FF Awards 2022

Artificial Intelligence

The FF News Artificial Intelligence Award celebrates pioneering advancements in AI technologies that have transformed financial services. This award honors organizations, products, or individuals that have leveraged AI to drive innovation, improve decision-making, enhance customer experiences, and deliver measurable impact within the fintech ecosystem.

Authentic ESG

Bank Builder

Blockchain

Business banking

Traditionally retail consumers have all the bells and whistles, with slick front end interfaces and the newest products. Businesses have had the practical side of the stick, with little to no updates and uninspiring interfaces. Business banking needs have not been understood. In reality they need to make larger, more frequent payments, with everything tracked for their accounts. They need to manage cash flows, even across multiple departments, and in multiple currencies. Clearly easy. Banks have offered improved security at the expense of experience. Tony Stark asks “Is it too much to ask for both?” How have businesses been enabled by banking? What is out there that will tip someone over the edge into entrepreneurship? What would make someone want to do business banking?

Consumer Banking

For this, our judges are looking for the solution that has had the biggest impact, both directly interacting with a consumer, or indirectly (via employees, back off etc)

Cross-Border Payments

The FF News Cross-Border Payments Award recognizes outstanding innovation, efficiency, and impact in the realm of international (across border) payments. This award celebrates organizations, platforms, or individuals that have made significant contributions to simplifying, securing, and accelerating cross-border transactions, fostering financial inclusion, and enhancing the overall customer experience.

Data Insights

Embedded Finance

“The Embedded Finance Award celebrates the outstanding integration of financial services within non-financial platforms and ecosystems. This award recognizes innovative solutions that enable businesses across various sectors (e.g., retail, healthcare, mobility) to seamlessly offer financial products and services, such as lending, payments, insurance, or banking, directly to consumers.
The winning entry will demonstrate how embedded finance is revolutionizing customer experiences, driving new business models, and providing seamless, scalable financial services within the broader digital ecosystem.”

ID Verification & KYC

Innovative Insurtech

Invisible Security

Mobile Payments

Open Banking

Partnership

Real-Time Payments

Lending

Wealth Management