Take a look at this year’s Banking Tech Awards finalists

The Banking Tech Awards, now in their 23rd year, recognise excellence and innovation in the use of IT in financial services worldwide. The 2022 finalists have been announced and winners will be revealed at a fabulous gala dinner ceremony at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on 1 December.

The Banking Tech Awards 2022 winners will be revealed on 1 December

You can take a look at some of the projects, products, individuals and teams that have been selected as finalists below. The full list of finalists can be found here.

Nomo – Nomo has been selected as a finalist in the FinTech of the Future – Start-up Bank/ Banking Service category. Nomo is the world’s first fully digital international Islamic bank, launched by the Boubyan Bank Group through its subsidiary, Bank of London and The Middle East. Find out more.

Olga Filipenko, ex Executive Director & Chief Digital Officer, Alfa-Bank Ukraine – Olga Filipenko has been selected as a finalist in the Women in Technology (W.I.T.) – Banking, Finance & Payments category. Olga’s idea has been not to differ from market rivals but to create completely new financial products in 2021-22. Find out more.

Finastra – Finastra has been selected as a finalist in the Diversity and Inclusion Excellence category for their project OpenbyDefault. Finastra paves the way in the fintech and financial services industry with its OpenbyDefault movement, calling on financial services to build an unbiased future. Since making this declaration in 2021, it has focused on supporting historical excluded groups (women, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ, disability & generational inclusion) and has made a bold external commitment to reach 50:50 gender equality by 2030 across the organization. Find out more.

SDK Finance – TechFin UAB and their project SDK.finance, TechFin UAB, has been selected as a finalist in the Best Digital Solution Provider – PayTech category.SDK.finance is a white-label API-driven fintech platform that serves as a foundation for building digital banking and payment products on top. Using its ledger layer allows SDK.finance customers to save at least 1 year of active development and a significant amount of team resources for building a neobank, a digital retail bank, a digital wallet app, a payment acceptance business, a marketplace payment solution etc. Find out more.

MultiPass – MultiPass, for their project MultiPass: a multi-currency business account to manage your international bank transfers in foreign markets, has been selected as a finalist in the FinTech of the Future: Payments category. MultiPass is here to challenge the cumbersome traditional banking processes and empower businesses to manage their bank transfers in foreign markets – easier than ever before. Find out more.

Shiran Weitzman, CEO and Co-founder, Shield – Shiran Weitzman has been selected as a finalist in the Rising FinTech Star category. With the keen foresight to identify the use of electronic communication apps throughout banks pre-pandemic, and then understanding how the post-COVID, work-from-anywhere world only accelerated those existing trends, Shiran Weitzman, CEO and Co-founder of Shield, has proven to be a proactive, nimble FinTech leader fit for today’s economy. Find out more.

Aion Bank and Efigence – Aion Bank and Efigence have been selected as a finalist in the Best Mobile Initiative – New Bank/Brand category and in the Best UX/CX in Finance Initiative category. Aion Bank is the first 100% mobile bank in Europe with a subscription-based business model. The Aion Bank application is a response to the needs of those who demand a tool to facilitate comprehensive and convenient management of their finances – always to hand. Find out more.

EY – EY Nexus for Banking has been selected as a finalist in the Best Smart Banking Tech Solution – Innovation category. Find out more.

HSBC – HSBC for their project DIGS (Digital Infrastructure Global Services), has been selected as a finalist in the Best Tech Overhaul category. DIGS (Digital Infrastructure Global Services) is an in-house built global automation platform providing all-rounded self-service capabilities and process automation on IT infrastructure and service management. Find out more.

CarIQ – Car IQ, has been selected as a finalist in the Best Smart Banking Tech Solution – Innovation category. Car IQ®, a leading provider of vehicle payment solutions, has created a new payment solution, that is the first step towards advancing machine banking. Find out more.

