Congratulations to the PayTech Awards 2022 winners!
The fifth annual PayTech Awards took place on 1 July at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London and was a great success, with 230 guests joining us for an incredible day of celebration and entertainment, hosted by comedian Jo Caufield.
PayTech Awards 2022
27 winners and 29 highly commended were announced this year across categories including Best Consumer Cards Initiative, Best Mobile Payments Initiative, Best Green Initiative, Woman in PayTech plus many more.
Here are the 2022 winners and highly commended:
Best Consumer Cards Initiative
Winner:
- Transact Payments and Tymit – Tymit – Tymit Credit Card
Best Corporate Cards Initiative
Winner:
- Pleo and Enfuce – Card as a Service
Best Corporate Payments Initiative
Winner:
- B4B Payments – Cards for Urgent Expense
Highly Commended:
- Monneo – Monneo: a complete payment ecosystem
Best SME Payments Initiative
Winner:
- KoinWorks – KoinWorks Super Financial App
Highly Commended:
- EedenBull – Q Business
Best E-Commerce Initiative
Winner:
- Worldline – Live Shopping solution
Best Mobile Payments Initiative
Winner:
- Payit by NatWest – Payit by NatWest
Highly Commended:
- O-CITY – O-CITY, Tracom and NikoDigi partnership in public transport contactless payment
Best PayTech Partnership
Winner:
- Cal and Custodia – The Hybrid-Card – Personal and Business Spend in a Single Card
Highly Commended:
- Form3 and Barclays – Form3 and Barclays: European Scheme Participation Payments Solution
Best Benefits/Loyalty Initiative
Winner:
- Radar Payments – Tippay by Radar Payments
Best Use of Security/Anti-Fraud Solution in Payments
Winner:
- Banking Circle – Banking Circle: AI-driven transaction monitoring
Highly Commended:
- NatWest & SurePay – Confirmation of Payee
Best UX/CX in Payments Initiative
Winner:
- Tink – Tink Console
Best Contribution to Economic Mobility in Payments
Winner:
- Payactiv – Payactiv Livelihood Platform
Highly Commended:
- Paysafe – Paysafecash
Best Green Initiative
Winner:
- PPS and ekko – PPS and ekko
Highly Commended:
- Isbank – Gelecege Orman (meaning Forest Forward)
PayTech for Good
Winner:
- PayBox – Earning Equality – Promoting equal wages during the 2022 International Women’s day
COVID-19 Response
Winner:
- PPS & Sainsbury’s – PPS & Sainsbury’s
Highly Commended:
- TSYS – TSYS Foresight Score powered by Featurespace
Best Innovation
Winner:
- McLEAR – RingPay by McLEAR
Highly Commended:
- Cal and Custodia – The Hybrid-Card – Personal and Business Spend in a Single Card
Best Open Banking Solution
Winner:
- Yapily – Yapily launches Bulk Payments service with Comma
Highly Commended:
- OneBanks Hub – OneBanks Hub
Best Real-Time Payments Solution
Winner:
- Sensedia – Elo QR Code Hub
Highly Commended:
- Plaid – Plaid’s Payment Initiation Service (PIS), an API for real-time payments via Open Banking
- HPS – PowerCARD
Best Real-Time Payments Solution for Business
Winner:
- Crezco – Instant open banking payments
Highly Commended:
- Brighterion, a Mastercard Company – AI for Acquiring Fraud
- VisionLabs – LUNA POS Terminal
Best Cross-Border Payments Solution
Winner:
- Nium – Nium cards issuance-as-a-service
Highly Commended:
- Currencycloud – Currencycloud Spark
- Finzly – FX STAR
Top PayTech Provider
Winner:
- Banking Circle
Highly Commended:
- Airwallex
- Flywire
Tech of the Future
Winner:
- Cardstream – Cardstream’s pioneering OPN®
Highly Commended:
- GoCardless – Success+
- Vesta Corporation – Payment Guarantee
Best Cloud Payments Solution
Winner:
- Gr4vy – Gr4vy Cloud-Native Payment Orchestration Platform
Highly Commended:
- Volante Technologies – Cloud Payments Solution
- Aliaswire, Inc. – DirectBiller
Woman in PayTech
Winner:
- Melissa Hentschel, Chief Delivery Officer, Onbe
Highly Commended:
- Sarit Beck Barkai, Chief Revenue Officer, PayBox
- Martina King, CEO, Featurespace
PayTech Leadership
Winner:
- Dave Tonge, CTO, Moneyhub
Highly Commended:
- Chris Michael, Co-founder and CEO, Ozone
Rising PayTech Star
Winner:
- Dejan Roljić, CEO, Eligma d.o.o.
Highly Commended:
- David Lais, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, ecolytiq GmbH
PayTech Team of the Year
Winner:
- J.P. Morgan – Payments Are Eating The World
Highly Commended:
- 3S Money – 3S Money Growth in the Business Bank Challenger Space
Editor’s Choice Award
Winner:
- BHMI and Payshop – Implementation of Concourse for Payshop’s Unified Payments Back-Office Solution
Highly Commended:
- TURKIYE IS BANKASI AS – Chargeback – Robotic Process Automation
