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Fall Conference Season for Fintech Kicks Into Gear This Month

Fall is conference season for fintech professionals and there are many great events to choose from, here is a quick rundown

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Now, that Labor Day is behind us, the kids are back in school and the days are getting shorter. Fall will be here before we know it and for fintech professionals fall is conference season with a number of major events happening around the globe. While LendIt Fintech USA happens in the spring many, if not most, of the other major fintech events of the year are in the fall. Here I bring you a brief rundown of some of this season’s major fintech conferences. Where we have partnership arrangements we have provided a discount code for you. I am providing this list in chronological order.

ABS East

When: Sept 22-24, 2019
Where: Miami, FL
Link: https://www.imn.org/structured-finance/conference/ABS-East-2019/
Discount code: LEND10

The 25th annual ABS East event kicks off the fall conference season in Miami. It is the leading fall conference for the structured finance industry and they have added a fintech component to the event in recent years. Here is what ABS East has to say about their event:

ABS East attracts over 4,000 attendees annually and is the site of thousands of 1:1 private investor and issuer meetings, making it a major catalyst for structured product deal flow in the U.S. Issuers looking to market their latest offerings and investors seeking yield in the ABS market will have many opportunities to connect pre, during and post-event using our unique 1:1 meeting software, in the exhibit hall and attendee lounges, and in dedicated public and sponsor-hosted private meeting spaces. A must-attend event, ABS East is a platform that informs, engages and delivers a competitive edge for the entire U.S. structured finance community.

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Planning for LendIt Fintech USA 2020 is Underway

The biggest show in lending and digital banking returns to New York City next year, launch pricing ends Friday

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Even though we are still nine months away the LendIt Fintech team is already hard at work producing our biggest event of the year. LendIt Fintech USA will be held in New York City on May 13-14 next year at the Javits Center. After two years in San Francisco we will be back in the finance capital of the world where we are expecting our biggest audience ever.

Registration for LendIt Fintech USA opened earlier this month and we have already had a flurry of activity with many people taking advantage of the special launch price of $1,695. That is a savings of $1,300 off the full price of a ticket. But to take advantage of this steep discount, you need to act soon. The launch pricing will end at midnight on Friday, so register now.

What will we be covering next year? Regular attendees will know that we have the broadest and deepest content in both lending and digital banking and we will continue that next year. Here is an initial look at the themes we will be building our agenda around:

New Themes
  • The Small Business Fintech Ecosystem
  • Revolution at the Point of Sale
  • New Approaches to Capital for Growth Businesses
  • Digital Banking Goes Mainstream
  • New Systems for Identity and Trust
  • Applying Fintech to Financial Wellness
Back by Popular Demand
  • Credit & Underwriting Innovation
  • The Latest in Consumer Lending
  • How Small Business Lending is Evolving
  • Digital Real Estate Offerings
  • The Evolution of Fintech Partnerships
  • How Regulation Can Keep Up With Fintech

We are just starting outreach to potential speakers so if you want to be part of our exclusive speaker roster please submit your idea here. We are pleased to have already secured our first three keynote speakers: the Chairman of the FDIC, Jelena McWilliams, Jo Ann Barefoot of Barefoot Innovations Group and Rishi Khosla of UK fintech unicorn OakNorth.

Lend Academy Readers Always Receive a 15% Discount

As always, as a Lend Academy reader you can save an additional 15% off the already discounted launch price. When you register just enter the code LENDACADEMYVIP at checkout.

We look forward to seeing everyone when the industry gathers for the 8th annual LendIt event next year in New York City.

Introducing LendIt’s New Latin American Event in Miami

FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech will take place in Miami on December 3-4, launch pricing ends tomorrow

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FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech

One of the hottest areas on the globe right now for fintech is Latin America. There is plenty of VC money flowing into this region and fintech is getting the lion’s share. And the debt investors are also beginning to focus on Latin America. Brazil’s leading digital bank, Nubank, became the most valuable private fintech company on the planet (outside of China) when it secured its latest funding round. And there are many other fantastic success stories throughout the region.

Many of you have reached out to us at LendIt Fintech asking us to bring our unique event experience to the Latin American market. For these reasons, last week we launched of our first ever Latin American event. We are partnering with Finnovista, the leading fintech event company for Latin America, to bring you FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech. This English language event will take place in Miami on December 3-4 at the JW Marriott Marquis.

We have already secured keynote speakers from some of the leading companies in the region such as Creditas, Clip, Softbank, Guiabolso and we are just getting started. We will be covering the digital banking ecosystem, lending innovation, payments and the cutting edge of fintech. If you are interested in speaking please fill out a speaker application.

Launch Pricing to FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech Ends Friday

The special launch price of $795 for this new event is in effect until August 16 (that is tomorrow as I publish this). As always, as a Lend Academy reader you can receive an additional 15% discount by using the code LENDACADEMYVIP at checkout. The discount code is always good for 15% off but you will receive the best pricing if you purchase before midnight on August 16. You can register now on the LendIt website.

Register Now for LendIt Fintech Europe 2018 in London

Launch pricing for the 5th annual LendIt Fintech Europe event ends tomorrow

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LendIt is returning to London for the fifth time in November for the LendIt Europe show. Now known as LendIt Fintech Europe, to reflect our broadening scope beyond lending, it will be held on November 19 & 20 at a new location, the Business Design Centre. We are expecting well over 1,000 people at the event this year.

Planning has been underway for a month or so now and we have finalized the list of topics we will be covering:

Day One – November 19

  • Future of Banking
  • Legal and Regulatory Issues
  • Credit, Risk and Identity
  • Future of Fintech

Day Two – November 20

  • Lending Innovation and Financial Inclusion
  • Blockchain
  • Investing & Entrepreneurship
  • AI & Data Analytics.

