Congratulations to the 2026 winners!
Project Awards: For banks and financial institutions
Best Bank & FinTech Partnership
Winner:
Huntington Bank & True Link
Best Digital Banking Initiative
Winner:
Chase: VantageScore Change Reasons
Best Tech Overhaul
Winner:
JPMorganChase: Chase Card Services
Best Use of AI – Customer Focus
Winner:
Wellby Financial: AI-Powered Member Personalization
Best Use of AI – Internal Operations
Winner:
J.P. Morgan (AWM): Asset Management Guidelines
Highly commended:
Morgan Stanley: DevGen.AI – AI Driven Reduction of MTTR (Mean Time To Recover – from Incidents) in Mainframe
Morgan Stanley:JOLT (Jumpstart Operational Legacy Transformation)
Best Use of AI – Internal Operations – Enterprise Knowledge
Winner:
Bank of America: Ask Global Payments Solutions (AskGPS)
Best Use of Data
Winner:
Morgan Stanley: Network Embedded Attribute Tagging (NEAT)
Best Use of Tech in Combatting Fraud
Winner:
Mastercard: Decision Intelligence Pro
Best Use of Tech in Private Banking/Wealth Management
Winner:
Morgan Stanley: Credit Risk Platform
Best User/Customer Experience Initiative for Business
Winner:
Arival Bank International Corp
Best User/Customer Experience Initiative for Consumers
Winner:
JPMorganChase: Chase Home Screen Orchestration
Top Innovation in Banking – Customer Focus
Winner:
Cross River: Stablecoin Payments
Top Innovation in Banking – Internal Operations
Winner:
Morgan Stanley: LeadIQ - Intelligent Prospect Management
Editor's Choice - Banks and Financial Institutions
Winner:
M&T Bank & RDC.AI
Excellence in Tech Awards: For software and service providers
Best AI Solution
Winner:
FICO®: Focused Foundation Model
Highly commended:
Communify: MIND™ AI
Smartstream:Smartstream's Air and Smart Agents
Best AI Solution - Mortgage
Winner:
Tavant: TOUCHLESS®
Best AI Solution – Customer Services, Support & Communication
Winner:
Lyzr AI: Universal Banking Customer Support Agent System
Best AI Solution – Intelligent Workflow Automation
Winner:
Amdocs: Agentic Accelerator - A3
Best AI Solution - Payments
Winner:
Casap
Best AI Solution - Risk, Regulation & Compliance
Winner:
HGS: AMLens
Best AI Solution – Intelligent Build & Automation
Winner:
iBusiness: iBuild
Best AI Solution – Customer Focus & Engagement
Winner:
Agent IQ: Relationship Banking Platform
Highly commended:
Vertice AI
Best AI Solution – Data Insights and Knowledge Management
Winner:
Chargebacks911: Unified Dispute Management System (UDMS)
Highly commended:
Kinective: Data Intelligence
Best Core Banking System
Winner:
CSI: NuPoint
Best Customer Experience Solution
Winner:
TransUnion
Highly commended:
Glia
Best Digital Banking System
Winner:
Q2 Holdings, Inc.: Q2 Digital Banking Platform
Best Digital Banking System for Community Banks/Credit Unions
Winner:
Candescent
Best Digital Trust Solution
Winner:
Socure: RiskOS
Highly commended:
Trustpair: Global Vendor Bank Account Verification Platform
Veriff: Identity Verification Solutions for Financial Services
Best Embedded Finance Solution
Winner:
SavvyMoney
Highly Commended:
april
SAP Taulia: Working Capital Management Suite
Best Embedded Lending Solution
Winner:
Lendflow
Best Embedded Payments Solution
Winner:
TransferMate: TransferMate Global Accounts
Highly commended:
Remitian
Best LendTech Solution
Winner:
Better.com: Tinman AI Platform
Highly commended:
Uplinq Financial Technologies
Best LendTech Solution – Commercial Lending
Winner:
EnFi
Best LendTech Solution – Consumer Lending
Winner:
PowerPay
Best PayTech Solution
Winner:
Conferma: Conferma Connect Direct
Best PayTech Solution for Banks & FIs
Winner:
PayNearMe: PayNearMe's PayXMTM Platform
Highly commended:
Finastra: Global PAYplus
Best PayTech Solution – Fighting Fraud
Winner:
Oscilar
Best Personalization Solution
Winner:
Naehas: Naehas Platform
Best RegTech Solution
Winner:
Elliptic: Blockchain Analytics for Real-Time Risk Monitoring
Best RegTech Solution – Specialist Sector
Winner:
Ascensus: Ascensus’ Fully‑Administered IRA & HSA Platform
Best RegTech Solution – Communications Compliance
Winner:
Sedric
Best RegTech Solution – AML & Fighting Financial Crime
Winner:
Hummingbird: Unified Risk & Compliance Operations Platform
Highly commended:
Unit21:Agentic Financial Crime Management
Best RegTech Solution – Payments
Winner:
Innovative Systems, Inc.: FinScan
Best WealthTech Solution
Winner:
Flourish: Flourish Cash
Highly commended:
InvestiFi
Trust & Will: EstateOS
Best as-a-Service Solution
Winner:
PerformLine: Multi-Channel Marketing Compliance-as-a-Service
Highly commended:
Derivative Path: DerivativeEDGE
FINBOA: Treasury Onboarding
Best as-a-Service Solution in Payments
Winner:
Corpay Cross-Border Solutions: Corpay Cross-Border Global Payments Technologies
FinTech Start-up of the Year
Winner:
Spade
Highly commended:
Casca
PayTech Start-up of the Year
Winner:
Flagright
Editor's Choice - Software & Service Providers
Winner:
Firstsource
Leadership Awards
Tech Leadership
Winner:
Jerry Shu, Co-Founder & CTO: Daylit
Highly commended:
Ahu Chhapgar, CTO, Paysafe
Visionary CEO
Winner:
Neha Narkhede, CEO & Co-Founder, Oscilar
Highly commended:
Lawrence Calcano, CEO & Chairman, iCapital
Paul Ricci, CEO, Best Egg
Visionary Founder
Winner:
Monica Eaton, Founder & CEO, Chargebacks911
Woman in Technology
Winner:
Miriam Sheril, Head of Product: US, Form3
Tech Team of the Year – Bank/Financial Institution
Winner:
The Firmwide AI Development Platform (AIDP) Team, Morgan Stanley
Tech Team of the Year – Software & Services Provider
Winner:
Fundbox Product Expansion Team: Fundbox
Editor's Choice - Leadership
Winner:
Richard A. Leone, Chairman of the Board, CEO & President, COCC