The twentieth annual Banking Technology Awards took place on 5 December 2019 at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square.
It was hosted by the hilarious Rich Hall and was a brilliant celebration of excellence and innovation in the banking industry and people who make it happen!
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Below are the winners and highly commended in each category.
Best Open Banking Solution Provider – in partnership with Ovum
Winner: SunTec – SunTec Xelerate for Open Banking
Highly Commended: Worldline – WL Digital Banking Platform
Highly Commended: Nuapay a Sentenial Company – Open Banking Alternative Payment Mechanism (APM)
Best Core Banking Solution Provider – in partnership with Ovum
Winner: DPR – Core Banking Platform
Most Innovative Banking Technology Provider – in partnership with Ovum
Winner: nCino – nCino Bank Operating System
Highly Commended: Fiserv & Dovetail Systems Limited – Leading the Payments Evolution with Powerful Next-Generation Payments Solutions that Deliver Differentiated Value
Highly Commended: ACI Worldwide – UP Real-Time Payments solution
Best Digital Initiative
Winner: Morgan Stanley – Morgan Stanley’s Digital Artifacts (MS-DA)
Highly Commended: AGTB & Publicis Sapient – How AGTB Revolutionized Trade Banking to Bridge the Trade Finance Gap
Highly Commended: Credit Suisse (Schweiz) AG – Front-to-Back (F2B)-Digitalization
Highly Commended: New Day – NewDay Digital Platform
Best Fraud Protection Solution
Winner: J.P. Morgan Chase – Total Authentication and Risk Assessment (TARA)
Highly Commended: Swift – Payment Controls
Highly Commended: Vocalink – Financial Crime Solutions
Best Use of IT in Corporate Banking
Winner: Sberbank – FinTech API, Building an Ecosystem for Corporate Clients
Highly Commended: ABSA – Mobile Disbursements Engine and Switching Gateway
Best Use of IT in Private Banking/Wealth Management
Winner: Avanza & GigaSpaces – NextGenTrading Platform
Highly Commended: ABN AMRO & Temenos – Temenos’ State-Of-The-Art Digital Platform for ABN AMRO’s Private and Corporate Banking Business
Highly Commended: Tinkoff – Tinkoff Investments Premium
Best Use of IT in Retail Banking
Winner: ThinkMoney & OutSystems – Digital Transformation Programme
Highly Commended: Banco BPI – BPI Mobile Interactions and SignNow
Highly Commended: Cathay United Bank – Operating Model Master
Best Use of IT for Lending
Winner: Divido – Global white label lending platform for point-of-sale finance
Highly Commended: Bank Rakyat Indonesia & Infosys Finacle – BRI Pinang, Driving greater financial inclusion in Indonesia by launching the first digital only lending app
Highly Commended: Banking Circle – Banking Circle Lending
Best Fintech Partnership
Winner: ezbob & The Royal Bank of Scotland – Transform SME lending
Highly Commended: Ixaris & Banking Circle – Ixaris Payments’ technology and Banking Circle Virtual IBAN
Highly Commended: Zagrebačka banka d. d. & Hrvatski Telekom d.d. – Telekom Banking
Highly Commended: Israel Discount Bank & nsKnox – Turning the bank’s IT assets into a business line, through nxKnox’s Cooperative Cyber Security technology
Best Use of RegTech
Winner: Rabobank & Signicat – Rabo eBusiness
Highly Commended: Deutsche Bank – dbCOMET
Highly Commended: J.P. Morgan – TradeVault
Best Use of IT in Treasury and Capital Markets
Winner: Morgan Stanley – Modern Platform, Generic Rules Engine (GRE) Frameworks
Highly Commended: J.P. Morgan Asset Management – ETF Capital Markets – Market Monitor
Best Use of AI
Winner: Bank of America – Enterprise Data Indexing Engine (EDIE)
Highly Commended: Kasisto – KAI
Highly Commended: Morgan Stanley – Morgan Stanley’s Code 360: A Code Analytics Platform
Highly Commended: Tinkoff – Supercomputer Kolmogorov and Tinkoff Voicekit
Best Use of Biometrics
Winner: Mastercard – Connected Intelligence
Highly Commended: Alfa-Bank Belarus – Videoselfie loan
Best Use of Cloud
Winner: Leaseplan – Project DeLorean
Highly Commended: ABSA – Mobile Disbursements Engine and Switching Gateway
Best Tech Overhaul Project
Winner: J.P. Morgan Chase – Legacy Technology Decommission, U.S. Private Bank Client Facing Teams
Highly Commended: Barclays – Project V2R
Highly Commended: LeasePlan Bank – Project DeLorean
Highly Commended: Somo Global – Siemens Financial Services: MySFS
Best Use of Data
Winner: Zaloni – The Zaloni Data Platform
Highly Commended: Morgan Stanley – Dragonfly: Advanced Latency and Performance Monitor
Highly Commended: Banco BPI – BPI GO Now – shaping the future
Best Use of Emerging or Innovative Technology
Winner: HSBC – Voltron
Highly Commended: CTBC Bank – Shaman, Business Payment Service on Blockchain
Highly Commended: Israel Discount Bank – Enhanced Voice-Based Payment & Banking Services
Highly Commended: Infosys Finacle & Royal Bank of Scotland – Royal Bank of Scotland digitizes its KYC process using blockchain
Best Mobile Initiative
Winner: Jibun Bank Corporation – Smartphone Debit Card
Highly Commended: Caixa Geral de Depósitos – Caixadirecta App
Highly Commended: Alfa-Bank Belarus – InSync Now: storytelling micro media inside mobile bank
Highly Commended: United Overseas Bank – TMRW by UOB
Top Digital Innovation
Winner: Sberbank – Bank of Business Partners
Highly Commended: Sberbank – Sberbank Online Post Card
Highly Commended: VakıfBank – Mobile Field Sales Application (MFS)
FinTech for Good – in partnership with Comms for Good
Winner: BMO – BMO Give&Go
Tech Team of the Year
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group – Group Transformation Capability Team
Highly Commended: BPI – Digital Banking
Highly Commended: Barclays Bank UK – Mainframe Resilience
Tech Leadership Award – presented by JCB Global Bank
Winner: Melanie Dorn from Morgan Stanley
Highly Commended: Nicole Sandler from Barclays
Highly Commended: Klaus Thorup from ClearScore
Rising Tech Star
Winner: Robert Claridge from Lloyds Banking Group
Highly Commended: Ranjitha Krishna Reddy from Morgan Stanley
Highly Commended: Olga Filipenko from Alfa Bank
Highly Commended: Cara Wright from J.P. Morgan
Woman in Technology (W.I.T.) – in partnership with FemTechGlobal
Winner: Ebele Kemery from J.P. Morgan Chase
Highly Commended: Lee Ann Lancaster from Mama Money
Highly Commended: Samina Rizwan from United Bank Ltd. Pakistan
Highly Commended: Simonne LeBlanc from Ethoca
FinTech Futures Editors Choice Award
Winner: Mambu & Nordiska for lendtech overhaul
Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination this year and everybody who attended the awards ceremony. We look forward to seeing you again next year to celebrate the achievements of the first year in a new decade.