When we announced IMPACT Funders & Founders, we described it as a new kind of event designed to bring together fintech founders and the investors backing the next generation of fintech in a setting built for meaningful conversations, targeted networking, and real fundraising opportunities.
Now, we're excited to share our speaker lineup.
The inaugural IMPACT event, taking place alongside FinovateFall on September 11 in New York City, features venture capitalists, startup founders,...
- Digital payments giant Visa has agreed to acquire fraud and financial crime prevention platform BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash.
- The acquisition will add to Visa's existing cyber, fraud, risk, and security solutions and provide greater defense against newer threats including account takeover and money mule fraud.
- BioCatch was founded in 2011. The company made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.
Visa has inked a definitive agreement to acquire behavioral and...
- InvestiFi raised $20 million in a strategic funding round led largely by credit unions and fintech investors to expand its embedded investing platform for community financial institutions.
- Community banks and credit unions are increasingly competing with fintechs like Robinhood, Wealthfront, Betterment, and Coinbase for the primary customer relationship, making embedded investing a key retention strategy.
- The investor lineup signals strong industry confidence that integrated wealth...
In the run-up to FinovateFall, which takes place on September 9 through 11 in New York, we asked several speakers for their perspectives on technologies shaping financial services, the biggest challenges facing banks, and why they keep coming back to Finovate.
Below is a preview of what four speakers had to say ahead of this year's event.
Michael Reynolds, Business Technology Executive at KeyBank
Michael Reynolds leads intelligent automation at KeyBank, where he oversees...
- MoonPay launched PayBox, enabling ChatGPT and Claude users to authorize AI agents to make purchases, trade tokens, interact with DeFi, and move assets using natural language.
- The platform combines Visa's agentic commerce protocol, x402, and cryptographic security to let AI transact while keeping users' card details and wallet keys protected.
- PayBox reflects the growing shift toward agentic commerce, as companies build the payment infrastructure that will enable AI agents to transact...
