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Banking Tech Awards USA
May 28, 2026
583 Park AvenueNew York

Congratulations to all the 2026 Banking Tech Awards USA Finalists

Project Awards: For banks and financial institutions

Best Bank & FinTech Partnership

  • Grasshopper & Narmi
  • Huntington Bank & True Link
  • JPMorganChase & Everyday 401(k)
  • M&T Bank & RDC.AI

Best Digital Banking Initiative

  • Arival Bank International Corp
  • Chase: VantageScore Change Reasons
  • F.N.B. Corporation: Driving Customer Primacy

Best Tech Overhaul

  • J.P. Morgan (AWM): Spectrum Portfolio Management Fixed Income Program
  • J.P. Morgan (AWM): Hibiscus NextGen Trade Planning
  • JPMorganChase: Chase Card Services
  • Morgan Stanley: Select UMA Platform: Modernization

Best Use of AI – Customer Focus

  • Ally Financial: Ally's Agentic AI Venture: Personas
  • JPMorganChase: Wealth Management Meeting Assist
  • Red Rocks Credit Union: Roxie
  • Wellby Financial: AI-Powered Member Personalization

Best Use of AI – Internal Operations

  • J.P. Morgan (AWM): Asset Management Guidelines
  • J.P. Morgan (AWM): EDDI (Extraction & Digitized Document Integration)
  • JPMorganChase: Chase Templates Classification with Agentic Workflow
  • Morgan Stanley: AI-Rchitect
  • Morgan Stanley: DevGen.AI – AI Driven Reduction of MTTR (Mean Time To Recover – from Incidents) in Mainframe
  • Morgan Stanley: DevGen.AI - Governed, InnerSource-Built Agentic Pipelines
  • Morgan Stanley: JOLT (Jumpstart Operational Legacy Transformation)
  • Morgan Stanley: SMART Release and Change Process

Best Use of AI – Internal Operations – Enterprise Knowledge

  • Bank of America: Ask Global Payments Solutions (AskGPS)
  • J.P. Morgan (AWM): AskDAVID (Digital Agent View of Insight and Discovery)
  • J.P. Morgan (AWM): SOP Buddy
  • Morgan Stanley: Knowledge Compass

Best Use of Data

  • J.P. Morgan (AWM): Almanac
  • Morgan Stanley: Network Embedded Attribute Tagging (NEAT)
  • US Bank: ARES

Best Use of Tech in Combatting Fraud

  • JPMorganChase: Chase Fraud Protection Services
  • Mastercard: Decision Intelligence Pro
  • Zenus Bank: Zenus Embedded Compliance

Best Use of Tech in Private Banking/Wealth Management

  • J.P. Morgan (AWM): ConnectWealth Portfolio Builder
  • Morgan Stanley: AI@MS
  • Morgan Stanley: Credit Risk Platform
  • Morgan Stanley: Required Minimum Distribution Bookview

Best User/Customer Experience Initiative for Business

  • Arival Bank International Corp
  • Bank of America: CashPro Capital Markets Insights
  • Morgan Stanley: Enterprise Z

Best User/Customer Experience Initiative for Consumers

  • Bank of America: Card Delivery Tracker
  • F.N.B. Corporation: Driving Customer Primacy
  • JPMorganChase: Chase ATM Branch Locator
  • JPMorganChase: Chase Home Screen Orchestration

Top Innovation in Banking – Customer Focus

  • Chase: VantageScore Change Reasons
  • Cross River: Stablecoin Payments
  • Customers Bank: cubiX
  • F.N.B. Corporation: Driving Customer Primacy
  • LendingClub Bank: LevelUp Checking and LevelUp Savings Accounts

Top Innovation in Banking – Internal Operations

  • Morgan Stanley: DataOnDemand
  • Morgan Stanley: LeadIQ - Intelligent Prospect Management
  • Morgan Stanley: ObserveIQ
  • Morgan Stanley: Process Meta
  • Morgan Stanley: TestGen

Excellence in Tech Awards: For software and service providers

Best AI Solution

  • CoinJar: CoinJar AI
  • Communify: MIND™ AI
  • FICO®: Focused Foundation Model
  • HERE Enterprise Browser: AI Center
  • Identifi: Document AI
  • nCino: Analyst Digital Partner
  • Ocrolus
  • Smartstream: Smartstream's Air and Smart Agents
  • Taktile: Taktile's Agentic Decision Platform

Best AI Solution - Mortgage

  • Floify: Dynamic AI
  • Tavant: Touchless®
  • Total Expert: AI Sales Assistant

Best AI Solution – Customer Services, Support & Communication

  • C&R Software: Zelas AI
  • Goal Solutions: SARA (Smart Agent Resource Assistant)
  • LeapXpert: LeapXpert Signals
  • Lyzr AI: Universal Banking Customer Support Agent System

Best AI Solution – Intelligent Workflow Automation

  • Amdocs: Agentic Accelerator - A3
  • Creatio: Autonomous AI Agents for Banking
  • Saris AI: Back Office AI Agents for Financial Institutions

