Fintech Awards 2022

Delighted to Welcome
our VIP Speaker for 2022

James Cameron, Partner,
AirTree Ventures

The 7th Annual FinTech Awards were held at Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf on 25th August 2022.
Thank you to all the finalists and winners for your great submissions.
Our supporters for 2022: ASX, Australian Payments Network, Envestnet Yodlee, Perpetual, DNX – Citadel, Stone & Chalk, AssuranceLab, Oracle Cloud, RegTech Association, Australian DeFi Association, Heads Over Heels, Moody’s Analytics, Newcastle Permanent Building Society, Seedspace Venture Capital, Valor Recruitment, BSI Group

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Award Categories

1. BEST INNOVATION in PFM, SAVINGS ACCOUNT, BUSINESS BANKING ACCOUNT
The Judges are looking for an innovative product or service that adds value to the Personal Financial Management experience, a Savings or Business Account categories.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
WeMoney (WINNER)
Tanggram
BlossomApp

2. BEST INNOVATION IN PAYMENTS (incl Cards, BNPL, Remittance/FX)
The Judges are looking for an innovative product or service that adds value to the payments experience; services could be from all areas of the FinTech sector including cards, Buy Now Pay Later, mobile and/or digital currency payments providers.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Zepto (WINNER)
Airwallex
Novatti Group

3. BEST INNOVATION IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT
The Judges are seeking a product or service which offers a new, or significantly improved, service that uses technology to help manage and grow the wealth of customers and/or financial institutions.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Cache (WINNER)
Unhedged
Stake

4. BEST INNOVATION IN LENDING
This award recognises a consumer or business lending fintech which offers a new or significantly improved service that implements technology to bring benefits to either lenders and/or borrowers, or lending marketplaces. Judges are looking for an innovative use of credit modelling, data elements and/or an improved user experience, or volume growth.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Alex Bank (WINNER)
FiFo Capital
Plenti

5. BEST HOME LOAN INNOVATION
This award recognises a home loan (mortgage) lending fintech which offers a new or significantly improved service that implements technology to bring benefits to either lenders and/or borrowers, or lending marketplaces. Judges are looking for an innovative use of credit modelling, data elements and/or an improved user experience, or volume growth.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Tic:Toc (WINNER)
Nano Digital Home Loans
Unloan

6. BEST FINTECH-BANK COLLABORATION
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 have worked, or are working together. The Bank partner for the submission can be Australian or an overseas based Bank, however the FinTech must be an Australian based fintech.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Mambu (& CBA) (WINNER)
Paytron (& JP Morgan)
Zerocap (& ANZ)
Shaype (& CBA)

7. BEST FINTECH & NON-BANK COLLABORATION
The Judges are looking for partnerships, specific projects, or products, that showcase how a non-bank (for example, Credit Unions, Building Societies, Non-Bank Lenders etc) and a fintech firm are working together. The Non-Bank partner for the submission can be Australian or an overseas based Non-Bank, however the FinTech must be an Australian based fintech.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Perpetual Digital (& Athena Home Loans) (WINNER)
MYOB (& Flare)
Novatti Group (Visa, CryptoSpend)

8. BEST USE OF Ai IN FINTECH
The Judges are looking for the best use of Artificial Intelligence (Ai) in a fintech service; Ai can help fintech firms 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.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Credit Clear (WINNER)
Sherlok
Alex Bank

9. BEST INNOVATION IN PROPTECH
The Judges are looking for the most innovative use of technology to solve the property sector’s biggest issues; to be included in this category, the PropTech business needs to have a value proposition substantially connected to finance / asset register / payments.

