Join us on June 17, 2026, in Nashua, New Hampshire, for the third annual Fintech Connect—CCUA’s only conference dedicated to fintech, hosted by the Cooperative Credit Union Association in collaboration with the Association of Vermont Credit Unions and the New York Credit Union Association.
Discover how fintechs have evolved from concerns to essential partners for credit unions, revolutionizing member engagement through innovation and technology. This one-day event introduces both emerging and established fintechs, featuring insights from industry experts.
Unlike typical conferences, Fintech Connect prioritizes direct interaction, offering “quick connect” sessions and intimate demonstrations, including the fifth annual Cyber Showcase highlighting four groundbreaking fintechs. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage directly with CEOs and founders of fintech companies, fostering collaboration to enhance credit unions’ ability to deliver new services to members.
Space is limited—secure a spot today and be part of shaping the future of our industry.
Fintech Connect | June 17, 2026
- Credit Union Registration: $229 per person
- Small Credit Union Registration: $183 per person
Registration Deadline
Deadline for all registrations is Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
Be sure to note any special dietary needs, health requirements, and mobility concerns when registering.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be received in writing to the CCUA (info@ccua.org) and Janelle Mullen (jmullen@ccua.org). If received by CCUA on or before Wednesday, June 4, 2026, registrant is entitled to a full refund. Cancellations after this date will incur a $100 cancellation fee. No refunds on cancellations received after Friday, June 12, 2026. Substitute registrants will be accepted at any time without penalty.
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Nearby Hotel
Courtyard by Marriott, Nashua New Hampshire
- Complimentary in-room internet with free high-speed Wi-Fi
- Indoor pool and fitness center access
- On-site restaurant The Bistro with Starbucks® coffee and dinner options
- Business center and meeting space
- Complimentary on-site parking
- Bar/lounge and dining amenities
- Additional comforts and modern room features (desk, mini-fridge, TV)
Hotel Details:
Book your stay for the CCUA Fintech Connect 2026 Conference. For faster check-in, guests are encouraged to join Marriott Bonvoy and enjoy perks like Mobile Check-in and Mobile Key access.
Check back regularly for updates as new sessions featuring industry experts, keynote speakers, panelists, and presenters are added. More details coming soon!
Keynote Session: Details coming soon!
Tamara Laine, Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, Fintech Founder of MPWR, and Business Growth Strategist
Details coming soon!
Cyber Showcase: The Future of Fintech for Credit Unions
Featuring Five Leading Fintechs
Discover cutting-edge fintech solutions at the fifth annual Cyber Showcase, part of Fintech Connect 2026. Featuring AiVantage, Casap, Confer Lending, and Saris AI.
Demo Sessions: FiVerity, True Link, Harness, & Clutch
Harness
Miraj Patel, CEO & Founder
In today’s environment of interchange compression, regulatory pressure, and rising rewards costs, traditional points-based loyalty programs are becoming more expensive to sustain and less differentiated in driving true member engagement. In this live demo, Harness will show how credit unions can replace transactional rewards with mission-aligned, card-linked programs that increase swipe activity, generate sustainable non-interest income, and deliver a meaningful member experience that brings the institution closer to its community impact mission.
Clutch
Kristen Cooper, Enterprise Account Executive of Clutch
See how Clutch empowers Credit Unions to deliver a modern digital experience for account opening and loan applications. In this demo, we’ll showcase how you can launch seamless, mobile-first account opening and lending flows that rival the best fintechs—without overhauling your current systems. From instant identity verification and digital funding to automated decisioning and personalized loan offers, Clutch accelerates growth, improves conversion, and provides the kind of frictionless member experience today’s consumers expect.
Case Study Session: Details coming soon!
Harrison Hochman, Co-Founder & CEO of Sparrow
Tracy Durocher, SVP of Marketing Strategy at St. Mary’s Bank
Details coming soon!
Case Study Session: Details coming soon!
