Sponsors

Nasdaq Corporate Solutions helps organizations manage and master the two-way flow of information with their audiences.  Around the globe, market leaders rely upon their broad suite of advanced technology, analytics and consultative services solutions to maximize the value of their work—from investor relations and corporate governance to public relations and communications.  To meet the information needs of governance, board and corporate secretary professionals, Nasdaq’s Directors Desk is designed as a comprehensive solution for end-to-end board communications and workflow management with robust features including powerful online meeting agendas, meeting books and document management.  And with their mobile apps, you can leverage the capability of their desktop solution on your iPad and Microsoft Surface tablets.  Decision-makers have the board tools they need available to them, when and where they need them.  With the most current information at their fingertips, board members and meetings can instantly be more effective and efficient.  For more information, please visit www.business.nasdaq.com.

The BancAlliance network is a shared commercial and industrial (C&I) loan platform that identifies, evaluates and refers loan opportunities to its community and regional bank members.  It enables members, the banks that direct the network’s activities, to both acquire high-quality commercial and industrial loans and develop relationships with larger borrowers in their market.  BancAlliance has more than 50 member banks with over $2 billion allocated to the program.  For more information, please visit www.bancalliance.com.

BizEquity is the creator of the industry’s first cloud-based online business valuation platform and service.  Headquartered in Wayne, PA, with satellite offices in Singapore, Sao Paulo and London, BizEquity has valued over 13 million businesses to date and is recognized as the global online leader in business valuations.  For more information, please visit www.bizequity.com.

Established in 1817, BMO Financial Group is a highly diversified financial services provider based in North America.  With total assets of $537 billion and approximately 45,500 employees, BMO provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers.  They also serve customers through their wealth management businesses.  BMO Capital Markets, their investment and corporate banking and trading products division, provides a full suite of financial products and services to North American and international clients.  In the United States, BMO serves customers through BMO Harris Bank, an integrated financial services organization based in the U.S. Midwest with more than two million retail, small business and commercial customers.  For more information, please visit www.bmo.com.

CDW supports 99 percent of the top U.S. banks with the industry’s broadest and deepest technology, solutions and services.  The CDW Financial Services team helps banks integrate and keep current with technology to better manage risk, meet regulatory compliance requirements and audits, improve customer experiences and achieve growth targets.  For more information, please visit www.cdw.com.

Crowe Horwath LLP is one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the U.S., providing audit, tax, advisory, risk and performance services.  Their dedicated team of more than 550 professionals works with financial institutions of all sizes and serves more than 1,100 financial services organizations.  For more information, please visit www.crowehorwath.com/fi.

Deluxe Corporation is a changing, evolving and growing company. Through strategic acquisitions we have created a unique suite of services to help businesses and financial institutions attract and retain customers, including marketing services and payment solutions. We help customers do more than compete against big business – we help them win. For more information, please visit ww.deluxe.com

Ignite Sales, Inc. changes the way banks sell products, service customers and manage channels to meet the competitive demands for improved sales process. Ignite’s patented services combine a recommendation platform with powerful analytics that matches products to customer eligibility.  Comerica, SunTrust and RocklandTrust are a few of the banks utilizing Ignite Sales. For more information, please visit www.ignitesales.com

Ingo Money, Inc. is a leading payments company focused on expanding and accelerating the flow of funds between monetary instruments to provide immediate, guaranteed funding and payment services that fuel consumer adoption of new and existing digital payment platforms.  For more information, please visit www.ingomoney.com.

Austin,Texas-based Malauzai Software develops mobile banking SmartApps designed for community banks and credit unions that are easy to manage and easy to measure.  The solution is geared toward institutions looking to create revenue opportunities via the mobile channel.  Success is based on a simple formula; delighted customers and members are more satisfied, buying more products, and referring more business. For more information, visit www.malauzai.com

For over 40 years, McLagan has specialized in providing compensation consulting, surveys and performance studies to the financial services sector.  McLagan’s client base includes the leading global financial service firms, regional/community banks, investment banks, securities firms, investment management organizations, private equity firms and other specialized financial service providers.  McLagan emphasizes a balanced analytical approach developing and implementing total rewards solutions that focus on board governance assessments, business strategy, financing, tax and accounting considerations to guide clients in their decision making.  McLagan has successfully completed thousands of compensation advisory, planning, design and benchmarking assignments for its clients.  For more information, visit www.mclagan.com.

Paladin fs, LLC is a national research and consulting firm possessing a proprietary knowledge base of market intelligence and pricing data — a “Blue Book” — on all outsourced services sold by every Core & IT service provider in the U.S.  CEOs and CFOs improve their negotiating strength by calling Paladin before their vendor when considering a contract renewal or purchasing new services and products.  For more information, please visit www.paladin-fs.com.

PrecisionLender is a web-based pricing solution used by thousands of lenders daily to price nearly $6 billion in loans and deposits each month.  With PrecisionLender, loan officers can have constructive conversations focusing on the borrower’s needs allowing them to hand-craft a solution that works for both the borrower and bank.  For more information, visit www.precisionlender.com.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP provides comprehensive assurance, tax and advisory M&A services from pre-deal due diligence to post merger integration effectiveness.  They assist clients with their most challenging and complex issues.  For more information, visit www.pwc.com.

River Branch Capital LLC is an investment bank focused on financial services.  They are dedicated to providing customized solutions to their clients.  Their knowledge and experience, complemented by their national and international dealings and relationships, allow them to uniquely serve the needs of their clients.  They concentrate their efforts on a select group of partnerships and situations where they can add particular value.  For more information, please visit www.rbhllc.com.

StrategyCorps delivers game-changing mobile, online and other consumer checking related solutions to hundreds of financial institutions nationwide.  These innovative solutions deepen customer relationships by connecting with customers’ mobile and online lifestyles better than basic banking.  Plus, they monetize mobile and online banking with significant customer-friendly fee income and grow customer adoption rates of these services.  For more information, please visit www.strategycorps.com.

Yseop is a software company that provides an Artificial Intelligence platform which allows customers to develop AI applications autonomously.  Yseop’s software automates reasoning, intelligent dialoging and writing through two product lines: Smart NLG and Smart Machine.  Both products boost revenue, reduce costs and increase productivity.  Yseop is a global leader trusted by companies across the Fortune Global 500.  For more information, please visit www.yseop.com.