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Award Categories

The 2023 Europe FinTech Awards is now closed to submissions

The Europe FinTech Awards categories are designed to encourage submissions from every kind of fintech, while also offering a wide range of individual and team awards, with a view to enabling the very best of financial technology and innovation to be scrutinised, recognised and rewarded.

Find the categories and criteria, key information and links below. Good luck!

Product/Service

  • Accounting Tech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • Banking Tech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • FinTech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • InsurTech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • Investment Tech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • LendTech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • Payments Tech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • Personal Finance Tech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • Pensions Tech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • RegTech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?
  • WealthTech of the Year
    • Tell us about the product or service you are putting forward: how does its aims, capabilities, marketing and delivery meet customer needs and requirements?
    • What is the potential of your product/service? How it can achieve critical mass?
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • Are there any inventive or innovative aspects that have been developed to bring the product or service to market?

Initiative

  • Best Use of Blockchain Technology
    • Tell us about your use case for blockchain or other distributed ledger technology: what were your aims and requirements?
    • How has your use of this technology improved delivery of the service or product being offered?
    • Where and how were there improvements in outcomes for customers/users?
    • How has your use of this technology paved the way for its maturity internally and/or externally?
  • Data Initiative of the Year
    • Tell us about your use case for blockchain or other distributed ledger technology: what were your aims and requirements?
    • How has your use of this technology improved delivery of the service or product being offered?
    • Where and how were there improvements in outcomes for customers/users?
    • How has your use of this technology paved the way for its maturity internally and/or externally?

Organisation

  • Best Employer Award
    • How has your organisation developed professional training and advancement for employees?
    • What initiatives has your organisation undertaken or implemented to boost morale and physical and mental health?
    • Has your organisation created jobs in your jurisdiction? If so, how many, in what areas and to what end?
    • What outreach does your organisation undertake, in order to attract talent and raise awareness about your business?
    • What recognition has your organisation received from third parties for its efforts as an employer?
  • Diversity & Inclusion Award
    • What are your organisation’s areas of focus in diversity and inclusion?
    • How has your organisation gone about boosting diversity and inclusion internally and externally?
    • What were the results of this work?
    • What lessons has your organisation learned and how will these be fed into future initiatives?
    • What recognition has your organisation received from third parties for its efforts in diversity and inclusion?
  • Startup of the Year
    • What are your organisation’s unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition?
    • What is your organisation’s potential and how can its products or services achieve critical mass?
    • How is your organisation moving toward the next stage of its development?
    • How is your organisation engaging with the wider fintech sector and supporting its growth and development?
  • Team of the Year
    • Provide an overview of your company/organisation and the team being put forward for this award, including member information and roles and responsibilities, experience, and work both in the organisation and the fintech sector
    • How has your team demonstrated outstanding teamwork?
    • When and where has collaboration sparked significant success?
    • How are individuals encouraged to bring innovative ideas to the table, and when has this produced practical results?
    • What mentoring and support is in place within the team to bring the best out of every member?
    • How supportive is the team’s leader and what efforts have they made to move the team forward?
  • Training Award
    • What are your organisation’s areas of focus in training and development?
    • How has your organisation gone about boosting training and development?
    • What were the results of this work?
    • What lessons has your organisation learned and how will these be fed into future initiatives?
    • What recognition has your organisation received from third parties for its efforts in training and development?

Talent

  • Director of the Year
    • Provide an overview of the director’s (anyone in a senior position, such as but not limited to CEO) experience and work in fintech, including past roles, memberships and third-party organisation roles, and chief accomplishments
    • How and why is the director an outstanding leader?
    • Have they significantly contributed to their organisation’s growth? How?
    • What is their reputation in the fintech sector and how has it been earned?
    • How do they demonstrate dedication to clients?
    • What do they contribute to staff development and welfare?
    • What is their impact on the wider fintech sector?
  • Innovator of the Year
    • Provide an overview of the innovator’s experience and work in fintech, including past roles, memberships and third-party organisation roles, and chief accomplishments
    • What innovation/invention did the innovator materially contribute to and what was their contribution?
    • What technical expertise and experience did this contribution demand?
    • How did the innovator contribute to the innovation from a business and marketing point of view?
    • What were the real-world results of the innovator’s work?
    • What feedback has the innovator received, internally and externally?
    • How has the innovator contributed to the wider fintech sector?
  • Rising Star of the Year
    • Provide an overview of the rising star’s experience and work in fintech, including past roles, memberships and third-party organisation roles, and chief accomplishments
    • How has the rising star contributed to the development and release of a product or service, or made significant improvements?
    • What has the rising star done internally to benefit the organisation and push it forward?
    • How has the rising star contributed to the wider fintech sector?
  • Trainee of the Year
    • Provide an overview of the trainee’s (participating in a graduate, apprenticeship or similar training scheme) experience and work in fintech, including qualifications and chief accomplishments
    • When and how has the trainee demonstrated excellent standards of work?
    • When have they gone above and beyond for the organisation?
    • How have they maintained high standards of professional development?
    • How has the trainee contributed to the wider fintech sector?

2023 shortlist incoming!

That’s it! The Europe FinTech Awards is closed to submissions for another year! The independent judging panel is currently scoring and assessing the 2023 cohort. If you want to guarantee your spot at the awards ceremony in June, book your tickets right away.

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