This site is part of the Informa Connect Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 3099067.

Finovate Awards
September 9, 2025
Winners announced at FinovateFall 2025

Congratulations to all the 2025 Finalists

Awards for Banks and FIs only:

Best Anti-Fraud/AML Solution

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

Best Banking as a Service Provider

  • Grasshopper Bank
  • Zenus Bank
  • Zindigi - JS Bank

Best Consumer Lending Solution

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

Best Customer Experience Solution

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

Best Digital Bank

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

Best Financial Mobile App

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

Best Marketing/Customer Acquisition Solution

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

Best Wealth Management Solution

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

Awards for Banks, FIs, and Fintechs:

Best Consumer-Facing Payments Solution

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

Best Corporate Payments Solution

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

Best Enterprise Payments Solution

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

Best Fintech Partnership

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

Best Generative AI Solution

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

Best ID Management/KYC Solution

  • Digital Gateways
  • Incode Technologies
  • Proof
  • Youverse

Best Insurtech Solution

  • Clearwater Analytics
  • Flourish
  • Quantiphi
  • Simply Business

Best RegTech Solution

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

Best SMB/SME Banking Solution

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

Excellence in Financial Inclusion

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

Excellence in Sustainability

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

Most Impactful AI-Based Solution

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

Awards for Fintechs and Tech Firms only:

Best Alternative Investments Solution

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

Best Back-Office/Core Services Solution

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

Best Embedded Finance Solution

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

Top Emerging Fintech Company

  • KashKick
  • TRU
  • Winnow
  • XYB
  • Zeplyn

Awards for Individuals:

Executive of the Year

  • 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

  • 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