rewrite this title Five Fintechs Helping Banks Build and Launch Better Financial Products – Finovate

Launching and scaling new products isn’t as simple as developing a new tool and making it live. There are plenty of tasks that need to be considered alongside the actual product release, including governance and compliance, marketing and social campaigns, consumer testing and surveying, finding and fixing vulnerabilities, and consumer follow-up.

At FinovateSpring 2026 in San Diego, we’re hosting five fintechs that are making this next phase of product launches possible. Check out the variety of capabilities and learn more about the companies behind them below.

PentEdge

PentEdge AIMS gives community banks and credit unions an examiner-ready AI governance platform that’s purpose-built for the $500 million to $100 billion institutions navigating federal AI risk guidance. Founded in 2025, the North Creek, New York-based company delivers a real-time scoring dashboard with a view of AI exposure across a portfolio, offers pre-built vendor AI risk profiles, and provides audit-ready PDFs for examiners.

Intention.ly

Intention.ly’s Advisor Brand Builder (ABB) helps firms build a differentiated brand, website, and content engine in a matter of days to enable advisors to attract ideal clients and outpace competitors. Among the company’s engagement options are a diagnostic assessment, a fractional CMO and COO, an outsourced marketing team, and more. Headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Intention.ly was founded in 2021.

PwC

Customer Link by PwC offers banks a set of “synthetic customers” through which they can test products, pricing, and experiences. Firms can use results to quickly generate quant data and turn survey crosstabs into clear, segment-specific growth actions.

Founded in 1998, PwC provides clients with a wide range of capabilities, including consulting, cybersecurity, AI, audit, and more. The company is headquartered in New York.

Rezliant

Rezliant’s Maestro Pulse helps fintechs, payment providers, and small financial institutions automatically fix security vulnerabilities in their codebases, PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data flows, and API integrations. The company provides contextualized triage of fintech vulnerabilities, automates remediation of multiple critical flaws simultaneously, and delivers effortless two-click fixes directly from email notifications.

Headquartered in Mesa, Arizona, Rezliant was founded in 2023.

Kato

Founded in 2024, Kato helps lenders scale with compliance-first automation. The San Francisco-based company’s technology helps firms reduce servicing costs up to 80%, increasing recoveries by 1%, and freeing agents to focus on high-value work.

Why banks should care

While it seems like the hard work of a new product launch is the planning and development phase, the reality is that execution is where most initiatives succeed or fail. Banks are expected to move faster, create and develop more frequently, and deliver better customer experiences. Doing so, however, requires navigating compliance requirements, validating product-market fit, securing systems, and effectively bringing products to market.

Platforms that support these adjacent functions help reduce the friction that often slows product launches. They enable banks to move from idea to execution more efficiently, while minimizing risk and ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations. In an environment where speed and precision both matter, having the right infrastructure around product launches can be the saving grace that changes a product from a failure into a success.

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