James Chemplavil, Founder at Salus
Details coming soon!
Exciting speakers are being finalized and will be announced soon. Stay tuned for updates on the industry leaders and experts who will take the stage!
Tamara Laine
Emmy Award-Winning Journalist & Fintech Founder
Keynote Speaker
Details coming soon!
Wednesday, June 17th at 9:15 am
Tamara Laine, Emmy Award-winning journalist and fintech founder, is the CEO of MPWR. She is redefining access to credit for gig workers and underserved communities using AI and alternative data, bringing real-world experience in financial inclusion, ethical tech, and startup growth.
Miraj Patel
Founder & CEO at Harness
Harness Demonstration
Wednesday, June 17th at 1:00 pm
Miraj Patel is the Founder and CEO of Harness, a mission-driven fintech platform helping credit unions and nonprofits unlock growth through payments, data, and engagement infrastructure.
With a background spanning marketing, customer experience, and enterprise partnerships, Miraj focuses on helping financial institutions turn everyday transactions into deeper member relationships and measurable community impact. Under his leadership, Harness has built solutions that combine modern card programs, data intelligence, and built-in execution support to drive non-interest income and loyalty.
Miraj is passionate about the intersection of fintech, philanthropy, and sustainable growth, including helping credit unions compete and win in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.
Ryan Nelson
Sales Executive at Harness
Harness Demonstration
Wednesday, June 17th at 1:00 pm
Ryan Nelson is a fintech sales executive at Harness who partners with credit unions to grow card portfolios, increase interchange revenue, and strengthen member relationships. He has worked with over 500 clients, turning everyday card spend into measurable growth and community impact.
Kristen Cooper
Enterprise Account Executive at Clutch
Clutch Demonstration
Open Accounts and Offer Loans like a Fintech
Wednesday, June 17th at 1:30 pm
Kristen Cooper has six years of experience in the fintech mortgage lending space, working with a range of financial institutions before dedicating her expertise to Credit Unions. Now part of Clutch, a CUSO, she is passionate about helping Credit Unions grow and scale in the digital age. Her focus is on growing innovative solutions that attract and engage Gen Z and Gen Alpha, ensuring a bright future for Credit Unions.
Harrison Hochman
Co-founder & CEO at Sparrow
Case Study
Details coming soon!
Wednesday, June 17th at 2:00 pm
Harrison Hochman is the Co-founder, and CEO of Sparrow, the valedictorian of Stanford’s Graduate Engineering Class of 2021, and a member of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. At 13, Harrison raised over $42k dollars to purchase and personally deliver 280 wheelchairs to disabled persons all across South Africa. At 19, Harrison was recognized as 1 of 11 young global leaders in STEM by the esteemed Straubel Foundation. At 21, Harrison started Sparrow in his parents backyard during the height of the Covid pandemic and within 16 months had raised $7M in venture capital, facilitated over $400M in pre-qualified student loans across 30k+ borrowers nationwide. He’s been recognized by Forbes, US News and World Report, the New York Stock Exchange, Business Wire, and Yahoo Finance as a leading entrepreneur at the bleeding edge of fintech innovation.
Tracy Durocher
Senior Vice President of Marketing Strategy at St. Mary’s Bank
Case Study
Details coming soon!
Wednesday, June 17th at 2:00 pm
Tracy Durocher is the Senior Vice President of Marketing Strategy at St. Mary’s Bank where she leads the development and execution of all marketing efforts including brand, digital, and engagement strategies. Tracy is a seasoned marketing executive and strategic innovator with more than two decades of experience in pairing data driven insights with creative storytelling. Throughout her career, Tracy has built and led high-performing teams, aligning marketing with sales, and delivering measurable impact through integrated, multi-channel strategies. Known for her collaborative leadership style, Tracy brings a practical, human-first perspective on how technology, brand, and experience come together to create meaningful impact.
