The FinTech Awards

The FinTech Awards program celebrates the brightest and best in global financial technology.

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The FinTech Awards

Identifying excellence in financial services and financial technology

The FinTech Awards program is an initiative from the distinguished Cloud Awards team, offering recognition and promotion of the technology that counts! As an internationally-established financial technology awarding body, the FinTech Awards accepts submissions from around the world.

Cement your reputation as an innovative provider of FinTech solutions with a FinTech Award. The FinTech Awards give recognition to your organization’s contributions to finance, technology, and the systems that best optimize procedures in business finance.

Whatever your organizational size, location, and however the technology is deployed, you are eligible. If you have an innovative FinTech solution, The FinTech Awards can promote your success.

This awards program closes at the end of January.

This recognition underlines what financial institutions are asking for — a core foundation they can rely on as they evolve on their own terms.

Frank Sanchez, Head of Finxact

RECENT WINNERS

FinTech Awards winners and nominees span the globe – including America, Canada, Europe, the UK, Australia and Asia.

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2026 FinTech Awards Winners

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2026 FinTech Awards Finalists

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2026 FinTech Awards Shortlist

The FinTech Awards categories

New FinTech categories year-on-year

The FinTech Awards sets the standard in recognizing and promoting financial technologies. As part of The Cloud Awards, The FinTech Awards program judges strive to represent financial technology solutions from across the globe. Not only is equal weighting given to all countries, but to any size of organization. We don’t play favorites: we seek out excellence and innovation.

We accept applications throughout the year, but please check for any category changes in each annual awards cycle. If you can’t find your sector or area of expertise in the list of FinTech awards categories, please contact us. We’ll do our best to represent you in the next round of awards.

Overall FinTech Excellence

Commending overall excellence in utilizing SaaS within a FinTech solution, across any financial operations use case, within financial services itself, or financial processes across any sector.

Recognizing FinTech that improves how money, financial services and financial information move between countries, currencies and financial systems.

Celebrating exceptional uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve financial products, services, processes and decision-making.

Recognizing leading financial technologies that use digital assets, distributed ledgers or tokenization to create new ways to hold, transfer, exchange, represent or manage financial value.

Recognizing exceptional technologies that enable financial services to be built directly into digital products, platforms and customer experiences.

FinTech for Financial Operations

Recognizing outstanding financial technology that helps organizations and individuals manage their financial responsibilities with greater accuracy, efficiency and insight.

Recognizing recognizes leading technologies that make it easier, faster, safer or more efficient to send, receive and process payments.

Recognizing FinTech solutions that optimize accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, improving cash flow management, reducing operational costs, and enhancing financial visibility.

Acknowledging FinTech solutions that streamline payroll processing, expense management, and administration of employee benefits, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and employee satisfaction.

Commending FinTech innovations that address regulatory challenges and ensure financial compliance through advanced RegTech solutions, mitigating risks and promoting transparency.

Recognizing outstanding technology supporting the financing, management and movement of capital throughout domestic and international trade.

FinTech for Financial Services

Celebrates outstanding financial technology helping people and organizations invest, build wealth, manage portfolios and prepare financially for later life.

Celebrating FinTech solutions that revolutionize corporate banking, lending processes, and brokerage services, fostering efficiency, security, and accessibility for businesses.

Honoring FinTech solutions that give individuals better ways to bank, borrow, save and manage their everyday finances.

Honoring FinTech advancements that reshape insurance processes, whether for personal or corporate needs, by enhancing risk management, claims processing, and customer engagement.

Honoring exceptional FinTech designed to establish trust, detect suspicious activity and protect financial services from criminal misuse.

Industry / Vertical FinTech Applications

Recognizing FinTech solutions that optimize financial transactions and management within the e-commerce and retail sectors, enhancing customer experiences and streamlining operations.

Recognizing FinTech solutions tailored to the unique financial needs and challenges of the manufacturing and engineering sectors, optimizing financial operations, and supporting growth.

Highlighting FinTech innovations that cater to the financial needs of the hospitality and catering industries, enhancing efficiency in transactions, billing, and financial management.

Commending FinTech solutions that address the specific financial requirements of the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, improving payment processes, billing accuracy, and compliance.

Celebrating FinTech innovations that support financial management and fundraising efforts within the education and charity sectors, facilitating donations, grant management, and financial transparency.

Acknowledging FinTech solutions that optimize financial operations and transactions within the property management and real estate industries, improving leasing, rent collection, and property investment processes.

Now accepting entries for 2027

Download the forms and choose your categories.

ENTRY BENEFITS

Recognition

We help promote your success every step of the way with Shortlist, Finalist and ultimate Winner stages

Badges

Make your way through each stage and unlock access to marketing materials highlighting your success

Publishing

Share and promote your expertise and insight at every stage you reach on our industry news center

Announcements

Join in the buzz at Shortlist, Finalist and Winner stages on our website and international press releases

Trophy

Every winner gets their prestigious trophy shipped to them automatically (North America only)

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This achievement reflects the incredible people and partnerships that make our work possible. We extend our sincere gratitude to The Cloud Awards judges.

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