allowing Carta to deliver secure network payments service in a system specifically architected to support the new generation of accessible, connected payment products. Carta provides prepaid and mobile payment products and services in Europe, Middle East/North Africa, and North America & Caribbean.
How they describe their product/innovation: Carta-Connect for Mobile is a turn-key product for Issuers and MNOs that brings NFC Mobile-Payments to market with a rapid and low-cost deployment model. Utilizing a virtual account instantly personalized to the mobile phone, consumers can access immediate spending power with any NFC enabled-handset. This introduces a simple and convenient experience for consumer adoption, while limiting exposure of personal banking information.
By leveraging underlying technology in place, Carta reduces setup and deployment cost for NFC projects, and minimizes the need to update core systems. Offered as an end-to-end product, or compatible with existing m-wallet applications, the uniquely flexible solution represents a key step in the mass-market adoption of NFC Mobile-Payments.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Giles Sutherland, Dir. Marketing & Strategic Development, [email protected], (416) 840-5611 x112
How they describe themselves: CommunityLend has a new model where consumer loans are originated (through Financeit) and serviced on behalf of institutional lenders. The average loan size is $12,000 with a 5-year term and 8 year amortization. The average interest rate is 10.2% and the average credit score is 727.
How they describe their product/innovation: Financeit allows businesses to offer instant, POS financing to their customers from any device. The approval process takes less than 10 seconds and merchants receive their payment by direct deposit. The standard program is free to use plus we provide marketing programs such as deferred payments or 0% financing. We currently serve the home improvement, vehicle, retail and healthcare markets.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Casper Wong, VP Business Development, [email protected], (416) 646-2177 x103
How they describe themselves: Compass Plus provides proven, comprehensive and fully integrated retail banking software and services that help financial institutions around the globe stay competitive in today’s market. With hundreds of successful projects spanning card, account and merchant management, card personalization, payment processing, terminal driving, self-service channel management and mobile and electronic commerce implemented in record breaking time, Compass Plus ensures our customers make the most of their technology investments. Compass Plus has a diverse customer base that spans over 120 retail banks, processing centers, national switches and personalization centers in dozens of countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and North and South America.
How they describe their product/innovation: TranzAxis is a specialist, integrated open development banking platform (ODBP) created for the development and support of cards and payments, transaction switching, retail banking and other systems and applications in the domain linked to the automation of retail banking activities. It offers the user a full set of application development tools (builders, designers, editors, debuggers etc.), as well as a set of specialist components that may be required in implementing diverse applications in the given domain. Unlike traditional application systems, TranzAxis can be used to build all-scale systems made up of closely integrated, yet independently developed applications.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Olga Demina, Founder/VP/CBDO, & Anthony Genovese, VP Consulting,
Office: +1 954 357 3733
Press: Bevin Wallace, William Mills Agency, [email protected],
Office: 212-510-7974| Cell: 404-219-4961
Sales: Anthony Genovese, VP Consulting, +1 954 417 1463
How they describe themselves: Credit Sesame is a free online personal finance tool that gives consumers the best way to monitor and manage their credit and loans to save money. It provides consumers with a truly free access to their credit score, complete analysis of their credit and loans, and personalized plans to take control of their finances, unlock their credit potential and borrow smarter.
Credit Sesame’s innovation lies in its patent-pending analytics engine, developed by Stanford scientists that analyzes user’s credit profile and monitors the financing market and products to find ways that consumer can save money on loans, mortgages and credit cards.
How they describe their product/innovation: Credit Sesame introduces a new financial dashboard and ‘Financial Fitness Indicators’ that provide the external context a user needs so they can fully analyze and optimize their financial situation. The new capabilities will give users a comprehensive assessment of their individual financial situation, analyze current market trends and provide action plans to capitalize on them. It provides users with valuable insight into the successes of their peers so their patterns can be emulated. The new Financial Fitness Indicators sum up all of consumer’s credit and debt information into visual components that an individual can use to determine their overall financial fitness.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Adrian Nazari, CEO, [email protected], (650) 539-4144
Press: Matt Mirandi, [email protected], (917) 338-4933
How they describe themselves: Dashlane is a cutting-edge technology start-up that enables instant checkouts and logins universally across the web while maintaining military-grade security and total consumer privacy. Our innovative mobile and desktop apps allow consumers to login, register for websites, and make purchases with the ultimate convenience of never having to fill out any forms anywhere — no integration required — and with the assurance that their sensitive data is completely secure and private. Dashlane was founded in 2009 and is based in NYC & Paris.
How they describe their product/innovation: Dashlane’s full-featured iPad & iPhone apps give consumers the ability to login, register and checkout on any website in the world without ever having to type on the mobile keyboard. Our technology requires no merchant integration, and hence our app can potentially unlock mobile purchasing at massive scale. Our real-time semantic analysis enables instant filling of personal and payment data on all forms across devices. All users’ data is locally encrypted with AES-256, with a unique key for each user that Dashlane has no record of.
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Sales: Nishant Mani, VP Marketing & Partnerships, [email protected]
Press: Daniela Perdomo, Director of User Growth, [email protected]
