We are delighted to announce The 9th Annual FinTech Awards 2024 will be held in Sydney on Thursday 21st March 2024.

1. BEST FINTECH &/or BANK APP
The Judges are looking for a FinTech or Bank with an outstanding App, that has high user ratings (on the App Store, Google ratings etc), offers users a clear, concise, easy to use functionality, use of Ai to help customers find services and apply for new products, use of personalisation, customer engagement (eg notifications), gamification and education on finance. NPS and retention data may also be used in your application.

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Finalists for 2024 are:
WeMoney (WINNER)
Beforepay Group Limited
Stake

2. BEST INNOVATION IN LENDING & HOME LOANS
This award recognises a consumer lending, home loans and/or business lending which 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 volume growth.

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Finalists for 2024 are:
OwnHome (WINNER)
HOPE Housing
Fortiro

3. BEST INNOVATION FOR INVESTING & FUNDS MANAGEMENT
This award recognises a B2C or B2B investment or Funds Management service. This could also include a Superannuation service. This could be a new or significantly improved service that implements technology to bring benefits to B2C providers or customers. This is not necessarily about FUM; new entrants to the Superannuation/Funds Management sector are encouraged to submit as we appreciate building FUM takes many years.

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Finalists for 2024 are:
Stropro (WINNER)
Spaceship
Stake
Cache Invest

4. 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 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 Australian company (which can be the bank or the fintech).

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Finalists for 2024 are:
Tiimely (and UP Bank) (WINNER)
Thriday (and NAB)
Paydock/PowerBoard (and CBA)

5. 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 2024 are:
Fortiro (WINNER)
SpendConsole
Tiimely

6. BEST INNOVATION IN REWARDS & LOYALTY
The Judges are looking for innovative use of technology to help brands deliver more than points for loyal customers; this could include upsell to other relevant financial services, subscriptions, experiences, collaboration and education services.

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Finalists for 2024 are:
Loyalty Now (WINNER)
Grow My Money
Tanggram

7. 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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Finalists for 2024 are:
Downsizer (WINNER)
FrontYa
PropHero

8. BEST INNOVATION: CORPORATE CARDS, ACCOUNTING & PAYROLL
The Judges are looking for the most innovative use of technology, UX & UI experience, compelling pricing, to solve the key corporate challenges of issuing & tracking corporate card expenses, accounting, expense management (incl FX), payroll and benefits.

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Finalists for 2024 are:
Thriday (WINNER)
Change Financial
Ozedi Holdings

9. 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 2024 are:
Company: Bridgit – Aaron Bassin (WINNER)
Company: FrontYa – Robbie Baskin
Company: LoanOptions.ai – Julian Fayad

10. 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 2024 are:
Company: Grow My Money – Pascale Helyar-Moray (WINNER)
Company: Complii Fintech Solutions – Alison Sarich
Company: Nimo Industries – Leann Jones

11. 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.

Finalists for 2024 are:
Company: Birchal – Matt Vitale (WINNER)
Company: Lumi Finance – Yanir Yakutiel
Company: Downsizer – MARK MACDUFFIE

12. FAST STARTER AWARD
The Judges are looking for the most impressive Early Stage FinTech; less than two years trading (in market). The fintech should demonstrate impressive growth and traction; this could be customer numbers, FUM, partnerships, capital raised, staff numbers or any number of fast starter growth metrics.

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Finalists for 2024 are:
JustFund (WINNER)
Thriday
Waave

13. 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 2024 are:
Stropro (WINNER)
LoanOptions.ai
Bridgit

14. ASHURST FINTECH STARTUP OF THE YEAR
This is the most exciting Award of the night. The Judges are seeking a FinTech start-up business 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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Finalists for 2024 are:
Cache Invest (WINNER)
WeMoney
Cake Equity

1. Entrance is FREE.
2. Submissions open on 1st February 2024
3. You can enter a maximum of 5 Award Categories.
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 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 fintechs take time to develop, launch and scale products.
7. The Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
8. The FinTech Awards are open to Australian owned companies and Australian Entrepreneurs. Australian companies are defined as a Pty Ltd company with a minimum 51% shareholding of members/shareholders resident in Australia. For clarification, an Australian Pty Ltd company majority owned by overseas based shareholders or an overseas based company (or holding company) is not permitted to enter the awards (with the exception of Point 9 below, where an overseas company can partner with an Australian fintech/FSI and enter an award category together). Your company’s headquarters must also be registered in Australia. Nominations for Individual Awards (eg FinTech Leader of the Year) must be for Australian citizens, but the nominees do not have to be based in Australia.
9. The FinTech 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
11. No attachments 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 Awards
Email: glen@famfi.com.au