LendIt Fintech USA 2021 | LendIt Fintech | 27 April 2021 | Virtual

Explore the complexities of our rapidly changing world through insightful sessions focused on the most important trends in banking and lending.

Day 1

The Digital Banking Era Arrives
Digital banking had quite a moment in 2020. The crisis helped to accelerate the shift to digital for all financial services firms and banks proved to be more nimble than we all thought. Now that digital banking is a must have, what’s next? Can digital banks reach scale and challenge large incumbents? Will big banks slash all branches and move forward with a lighter footprint? This track will examine where the digital banking space is headed over the next 5 years.

Day 2

Fintech Reshapes Financial Health
For the first time fintech is starting to make a real impact on financial health. While the pandemic devastated the financial health of the nation overall, we did see more adoption of digital services than ever before. This has led to more awareness of services that are supportive to financial health. But what is next? What areas show the most promise? What is the role of data access? How can we resolve the wild swings in income volatility? Learn from those who are leading the fintech charge to improve financial health in the most challenging of times.

Day 3

What’s Next in Fintech
Decentralized Finance. Quantum Computing. Autonomous Finance. Artificial Intelligence. All these buzzwords are actually becoming key trends within the fintech space as companies and investors look to find the next big thing. This track will gaze into the future and see what’s coming next. How autonomous can finance become? Will quantum computing change fintech? Blockchain technology is quickly pushing into the mainstream, how can DeFi and other blockchain related businesses prove their staying power?

FEATURED KEYNOTES:

Nick Molnar
CEO & Co-Founder, Afterpay

Jennifer Tescher
President & CEO, Financial Health Network

Denny Nealon
CEO, Barclays US Consumer Bank

Jo Ann Barefoot
Cofounder, Hummingbird RegTech, CEO of Barefoot Innovation Group

Mike Cagney
CEO and Co-Founder, Figure

Betsy Cohen
Chairman, FinTech Masala

Steve McLaughlin
Managing Partner, FT Partners

Adam Hughes
CEO, Amount

Colin Walsh
CEO & Founder, Varo Money

Henrique Dubugras
Co-Founder & CEO, Brex

Nigel Morris
Managing Partner, QED Investors

SPEAKERS:

Melissa Alvarado
CMO, Chime

Terry Angelos
Global Head & SVP Fintech, Visa

Jo Ann Barefoot
CEO of Barefoot Innovation Group and Cofounder, Hummingbird RegTech

Philip Bartow
Portfolio Manager & Head of Specialty Finance, Sound Point Capital Management

Peter Berg
VP Business Development & Strategy, Very Good Security

Billy Marsden
Co-founder and COO, Argyle

David Binder
Senior Principal Consultant, FICO

Charles Birnbaum
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

Sam Bobley
CEO & Co-Founder, Ocrolus

Kali Bracey
Partner, Jenner & Block

Asya Bradley
COO, First Boulevard

Catherine Brown
Partner, Klaros Group

Tom Burnside
CEO, LendingPoint

Mike Cagney
CEO and Co-Founder, Figure

Andrei Cherny
CEO & Co-Founder, Aspiration

Larry Chiavaro
Chief Executive Officer, Remitter

Nelson Chu
Founder and CEO, Cadence

Betsy Cohen
Chairman, FinTech Masala

Dipanjan 'DD' Das
Sr. Director, New 2 Credit, Capital One

Sarah Davies
Head of Risk and Analytics, Nova Credit

Amyn Dhala
Vice President, Product Management, AI Express, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard

Paul Diegelman
VP Data Aggregation and Digital Payments, Fiserv

Denelle Dixon
CEO & Executive Director, Stellar.org

Henrique Dubugras
Co-Founder & CEO, Brex

Cetin Duransoy
Chief Operating Officer, Fundbox

David Ehrich
Co-founder & Executive Director, Alliance for Innovative Regulation

Vanessa Famulener
Vice President, HomeLight Cash Close, HomeLight

Timothy Flacke
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Commonwealth

Tim Flacke
Executive Director, Commonwealth

Hari Gopalkrishnan
Client Facing Platforms Technology Executive, Bank of America

Maria Gotsch
President and CEO, Partnership Fund for New York City

Jonice Gray-Tucker
Partner, Buckley LLP

Sanjay Gupta
Vice President, Global Head of Product and Corporate Development, Mitek Systems

Jacob Haar
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Community Investment Management LLC

Christopher Hargrove
Chairman & CEO, ProBank Austin

Nathaniel Harley
Co-founder & CEO, MANTL

Naftali Harris
Co-Founder & CEO, Sentilink

Peter Hazlehurst
Co-Founder & CEO, Synctera

Brian Hirsch
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Tribeca Venture Partners

Sara Hsu
Visiting Scholar, Forbes

Haiyan Huang
Head of Credit Risk, Prosper Marketplace, Inc.

