Stage time
Winners are announced in front of a full conference room, with photography and press coverage from each edition.
Future Fintech Awards
Honouring the teams rewriting financial services
The Future Fintech Awards recognise the banks, fintechs, products and people turning financial technology into real customer impact — from embedded finance and real-time payments to digital banking, RegTech and Web3. Winners are announced live on stage at every Future Fintech edition, in front of the operators, investors and press who matter.
- 20+
- Award categories
- 3
- Global gala nights
- 100%
- Independent jury scoring
Why enter
Recognition that travels further than a trophy
Credible benchmark
Entries are scored by independent practitioners against published criteria — no pay-to-win categories.
Buyer trust
A shortlist badge is a shortcut to credibility in enterprise procurement conversations.
Team morale
Public recognition for the engineers, researchers and operators who shipped the work.
The categories
Twenty ways to be recognised
Enter as many categories as genuinely apply. Each entry is judged on its own merits by the jury panel assigned to that category.
Organisations
- Fintech Company of the Year
- Most Innovative Fintech Startup
- Digital Bank of the Year
- Enterprise Finance Transformation of the Year
Products & platforms
- Best Payments Solution
- Best Embedded Finance Platform
- Best Digital Banking Experience
- Best Lending / Credit Innovation
- Best WealthTech or InsurTech Solution
- Best Blockchain or Digital Assets Platform
People
- Fintech Leader of the Year
- CTO of the Year
- Risk & Compliance Leader of the Year
- Rising Star in Fintech (under 30)
- Women in Fintech Award
Impact
- RegTech & Financial Crime Prevention Award
- Financial Inclusion Award
- Sustainable Finance & ESG Award
How entries are judged
Four criteria, equally weighted
Real-world impact
Documented outcomes — revenue, efficiency, accuracy, adoption or social benefit — not roadmaps or pilots.
Technical originality
How novel the approach is, and how well it stands up against readily available alternatives.
Scale & adoption
Depth of deployment: users served, workloads handled and the durability of the results.
Responsibility
Governance, transparency, data handling and bias mitigation baked into the delivery.
The process
From nomination to the gala night
- Step 1
Nominations open
Submit your entry online — self-nominations and third-party nominations both welcome.
- Step 2
Shortlisting
Entries are screened for eligibility and scored against the published criteria.
- Step 3
Nomination Confirmation
You receive a confirmation once your nomination is validated, with a summary of the categories you have entered.
- Step 4
Jury review
An independent panel of practitioners, researchers and operators scores every shortlisted entry.
- Step 5
Winners revealed
Trophies are presented live on stage at the gala night of each Future Fintech edition.
Entries are open
Put your work in front of the jury
Pick the edition you want to compete in, then complete your nomination on the Next Business Media portal. Sponsors and jury applications go through the same flow.