{"id":51605,"date":"2018-06-26T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=51605"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:38:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:38:47","slug":"benzinga-fintech-awards-notes-from-the-conference-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/26\/benzinga-fintech-awards-notes-from-the-conference-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzinga FinTech Awards &#8211; Notes from the Conference (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allai.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Allai<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI Appstore for insurance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Products \/ Services<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Online insurance quotes through photos.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google type results for insurance companies \/ policies. \u00a0Ask the AI to produce results for your policy or questions about your policy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For insurance companies, your data never leaves your server.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>A new way for insurance companies to assess and payout claims in a more efficient manner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Allai:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_9\"><span class=\"color_18\">Friction, insurance is filled with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_9\"><span class=\"color_18\">Most Canadians don&#8217;t understand when or what they are covered for and primarily only interact when it&#8217;s the moment of truth\u00a0or during a claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_9\"><span class=\"color_18\">Our mission is to provide ready to use AI capabilities for insurance, to enable Canadian insurers and brokers to simplify the insurance experience\u00a0and delight\u00a0the insured, while helping\u00a0Canadians demystify the complexities of an insurance policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_9\"><span class=\"color_18\">Our team, a talented and innovative\u00a0group made up of cutting edge technology wizards and Canadian insurance industry warriors, have a deep understanding of the\u00a0technology, the\u00a0ethical boundaries and\u00a0regulatory constraints for AI\u00a0in Canadian Insurance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_9\"><span class=\"color_18\">Our AI capabilities cover various areas of underwriting, claims and billing using cutting edge AI tech in computer vision and natural language.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Ravi Koka- <a href=\"https:\/\/stocksnips.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StockSnips<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leveraging AI and machine learning to create news based alternative stock entries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Problem:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are thousands of news articles and snippets for investors to decipher.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">StockSnips Solution<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries of the news items and creating a score \/ level of urgency of to the news.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Helps investors narrow down what is relevant and what is not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is available on Benzinga right now to see the sentiment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tracking sentiment and how it correlates to price.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News sentiment is a provable indicator to stock prices.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About StockSnips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>StockSnips crawls, aggregates and analyzes news related to public companies listed on Nasdaq and NYSE. It reads 50,000 articles a day and filters out the noise and analyzes news sentiment. StockSnips enables you to gain stock insights and track a company\u2019s financial and business operations. It categorizes news snippets by key performance indicators like revenue, sales, earnings.<\/p>\n<p>The app leverages machine learning and big text analytics to classify and attach sentiment to news snippets that are relevant to a company\u2019s performance. The app is the outcome of research conducted by machine learning experts and data scientists in collaboration with active investors and financial experts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hive-project.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hive Project<\/a> &#8211; Ugur Yildirim CFO<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using blockchain to bring invoice buyers and sellers together.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invoice sellers are businesses that get paid 90 days or more after providing their services. \u00a0They need liquidity to keep going.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invoice buyers pay the seller for the invoice at a discount who then hold the rights to the payment once the invoice is paid.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Hive Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A blockchain based platform providing you fast and low-cost liquidity.\u00a0 By applying blockchain technology to factoring, the Hive Project Platform will create a distributed and highly efficient public ledger to open up new sources of finance to SMEs.\u00a0 The cryptographic protection of all accounting entries and the elimination of any duplicates are ensured by the public blockchain ledger accessible through the Hive Project Platform.\u00a0 Hive Project&#8217;s powerful algorithms use blockchain&#8217;s source of the truth to provide the market with financial data about small businesses and third parties that can be relied on.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investcloud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InvestCloud<\/a> &#8211; Yaela Shamberg<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financial Services Focus and Technology Provider<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A move from traditional investment management to online digital wealth management.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">75% of the workforce will be millenials in about 5 years.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They don\u2019t want to meet with an old grey haired man on a quarterly or semi-annual basis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They want full access all the time wherever whenever.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">InvestCloud is a digital financial advice and investment management platform for advisors and institutions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About InvestCloud:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re InvestCloud &#8211; California-based with a global presence, known for first-class, financial digital solutions, pre-integrated in the cloud. 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