nCino’s 2023 Hackathon: Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation

Home lenders of all sizes across Australia and New Zealand are facing significant headwinds from many directions. But times of great disruption and complexity can unearth new opportunities for challengers to take the lead. The big question is: how can they achieve this?

Challenges and Opportunities Recent findings suggest that building software platforms in-house has fallen short in meeting digital transformation objectives for a significant 70% of financial institutions. To bridge this gap, a shift towards the adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms is necessary. These resources make enterprise-level technology accessible to financial institutions of all sizes, leveling the playing field.

However, a successful transition to SaaS platforms demands more than just adoption. It requires a culture of partnership and collaboration, underpinned by speed and agility in decision-making and execution. Choosing the right home lending platform involves a careful evaluation of the vendor's finance domain expertise and technical implementations, ensuring that the chosen platform has the potential to transform operations.

By Justin Norwood,
Vice President, Data & AI, nCino

The introduction of Apple’s transformative product in 2007 was a moment that changed the future. Like the now iconic iPhone, the launch of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard have captured the public’s imagination, launching an explosion of applications and experiments across nearly every industry, from business and commerce, to art and government.

For many of these use cases, the “how” behind the AI model isn’t particularly relevant. If you ask ChatGPT to compose a wedding invitation in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet, you don’t necessarily need to understand how AI can instantly conjure the right rhyme scheme.

A wedding invitation is one thing; a financial institution’s credit lending decision is quite another. When it comes to such high stakes decisions, understanding the inner workings of the model is vitally important—even required. For those use cases, explainable AI is the solution.

SYDNEY -- 21 September 2023 -- nCino Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), a pioneer in cloud banking for the global financial services industry, today announced that Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, a leading Australian bank, has selected nCino to enhance and simplify their business banking operations. This decision was part of the bank’s broader strategy to reduce complexity in its operations, deliver the best experience for their customers and employees, and accelerate growth.

nCino is a cloud-based, purpose-built banking platform that will help Bendigo and Adelaide Bank achieve their digital transformation goals by automating processes, facilitating the Bank’s ability to enhance compliance, and empowering its bankers. By introducing nCino into their operations, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank will leverage intelligent automation, streamline processes, deliver a faster time to decision and enable their bankers to devote more time on building relationships with customers.

Credit unions play a vital role in their communities by offering their members important financial services like loans and savings accounts. A key component of credit union operations is the lending technology members and employees use.

nCino enhances efficiency to support growth ambitions while helping ensure data security at the Tokyo-based financial institution

Tokyo and Wilmington, NC -- 12 SEPTEMBER 2023 -- nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), a pioneer in cloud banking for the global financial services industry, today announced that The Nomura Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (Nomura Trust), a Japanese trust bank and wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., has successfully implemented and is live on the nCino Cloud Banking Platform. This development marks a significant step forward in Nomura Trust's modernization journey.

Established in 1993, Nomura Trust provides trust and banking services, and currently has over ¥50 billion in capitalization. The bank recognized the need to modernize its operations to better serve its customers in the future and achieve key business objectives including eliminating inefficient operations, ensuring data security, integrating, and centralizing data, and better utilizing deal information.

After careful consideration, Nomura Trust chose nCino for its robust CRM capabilities, end-to-end loan approval functionality, and flexible cloud-based implementation. The platform also provides capabilities of customer-centric data management with improved security, which enables high-value-added services to customers and can help the bank drive top line growth.

At nCino, two of our core values are “Be a Winner” and “Have Fun,” and our annual Hackathon is one way we live these values while fostering friendly competition and pushing the boundaries of innovation.

A Hackathon is a social coding event where individuals or teams come together to collaborate on solving problems and creating innovative solutions to real problems facing bankers. Over the span of a short time frame, typically between a day and a week, participants use their skills and creativity to brainstorm ideas and build prototypes. At the end of the event, teams present their projects to the broader company, with focuses on themes such as coding, design, social impact, and artificial intelligence (AI).

During nCino’s Hackathons, employees are able to showcase their abilities and build platforms, products, and tools for networking, learning, and driving innovation. These events also encourage teamwork, experimentation, and rapid problem solving to foster a competitive yet collaborate environment.