Adam Hughes
CEO, Amount

Jared Kaplan
CEO, OppLoans

Joel Kennedy
Director of Business Development, Nortridge

Melissa Koide
CEO, FinRegLab

Brian Korn
Head of Fintech, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips

Elizabeth Kozack
Co-Head of Consumer Lending, Marcus by Goldman Sachs

Stani Kulechov
CEO, Aave

Ken LaRoe
Founder, CEO, Climate First Bank

Sue Laws
SVP, Business Solutions, Americas, Temenos

Georg Ludviksson
CEO & Co-Founder, Meniga

Christina Luttrell
Chief Executive Officer, IDology

Rebecca Lynn
Co-Founder & General Partner, Canvas

Dan Macklin
CEO, Salary Finance Inc.

Blythe Masters
CEO, Motive Capital Corporation

Steve McLaughlin
Managing Partner, FT Partners

Jeffrey Meiler
Chief Executive Officer, Marlette Funding

Daniel Mezzancello
Vice President Of Business Development, Resurgent

Nick Molnar
CEO & Co-Founder, Afterpay

Daryl Moore
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Executive, Old National Bank

Sergey Narazov
CEO of Chainlink Labs & Co-Founder of Chainlink, Chainlink Labs

Denny Nealon
CEO, Barclays US Consumer Bank

Bruce Nixon
President, Innovis

Lauryn Nwankpa
Head of Social Impact, Dave

Dan O'Malley
CEO, Numerated

Liz Pagel
Senior Vice President, Consumer Lending Business Leader, TransUnion

Leslie Parrish
Senior Analyst, Consumer Lending, Aite Group

Ryan Paul
CEO, Paramount Capital Group, LLC

Kathryn Petralia
President and Co-Founder, Kabbage

Matt Potere
CEO, Sunlight Financial

Prithvi Prabhu
Chief Credit Officer, Avant

Christina Riechers
GM of Business Banking, Square

Rodney Robinson
CEO & Co-Founder, TabaPay

Eric Sager
Chief Operating Officer, Plaid

Art Saitta
Business Development Officer, Ridgewood Savings Bank

Jon Schlossberg
CEO, Even

Eric Schneider
President, BasePoint Capital

Rene Segura
Head of Consumer Lending, FBX, an Informa Financial Intelligence Company

Patrick Sells
Head of Bank Solutions, NYDIG

Ron Shevlin
Managing Director, Fintech Research, Cornerstone Advisors

Billie Simmons
Co-Founder, Daylight

David Snitkof
Head of Analytics, Ocrolus

Stuart Sopp
CEO & Founder, Current

Timothy Spangler
Partner, Dechert LLP

Rania Succar
Senior Vice President, QuickBooks Money Platform, Intuit QuickBooks

Laurel Taylor
Founder & CEO, FutureFuel.io

Jennifer Tescher
President & CEO, Financial Health Network

Vadim Verkhoglyad
Vice President of Quality Assurance, Co-Head of Research and Publication, dv01

Colin Walsh
CEO & Founder, Varo Money

Kain Warwick
Founder, Synthetix

Jason Wilk
CEO & Co-Founder, Dave

Qing Yi Li
Co-founder & Product Lead, Hans Zandhuis, Cheese

Ally Lending
Head of Ally Lending

Mike de Vere
CEO, Zest AI

2021 Sponsors and Partners

PLATINUM:
• Equifax
• Talkdesk

GOLD:
• Brighterion
• Call center Services
• Experian
• Finastra
• FICO
• Finicity
• IDology
• Innovis
• OppFi

SILVER:
• Comply Advantage
• DocuSign
• Fiserv
• GDS Link
• Haitou Global
• LoanPro
• Mambu
• Mitek
• Ocrolus
• TransUnion
• Very Good Security
• Zest

BRONZE:
• Amount
• Centrifuge
• Citadel
• Ippon
• Onfido
• Provenir

ASSOCIATE:
• Alloy
• Argyle
• Armada Labs
• Community Investment Magament
• Dechert LLP
• Ekata
• Explorium
• Hudson Cook
• Instnt
• Jenner & Block
• Neuro-ID
• Rakuten Advertising
• Tax Guard
• Temenos
• TigerGraph
• Trulioo
• Vervent

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• FR
• The Fintech Power50
• The Fintech Times
• ICLG
• London & Partners
• Miami Angels