The tenth Annual FinTech & Banking Awards 2025 will likely be held in Sydney on Thursday thirty first July 2025 at Ashurst’s new Sydney CBD premises at 39 Martin Place.
“We’re delighted to welcome international Tier 1 legislation agency, Ashurst, as our Awards Associate; Ashurst has supported these Awards since their inception, and so this marks the tenth anniversary of their assist; I wish to thank the Companions at Ashurst within the Digital Financial system Group, particularly Stuart Dullard, for his or her ongoing assist of this occasion which recognises the entrepreneurs and nice companies within the fintech and banking sectors,” stated Glen Frost, Founding father of the FinTech & Banking Awards.
“Expertise is such an thrilling excessive progress sector – over the previous twelve months AI and Gen AI have boomed and are radically altering finance. Recognising this pattern, the FinTech & Banking Awards have an “AI in FinTech and Banking” award class; this is likely to be for shopper providers akin to credit score evaluation, or fraud detection, or institutional banking, akin to excessive frequency buying and selling or giant information set evaluation, for instance,” stated Frost.
Australian FinTech is as soon as once more the Media Associate for the Awards
DETAILS:
Occasion: tenth Annual FinTech & Banking Awards 2025
Web site: www.fintechawards.internet
Awards Evening: Thursday thirty first July 2025
KEY DATES:
Submissions Open: Monday twenty sixth Might 2025
Submissions Shut: Thursday tenth July 2025
Finalists Notified: Thursday twenty fourth July 2025
Awards Evening: Thursday thirty first July 2025
Contact Glen Frost for any enquiries re submissions or sponsorships: [email protected]
Award Classes for 2025:
1 BEST DIGITAL SAVINGS or TRANSACTION ACCOUNT
Description: This class is for a Financial institution or FinTech providing a service over and above the competitors; Judges are on the lookout for product and tech innovation inside the Financial savings and/or Transaction Account class.
2 BEST DIGITAL HOME LOAN INNOVATION
Description: This award recognises a house mortgage that gives a brand new or considerably improved service that implements know-how to convey advantages to both lenders and/or debtors, or lending marketplaces. Examples may embrace an progressive use of credit score modelling, information parts and/or an improved consumer expertise, or innovation within the distribution channel (eg brokers).
3 BEST DIGITAL BANKING FOR BUSINESS
Description: This award recognises a brand new or considerably improved service that implements know-how to convey advantages to enterprise banking prospects. This covers all areas of enterprise banking; accounts, treasury, lending, FX, credit score / debit playing cards, spend administration providers, merchandise akin to financial institution ensures, cyber / fraud safety, e-commerce / service provider providers, in addition to asset / portfolio administration.
4 BEST USE OF TECH IN COMBATTING FRAUD
Description: This award class recognises the function that know-how performs in combatting fraud in banking and finance. Submissions ought to clearly state the world of focus, the success achieved in addition to a ‘plain-English’ description of the know-how resolution.
5 BEST USE OF AI in FINTECH & BANKING
Description: The Judges are on the lookout for one of the best use of Synthetic Intelligence (AI) in a fintech and banking; AI can supply machine-learning human-like providers at scale, and might embrace correct and sooner resolution making, clever buyer assist, fraud detections, monetary recommendation, and claims administration, and extra.
6 BEST YOUTH FINANCE APP or SERVICE (PFM, saving, funding, funds)
Description: The fintech or financial institution supplier providing one of the best mixture of providers (financial savings accounts, funding accounts, data), reductions, schooling, premium providers/pricing and different sights for the youth market. This award class may also embrace submissions for providers designed for kids (usually 10-18) in addition to younger folks (usually 18-30).
7 BEST INNOVATION IN PAYMENTS
Description: This award class recognises innovation in funds, together with on-line funds (retailers and shoppers), cellular funds, in-store terminals, embedded cost providers, greatest use of AI for fraud, worldwide funds, and use of Open Banking & CDR providers.
8 BEST INVESTMENT PLATFORM/APP
Description: The award recognises Australian’s thirst for buying and selling shares, ETFs, FX, bonds, digital currencies and extra. The Judges are on the lookout for innovation with instruments, consumer expertise, charges, customer support (eg dwell chat), app join time, biometric check in, inventory alerts and progress metrics. Consumer rankings on the Apple and Google Play Shops are additionally thought-about.
9 BEST CORE BANKING SYSTEM
Description: This Award class recognises the platform of alternative for banks to handle all facets of product creation and distribution, speedy deployment, regulatory compliance, stability, ‘5 9s’ availability, letting the financial institution concentrate on operational excellence and state-of-the-art buyer expertise. This may very well be a core banking system for a brand new / neo-bank, or a digital banking transformation.
10 BEST FINTECH-BANK PARTNERSHIP
Description: The Judges are on the lookout for partnerships, particular tasks, or merchandise, that showcase how a financial institution (listed banks, ADIs, Buyer Owned Banks) and a fintech agency are working collectively. Banks can embrace non-Banks concerned in monetary providers and controlled by ASIC (or APRA). One occasion within the submission have to be an ADI.
11 YOUNG LEADER OF THE YEAR (Below 35)
Description: The Judges are on the lookout for an excellent particular person below 35 years of age who has persistently contributed to the development of the fintech and banking sectors.
12 FEMALE LEADER OF THE YEAR
Description: The Judges are on the lookout for an excellent feminine particular person who has persistently contributed to the development of the fintech and baking sectors.
13 LEADER OF THE YEAR
Description: The Award Judges are on the lookout for an excellent particular person who has persistently contributed to the development of the fintech and banking sectors.
14 BEST GROWTH STORY
Description: This Award celebrates a fintech or neo-Financial institution that’s going gangbusters! This class is open to any Australian fintech / ADI that may reveal they’re attaining nice issues in Australia and/or world wide (metrics may embrace new market progress, consumer progress, income, downloads and so on).
15 STARTUP OF THE YEAR
Description: The Judges are searching for a FinTech and/or neo-Financial institution start-up that has made an enormous impression within the monetary providers sector with new and progressive providers, creating competitors and reworking the way in which we expertise monetary providers.
Contact Glen Frost for any enquiries re submissions or sponsorships: [email protected]