James Chemplavil
Founder & CEO at Salus
Case Study
Details coming soon!
Wednesday, June 17th at 2:30 pm
James Chemplavil is the Co-founder and CEO of Salus, the automated digital underwriting platform that removes unnecessary costs and barriers to real-time microlending. Lenders using the Salus platform have helped thousands of sub-prime microloan borrowers save over $1.7 million versus costlier, predatory alternative loans. Prior to launching Salus, he spent 16 years underwriting high-risk debt in the corporate investment space through multiple credit cycles. In addition to his credit expertise, James has focused his efforts on impacting the underserved as a board member of Classroom Central, a Charlotte-based nonprofit that supports lower-income students in the Charlotte and outlying areas.
Discover the future of fintech for credit unions at the fifth annual Cyber Showcase, hosted as part of Fintech Connect. Featuring four leading companies, these concise sessions showcase cutting-edge products tailored to enhance security and elevate member services.
Dive into the latest advancements, connect with industry leaders, and explore innovative solutions shaping the future of financial technology. Join us at Fintech Connect for the fifth annual Cyber Showcase to stay at the forefront of the technology evolution for credit unions.
Thank you to our Fifth Annual Cyber Showcase sponsor, Silvur!
Meet your Cyber Showcase presenters
AiVantage is a company focused on artificial intelligence research, education, and ethical AI initiatives. Founded in September 2023, AiVantage aims to empower businesses by providing comprehensive solutions that leverage AI and analytics. The company specializes in training teams on widely available AI tools, such as ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot, to enhance productivity and innovation. AiVantage's mission is to bridge the gap between AI tools and their effective application in organizations, ensuring that clients can thrive in a data-driven ecosystem.
Casap is a company focused on automating dispute resolution and fraud prevention within the financial sector. Founded in 2023 by Shanthi Shanmugam and Saisi, Casap leverages AI technology to streamline the dispute process, ensuring compliance and reducing fraud losses. The company serves fintechs, credit unions, and banks, offering a platform that enhances operational efficiency and consumer trust. Casap has raised $33.6 million in funding and is backed by notable investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Emergence Capital.
Confer Lending helps you to bring your lending processes into the 21st century. Our platform empowers financial institutions to automatically deliver pre-approved real-time loan offers to your members over existing online and mobile platforms in a manner that makes these more visible and easier to accept and finalize at the click of a button. This drives conversion while eliminating paperwork making your members happier and your employees more productive.
SaSaris AI is a leading provider of intelligent automation solutions purpose-built for financial institutions, with a strong focus on credit unions. By combining advanced AI, workflow orchestration, and domain-specific expertise, Saris helps credit unions streamline complex, manual operations across lending, compliance, servicing, and member support.
Designed to work seamlessly within existing systems, Saris AI automates high-friction processes such as loan processing, document handling, regulatory workflows, and back-office operations—enabling teams to operate faster, more accurately, and with greater consistency. The platform reduces operational costs while improving turnaround times and audit readiness, helping credit unions better serve their members without increasing headcount.
Saris AI is uniquely aligned with the mission-driven nature of credit unions. By eliminating repetitive work and enhancing operational efficiency, Saris empowers institutions to refocus their resources on member relationships, community impact, and strategic growth.
With a commitment to security, compliance, and measurable ROI, Saris AI partners with credit unions to modernize operations and unlock scalable, AI-driven performance across the enterprise.
Quick Connect is the tailored networking segment of Fintech Connect where credit union leaders engage directly with the visionary minds behind leading fintech companies. During Quick Connect, credit unions have dedicated time to explore technology solutions ideal for their operations and members' needs. Founders and CEOs of top fintech firms await at individual tables, ready to field inquiries and offer personalized insights.
This exclusive opportunity enables credit unions to delve deep into potential solutions, ask pertinent questions, and receive tailored recommendations. Quick Connect promises efficient and meaningful exchanges, fostering valuable connections and potential collaborations. Don't miss this chance to connect with industry leaders and discover the future of fintech innovation.
