The 10th Annual FinTech & Banking Awards 2025 will be held in Sydney on Thursday 31st July 2025 at Ashurst’s new Sydney CBD premises at 39 Martin Place.
“We are delighted to welcome global Tier 1 law firm, Ashurst, as our Awards Partner; Ashurst has supported these Awards since their inception, and so this marks the 10th anniversary of their support; I would like to thank the Partners at Ashurst in the Digital Economy Team, especially Stuart Dullard, for their ongoing support of this event which recognises the entrepreneurs and great businesses in the fintech and banking sectors,” said Glen Frost, Founder of the FinTech & Banking Awards.
“Technology is such an exciting high growth sector – over the past twelve months AI and Gen AI have boomed and are radically changing finance. Recognising this trend, the FinTech & Banking Awards have an “AI in FinTech and Banking” award category; this might be for consumer services such as credit assessment, or fraud detection, or institutional banking, such as high frequency trading or large data set analysis, as an example,” said Frost.
Australian FinTech is once again the Media Partner for the Awards
DETAILS:
Event: 10th Annual FinTech & Banking Awards 2025
Website: www.fintechawards.net
Awards Night: Thursday 31st July 2025
KEY DATES:
Submissions Open: Monday 26th May 2025
Submissions Close: Thursday 10th July 2025
Finalists Notified: Thursday 24th July 2025
Awards Night: Thursday 31st July 2025
Contact Glen Frost for any enquiries re submissions or sponsorships: [email protected]
Award Categories for 2025:
1 BEST DIGITAL SAVINGS or TRANSACTION ACCOUNT
Description: This category is for a Bank or FinTech offering a service over and above the competition; Judges are looking for product and tech innovation within the Savings and/or Transaction Account category.
2 BEST DIGITAL HOME LOAN INNOVATION
Description: This award recognises a home loan that offers a new or significantly improved service that implements technology to bring benefits to either lenders and/or borrowers, or lending marketplaces. Examples could include an innovative use of credit modelling, data elements and/or an improved user experience, or innovation in the distribution channel (eg brokers).
3 BEST DIGITAL BANKING FOR BUSINESS
Description: This award recognises a new or significantly improved service that implements technology to bring benefits to business banking customers. This covers all areas of business banking; accounts, treasury, lending, FX, credit / debit cards, spend management services, products such as bank guarantees, cyber / fraud protection, e-commerce / merchant services, as well as asset / portfolio management.
4 BEST USE OF TECH IN COMBATTING FRAUD
Description: This award category recognises the role that technology plays in combatting fraud in banking and finance. Submissions should clearly state the area of focus, the success achieved as well as a ‘plain-English’ description of the technology solution.
5 BEST USE OF AI in FINTECH & BANKING
Description: The Judges are looking for the best use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a fintech and banking; AI can offer machine-learning human-like services at scale, and can include accurate and faster decision making, intelligent customer support, fraud detections, financial advice, and claims management, and more.
6 BEST YOUTH FINANCE APP or SERVICE (PFM, saving, investment, payments)
Description: The fintech or bank provider offering the best mix of services (savings accounts, investment accounts, information), discounts, education, premium services/pricing and other attractions for the youth market. This award category can also include submissions for services designed for children (generally 10-18) as well as young people (generally 18-30).
7 BEST INNOVATION IN PAYMENTS
Description: This award category recognises innovation in payments, including online payments (merchants and consumers), mobile payments, in-store terminals, embedded payment services, best use of AI for fraud, international payments, and use of Open Banking & CDR services.
8 BEST INVESTMENT PLATFORM/APP
Description: The award recognises Australian’s thirst for trading shares, ETFs, FX, bonds, digital currencies and more. The Judges are looking for innovation with tools, user experience, fees, customer service (eg live chat), app sign up time, biometric sign in, stock alerts and growth metrics. User ratings on the Apple and Google Play Stores are also considered.
9 BEST CORE BANKING SYSTEM
Description: This Award category recognises the platform of choice for banks to manage all aspects of product creation and distribution, rapid deployment, regulatory compliance, stability, ‘Five 9s’ availability, letting the bank focus on operational excellence and state-of-the-art customer experience. This could be a core banking system for a new / neo-bank, or a digital banking transformation.
10 BEST FINTECH-BANK PARTNERSHIP
Description: The Judges are looking for partnerships, specific projects, or products, that showcase how a bank (listed banks, ADIs, Customer Owned Banks) and a fintech firm are working together. Banks can include non-Banks involved in financial services and regulated by ASIC (or APRA). One party in the submission must be an ADI.
11 YOUNG LEADER OF THE YEAR (Under 35)
Description: The Judges are looking for an outstanding individual under 35 years of age who has consistently contributed to the advancement of the fintech and banking sectors.
12 FEMALE LEADER OF THE YEAR
Description: The Judges are looking for an outstanding female individual who has consistently contributed to the advancement of the fintech and baking sectors.
13 LEADER OF THE YEAR
Description: The Award Judges are looking for an outstanding individual who has consistently contributed to the advancement of the fintech and banking sectors.
14 BEST GROWTH STORY
Description: This Award celebrates a fintech or neo-Bank that’s going gangbusters! This category is open to any Australian fintech / ADI that can demonstrate they are achieving great things in Australia and/or around the world (metrics could include new market growth, client growth, revenue, downloads etc).
15 STARTUP OF THE YEAR
Description: The Judges are seeking a FinTech and/or neo-Bank start-up that has made a huge impression in the financial services sector with new and innovative services, creating competition and transforming the way we experience financial services.
Contact Glen Frost for any enquiries re submissions or sponsorships: [email protected]
