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Banking Tech Awards
4th December 2024
Royal Lancaster Hotel

Congratulations to all the 2022 Banking Tech Awards Winners and Highly Commended

Banking Tech Project Awards Winners and Highly Commended

Best Tech Overhaul

Winner: 

  • Morgan Stanley - DRTAB

Highly Commended: 

  • HSBC - DIGS (Digital Infrastructure Global Services)

Best Tech Overhaul – Changing the Engine

Winner:

  • BNP Paribas - CIB Global Markets IT – EMDEN

Highly Commended:

  • J.P. Morgan - Project Freedom/TRIumph

Best Use of IT in Retail Banking

Winner:

  • Lloyds Banking Group - Core Platforms & Customer Service Transformation - Credit Card Transformation

Highly Commended:

  • Westpac ­– Westpac BaaS and 10x Banking Technology

Best Use of IT in Corporate Banking

Winner:

  • ICICI Bank - ICICI Bank and Infosys Finacle


Best Use of IT in Private Banking/Wealth Management

Winner:

  • Morgan Stanley - Data Transformation Gateway - SparkETL

Highly Commended:

  • VP Bank in partnership with GFT - Tokenisation Platform for VP Bank
  • DBS Bank - Reimagine DBS Treasures Sales & Service Experience

Best Use of IT in Treasury and Capital Markets

Winner:

  • J.P. Morgan - Active Inventory Management (AIM) Cash Optimization

Highly Commended:

  • BPI - App BPI Broker – Revolutionising On-line Stock Market Access

Best Use of IT for Lending

Winner:

  • J.P. Morgan - Pre-approved Lending Offers

Highly Commended:

  • QuickFi by Innovation Finance USA - QuickFi

Best Use of IT for Lending – Mortgage

Winner:

  • Landbay - Landbay


Best Use of IT for SME Lending

Winner:

  • Oxbury Bank Plc - Oxbury Farm Credit


Best Use of IT for Consumer Lending

Winner:

  • Creditstar Group AS - Creditstar Group AS

Best Digital Initiative

Sponsored by Veritran

Winner:

  • Bank of Georgia - SuperApp

Highly Commended:

  • Union Bank of India - Union Bank of India and Infosys Finacle
  • BNP Paribas - CIB Global Markets IT - NOVA

Best Digital Initiative – Lending

Winner:

  • Updraft - Updraft



Best Digital Initiative - New Bank/Brand Launch

Winner:

  • BTG Pactual - BTG Pactual Banking – New Retail Bank


Best Digital Initiative USA

Winner:

  • Bank of America - Life Plan



Best Mobile Initiative

Winner:

  • Novobanco - novobanco Mobile App - Not an App But a Million


Best Mobile Initiative - Investment & Trading

Winner:

  • BPI - App BPI Broker - Revolutionising on-line Stock Market Access

Highly Commended:

  • Saxo Bank - Saxo Bank

Best Mobile Initiative - New Bank/Brand

Winner:

  • Mox with GFT and Thought Machine - Mox Bank

Highly Commended:

  • Aion Bank and Efigence - Aion Bank

Best Mobile Initiative – Payments

Winner:

  • Kivra & Tink - Kivra & Tink partnership

Highly Commended:

  • Payit by NatWest - Payit by NatWest

Best Use of AI

Winner:

  • HSBC - HSBC DRA (Dynamic Risk Assessment)

Highly Commended:

  • Oportun - Oportun Digital Banking Platform


Best Use of AI - Intelligent Assistant

Winner:

  • Caixa Geral de Depósitos – Caixa Digital Assistant



Best Use of Data

Winner:

  • TerraPay - TerraPay

Highly Commended:

  • Siam Commercial Bank - Siam Commercial Bank
  • Morgan Stanley - Morgan Stanley Data Driven Risk Assessment (Technology Change Management)

Best Use of RegTech

Winner:

  • J.P. Morgan - Compliance Hard News Extract

Highly Commended:

  • Morgan Stanley - REACTOR - Surveillance Tuning and Optimization for Transaction Monitoring

Best Use of Fraud Protection Technology

Winner:

  • HSBC - HSBCnet - Preventing APP Scams

Best Use of Cloud

Winner:

  • HSBC - HSBC DRA (Dynamic Risk Assessment)

Highly Commended:

  • Monument Bank Limited - Monument Bank Cloud Platform
  • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) with Red Hat - CIBC Hybrid Cloud Strategy Leveraging Red Hat OpenShift


Best Use of Cloud – USA

Winner:

  • Morgan Stanley - Morgan Stanley’s Hybrid Cloud Swim-lanes

Highly Commended:

  • J.P. Morgan – Payments Platform Migration to Private Cloud

FinTech of the Future – Digital Assets/Blockchain

Winner:

  • VP Bank in partnership with GFT - Tokenisation Platform for VP Bank

FinTech of the Future – Payments

Winner:

  • Soldo - Soldo

Highly Commended:

  • Marqeta - Marqeta
  • Banking Circle - Banking Circle

FinTech of the Future – Start-up Bank/ Banking Service

Winner:

  • Nomo - Nomo

Best FinTech Partnership

Winner:

  • NatWest & Tink - NatWest and Tink Open Banking Partnership

Highly Commended:

  • HyperJar and Modulr - HyperJar and Modulr: The Payments Partnership Delivering a ‘Save Now, Pay Later’ Movement
  • TerraPay and Network International – TerraPay and Network International

Best UX/CX in Finance Initiative

Sponsored by Momentum

Winner:

  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Kit - Kit

Highly Commended:

  • CTBC Bank - Open ATM
  • Bank of Georgia - Design System

Best Green Initiative

Sponsored by Telehouse

Winner:

  • DBS Bank - A Better World, Together - with LiveBetter

Highly Commended:

