How they describe themselves: Wise, a Techstars NYC 2019 company, offers next-gen business banking, including an FDIC-insured checking account and Visa debit card in partnership with BBVA USA. In the coming months, Wise plans to roll out additional products and services specifically designed for small businesses such as payments, invoicing, credit card and point of sale.
How they describe their product/innovation: Small business banking-in-a-box that includes a checking account, payments, invoicing, cards and point of sale.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Arjun Thyagarajan, CEO, [email protected], 408-390-2486
How they describe themselves: Zogo applies behavioral economic research developed at Duke University to improve youth financial literacy.
How they describe their product/innovation: Zogo app breaks down complicated financial concepts into bite-sized chunk and rewards incentives to users who complete them. The app is also branded by financial institutions.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, licensed
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Bolun Li, CEO, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: A.I. Trading Assistant for Active Stock Traders and Investors.
How they describe their product/innovation: AI Trading Assistant with Seamless Approach and Real-time monitoring system for managing risk, trading and execution. Zivolve is able to do Trading diagnostics to autonomous management of multiple brokerage accounts.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Sia Nazari, [email protected] , 510-219-6568
Press: Arash Hooshyari Far, VP Engineering, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Yseop is an international AI software company and one of the early pioneers of natural language generation technology. Its proprietary AI platform, powers enterprise-level customer support, sales and reporting applications. Its highly customisable solutions deliver superior quality analysis and more human-like dialog, resulting in higher levels of customer satisfaction. Headquartered in France, Yseop has operations throughout Europe, the U.S. and Asia.
How they describe their product/innovation: Building on more than 10 years of global experience collaborating with leading market players on AI projects, Yseop introduces “intentions”, an innovative approach to report generation that overcomes the limitations of traditional template- or rule-based reporting. Intentions are unique combinations of analysis, text and reporting patterns that help operationalize the power of data and focus human capital on value creation. Augmented Financial Analyst, Yseop’s latest Natural Language Generation (NLG) solution for Financial Reporting, combines specialized intentions and client structured data to streamline end-to-end reporting processes while putting its recognized high-quality narrative at work for analysts to jumpstart reporting activities
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Nouri Chibane, VP Bus. Dev., [email protected], +1-201-264-3198
Press: Mireille Adebiyi, VP Marketing, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: The Wizely Finance platform empowers financial institutions to deploy any new consumer lending product to their best customers in a matter of weeks, from scratch. Think of us as a consumer loan division in a box, providing everything necessary to offer on-demand consumer loans and an elegant user experience. To top it off, Wizely does not need to integrate into an institution’s core systems at any point, reducing the speed to market.
How they describe their product/innovation: Wizely Finance is excited to share our white-label modular suite of products:
- Customer Opportunity Analysis: Understand your customers behavior & identify cross-sell opportunities for consumer loan products based on credit criteria and marketing strategy
- Marketing Automation: Wizely will execute the multi-channel marketing strategy and target your best customers
- Lending Platform: Our consumer origination platform is seamless and enables your customers to originate and payoff a consumer loan in 5 minutes
With our new approach, any product can be used to supplement the offerings of fintech, credit, and banking partners in need of consumer intelligence, marketing, a lending platform, and a payoff process, regardless of asset type.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Paris Benson, CEO & Founder, [email protected], 949-378-8079
Robert Curry, Chief Business Officer & Dir., [email protected], 617-283-4064
Erin Slone, Chief of Staff, [email protected], 773-636-6584
Press: Paris Benson, CEO & Founder, [email protected], 949-378-8079
Erin Slone, Chief of Staff, [email protected], 773-636-6584
How they describe themselves: Voca.ai has created a smart, human and empathetic virtual call center agent for financial institutions and service providers.
Our solutions help banks, lenders and insurers increase revenue, reduce operational costs and improve overall productivity.
How they describe their product/innovation: Voca is a human-friendly virtual agent augmenting call and contact centers.
Our agent is trained to respond to every objection in the most smart and empathetic way possible by listening to recorded calls performed by the organisation’s most successful agents.
Voca is utilised by banks, lenders and credit card issuers for various use-cases, including collections, lead generation, customer qualification, appointment scheduling, cross-selling, and customer retention.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: [email protected]
How they describe themselves: UniPAY is a payment service provider and fintech development group, uniting and developing e-wallet, online payments, online commerce, payment kiosks and Local Card solutions for small, medium and large businesses. With a combined solution for the fintech industry, UniPAY’s platform is an easy step to run the fully digital payment eco system in emerging markets with online and offline tools.
Mainly operating in Georgia, UniPAY has launched many pioneer fintech products on the market and making it possible for real consumers and businesses.
How they describe their product/innovation: We are solving a problem to launch the digital banking or payment business instantly in emerging markets by connecting the dots of: payments, commerce, cards, merchants, terminals, kiosks, QR payments, mobile applications – with one united financial core monolith.
