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

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

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

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

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

Olga Filipenko, former CEO and Chief Digital Officer, Alfa-Bank Ukraine – Olga Filipenko has been selected as a finalist in the category Women in Technology (WIT) – Banking, Finance & Payments. Olga’s idea has been not to differentiate herself from her 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 is pioneering the fintech and finance industry with its OpenbyDefault movement, calling on financial services to build an objective future. Since this declaration was made in 2021, it has focused on supporting historically excluded groups (women, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ, disability and generational inclusion) and has made a bold external commitment to reach 50:50 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 category – PayTech.SDK.finance is a white-label API-driven fintech platform that serves as a foundation for building digital banking and payment products on top. By using the ledger layer, SDK.finance customers can save at least 1 year of active development and a significant amount of team resources to build a neobank, a digital retail bank, a digital wallet app, a payment receiving company, 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 enable 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 by banks pre-pandemic, and then understand how post-COVID, working from anywhere in the world only accelerated the 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 finalists in the category Best Mobile Initiative – New Bank/Brand and in the category Best UX/CX in Finance Initiative. 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 require a tool to facilitate comprehensive and practical management of their finances – always available. Find out more.

EY – EY Nexus for Banking has been selected as a finalist in the Best Smart Banking Technology 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 global automation platform that provides versatile self-service functions and process automation on IT infrastructure and service administration. Find out more.

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

Provenance – Provenir has been selected as a finalist in the category Best Smart Banking Tech Solution – AI-Driven Data Insights 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. By driving risk decision processes across identity, credit and fraud, we help you get ahead and stay ahead of risk. Find out more.

Knoble and LexisNexis® risk solutions – 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 creating 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 cash flow for more than 200 corporate customers. 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 offering via API. Treezor, the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) subsidiary of the Societe Generale group, has a clear mission: to provide innovative payment solutions to businesses of all sizes, while accelerating their time-to-market and lowering their investment costs. Find out more.

Updraft – Updraft has been selected as a finalist in the category Best Digital Initiative – Lending and the Best Contribution to Economic Mobility in Banking/Finance UK. Updraft is a mobile solution that enables people to live a safe 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 category Best Smart Banking Tech Solution – AI-Driven Data Insights 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’s a revolutionary approach to managing data reconciliations. Hosted as a cloud-based application, it allows business users to reconcile complex sets of data in seconds. Find out more.

Dexy – Dexy has been selected as a finalist in the category FinTech of the Future – Start-up Bank/ Banking Service for their project Dexy. Dexy is a premium hybrid neobank that combines the simplicity of fintech apps and the security of traditional banking – but 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 category Best Digital Initiative USA for their project Report Builder. The Report Builder feature was created to provide Commercial Banking customers with a first-of-its-kind custom reporting functionality, historical transaction tracking and balance retention. Find out more.

PagoNxt (a Santander company) – PagoNxt has been selected as a finalist in the category Top Tech Team – Bank/Financial Institution 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 aim of improving the global payments space, 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 category Women in Technology (WIT) – Tech/Service Provider. It is hard to overstate Mitra’s impact on the FinTech community, evidenced by her leadership of OpenFin, her tireless commitment to building a user community, and her involvement 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 enterprise productivity operating system, enabling app deployment, workspace management and workflow automation. The Workspace team is responsible for working with OpenFin’s large and rapidly growing customer base to build the financial industry’s app infrastructure. Find out more.

For more information on the Banking Tech Awards, click here.