  • DBS Bank - DBS Newton Green (DNG)

Best Contribution to Economic Mobility in Banking/Finance

Winner:

  • The Mifos Initiative - Mifos Payment Hub EE

Highly Commended:

  • Mcash Uganda Ltd - Mcash-MAAIF project

Best Contribution to Economic Mobility in Banking/Finance for SMEs

Winner:

  • Standard Bank Group - Trader Direct


Best Contribution to Economic Mobility in Banking/Finance for the Next Generation

Winner:

  • MPOWER Financing - ReFi & MPOWER Student Loans

Best Contribution to Economic Mobility in Banking/Finance UK

Winner:

  • OneBanks Hub - OneBanks Hub

FinTech for Good by Financial Institutions

Winner:

  • Standard Bank Group - OneFarm Share


COVID-19 Response by Financial Institutions

Winner:

  • Banco Provincia - Cuenta DNI: A Turning Point In Banco Provincia's History

Highly Commended:

  • Hello Alice - Hello Alice Business For All Initiative

Best Embedded Finance Initiative

Winner: 

  • KLINE - KLINE and Infosys Finacle

Highly Commended:

  • Standard Bank Group - Trader Direct
  • CTBC Bank - Innovative Social Commerce Business Suite

Excellence in Tech Awards Winners and Highly Commended

Best Core Banking Solution Provider

Winner:

  • Temenos - Temenos Open Platform for Composable Banking

Best Digital Solution Provider - Banking Tech

Winner:

  • Infosys Finacle - Infosys Finacle

Highly Commended:

  • Moxo - The OneStop Client Interaction Platform
  • LeapXpert - LeapXpert

Best Digital Solution Provider – LendTech

Winner:

  • Acre Platforms Limited - Acre

Highly Commended:

  • Intellect Design Arena - iKredit360, Intellect Design Arena

Best Digital Solution Provider – PayTech

Winner:

  • DailyPay - DailyPay Pay Balance

Highly Commended:

  • BlueSnap - BlueSnap
  • Airbase – Airbase Spend Management Platform



Best Banking Tech Provider

Winner:

  • Pega – NatWest Holmes Team

Highly Commended:

  • Brim Financial - Laurentian Bank VISA card program re-platform

Best Smart Banking Tech Solution - Fighting Financial Crime and Fraud

Winner:

  • Carefull - Carefull

Highly Commended:

  • Onfido - Onfido Real Identity Platform
  • Symphony AyasdiAI - SensaAML

Best Smart Banking Tech Solution - AI-Driven Data Insights

Winner:

  • SmartStream - Innovations Lab

Highly Commended:

  • Mirato - Third Party Risk Management Intelligence

Best Smart Banking Tech Solution – Innovation

Winner:

  • Car IQ - Car IQ

Highly Commended:

  • Keyless Technologies - Privacy-Preserving Biometric Authentication
  • EY - EY Nexus for Banking

Best Open Banking Solution UK

Winner:

  • Yapily and Emma - Improving Financial Wellbeing Through the Power of Open Banking

Highly Commended:

  • Payit by NatWest - Payit by NatWest

Best Open Banking Solution Europe

Winner:

  • TrueLayer - Open Banking Payments

Highly Commended:

  • Token - Open Banking Enabler for the Payments Industry

Best Open Banking Solution – International

Winner:

  • Torry Harris Integration Solutions - Torry Harris Concierge Bank

COVID-19 Response by Technology Services & Software Providers

Winner:

  • Rapid Finance - SBA Econiomic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program

Leadership Awards Winners & Highly Commended

Women in Technology (W.I.T.) - Banking, Finance & Payments

Winner:

  • Olga Filipenko, ex Executive Director & Chief Digital Officer, Alfa-Bank Ukraine

Highly Commended:

  • Edith Gasana Kutesa, CEO, Mcash Uganda Ltd
  • Anabel Perez, CEO and Co-founder, NovoPayment

Women in Technology (W.I.T.) - Tech/Service Provider

Winner:

  • Daniela Binatti, Co-Founder and CTO, Pismo

Highly Commended:

  • Prema Varadhan, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Temenos
  • Leor Distenfeld, Chief Revenue Officer, OpenFin
  • Luvleen Sidhu, CEO and Founder, BM Technologies (BMTX)

Tech Leadership – Banking, Finance & Payments

Winner:

  • Jimmy NG, Group Chief Information Officer, Head, Group Technology & Operations, DBS Bank

Highly Commended:

  • Alex Mifsud, CEO, Weavr

Tech Leadership – Tech/Service Provider

Winner:

  • Ajay Bhalla, President of Cyber & Intelligence, Mastercard

Highly Commended:

  • Eric Litz, Chief Technology Officer, Delta Data



Rising FinTech Star

Winner:

  • Keshvi Radia, Head of Product, Allica Bank

Highly Commended:

  • Adwait Joshi, CEO/ChiefSeer, DataSeers

Top Tech Team UK – Bank/Financial Institution

Winner:

  • Allica Bank - Payments Team

Top Tech Team – Bank/Financial Institution

Winner: 

  • Bank of Montreal (BMO) - InnoV8 Program Team

Highly Commended: 

  • Barclays - TPR Tech Go live, Barclays Trade & Working Capital Team
  • J.P. Morgan - Portfolio Analysis, Performance & Client Reporting Team

Top Tech Team – Tech/Service Provider

Winner:

  • Form3 - Form3's Engineering Team

Highly Commended:

  • NdcTech - NdcTech's Team for Telenor Microfinance Bank Project

Diversity & Inclusion Excellence

Winner:

  • JPMorgan - takeITforward Operation Storm Shelter

Highly Commended:

  • Paysafe – Paysafe D&I Pillar

Editor's Choice

Winner: 

  • Finova