Best AI Solution - Payments

  • Arcot by Broadcom: The Arcot Smart Ruleset
  • Casap
  • PayTic
  • RedCompass Labs: AnalystAccelerator.ai

Best AI Solution - Risk, Regulation & Compliance

  • HGS: AMLens
  • Oscilar
  • Napier AI: Transaction Monitoring - Insights AI

Best AI Solution – Intelligent Build & Automation

  • FIS: EPIC/PREBOT
  • iBusiness: iBuild
  • QualiZeal Inc.: QMentisAI

Best AI Solution – Customer Focus & Engagement

  • Agent IQ: Relationship Banking Platform
  • BOND.AI: Autopilot
  • Carefull
  • TrackStar AI: Revelar
  • Trust & Will: AI Estate Planning Assistant
  • Vertice AI

Best AI Solution – Data Insights and Knowledge Management

  • Abrigo: AskAbrigo
  • Auquan: AI Agents
  • Chargebacks911: Unified Dispute Management System (UDMS)
  • Hapax
  • Kinective: Data Intelligence
  • Trust & Will: Document Extraction
  • Wolters Kluwer: iLien Borrower Analytics

Best Core Banking System

  • COCC: INSIGHT
  • CSI: NuPoint
  • Temenos

Best Customer Experience Solution

  • Align: Align IT Suite
  • ARGO: ARGO Connects
  • GenAspire
  • Glia
  • TaskUs
  • TransUnion: Branded Call Display

Best Digital Banking System

  • COCC: COCC’s Digital Banking Platform
  • Q2 Holdings, Inc.: Q2 Digital Banking Platform
  • Qolo: Virtual Account Management
  • Temenos: Temenos Digital

Best Digital Banking System for Community Banks/Credit Unions

  • Apiture (now part of CSI): Apiture Digital Banking Platform
  • Candescent
  • COCC: COCC’s Digital Banking Platform
  • Skaya Inc: EZ.TECH

Best Digital Trust Solution

  • 1Kosmos: 1Kosmos Platform
  • Chargebacks911: Unified Dispute Management System (UDMS)
  • ParaScript®: ParaScript's Embedded Signature Verification
  • Socure: RiskOS
  • Transaction Network Services: TNS Enterprise Product Suite
  • Trustpair: Global Vendor Bank Account Verification Platform
  • Veriff: Identity Verification Solutions for Financial Services
  • Zumigo

Best Embedded Finance Solution

  • april
  • Extend
  • FinMkt: Point of Sale Financing Solution
  • Infinant: Interlace Platform
  • Paymentus Corporation: Bill CenterSM
  • SAP Taulia: Working Capital Management Suite
  • SavvyMoney
  • Trintech

Best Embedded Lending Solution

  • Fundbox: Capital Infrastructure for Platforms
  • Lendflow
  • SavvyMoney
  • TruStage: Integrated Payment Protection

Best Embedded Payments Solution

  • Corpay Cross-Border Solutions: Corpay Cross-Border Global Integrated Payments
  • EBizCharge
  • Engage People: Loyalty & Rewards
  • Paymentus Corporation: Bill CenterSM
  • Payroc: Payroc Processing Platform
  • Remitian
  • TransferMate: TransferMate Global Accounts

Best LendTech Solution

  • Better.com: Tinman AI Platform
  • Firstsource: Intelligent Loan Management (ILM)
  • iBusiness: Lendsey
  • Setpoint: The Capital Markets Operating System
  • Uplinq Financial Technologies: Uplinq Financial Technologies
  • Waltz

Best LendTech Solution – Commercial Lending

  • EDGE: Cashflow Analytics Across the Consumer Credit Lifecycle
  • EnFi
  • Evalueserve: SpreadSmart
  • Pagaya Technologies Ltd.: PGY Prescreen
  • PowerPay
  • U.S. Bank: Avvance Point of Sale Lending
  • Uptiq: Commercial Lending Agentic AI Suite

Best PayTech Solution

  • Conferma: Conferma Connect Direct
  • CorServ: Turnkey Credit Card Issuing
  • EBizCharge
  • Ecrypt: Dynamic Checkout

Best PayTech Solution for Banks & FIs

  • Alogent: Unify
  • CSG: Data Manager
  • Finastra: Global PAYplus
  • Form3: Form3's Payments Platform
  • PayNearMe: PayNearMe’s Increase Self-Service
  • SWIVEL, an SWBC company: SWIVEL’s Payment Solutions
  • Volante Technologies: Volante Payments Platform

Best PayTech Solution – Fighting Fraud

  • Abrigo: Fraud Detection
  • Arcot by Broadcom: Arcot Payment Security for Issuers
  • Oscilar
  • Paymentus Corporation: Secure Money Movement for A2A Payments

