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Finovate Awards
September 9, 2025
Winners announced at FinovateFall 2025

Congratulations to all the 2025 winners!

Awards for Banks and FIs only:

Best Anti-Fraud/AML Solution

Winner:

  • Oscilar

Finalists:

  • Capital One
  • Millennium bcp
  • Oscilar
  • Refine Intelligence
  • Sumsub
  • Zenus Bank

Best Banking as a Service Provider

Winner:

  • Zindigi - JS Bank

Finalists:

  • Grasshopper Bank
  • Zenus Bank
  • Zindigi - JS Bank

Best Consumer Lending Solution

Winner:

  • Wisetack

Finalists:

  • Best Egg
  • Better.com
  • Citi Pay
  • Financial Plus Credit Union
  • Millennium bcp
  • Wisetack

Best Customer Experience Solution

Winner:

  • Millennium bcp

Finalists:

  • Bank of Montreal
  • Millennium bcp
  • novobanco
  • Owners Bank

Best Digital Bank

Winner:

  • Nubank

Finalists:

  • DBS Bank Hong Kong
  • Grasshopper Bank
  • Nubank
  • Piermont Bank

Best Financial Mobile App

Winner:

  • DBS Bank

Finalists:

  • Comviva & Global Money Exchange
  • DBS Bank
  • Mahalo Banking
  • Oportun
  • Plynk
  • Zindigi JS Bank

Best Marketing/Customer Acquisition Solution

Winner:

  • Bank of Montreal

Finalists:

  • Bank of Montreal
  • BOND.AI
  • Galxe
  • Naehas
  • VyStar Credit Union

Best Wealth Management Solution

Winner:

  • Flourish: Enabling Wealth 3.0

Finalists:

  • Daffy
  • Flourish: Enabling Wealth 3.0
  • Frec
  • Monefit
  • RBC Clearing & Custody
  • Thrivent

Awards for Banks, FIs, and Fintechs:

Best Consumer-Facing Payments Solution

Winner:

  • Engage People

Finalists:

  • Bank of Montreal
  • Engage People
  • FIS
  • Sipay Electronic Money and Payment Services Inc.
  • Universal Processing
  • Zip Co

Best Corporate Payments Solution

Winner:

  • TransferMate

Finalists:

  • Brim Financial
  • Kickfin
  • Orum
  • Papaya Global
  • TransferMate
  • Verituity

Best Enterprise Payments Solution

Winner:

  • Checkout.com

Finalists:

  • Brim Financial
  • Checkout.com
  • EBizCharge
  • J.P. Morgan Payments
  • SWIVEL
  • VizyPay

Best Fintech Partnership

Winner:

  • Engine by Starling, GFT Technologies & Salt

Finalists:

  • Brim Financial and Continental Bank
  • Engine by Starling, GFT Technologies & Salt
  • KeyBank
  • Lincoln Savings Bank & Qapital
  • Pulsate
  • Wildfire Systems, Inc

Best Generative AI Solution

Winner:

  • DataVisor

Finalists:

  • DataVisor
  • DBS Bank
  • LeapXpert
  • mBank S.A.
  • Morgan Stanley

Best ID Management/KYC Solution

Winner:

  • Incode Technologies

Finalists:

  • Digital Gateways
  • Incode Technologies
  • Proof
  • Youverse

Best Insurtech Solution

Winner:

  • Clearwater Analytics

Finalists:

  • Clearwater Analytics
  • Flourish
  • Quantiphi
  • Simply Business

Best RegTech Solution

Winner:

  • Innovative Systems (FinScan)

Finalists:

  • CyberUpgrade
  • Hummingbird
  • Innovative Systems
  • Persado
  • ThetaRay
  • Winnow

Best SMB/SME Banking Solution

Winner:

  • Apiture

Finalists:

  • Apiture
  • BILL
  • Casca
  • Finom
  • iBusiness Funding
  • Millennium bcp

Excellence in Financial Inclusion

Winner:

  • PayJoy

Finalists:

  • Bloom Credit
  • PayJoy
  • Sipay Electronic Money and Payment Services Inc.
  • Snap Finance
  • Tricolor
  • VyStar Credit Union

Excellence in Sustainability

Winner:

  • VyStar Credit Union

Finalists:

  • Sipay Electronic Money and Payment Services Inc.
  • Transact + CBORD
  • VyStar Credit Union

Most Impactful AI-Based Solution

Winner:

  • Talkdesk

Finalists:

  • Feedzai
  • Talkdesk
  • ThetaRay
  • Uplinq Financial Technologies
  • Westpac
  • WorkFusion

Awards for Fintechs and Tech Firms only:

Best Alternative Investments Solution

Winner:

  • InvestiFi

Finalists:

  • Alto
  • GoodFin
  • InvestiFi
  • iTrustCapital
  • Monefit
  • Sand Hill Road Technologies Fund

Best Back-Office/Core Services Solution

Winner:

  • SAP Fioneer

Finalists:

  • Amdocs
  • COCC
  • SAP Fioneer
  • Teslar Software
  • TransUnion
  • Treasury Prime

Best Embedded Finance Solution

Winner:

  • Union Credit

Finalists:

  • Array
  • Paystand
  • Synctera
  • TransferMate
  • Union Credit
  • Zenus Bank

Top Emerging Fintech Company

Winner:

  • Winnow

Finalists:

  • KashKick
  • TRU
  • Winnow
  • XYB
  • Zeplyn

Awards for Individuals:

Executive of the Year

Winner:

  • Raj Seshadri, Mastercard


Finalists:

  • Paul Ricci, Best Egg
  • Richard Leone, COCC
  • Jon Wilk, CompoSecure
  • Nimish Panchmatia, DBS Bank
  • Rachelle Kippe, Financial Plus Credit Union
  • Ray Chalub, Inter&Co
  • Cynthia Chen, Kikoff
  • Raj Seshadri, Mastercard

Innovator of the Year

Winner:

  • Chandini Jain, Auquan

Finalists:

  • Chandini Jain, Auquan
  • Jeremy Lappin, Candex
  • Scott Zoldi, FICO
  • David Mitchell, Owners Bank
  • Alexandra McLeod, Parlay
  • Sergio Álvarez Teleña, SciTheWorld
  • Laura Newell-McLaughlin, Transact + CBORD
  • Kai Stinchcombe, True Link