Fintech: Capitalizing on the significant “app”ortunity in small business (webinar)

Join us for this live webinar on Wednesday, February 25th at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern. Register here for free.

With the pace of technological change, traditional banks simply haven’t been able to keep up with the growing demand for digital solutions from small businesses hungry to stay competitive and improve efficiencies.

In some cases, banks have simply left a gap in servicing the small business segment because of other priorities. These gaps have opened the door to non-bank financial technology solutions to fill the growing needs of this market.

This type of technology partnership – between companies like Kabbage and Paychex, third-parties like Yodlee Interactive, and the traditional financial institution (FI) community – is enabling the proliferation of financial technology innovation for small businesses in a range of areas from lending to budgeting, payroll, invoicing, on-site sales, inventory management, expense management, and more.

Join Yodlee Interactive for an engaging discussion regarding the growth of the small business “App”ortunity and how to best succeed in this brave new space. Hear from leading technology experts from Aite Group, Kabbage, Paychex and Yodlee Interactive.

What you’ll learn:

• What’s happening in the small business fintech sector and what’s fueling its transformation
• The convergence of small business technology
• The dramatic growth of small business financial applications and the future of small business
• The impact of Big Data and key insights gleaned from it

Speakers

Christine Barry, Research Director, Wholesale Banking Practice, Aite Group Christine serves as research director for Aite Group’s Wholesale Banking practice, focusing on the strategies and technology implementations of global banks of all sizes. Her recent research has addressed global cash management trends and technologies, capturing the valuable small-business customer, corporate mobile banking, the drivers of global core banking system replacement, remote deposit capture, and best practices for community banks and credit unions. She is a seasoned banking industry expert with more than 15 years of experience in financial services products and technologies. She has worked with a broad range of U.S. and international clients, analyzing industry trends and identifying market opportunities, product gaps, and potential partners to help them achieve their strategic IT goals.

Kathryn Petralia, COO, Kabbage Kathryn has spent the past 18 years working with both startups and established companies focused on credit, payments, technology and ecommerce.  She started Kabbage along with her two co-founders in early 2009, and the company has now provided more than $500 million to small businesses in the US and UK.  Prior to Kabbage, Kathryn ran strategy for Revolution Money, which was acquired by American Express.  Before Revolution, Kathryn was responsible for strategic development at CompuCredit Corporation, where she was led new markets and product development initiatives, as well as strategic alliances. Kathryn was one of the founders of WorthKnowing.com, a consumer financial services portal whose IP was later sold to CompuCredit and TransUnion. She is an inventor on 4 patents in the fintech space.

Andy Childs, Vice President, Marketing, Paychex Andy joined the national payroll and human resources outsourcing company as the senior marketing executive in February 2011, and now leads the marketing, corporate development and strategic planning functions.A senior executive with more than 30 years of marketing and business development experience, Andy previously held marketing leadership positions at Pitney Bowes, Mercer, and ADP. Earlier in his career, Andy was a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Greg Weddell, Practice Manager, Small Business, Yodlee Greg is responsible for spearheading Yodlee’s growth and innovation in SMB banking. He has over 25 years of banking industry experience in the fields of Retail Banking, Small Business Banking, Domestic and International Commercial Lending, International Trade Services, and Treasury Management Services. He has previously worked for Capital One, Citizens Banking Corporation, Fifth Third Bank, Huntington National Bank, National City Bank, First Chicago NBD and National Bank of Detroit.

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This webinar is a co-production between VentureBeat and Yodlee.