Winner phase
Check out who won the 2nd edition of SME Banking AwardsGet familiar with the winners
Every thriving community requires a standard of excellence. That's why, in the wake of numerous successful initiatives in the SME community, we are delighted to introduce the second edition of our exclusive SME Banking Awards.
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2021 Awards timeline
2021 judges
Sue Douthwaite
The Melton
Director
Lawrence Loh
UOB
Managing Director and Group Head, UOB Business Banking
Nina Arkilahti
NORDEA GROUP
Head of Business Banking
Tomasz Górski
Cash Director
Head of Global Strategy
Susan Davies
Santander UK
Head of Business Banking
Michael Lor
Qorus
Senior Advisor, Asia Pacific
Rohit Garg
Emirates NBD
Group Head of Business Banking
Esra Kivrak
Qorus
Executive SME Senior Advisor
GOKHAN KOCA
BBVA
Global Head of SME Discipline
Helene Panzarino
LIBF
Associate Director
Ian Workman
Barclays UK
Managing Director - Head of SME
Nika Kurdiani
Space International
CEO
Dayalan Govender
Nedbank
Managing Executive of Card, Payments and Transactional
Emre Ergun
Vodafone
Chief Customer Operations Officer
Voting criteria
Originality
Why is the solution different? How inventive, innovative, unique and distinguished is the solution in the market?
Internationality
Performance at the cross-country level, the degree of internalization
Impact – Traction
Is the solution capable of generating significant revenue and have strong traction?
Business Potential - Pain solver
How big and important is the business problem and the level of pain being solved? Is this solution going to solve it at scale?
Wow factor
How excited are you about the project?
In 2021 edition...
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6000+
votes were received in total
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13
senior industry leaders acted as judges in 2021
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14
nominees competing for recognition in the SME Banking Awards
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Submissions now open for SME banking awards
Second edition of awards looking to recognize the very best in SME banking.