2023 Sponsors

Sponsorship & Exhibitor Opportunities 2023

Affirm, Inc.

At Affirm, we’re using today’s technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. We focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products.

Affirmative Technologies

Our ePayments Risk Management Platform removes manual and decentralized payment channel style risk management and monitoring from a spreadsheet and automates your program across all payment channels. Affirmative’s Platform offers robust reporting dashboards giving an at-a-glance measurement of your growth and your corporate customers/members. We provide you a proactive risk mitigation approach using business intelligence and predictive analytics to identify increased risk exposure before reactive remediation is necessary. When automatically managing and monitoring return rates, risk reviews, exposure limits, risk ratings, and many other tasks, our current customers have experienced significant growth of originators and their processing without the need to add additional staff.

Alkami Technology

Alkami is a leading provider of cloud-based digital banking solutions. Alkami’s solutions reshape the modern banking landscape by delivering bold and innovative digital capabilities to U.S. banks and credit unions.

Barret School of Banking

We are dedicated to helping our banking students excel in receiving an excellent community bank educational experience to the benefit of both the student and their sponsoring community bank employer. The Paul W. Barret, Jr. School of Banking is a non-profit independent school created by and governed by a Board of Regents, whose members are executives from banks and other firms involved with the financial services industry. Our mission is to provide a world-class learning experience for the career-oriented individual in commercial banking or a related financial services industry business.

Corporate America Credit Union

“Different Starts Here is our motto” – but what exactly does that mean? It means we think differently, act differently and treat our members differently with a common goal – to truly add value to your organization. Corporate America Credit Union is a dedicated, not-for-profit financial cooperative governed by a board of directors elected from and by our member-owner credit unions. With nearly 500 credit unions across the nation, we boast a comprehensive list of products and services including investments, liquidity solutions, and payment services. Our priority is our members’ future success.

D D & F Consulting Group

Times change. Trends come and go. 25+ years in, our mission – to make our clients successful – stands firm.

Founded on the principles of integrity, honesty, fairness and a desire for good stewardship of our skills and expertise, DD&F has built a team of seasoned experts in expansionary, strategic, bank performance and risk management services. And with hundreds of clients across the country, bit and small, banks, thrifts, credit unions, regional and community, state and national, investor groups and attorneys, we earn your trust and confidence every day because we are guided by principles. We want to leave banking better than we found it.

Federal Reserve Bank

The Federal Reserve Banks are the nation’s largest ACH operator, with nearly 40 years of experience and ACH expertise. As a leader in electronic access to services, the Reserve Banks are committed to developing innovative options to meet your changing needs. Our combination of high dependability, security and innovation enables you to provide the best ACH services to your customers.

FPS Gold

FPS GOLD has been developing banking software for over 55 years. We provide a full range of products for financial institutions of all sizes, including wire transfer, instant payments, core banking, online and mobile banking, and content management systems. Our commitment to our customers doesn’t stop with our products; we also provide unmatched customer support to ensure your success. Our custom-tailored solutions are designed to meet your needs and provide you and your customers with the best experience possible.

Identifee

Identifee is the connected platform for financial services that performs the tasks of multiple systems better, faster, and for a fraction of the cost.

Juniper Payments, LLC

Juniper Payments delivers payment services through correspondent and direct relationships with banks and credit unions throughout the US. Our modular solutions are utilized by more than 3,000 financial institutions daily, driving payments from origination to delivery both foreign and domestic.

Louisiana Corporate Credit Union

Louisiana Corporate Credit Union combines innovative technology with traditional personal attention to serve the investment, correspondent, and liquidity needs of over 100 credit unions. The corporate has a national field of membership, is federally insured, and is regulated by the National Credit Union Administration and the Louisiana Office of Financial Institutions.

Magic-Wrighter, Inc.

Established in 1982, Magic-Wrighter has been recognized as a payments industry leader and is the longest-standing independently owned ACH service provider in the U.S. This longevity has provided us with unrivaled experience and also a distinctive understanding of trends in the payments industry. Over 900 financial institutions, 4000 businesses, 500 municipalities and 5000 schools have selected Magic-Wrighter as their payments technology partner.