Meet your 2026 Quick Connect partners:
AiVantage is a company focused on artificial intelligence research, education, and ethical AI initiatives. Founded in September 2023, AiVantage aims to empower businesses by providing comprehensive solutions that leverage AI and analytics. The company specializes in training teams on widely available AI tools, such as ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot, to enhance productivity and innovation. AiVantage's mission is to bridge the gap between AI tools and their effective application in organizations, ensuring that clients can thrive in a data-driven ecosystem.
Arkatechture is a provider of data management and business intelligence services for credit unions. Their flagship solution, Arkalytics, is a data analytics platform that combines a data warehouse, data lake, and fully managed services to transform your credit union's strategy into actionable results. Arkalytics integrates data from key banking systems to create a governed data hub to centralize, manage, share, and analyze data.
Array is an embeddable platform that complements the existing product experience for many of the world’s leading fintechs, financial institutions, and digital brands. Our rapidly expanding suite of financial, credit, identity, and privacy protection products drives acquisition, retention, and revenue for our clients.
Invisible by design, Array is building a future where consumers can count on the brands they already trust to deliver everything they need to fuel financial security, all in one place.
Clutch helps credit unions modernize their lending and deposit processes through a seamless, digital platform. Their solutions empower credit unions to automate workflows, enhance member onboarding, and increase loan conversion rates, providing a streamlined, member-centric experience. With a focus on improving operational efficiency and member satisfaction, Clutch offers tools that drive growth and elevate the digital capabilities of credit unions.
FiVerity offers an AI-driven platform that enables financial institutions to collaborate securely through anonymized fraud intelligence sharing, enhancing the detection and prevention of both known and emerging fraud threats. By integrating advanced machine learning, the platform provides proactive alerts, transparent risk assessments, and automated fraud categorization, thereby improving operational efficiency and compliance. Endorsed by government regulators, FiVerity partners with industry leaders to advance AI-driven financial crime detection and promote a more secure financial system.
Harness partners with credit unions to translate their people-first approach into a competitive advantage. While they’re celebrated for championing local communities and building loyalty, credit unions are seeing these pivotal advantages start to slip away as the industry continues to move toward a digital-focused approach and away from in-person interactions.
That's where we come in. Harness works as the missing link to make sure that credit unions can deepen relationships with members in a meaningful way, utilizing proven digital tools and data-driven insights to help propel member engagement. In practice, we team up with credit unions to help analyze and leverage member spend data to create personalized card engagement programs that are easily implemented at scale.
Merble is an AI platform designed to help credit unions identify lending opportunities and risks earlier within their member base. As members no longer walk into the branch to share about their needs, Merble provides insights into pivotal life moments that trigger financial needs (e.g., home renovations, promotions). With Merble, Credit Unions are there for their members when they need it the most, leading to improved lending outcomes and stronger, long-term relationships.
MPWR is a fintech company delivering a compliance-first AI platform designed to modernize lending. Its policy-driven AI agents automate loan preparation, streamline workflows, and enhance decision-making while maintaining full regulatory oversight.
Built for financial institutions, MPWR integrates with existing systems to improve efficiency, reduce manual work, and support faster, more transparent lending.
The Employers Association of the Northeast (EANE) is a corporate entity dedicated to supporting organizations across New England. With over 1,000 member companies, EANE provides a range of HR and business services, including leadership training, performance management, mental health first aid, and more. The organization is committed to helping employers build engaged, well-managed, and low-risk workplaces through human resources and management advice, survey data, ready-to-use HR templates, training, and consulting. EANE's membership offers a full range of outstanding HR and Business Development Services, ensuring that members can achieve their objectives while also saving time and money.
Quash AI is a fintech company transforming credit decisioning through artificial intelligence and alternative data. Its no-code platform enables financial institutions to make faster, more accurate, and more inclusive lending decisions.
