Practical guidance for smarter and more secure SDB management.
The UPPO Annual Conference is the largest gathering of unclaimed property professionals in the country, and SafeChief will be there, this time with a booth. If you’re attending in San Antonio from March 15 to 18 at the Marriott Rivercenter, we’d love to meet you.
A Conference That Feels Like Home
This is the fifth year that Srinivas Alladi, SafeChief’s founder and CEO, will be at UPPO. With two decades of experience in the banking industry, Srinivas has spent years listening to the challenges that banks and credit unions face around unclaimed property, safe deposit box operations, and the compliance workflows that connect the two. UPPO has always been the place where those conversations happen most honestly, and every year we walk away with a deeper understanding of what this community needs.
Over the past couple of years, those conversations turned into something more. We connected with credit unions and banks who were managing force-opens on spreadsheets, tracking dues in paper folders, and relying on institutional memory to stay compliant. The pain was real, and it was consistent across institutions of all sizes. Those interactions shaped SafeChief into what it is today.
What We’re Bringing to San Antonio
SafeChief now offers two purpose-built modules for safe deposit box operations.
Force-Open and Abandonment Management
SafeChief streamlines the Force Open case lifecycle, from identifying eligible Safe Deposit Boxes to capturing evidence, documenting inventory, enabling dual-control approvals, and generating regulator-ready reports. The system organizes and centralizes each step of the process, helping branches manage Force Open cases more efficiently without relying on manual follow-ups or scattered records.
SDB Management Operations
covers the day-to-day work that comes before a force-open: box rental lifecycle tracking, flexible dues scheduling, payment recordkeeping with full audit trails, reconciliation workflows, and operational dashboards that give leadership real-time visibility across every branch.
Both modules are cloud-hosted, designed for fast deployment with minimal ramp-up time, and built to fit into your existing operations without a heavy IT lift. We know that community banks and credit unions don’t have months to spend on implementation, and we built SafeChief with that reality in mind.
More Than Just SafeChief
SafeChief is a product of Yottaflex.ai, a technology company with deep experience building software for banking and financial services. That means when we sit down with you at UPPO, the conversation doesn’t have to stop at safe deposit boxes. At a previous UPPO conference, we connected with an organization facing an entirely separate operational challenge, and our team was able to step in and deliver a solution. That’s the advantage of having a technology partner, not just a point product.
Come Say Hello
If you’re a compliance officer, operations manager, or anyone responsible for unclaimed property at a bank or credit union, stop by booth #4. We’re here because we believe this space deserves better tools, and we want to show you what that looks like.
Find us at UPPO 2026, March 15-18, San Antonio. Learn more at SafeChief.com