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Stone and Chalk

Finalists for 2022 are:
CampaignAgent (WINNER)
Bridgit
Futurerent

10. BEST INNOVATION IN ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
The Judges are looking for the most innovative use of technology to solve the challenges of offering Alternative Investment Products at scale. The definition of Alternative Investment Products is broad and includes products not covered by the other award categories.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Stropro (WINNER)
Unhedged
Rush Gold

11. BEST SOCIAL MISSION FINTECH
The Judges are looking for a FinTech that places Social Purpose at the centre of vision – which could be to educate consumers, help consumers pay off debt, help people accelerate savings & investments; this award category is open to both ‘for profit’ fintechs and/or a ‘not for profit’ fintechs.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
OwnHome (WINNER)
Frontya
WeMoney

12. BEST INNOVATION IN REGTECH
The Judges are seeking a Regulatory Technology (RegTech) business that assists the regulatory/compliance sector with new and innovative service(s) that facilitate the delivery of regulatory requirements in any part of the financial services sector (wealth, financial advice, lending, payments, insurance, crypto etc).

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Finalists for 2022 are:
AssuranceLab (WINNER)
Perpetual Digital
RegCentric

13. DIVERSITY & INCLUSION AWARD
This Award celebrates diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and honours fintechs who are making an outstanding contribution to hiring and promoting diverse people in Australia. This includes gender, culturally and linguistically diverse communities (CALD) and people with disability (PWD).

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Wisr (WINNER)
AssuranceLab
Tanggram

14. Best Sustainability Initiative in FinTech
The Judges define Sustainability as a societal goal with three dimensions: environmental, economic and social. Initiatives developed by fintechs can be used to guide financial decisions at the global, national and at the individual consumer level. This category is also seeking FinTechs that are leading consumers towards a net zero emissions economy, and/or helping businesses/Governments transition to a zero emission economy.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
BASIQ (WINNER)
Sherlok
Fiskil

15. BEST OPEN BANKING SOLUTION
The Judges are looking for an Australian fintech that uses open APIs that enable third-party developers to build applications and services around the financial institution, offers greater financial transparency options for account holders ranging from open data to private data.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Brighte (WINNER)
Slyp
Shaype

16. FINTECH CTO/CIO OF THE YEAR
Judges will be looking for an outstanding CTO or CIO who has created or led cutting edge innovation, Partnerships, built a large team; a CTO or CIO who may have taken a calculated risk and the risk has paid off.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Spiro Rokos, Co-founder & CTO, Slyp (WINNER)
Chris Dadej, Co-founder, CTO/CPO , Lumiant
Nicholas Tan, CTO, monoova

17. YOUNG FINTECH LEADER OF THE YEAR
The Award Judges are looking for an outstanding individual under 35 years of age who has consistently contributed to the advancement of the fintech sector.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Josh Vernon, Founder, Wagestream (WINNER)
Caleb Gibbins, Founder, Cache Invest
Ben Simpson, Founder, Collective Shift

18. BEST INNOVATION IN CRYPTO &/or DIGITAL ASSETS
The Award Judges are looking for an outstanding Australian platform, product or App in the Crypto/DeFi/Blockchain/Digital Asset sectors that has launched, has customers, and offers customers a way to access Crypto/DeFi/Digital assets and/or be the digital Custodian or payments provider.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Zerocap (WINNER)
Rush Gold
Block Earner

19. FEMALE FINTECH LEADER OF THE YEAR
The Award Judges are looking for an outstanding female individual who has consistently contributed to the advancement of the fintech sector.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Erika Villanueva, Co-Founder and Chief Compliance Officer, AssuranceLab (WINNER)
Cathryn van der Walt, Founder, Annature
Tanya Ward, CFO & COO, Cape

20. FINTECH LEADER OF THE YEAR
The Award Judges are looking for an outstanding individual who has consistently contributed to the advancement of the fintech sector.

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Dominic Pym, Founder, Up (WINNER)
Katherine McConnell, Founder, Brighte
Adam Grocke, Founder, Sherlok

21. BEST FINTECH GROWTH STORY
An Award that celebrates a fintech that’s going gangbusters! This category is open to any Australian fintech 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).

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Finalists for 2022 are:
Airwallex (WINNER)
Zepto
Wisr

22. ASHURST FINTECH STARTUP OF THE YEAR
This is the most exciting Award of the night. The Judges are seeking a FinTech start-up business (a start-up is 7 years or younger) 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.

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