By leveraging machine learning and real-time insights, Quash AI helps lenders reduce risk, streamline operations, and expand access to credit for underserved populations.
Reseda Group helps credit unions thrive by delivering innovative products and solutions to their members and communities. Driven by a shared goal of building better – everything – for members, Reseda Group invests in strategic partners bringing new technologies, digital resources and industry solutions to market.
Saris AI is an AI company transforming operations for banks, credit unions, and financial services. Their AI driven agents automate complex back office tasks like collections, settlements, and loan operations, reducing costs and boosting productivity while ensuring compliance with industry standards. Saris AI helps institutions work smarter, allowing teams to focus on high value, strategic tasks.
Sparrow enables credit unions to deepen member relationships in a world where branch traffic continues to decline and traditional engagement channels are fragmented. Sparrow helps institutions turn disconnected, single-product, and digitally distant members into multi-product relationships through intelligent, automated engagement.
Sparrow's platform leverages member-level data, artificial intelligence, and crowdsourced best-practice templates to identify moments of financial need and deliver highly relevant solutions - all within the credit union’s brand. From indirect auto-loan members to digitally inactive households, Sparrow activates segments that would otherwise remain unengaged.
True Link partners with financial institutions to provide a customizable, tech-forward family banking solution – no technical integration required. Designed for families, older adults, and teens, our 80+ NPS-rated platform helps to drive customer acquisition and loyalty.
Wipfli brings extensive industry experience to provide advisory services tailored to your credit union, so you can focus on serving your members. We provide outsourcing, assurance services, strategic planning, talent management, change management, operations, risk management, regulatory compliance, IT audits, BSA, internal audits, loan portfolio, cybersecurity, digital and technology services.
Presented by Cooperative Solutions, Fintech Connect is a premier event that brings top-tier speakers to credit union professionals and offers exclusive sponsorship opportunities for business partners. This event thrives thanks to the generous support of our sponsor community. Explore our Fintech Connect 2026 sponsors below—click their logos to visit their websites.
For more details on available sponsorships or to register for a sponsorship, please contact solutions@ccua.org.
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Event Sponsors
Building on the success of the 2025 event, CCUA is excited to host the 3rd Annual Fintech Connect conference, a premier gathering of credit union decision-makers seeking innovative fintech solutions to advance their strategic goals. Sponsors will gain access to exclusive opportunities, including options to participate in the 5th Annual Cyber Showcase pitch competition, and demo sessions providing a platform to highlight cutting-edge products and services.
Additional sponsorships such as lunch, breakfast, receptions, and more available by contacting dmartino@ccua.org.
All sponsorships include recognition on digital signage throughout the event, recognition on the event website, social media, and select email communications. Additional sponsorship benefits may apply—see individual items for details.
Exclusive Sponsorships
- Badge and Lanyard Sponsor $2,000: Logo on attendee badges, lanyards, and custom ad on digital agenda. Includes 1 attendee.
- Coffee Sponsor $1,000: Logo on coffee collars used throughout the event.
- Conference Giveaway Sponsor $3,000: Logo on attendee giveaway, event sponsorship displays, and event website.
Event Sponsorships
- Audio Visual Sponsor $1,500: Recognition on digital signage throughout event, logo on event sponsorship displays, and event website.
- Break Sponsor $750: Signage on serving table.
- Breakfast Sponsor $2,000: Signage on serving table. Includes 1 attendee.
- General Event Sponsor $1,500: Includes 1 attendee.
- On-Stage Demonstration $1,200: Showcase your product onstage to credit union leaders. Quick Connect table purchase required. Includes 1 attendee.
- Quick Connect Table $2,000: Dedicated high-top table for guided networking session, ensuring your representative engages directly with every credit union attendee for meaningful, face-to-face interactions. Includes 1 attendee.
