- Business Banking Innovation
- Business Model Innovation
- Customer Experience Innovation
- Emerging Tech Innovation of the Year
- Neobanks and Fintech Player special awards
- Operations and Workforce Transformation
- Predictive, Generative, and Agentic AI Innovation
- Product and Service Innovation
- Social, Sustainable & Responsible Banking Innovation
- Transformative Innovator of the Year
Business Banking Innovation
This category recognizes banks that are driving breakthrough corporate banking innovation and digitization across channels, cash management, payments, treasury, trade finance, and similar areas. It showcases banks driving such digital innovation to deliver tailored, efficient solutions enabling large corporates, mid-sized businesses, and SMEs.
Gold
District Marketplace
District Marketplace provides a seamless and fully digital experience that allows business banking customers to explore and order financial products...
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New Corporate Homebanking
Millennium bcp’s corporate banking platform turns complexity into clarity, offering SMEs real-time multi-bank views, AI cash flow insights, and fully...
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PIC – Customer Information Platform (medium-sized businesses & corporate segments)
PIC is novobanco’s centralized platform for certified financial data on corporate clients, delivering a single, auditable view that empowers faster,...
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Creative new products and initiatives that transform the bank’s business model to expand or redefine its role in the evolving ecosystem. This category aims to acknowledge banks that have spearheaded transformative efforts to compete in the realm of "new-age banking". This includes scaling novel models like a digital-first proposition, embracing embedded finance, marketplace banking, super apps, BaaS, and similar innovations.
Gold
Facilitea Coches
Facilitea Coches is the first digital platform that unites the automotive and financial sectors in a single platform.
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Speech Analytics Derived Sales Data
Using Speech Analytics, we have successfully crafted a sales strategy focusing on data gathered from customer calls. Successfully, we created...
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SC Ventures (Digital Assets)
SC Ventures by Standard Chartered builds and invests in breakthrough ventures in and beyond banking. SC Ventures provides a platform...
Read moreCustomer Experience Innovation
This category showcases initiatives that leverage a variety of digital technologies to effectively engage clients, fostering a customer-centric approach that elevates loyalty, satisfaction, and advocacy. This includes significant enhancements in the bank’s marketing, sales and distribution, including physical distribution. It also captures management of customer channels, communications, engagement and relationships – both digital and physical.
Gold
New CaixaBank app
The new CaixaBank app transforms the banking experience with an intuitive interface, flexible architecture, and AI-powered smart search. It boosts...
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Standard Bank Trust Call
Trust Call solution is an innovative, in-house security feature designed to empower our clients with greater confidence that they are...
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My Financial Progress
A cornerstone of BMO’s strategy is guiding customers to make Real Financial Progress. Amid economic uncertainity, helping customers plan for...
Read moreEmerging Tech Innovation of the Year
Innovations leveraging modern technology. The convergence of game-changing technologies such as Cloud, Gen AI, Blockchain, Open APIs, IoT, and Mixed Reality brings our imagination of tomorrow’s banking to life. Better technology is always at the heart of every organization’s quest to provide future-ready offerings. This particular award will recognize banks that inspire better banking by architecting the future by making the most of emerging technologies. Think of the new possibilities powered by Cloud, AI, Blockchain, Open APIs, IoT, and Mixed Reality.
Gold
Citi Token Services
Citi Token Services ushers in a new era of processing payments leveraging blockchain, providing an easy and convenient way to...
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Next Generation Cash Pooling
Next Generation Cash Pooling is a Finacle LMS implementation replacing end-of-life cash pooling applications and adding new features for our...
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Siddhi – Burgundy Private’s Integrated Digital Wealth Platform
Siddhi transforms private banking by integrating 35+ systems into one seamless RM platform, ensuring faster, smarter, and secure client servicing.
Read moreNeobanks and Fintech Player special awards
Gold
Allica Bank's Business Rewards Account
Allica’s Business Rewards Account is a more rewarding business bank account, made for established businesses. Offering great value, tools to...
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Wenia
Wenia, from Bancolombia, is the secure and regulated gateway to the crypto world. Buy, sell, and store digital assets like...
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imagin CX Scouting: A Customer-Centered innovation through Empathy Listening
At Imagin, the CX Scouting project powers innovation through Empathy Listening—every employee dives into real customer calls monthly, breaking silos...
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Parabank, The World’s First Digital Bank for People with Disabilities (PwDs), Now with Parainstituto
Parabank is the world’s first digital bank by, with, and for people with disabilities (PwDs), offering innovative and inclusive financial...
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Banking Transformation Excellence
Accelerating Digital Transformation with ZAND Bank’s 100-Day Core Banking Migration on Infosys Finacle
Read moreOperations and Workforce Transformation
This category awards banks that have successfully navigated complexities with process re-engineering and operations, laying groundwork for profitable growth. Initiatives cover scalable processes that drive efficiency to support faster growth for bank’s revenue stream and asset base than for its overhead costs. The category also recognizes pioneering transformative initiatives that empowers their workforce. These projects cover transformation of workforce, employee experience, and overall organization culture in preparing for tomorrow, including the use technology and new approaches that empowers employees.
Gold
Data Guru – The intelligence that connects you to the right data.
At the largest bank in Latin America, the challenge was clear: connect people to data with speed and autonomy. The...
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AROPIS: ML-Driven Transformation for Proactive Management of Banking Operational Devices
Transforms banking operations by turning complex operational processes into proactive, data-driven systems, improving efficiency, reliability, and service quality across the...
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Union Advith
Union Advith: Powering the future of Union Bank of India! Our 10-12-month leadership program transforms frontline & emerging leaders with...
Read morePredictive, Generative, and Agentic AI Innovation
This category recognizes banking initiatives with pioneering AI-driven solutions driving substantial value and business outcomes. It includes initiatives leveraging emerging AI technologies like predictive analytics, generative AI, and agentic AI. The focus is on how these AI capabilities are applied to optimize operational efficiency, enhance decision-making, deliver superior customer experiences, and drive innovation.
Gold
From hype to action: The GenAI incubator story
mBank’s GenAI Incubator goes beyond the AI hype—deploying in-house, reusable tools where they bring the most value. It boosts efficiency...
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AML Analytics
Our AI-driven AML platform combines ML, graph analytics, GenAI, and customer 360° to cut effort by 30%, reduce manual work...
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AI-Driven Stock Insights
Akbank's AI-driven stock insights solution was carefully designed to meet the needs of investors in Turkey, ensuring they can access...
Read moreProduct and Service Innovation
This category showcases innovative products and offerings, developed independently or through collaborative partnerships, that match customers’ evolving digital lifestyles to foster sustainable growth. These include breakthrough concepts that dramatically enhance, transform, or tailor the banks’ offerings to specific market segments across products such as deposits, credit, payments, investments, and advice.
Gold
Bradesco's Decentralized Digital Identity
Bradesco launches Brazil's first Decentralized Digital Identity, which simplifies registration, gives customers total control over their data and makes online...
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Bank of Georgia Ads Manager
Self-service ads manager for merchants, based on transactional data and digital banking channel ecosystem
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NameCheck
NameCheck, an Australian banking first, has prevented $650m in scams, fraud, & mistaken payments. Using CBA’s payment data, it verifies...
Read moreTransformative Innovator of the Year
The winner is a bank or banking group that has successfully achieved a best-in-class transformation approach to create and deliver tangible value. Their corporate vision also commits it to continuous innovation and a journey of digital transformation to ensure the organization remains relevant, agile, and capable of adapting to the ever-evolving business landscape.