Provenir – Provenir has been selected as a finalist in the Best Smart Banking Tech Solution – AI-Driven Data Insights category for their project AI-Powered Risk Decisioning Platform. From startup to decacorn, Provenir offers everything you need to make smarter decisions that drive growth by maximizing your risk strategies. Powering risk decisioning processes across identity, credit, and fraud, we help you get ahead, and stay ahead of risk. Find out more.

The Knoble and LexisNexis® Risk Solutions – The Knoble and LexisNexis® Risk Solutions have been selected as a finalist in the FinTech for Good by Financial Institutions category for their project, Project Umbra. Project Umbra is a multi-stakeholder collaboration that creates a scalable, repeatable process to identify and reduce online child sexual exploitation (OCSE) modeled after Canada’s successful Project Shadow, which leveraged open source data to identify potential OCSE. Find out more.

Trovota – Trovata has been selected as a finalist in the Best Smart Banking Tech Solution – AI-Driven Data Insights category for their project Trovata. Trovata makes it easy for businesses to automate cash reporting, forecasting, analysis, and money movement to more than 200 corporate clients. Find out more.

Treezor – Treezor has been selected as a finalist in the Best Embedded Finance Initiative category. Treezor’s one-stop shop approach enables businesses to easily embed any financial service into their offer via API. Treezor, the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) subsidiary of Societe Generale group, has a clear mission: provide innovative payment solutions to any size company while accelerating their time-to-market and lowering their investment costs. Find out more.

Updraft – Updraft has been selected as a finalist in the Best Digital Initiative – Lending and the Best Contribution to Economic Mobility in Banking/Finance UK category. Updraft is a mobile only solution to enable people to live a confident and financially carefree life by lifting them out of expensive debt like credit cards, overdrafts and BNPL loans. Find out more.

SmartStream – SmartStream has been selected as a finalist in the Best Smart Banking Tech Solution – AI-Driven Data Insights category for their project Innovations Lab. SmartStream’s Innovations Lab has developed a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use and install, AI-enabled solution – SmartStream Air. It is a revolutionary approach for managing data reconciliations. Hosted as a cloud-native application, it allows business users to reconcile complex sets of data in just seconds.  Find out more.

Dexy – Dexy has been selected as a finalist in the FinTech of the Future – Start-up Bank/ Banking Service category for their project Dexy. Dexy is a first-in-class hybrid neobank that combines the simplicity of fintech apps and the safety of traditional banking — yet powered by the benefits of crypto, decentralized finance and web3. Find out more.

Citi – Citi Commercial Bank has been selected as a finalist in the Best Digital Initiative USA category for their project Report Builder. TheReport Builder feature was created to offer Commercial Banking clients with a first-time custom reporting functionality, historical transaction tracking, and balance retention capabilities. Find out more.

PagoNxt (a Santander company) – PagoNxt has been selected as a finalist in the Top Tech Team – Bank/Financial Institution category for their team ‘A Multidisciplinary and International Team’. A lot has happened in the last two years. In November 2020, PagoNxt was launched with the mission of improving the global payments space, uniquely combining the agility of a fintech with the robustness of a traditional banking institution. Find out more.

Mitra Roknabadi, Vice President and Global Head of Marketing, OpenFin – Mitra Roknabadi has been selected as a finalist in the Women in Technology (W.I.T.) – Tech/Service Provider category. It is hard to overstate Mitra’s impact on the FinTech community evidenced by her leadership at OpenFin, her tireless involvement in building a community of users and her dedication in developing the world’s largest JavaScript for Finance conference, FinJS; which has become a central venue for networking and showcasing FinTech innovations across Capital Markets. Find out more.

OpenFin – OpenFin has been selected as a finalist in the Top Tech Team – Tech/Service Provider category for their Workspace Team.OpenFin is the operating system for enterprise productivity, enabling app distribution, workspace management and workflow automation. The Workspace Team is responsible for working with OpenFin’s large and fast-growing client base to build the financial industry’s app infrastructure. Find out more.

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