FinovateWest Digital 2020 Sneak Peek: Momentifi

Momentifi bundles CRM, co-branded marketing, and an online community with network effects to help you drive more sales and beat the competition. Features Connects loan officers, agents, and advisors in the post-COVID world Provides free CE Provides co-branded marketing Why it’s great“Come for the free CE and stay for the networking and co-branded marketing!” Presenter Read more…

Hot or Not? FinovateWest Digital Heat Checks Top Fintech Trends

How have the major secular trends in fintech been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis? In his afternoon presentation at FinovateWest Digital, November 23 through 25, Jacob Jegher, President of Javelin Strategy and Research, will take a close look at which innovations in fintech are moving the needle in terms of boosting customer engagement, creating efficiencies, Read more…

Road Blocks on the Way to Coinbase’s IPO

You’ve probably heard that cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase is considering going public later this year or early next year. But this likely won’t be a traditional fintech IPO. That’s because the California-based company’s culture is rooted in the blockchain, a technology that embraces alternative finance. Furthermore, Coinbase would be the first major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Read more…

What Can Fintechs Do to Compete with the Apple Card

Some of the biggest disruptions in financial services are coming from some of the least likely places. The challenger bank revolution, for one, is bringing new levels of competition to “old” finance. The rise of challenger banks will be one of chief topics of our upcoming, all-digital FinovateAsia event next month. Helping drive that conversation Read more…

Changing Fintech for a Changing World

COVID-19 will forever change the way that people engage with the financial institutions that manage their money. In an effort to figure out what exactly that change will look like, I conducted a series of podcast interviews with fintech experts, strategists, and analysts. While the entire series is worth listening to (you can find it Read more…

NYMBUS Helps Launch Neobank; An Investment Banker Talks Fintech

Cloud banking platform provider NYMBUS, which demonstrated its SmartLaunch banking-as-a-service solution at FinovateFall last year, has partnered with Pacific National Bank (PNB) to help the Florida-based company launch a digital-only bank, FACILE. “We knew we had to act fast to meet the rising consumer demand for digital banking services,” Pacific National Bank CEO Carlos Fernandez-Guzman Read more…

nCino Drives Digital Banking in Sweden; Access Softek Unveils Roboadvisory Tool

Cloud banking innovator nCino has picked up another partner. The Wilmington, North Carolina company – which made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope in 2017 – has teamed up with Swedish SME lender Yourban. The firm will deploy the nCino Bank Operating System to power its SME lending operations. “Our vision for Yourban was to create Read more…