Event Profile

Join us for an exclusive showcase event presented by ICBA Innovation in conjunction with the Center for Accelerating Financial Equity (CAFE) Fintech Accelerator. CAFE, a valued member of our accelerator network, whose dedicated focus is on advancing financial health and wellness, particularly for low- to moderate-income (LMI) communities.

Unlike our broader accelerator programs, CAFE’s mission centers on this important and specific topic. This event is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in how innovative technology can help better serve these important customer segments.

Discover how fintech is transforming financial wellness for LMI communities and learn from leaders at the forefront of inclusive financial innovation.

What to Expect:

• Meet Innovative Fintech Founders: Engage directly with entrepreneurs who are developing technologies aimed at expanding access to capital, enhancing financial literacy, and promoting economic mobility.
• Discover Practical Solutions: Explore fintech innovations that can be integrated into your bank's operations to better serve underserved populations and drive community growth.

Presenting Companies:

• BOSS.Tech: Helps banks increase small business deposits with branded, build-free modern fintech that enables businesses to organize fragmented income, expenses, and operations, and better manage their businesses. Helps low- to moderate- income (LMI) owned small businesses demonstrate financial health, access capital, and other services. 
• Free Money Meister: A college-affordability platform that helps students find and manage best-fit external scholarships while enabling financial institutions to support customers and communities with education-funding solutions. By helping close college funding gaps, Free Money Meister expands access to financial resources for LMI students and families. 
• Heka: Prevents AI-driven consumer fraud losses for financial institutions. By distinguishing fraudsters from legitimate applicants, Heka provides consumers with safer, more equitable access to financial services. 
• Linker Finance: Streamlines business onboarding, launches modern digital banking for commercial and retail customers, and helps banks grow deposits, all without requiring a core conversion. Offers technology for a critical part of the financial ecosystem: the community institutions that support local businesses and families across the country. 
• McCarthy Hatch FSAI: Analyzes consumer complaint narratives and regulatory signals to help financial institutions identify emerging patterns of consumer harm, from overdraft spirals to credit reporting errors to unauthorized charges, faster. By surfacing these risk patterns earlier, institutions can remediate problems before they cascade, reducing financial damage to LMI consumers who are often first and hardest hit by compliance failures. 
• SilverShield: Helps financial institutions stop scams before money is lost by giving members instant, 24/7 guidance through text and email while equipping internal teams with real-time scam intelligence. Designed for accessibility and ease of use, SilverShield helps people at greatest risk recognize threats, avoid losses, and protect their financial well-being. 
• Voyager AI: Precision AI that helps community financial institutions say yes to more commercial loans and grow through relationships. When communities have healthy financial systems, they go beyond! 
• WealthMeUp: Embed investing products directly into digital banking experiences, enabling people to start investing with as little as $1 and grow their accounts through everyday shopping rewards. We advance financial wellness by turning financial education into action and make wealth building accessible from the first dollar, using everyday shopping rewards to help members invest even when disposable income is limited.

Duration: 60-minutes

Presented live and recorded on 11/12/26.