We are delighted to announce The 10th Annual FinTech & Banking Awards 2025 will be held in Sydney on Thursday 31st July 2025.

1. BEST DIGITAL SAVINGS or TRANSACTION ACCOUNT
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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.

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12. FEMALE LEADER OF THE YEAR
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
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
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. ASHURST STARTUP OF THE YEAR
The Judges are seeking a FinTech &/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.

1. Entrance is FREE.
2. Opening date is Monday 26th May 2025
3. You can enter a maximum of THREE (3) product Award categories for your company/organisation (eg Ai in Banking/FinTech, Best App etc) – and THREE (3) individual Award categories (eg Leader of the Year); so SIX (6) submissions in total per organisation (3 product category submissions, and 3 individual category submissions for Founders/Employees).
4. You can only enter one submission per Category. You cannot enter multiple submissions in the same category.
5. For each Award Category the Judges will select THREE finalists. Finalists will be invited to the FinTech & Banking Awards night, and the Winner will be announced on the night. Finalists will not need to buy a ticket to attend.
6. The project, product, research paper, campaign, or activity you are entering must have been created, developed or released by an Australian company in the past 5 years; we realise businesses take time to develop, launch and scale products.
7. The Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
8. The FinTech & Banking Awards are open to Australian companies and Australian Entrepreneurs. Australian companies are defined as a Pty Ltd company with a minimum 51% ownership by Australian based entities, or ASX listed Ltd company. Australian registered companies that are foreign-owned companies are not eligible to apply in their name, but are permitted to apply as part of a Joint Venture (see clause 9). Nominations for Individual Awards (eg Leader of the Year) must be for Australian citizens and/or Australian Permanent Residents based in Australia.
9. The FinTech & Banking Awards are open to 50/50 Joint Ventures; JVs are permitted to enter the awards where one of the co-owners (with a min 50% ownership) is an Australian financial institution.
10. Please read the attached PDF for tips of writing Award submissions here
11. No attachments, links to videos/documents/websites or additional documents are permitted for any submission.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF THIS EVENT
AND SPONSOR AN AWARD, PLEASE CONTACT :

Glen Frost, Founder, The FinTech & Banking Awards
Email: glen@famfi.com.au