Imagine you can run your own e-wallet application or online financial portal to send, pay or get payed online, to pay bills or accept funds worldwide. You can expand self-service payment kiosk terminals and manage them in one click. Issue a local card with multi routing options with banks and save transaction costs or just run e-commerce and checkout solutions for local merchants with online payment getaways or with scan and pay options.
Contacts
Press: Sophie Kvavilashvili, Media & Communication, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: U.S. Bancorp, with 74,000 employees and $467 billion in assets as of December 31, 2018, 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 as a trusted financial partner, a commitment recognized by the Ethisphere Institute naming the bank a 2019 World’s Most Ethical Company.
How they describe their product/innovation: U.S. Bank is killing the paper expense report with the most advanced technology in the marketplace.
Companies will love this product since it provides a continuous view of travel expenses, including infrequent travelers who might not have a corporate card and those who travel for the company but are not employees, such as new hire candidates.
Business travelers love the product since it makes it easier than ever to coordinate travel and use their company’s payment account – even for those who do not have a corporate card. It ends the expense report as we know it with chatbot technology enhanced by artificial intelligence.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Bradley Matthews, SVP & Head of Middle Market Bankcard Product & Marketing, U.S. Bank, [email protected], 703-628-9929
Press: Dana Stone, AVP External Communications, U.S. Bank, [email protected], 720-778-6667
How they describe themselves: Zabo was formed out of Modular Inc, a fintech company which built a banking platform that enables regulated financial institutions to carry cryptocurrency on their balance sheet. Zabo aims to bring a personal, connected, modern banking experience to the consumer market by understanding financial data, providing direct analysis and insight, and offering innovative products such as cryptocurrency.
How they describe their product/innovation: Zabo, a digital bank, brings consumers a level of financial data, insight, and access not currently seen in banking today. It provides deep, but easy to understand information that facilitates informed financial decisions, removes unnecessary costs and fees, and facilitates access to the global economy and investments through cryptocurrency.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Alex Treece, President, [email protected]
Press: Christopher Brown, CEO, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: YellowDog’s technology can transform how financial institutions are able to access the best source of compute for every workload. By being able to access multiple public clouds and underutilised on premise compute, YellowDog can deliver workloads faster, more reliably and with better predictably than ever before, all without any investment in new hardware.
In the past four years, YellowDog has established themselves as a leading provider to the CGI animation industry and at Finovate last year launched YellowDog for Financial Services. Their first clients in Financial Services are now live and benefiting from workload predictability, achieving more value from their existing IT resources and accelerating their business transformation.
How they describe their product/innovation: YellowDog solves the challenge all large institutions face when trying to deliver large and time critical workloads on budget, on time and within regulatory requirements.
Once installed within the current IT environment, YellowDog automatically manages and distributes workloads to the best source of compute based on business rules which govern which compute can be used.
Using their proprietary machine learning algorithms, YellowDog immediately generates each workloads predicted run time and provides options to accelerate its delivery if required to meet a deadline.
Immediate access to on premise and multiple public/private clouds, coupled with real time cost and performance data insights, puts you in complete control.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Jamie Donald, Head of Sales, [email protected], +44 77 2218 4444
Press: Gareth Williams, Founder & CEO, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: People demand smarter financial experiences. Banks must become personalised and proactive by unlocking opportunities in data. W.UP transforms the way banks generate digital revenue and interact with clients through AI-powered experiences. W.UP was established in November 2014 by a group of highly skilled fintech specialists, each with more than 15 years of experience in digital banking from all over the globe.
How they describe their product/innovation: Sales.UP is an insight-driven sales and engagement tool. It helps banks understand, enrich and analyse banking data like card transactions and demographics, and non-traditional information such as customer location. Using advanced analytics, AI and ML algorithms, Sales.UP builds customer insights that enable meaningful interactions between banks and their clients.
In our demo we would like to highlight 3 unique functions of our software:
- how banks can set up profiles and identify new customers segments
- how they can use pre-built customer insight real time to recognise key life situations and events, and
- how banks can interact with their clients within their mobile banking app with the help of smart widgets.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Tamás Braun, International Sales & Bus. Dev., [email protected], +44 78 7667 3883
Press: Tibor Mozsik, Head of Marketing, [email protected], +36 20 9329279
How they describe themselves: voca.ai develops smart virtual agents for financial services contact centers.
Our solutions help banks, lenders and insurers to increase revenue, reduce operation costs and improve productivity.
How they describe their product/innovation: Voca is a human-friendly virtual agent augmenting contact centers.
Our agent is trained to respond to every objection in the most smart and empathetic way possible by listening to recorded calls done by the most successful agents.
Voca is utilized by banks, lenders and credit card issuers for collections, lead generation, appointment scheduling, cross-selling and customer retention.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: [email protected]
