Congratulations to all the 2023 Banking Tech Awards Winners and Highly Commended
Banking Tech Project Awards Winners and Highly Commended
Best Tech Overhaul – Back Office
Sponsored by: SS&C Intralinks
Winner:
- Bank of America - Virtual on-Watch
Best Tech Overhaul – Front Office
Winner:
- J.P. Morgan - Freedom/Triumph
Best Community Bank/Credit Union Modernization
Sponsored by Veritran
Winner:
- Locality Bank - Digital-First Community Bank
Highly Commended:
- The Bank of Missouri - Aspire Bank Initiative
Best Use of Tech in Banking
Winner:
- Grasshopper Bank - Grasshopper Bank
Best Use of Tech in Private Banking/Wealth Management
Winner:
- J.P. Morgan Wealth Management - Wealth Plan
Highly Commended:
- Stash - Stash Core
Best Use of Tech in Lending
Winner:
- Drip Capital Inc - Drip Capital's working capital solutions for cross-border traders
Best Digital Initiative
Winner:
- J.P. Morgan Wealth Management - Wealth Plan
Highly Commended:
- J.P. Morgan – ENGAGE
Best Mobile Initiative
Winner:
- Bank of America - EMPaaS: Enterprise Mobile Platform as a Service
Highly Commended:
- WECU - Mobile Banking Refresh - Charting a New Course
Best User/Customer Experience Initiative
Winner:
- Discover Financial Services - Discover Personal Loans Site Redesign
Best Use of Data
Winner:
- Harris Associates - Harris Associates: Benefits of Implementing a Smart Data Fabric
Best Bank & FinTech Partnership
Winner:
- U.S. Bank - An efficient, end-to-end solution for the Minnesota Frontline Worker Pay Program
Highly Commended:
- The Clearing House, EarnIn and CBW Bank - On-demand pay through the RTP network
- First United Bank & Trust and Finotta - Personified
Best Contribution to Economic Mobility
Winner:
- Earnest - Going Merry by Earnest
Highly Commended:
- Oportun – Oportun
Top Innovation
Winner:
- MPOWER Financing - MPOWER Financing - Propriertary Algorithm
Highly Commended:
- Merrill Wealth Management - Mobile Advisor Experience (MAX)
Excellence in Tech Awards Winners & Highly Commended
Best Core Banking System
Winner:
- CSI - CSI NuPoint® Core
Best Digital Banking System – Retail Banking
Winner:
- Amount - Amount Consumer Solutions
Highly Commended:
- Jack Henry - Payrailz Pay a Person
Best Digital Banking System – Business Banking
Winner:
- Dragonfly Financial Technologies - Universal Online Banker
Best Payments System
Winner:
- PayQuicker - Payouts OS
Highly Commended:
- Sila - Sila ACH API
Best Embedded Finance System
Winner:
- SavvyMoney - SavvyMoney Credit Score Solution
Highly Commended:
- BOND.AI - The BOND Network
Best Embedded Finance System – Lending
Winner:
- QuickFi® - QuickFi® by Innovation Finance USA
Best Embedded Finance System – as-a-Service
Winner:
- BM Technologies (BMTX) - BM Technologies (BMTX) Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) Platform
Tech of the Future
Winner:
- Zero Hash - Zero Hash - crypto-as-a-service
Highly Commended:
- Traceable AI - Traceable API Security Platform
- Instnt - Instnt AcceptTM
FinTech of the Future – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Winner:
- Zenarate - Zenarate AI Coach
Highly Commended:
- Brighterion, a Mastercard company - Market-Ready Models
AML & Compliance Tech of the Future
Winner:
- Phonemix (aka Fincom) - AML Sanctions Screening for immediate payments and transactions
LendTech of the Future
Winner:
- Peach Finance - Infrastructure for tomorrow's lending products
FinTech of the Future – Data & Insights
Winner:
- Provenir - AI-Powered Data and Decisioning Platform
FinTech of the Future – Customer Engagement & Experience
Winner:
- Backbase - Engagement Banking Platform
Tech of the Future – Identification, Authentication & Verification
Winner:
- Socure - Socure ID+ Identity Verification and Fraud Platform
Highly Commended:
- SentiLink - Identity Theft Solution
Workflow Tech of the Future
Winner:
- Katipult – DealFlow
FinTech Start-up of the Year
Winner:
- Argyle - Argyle
Highly Commended:
- Future - FutureCard Visa Debit Card
FinTech Start-up of the Year - Investment & Trading
Winner:
- Pipe – Pipe
FinTech Start-up of the Year – Lending
Winner:
- Uplinq Financial Technologies - Uplinq Financial Technologies
FinTech For Good
Winner:
- MPOWER Financing - MPOWER Financing Global Citizens Fund: Providing Scholarships To International, DACA & Refugee Students
Highly Commended:
- Biz2Credit - Biz2Credit Project involvement to assist underserved SMB owners
Leadership Awards Winners & Highly Commended
Woman in Technology (W.I.T.) – Bank/Financial Institution
Winner:
- Gitanjali Nistala, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan
Woman in Technology (W.I.T.) – Software & Services Provider
Winner:
- Kathleen Perrotte, CEO, ActiveViam
Highly Commended:
- Luvleen Sidhu, Chair, CEO and Founder, BM Technologies (BMTX)
- Elaine McKiernan, Executive Vice President of Global Business Development, Numerix
Woman in Technology (WIT ) - Payments Software & Services Provider
Winner:
- Martha Salinas, Chief Commercial Officer, TreviPay
Tech Leadership – Bank/Financial Institution
Winner:
- Tracy Kerrins, CIO - Consumer Technology, CIO - Wells Fargo - Consumer Technology
Highly Commended:
- Casey Franz, Managing Director, Head of Merrill Platforms & Capabilities, Merrill Wealth Management
- Shell Adams, Shell Adams, Citigroup Inc.
Tech Leadership – Software & Services Provider
Winner:
- Johnny Ayers, Founder and CEO, Socure
Highly Commended:
- Jonathan Wilk, Chief Executive Officer, CompoSecure
Rising Tech Star
Winner:
- Satyam Kancharla, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Numerix
Tech Team of the Year
Winner:
- SS&C Intralinks - Intralinks Professional Services
Highly Commended:
- Northern Trust - Chaos Engineering
Editor's Choice
Winner:
- Vikar Technologies, Inc - Peapack-Gladstone Bank Enterprise Account Opening and KYC Solution