These awards were developed to celebrate the burgeoning FinTech community throughout Asia, and the achievements and successes of those companies.
The project, product, research paper, campaign, or activity that is entered must have been created, developed or released in the 18 months before the awards to be a valid entry.
A Dubai edition of FiNext Awards was run in 2018 by the InternetShine Corporation,[9] a financial technology development company based in the US.
[15] The awards start with the European FinTech 100, a selection of innovative companies with ground-breaking ideas and technologies.
Winners in the 9 sub-categories were: Monese (Challenger Banks), Funding Circle (Alternative Finance), Ebury (Payments), Wikifolio (PFM), Everledger (Blockchain), Kreditech (Financial Inclusion), Knip (InsurTech), Backbase (Innovative Banking Software), and Behaviosec (Risk, Intelligence & Security).
The event focuses on actual working product demonstrations to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship.
Ten of them were chosen for the finals, which were held under the patronage of Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.
The first Dutch Fintech Awards took place at the headquarters of host ABN AMRO in Amsterdam in 2015.
[28] In 2015, Adyen was the overall winner, receiving the award for a lasting breakthrough in the current payment industry.
The winners in particular categories were: AcceptEmail (Payments), Five degrees (Banking IT), Bux (Personal Finance), Bitonic (Bitcoin), Sparkholder (Intelligence & Analytics), Symbid (SME).
The second round was a speed dating event with the jury and award sponsors in early February 2016.
The winner won a cash prize and a stay at the Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab in London.
The categories are designed to cover the full spectrum of fintech, and submissions are judged by an independent panel of experts.
The awards recognised achievements across the global financial technology industry and had Zopa, Monzo and Funding Circle amongst its winners.
The categories are designed to cover the full spectrum of fintech, and submissions are judged by an independent panel of experts.
[39] The FiNext Awards were created in 2018 by the InternetShine Corporation, a financial technology development company.
The FiNext Conference Awards were first held in Las Vegas to celebrate American innovation in Finance.