The tenth Annual FinTech & Banking Awards 2025 might 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 world Tier 1 regulation agency, Ashurst, as our Awards Accomplice; 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 Workforce, 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,” mentioned Glen Frost, Founding father of the FinTech & Banking Awards.
“Know-how 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 perhaps for client providers equivalent to credit score evaluation, or fraud detection, or institutional banking, equivalent to excessive frequency buying and selling or giant knowledge set evaluation, for instance,” mentioned Frost.
Australian FinTech is as soon as once more the Media Accomplice for the Awards
DETAILS:
Occasion: tenth Annual FinTech & Banking Awards 2025
Web site: www.fintechawards.web
Awards Night time: 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 Night time: 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 in search of product and tech innovation throughout the Financial savings and/or Transaction Account class.
2 BEST DIGITAL HOME LOAN INNOVATION
Description: This award recognises a house mortgage that provides a brand new or considerably improved service that implements expertise to convey advantages to both lenders and/or debtors, or lending marketplaces. Examples might embrace an modern use of credit score modelling, knowledge components and/or an improved person 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 expertise 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 equivalent 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 expertise performs in combatting fraud in banking and finance. Submissions ought to clearly state the realm of focus, the success achieved in addition to a ‘plain-English’ description of the expertise answer.
5 BEST USE OF AI in FINTECH & BANKING
Description: The Judges are in search of the very best use of Synthetic Intelligence (AI) in a fintech and banking; AI can provide machine-learning human-like providers at scale, and might embrace correct and quicker choice 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 the very best mixture of providers (financial savings accounts, funding accounts, info), reductions, training, premium providers/pricing and different points of interest for the youth market. This award class can even embrace submissions for providers designed for kids (typically 10-18) in addition to younger folks (typically 18-30).
7 BEST INNOVATION IN PAYMENTS
Description: This award class recognises innovation in funds, together with on-line funds (retailers and customers), cell funds, in-store terminals, embedded fee providers, finest 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 in search of innovation with instruments, person expertise, charges, customer support (eg dwell chat), app enroll time, biometric sign up, inventory alerts and progress metrics. Consumer rankings on the Apple and Google Play Shops are additionally thought of.
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, fast 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 in search of partnerships, particular initiatives, 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 celebration within the submission should be an ADI.
11 YOUNG LEADER OF THE YEAR (Beneath 35)
Description: The Judges are in search of an impressive 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 in search of an impressive 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 in search of an impressive 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 all over the world (metrics might embrace new market progress, consumer progress, income, downloads and so forth).
15 STARTUP OF THE YEAR
Description: The Judges are looking for a FinTech and/or neo-Financial institution start-up that has made an enormous impression within the monetary providers sector with new and modern providers, creating competitors and remodeling the way in which we expertise monetary providers.
Contact Glen Frost for any enquiries re submissions or sponsorships: [email protected]