Unlike most third party service providers, Magic-Wrighter is truly a single-source partnership for all your electronic payments solutions. We are unique in our ability to provide not only the payment platform but also the integrated processing for ACH and Credit/Debit Card. Magic-Wrighter’s PCI/DSS Level 1 Certification and NACHA compliance ensures payment data is secure and eliminates the need for a separate third-party processing provider.

Magic-Wrighter’s multi-channel payment solutions help you gain access to new markets, improve account retention and create new opportunities. Additionally, our payment processing services can be integrated to other third-party platforms, core systems, online banking portals, accounting systems, municipal software, and other payment applications.

Nacha

Nacha governs the thriving ACH Network, the payment system that drives safe, smart, and fast Direct Deposits and Direct Payments with the capability to reach all U.S. bank and credit union accounts. More than 29 billion ACH Network payments were made in 2021, valued at close to $73 trillion. Through problem-solving and consensus-building among diverse payment industry stakeholders, Nacha advances innovation and interoperability in the payments system. Nacha develops rules and standards, provides industry solutions, and delivers education, accreditation, and advisory services.

Pidgin

Pidgin is a faster payments platform with a uniquely powerful administration portal, user-centric front-end applications, and developer-friendly APIs.

Pidgin translates the language of faster payments for everyone to achieve a best-in-class experience. Whether it's your core, favorite technology partners, or the payment rails you use, we're mapping the route to your payments strategy.

Q2

Q2 is a financial experience company dedicated to providing digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance, and fintech companies in the U.S. and internationally. With comprehensive end-to-end solution sets, Q2 enables its partners to provide cohesive, secure, data-driven experiences to every account holder – from consumer to small business and corporate. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Q2 has offices throughout the world and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the stock symbol QTWO. To learn more, please visit Q2.com [http://www.q2.com/.

Sawyers & Jacobs LLC

Sawyers & Jacobs LLC helps banks in four major areas: innovation, risk management, cybersecurity, and technology. Our mission is to help our clients use technology securely, effectively, and profitably to better serve their customers, comply with laws and regulations, contain costs, and compete. We make banks better. To learn more, visit sawyersjacobs.com, call (901) 853-1000, or email jsawyers@sawyersjacobs.com.

SHAZAM

SHAZAM is a national member-owned debit and surcharge-free ATM network, processor and core provider. Founded in 1976, SHAZAM delivers choice and flexibility to community financial institutions throughout the U.S. and is a single-source provider of the following services: debit card, credit card, core data processing, ATM, merchant, marketing, risk management and ACH. Learn more at shazam.net, and follow @SHAZAMNetwork.

The Clearing House

The Clearing House operates U.S-based payments networks that clear and settle more than $2 trillion each day through wire, ACH, check image, and instant payments. It is the nation’s most experienced payments company, with a long track record of providing secure and reliable systems, payments innovation, and strategic thought leadership to financial institutions. Most recently, The Clearing House has revolutionized U.S. payments infrastructure with the RTP® network, which supports the immediate clearing and settlement of payments, along with the ability to exchange related payment information across the same secure channel. These RTP capabilities enable all financial institutions to offer safer, faster, and smarter digital transaction services for their corporate and retail customers. Learn more at www.theclearinghouse.org.

Unity FI Solutions

We are a Financial Technology (FinTech) company and payment processor, which allows us to provide customized solutions, tailored to our clients and their business needs. For over two decades, our company has been a trusted provider of payment solutions to major players in the Childcare, Finance, and Healthcare industries. Our fully integrated payment platform is designed to help business owners improve their cash flow, reduce operational costs, and take advantage of new opportunities.

Visa, Inc.

Visa Inc (Visa) is a global digital payment technology company that serves individual and commercial clients, financial institutions, government entities, and merchants. It facilitates global e-commerce through digital payments and information.