Best Personalization Solution

  • Apiture (now part of CSI): Apiture Data Portal
  • BankingON: Boucoup, White-Label Family Banking Product
  • MX: Financial Wellness Tools and Dashboard
  • Naehas: Naehas Platform
  • Vertice AI

Best RegTech Solution

  • Donnelley Financial Solutions: ActiveDisclosure
  • Elliptic: Blockchain Analytics for Real-Time Risk Monitoring
  • Identifi: Intelligent Document Management Software
  • RapidRatings: FHR for Third Party Risk Management
  • Skaya Inc: A.ID

Best RegTech Solution – Specialist Sector

  • Ascensus: Ascensus’ Fully‑Administered IRA & HSA Platform
  • F&I Sentinel: Managed Solutions for Dynamic Compliance
  • Firstsource: Loan Evaluation Software
  • Green Check

Best RegTech Solution – Communications Compliance

  • LeapXpert: The LeapXpert Communications Platform
  • Sedric
  • Shield
  • T-Mobile For Business: Multiline and Coreline

Best RegTech Solution – AML & Fighting Financial Crime

  • Abrigo: BAM+
  • Flagright: AI Native Transaction Monitoring and AML Compliance
  • Hummingbird: Unified Risk & Compliance Operations Platform
  • Napier AI: Continuum
  • Oscilar
  • Unit21: Agentic Financial Crime Management

Best RegTech Solution – Payments

  • FINBOA: BI-Disputes
  • Innovative Systems, Inc.: FinScan
  • Paymentus Corporation: Account Ownership Identification & A2A Fraud Controls

Best WealthTech Solution

  • Carefull
  • Flourish: Flourish Cash
  • iCapital: iCapital Marketplace
  • InvestiFi
  • LeapXpert: The LeapXpert Communications Platform
  • SEI
  • Seismic
  • SS&C Black Diamond Wealth Solutions: Black Diamond Trust & Retirement Services
  • Trust & Will: EstateOS

Best as-a-Service Solution

  • Align: Guardian
  • Derivative Path: DerivativeEDGE
  • FINBOA: Treasury Onboarding
  • Octane®: Octane's Captive-as-a-Service Solution
  • PerformLine: Multi-Channel Marketing Compliance-as-a-Service
  • Quavo Fraud & Disputes: QFD
  • Raisin
  • SS&C Technologies: SS&C EVOLV

Best as-a-Service Solution in Payments

  • 6lock, Inc.: Verified Money Movement (VMM) as-a-Service
  • Corpay Cross-Border Solutions: Corpay Cross-Border Global Payments Technologies
  • Gr4vy: Infrastructure-as-a-Service for Payment Orchestration

FinTech Start-up of the Year

  • Casca
  • Charm Security
  • InvestiFi
  • LendAPI LLC
  • Oscilar
  • Spade

PayTech Start-up of the Year

  • Flagright
  • KYXStart.Ai
  • Oscilar
  • Payment Labs

Leadership Awards

Tech Leadership

  • Ahu Chhapgar, CTO, Paysafe
  • Chris Cox, EVP & General Manager, CSI
  • Jerry Shu, Co-Founder & CTO, Daylit
  • Pratik Khowala, Global Head of Transfer Solutions, Mastercard
  • Richard A. Leone, Chairman of the Board, CEO & President, COCC
  • Saurabh Joshi, EVP & President, CSG Forte
  • Shravanthi Reddy, Co-Founder & CMO, TERA

Visionary CEO

  • Bruce Lowthers, CEO, Paysafe
  • Lawrence Calcano, CEO & Chairman, iCapital
  • Max Lane, CEO, Flourish
  • Neha Narkhede, CEO & Co-Founder, Oscilar
  • Paul Ricci, CEO, Best Egg
  • Prashant Fuloria, CEO, Fundbox
  • Stephen Baker, CEO, Kinective
  • Vincent J. Delie, Jr., Chairman, President & CEO, F.N.B. Corporation

Visionary Founder

  • Amir Wain, Founder & CEO, i2c
  • Baran Ozkan, Co-Founder & CEO, Flagright
  • Monica Eaton, Founder & CEO, Chargebacks911

Woman in Technology

  • Deborah Overdeput, COO, Innovative Systems, Inc.
  • Linda Fischer, COO, CSI
  • Miriam Sheril, Head of Product: US, Form3
  • Neha Narkhede, CEO & Co-Founder, Oscilar
  • Radhika Balam, Sr. Director, Rev Ops, Fundbox

Tech Team of the Year – Bank/Financial Institution

  • Bank of America: Technology Partnership Development
  • Morgan Stanley: InnerSource Led Modernization Using Agentic AI
  • Morgan Stanley: The Firmwide AI Development Platform (AIDP) Team
  • Morgan Stanley: WIMT AI Team

Tech Team of the Year – Software & Services Provider

  • Alloy Labs
  • FTI Technology: FTI Technology's Blockchain & Digital Assets Practice
  • Fundbox:Fundbox Product Expansion Team
  • i2c: The i2c Client Engagement and Implementation Team

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