While we have expanded beyond lending rest assured that lending will still be front and center at the event. We have seen a blurring of the lines between lending and other areas of fintech as banks offer online lending, lending platforms become banks and neo-banks now partner with lending platforms. As the online lending industry has matured we are broadening our purview.

In the last month we have started reaching out to potential speakers and we will be adding new speakers regularly over the next several months.

Signature Keynote Speaker: Rt Hon George Osborne CH

I am pleased to report that we have secured a signature keynote speaker for this year, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne. When he was in government he was always very bullish about fintech and he was the driving force behind the new Innovative Finance ISA. I am looking forward to hearing his thoughts on open banking, bitcoin, blockchain, AI in financial services, Brexit, the current direction of the financial regulatory landscape in Britain and more.

More keynote speakers will be announced shortly as we expect to have the best speaker lineup ever this year with many people who have never presented at LendIt before.

What Else to Expect at LendIt Fintech Europe 2018

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Wrap-Up of LendIt Fintech USA 2018

Highlights from the many keynotes and more at LendIt Fintech USA 2018 held in San Francisco April 9-11

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Peter Renton, Bo Brustkern and Jason Jones open LendIt Fintech USA 2018

Last week the sixth annual LendIt USA conference took place in San Francisco. Officially known as LendIt Fintech USA 2018 this event was, in my opinion, the best we have ever produced. As I do at this time after every LendIt event, here are my thoughts on some of the ideas that were shared by the keynote speakers as well as a summary of the rest of the event.

The opening keynote, for the second year in a row, was delivered by Scott Sanborn, the CEO of LendingClub. He gave a different kind of presentation this year. He didn’t talk much about LendingClub at all, instead choosing to focus his keynote on financial health and the looming crisis that maybe coming. He gave us all something to consider beyond just disruption, he said we should think about three key areas: financial inclusion, regulatory innovation and customer alignment. He ended with a call to action for the industry. He wanted everyone to focus on what problem you are solving and what you can do to help restore financial health to all Americans.

Scott Sanborn, the CEO of LendingClub, delivers the opening keynote at LendIt Fintech USA 2018

For the first time ever we had the CEO of Quicken Loans, Jay Farner, on stage at LendIt. Quicken Loans has become the largest mortgage lender in the country, bigger than all the banks. It was interesting to hear Jay talk about innovation. He said it is not enough today to just be faster. You need to fundamentally rethink the process, do it in a new and different way. This is where good entrepreneurial businesses will succeed because they start with a blank sheet of paper. He said there is no reason a mortgage should take longer than 10 days.

Long time readers of Lend Academy will know the name Chris Larsen. He was the co-founder and former CEO of Prosper. He left Prosper in 2012 to start Ripple, his most ambitious startup yet. Ripple is trying to revolutionize the way money is sent around the world. As he said in his discussion with Jo Ann Barefoot in finance, when it comes to moving money, we are living in a pre-internet world. It takes days to send money around the world and yet email moves instantly. It is inevitable that this will change and when it does Chris said there will be a Cambrian explosion in innovation and economic development.

Max Levchin first made a name for himself as a co-founder of PayPal but today he is most well known as the CEO and co-founder of Affirm. Affirm is attacking point of sale financing, a space that is somewhat fragmented with few big incumbent lenders. In his discussion Max said that software is eventually going to eat the credit card. We are going to move to payments made by phone but we have more work to do on the software side before that becomes the standard way people pay. Interestingly, he also attacked the APR (annual percentage rate) standard as a bad way of judging credit products. We need to reinvent a way to compare financial products that is not just focused on the APR.

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Nominations for the 2nd Annual LendItFintech Industry Awards are Live!

Next year the LendItFintech Industry Awards Dinner will recognize leaders in fintech.

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Since its inception, LendItFintech, a sister company to Lend Academy, has been more than just a conference producer. We pride ourselves on our written content both here at Lend Academy as well as the conference content at our events across the globe. We engage with the industry on a deep level to create the best events possible.

Last year when we were determining which new projects we should pursue we decided to dedicate resources to put on the inaugural LendItFintech Industry Awards Dinner. The entire LendItFintech team put on a fantastic event. It was great to recognize the companies leading in all areas of fintech and the executives that run those companies. You can view last year’s winners here. The atmosphere of the event is best captured in our recap video below.

The team is already hard at work putting our 2018 event together. Yesterday, we announced that nominations for the LendItFintech Industry Awards Dinner are now open. The dinner will be held on April 10, 2018 at One Market in San Francisco and the event will celebrate 500+ Fintech influencers and innovations and their outstanding achievements in 21 categories. We encourage fintech companies from around the world to apply for the categories that are the best fit.

  • Fintech Innovator of the Year
  • Executive of the Year
  • Fintech Woman of the Year
  • International Innovator of the Year
  • Top Consumer Lending Platform
  • Top Business Lending Platform
  • Top Real Estate Lending Platform
  • Emerging Lending Platform of the Year
  • Top Fintech Equity Investor
  • Most Innovative Bank
  • Most Promising Partnership
  • Most Innovative Mobile Technology
  • Top Professional Services Company of the Year
  • Top Investment Bank in Fintech
  • Best Journalist Coverage
  • Blockchain Innovator of the Year
  • The Most Innovative Token Economy
  • Excellence in Financial Inclusion
  • Top Emerging Technology Company
  • Top Enterprise Company
  • Most Successful Cross-Border Partnership

We have already confirmed thought leaders from the industry who will be judging the various awards categories. Beyond recognizing the success of the companies chosen as winners, the event serves as a unique networking opportunity. We hope to see you there next year!

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