Congratulations to the winners of the Banking Tech Awards USA 2022!

Here are this year’s highly commended winners:

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Best innovation

Winner:

• Citizens Financial Group for Citizens Pay

Strongly recommended:

• QuickFi by Innovation Finance USA LLC for QuickFi®

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Best FinTech Partnership

Winner:

• Uber Freight, Branch and Marqeta for Uber Freight partner with Branch and Marqeta to deliver faster payments and fuel rewards to carriers

Strongly recommended:

• ZEscrow Development Group: Bank of New Hampshire, Haven Savings Bank, Kearny Bank, Leader Bank and Patriot Bank for ZEscrow and TAB Bank for TAB Bank Partnership with Bumped

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Best UX/CX Initiative in Finance

Winner:

• Freddie Mac for Clarity 2.0

Strongly recommended:

• JPMorgan Chase for Praesto

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Better contribution to economic mobility in banking/finance

Winner:

• Nova Credit for Credit Passport

Strongly recommended:

• Branch for branch: Empowering Independent Contractors and Emerging Entrepreneurs and Greendot Corporation for GO2bank

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COVID-19 Response (Banks and Financial Institutions)

Winner:

• TD Bank for TD Virtual Assistant

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Best Integrated Funding Initiative

Winner:

• Bond Financial Technologies, Inc for implementing the Squire Card

Strongly recommended:

• Intuit, Inc. for QuickBooks Get Paid Up Front

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Best Community Bank/Credit Union Award

Winner:

• Pinal County Federal Credit Union for PCFCU Connect

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Best Basic Banking Solution Provider

Winner:

• Temenos for Temenos Banking Cloud

Strongly recommended:

• FIS for the Modern Banking Platform

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Best digital banking solution provider for businesses

Winner:

• Apiture for Apiture Digital Banking Platform

Strongly recommended:

• ONEUP for Business Assistant and MANTL for Business Account Opening

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Best Consumer Digital Banking Solution Provider

Winner:

• 1Kosmos for 1Kosmos BlockID

Strongly recommended:

• FinLocker LLC for FinLocker Mortgage Readiness Product and Moxo for Moxo’s OneStop Customer Interaction Center

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Technology of the future

Winner:

• Arkose Labs for Arkose Labs Fraud Deterrence Platform

Strongly recommended:

• Socure for Socure ID+ Platform, DeepTarget, Inc. for Digital Experience Platform and 3D StoryTeller and LiquidX for LiquidX Digital Trade Finance Solutions

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Future Technology – Data, AI, ML and RPA

Winner:

• Symphony AyasdiAI for SensaAML

Strongly recommended:

• FIS for FIS PREBOT and Facteus for Mimic Synthetic Data Engine

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COVID-19 Response (Technology Services and Software Vendors)

Winner:

• Abrigo for Abrigo’s All-Hands PPP Response Results in $34 Billion in PPP Loans and 2.7 Million Jobs Saved

Strongly recommended:

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Best payment solution provider

Winner:

• Stellar Development Foundation for Stellar

Strongly recommended:

• ACI Worldwide & SHERPA for Enterprise Payments Platform, Very Good Security (VGS) for VGS Payment Optimization and Volante Technologies for Volante Technologies

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Best Payment Solution Provider – Startup

Winner:

• Astra for Astra Automated Bank Transfer API

Strongly recommended:

• Dropp for Micropayment Platform for Small Value Transactions in FIAT and Digital Currencies

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Woman in Technology (WIT)

Winner:

• Marinela Tudoran of Credit Suisse

Strongly recommended:

• Funmilayo Oludaiye of Goldman Sachs, Margaret J. Hartigan of Marstone Inc. and Rania Succar. From Intuit

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Technological direction

Winner:

• Gabriele Columbus of FINOS

Strongly recommended:

• Andy R. Shah of Mercury Financial LLC (Mercury Financial) and Carrie Blankenship of Fiserv

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FinTech Rising Star

Winner:

• Carver Edison’s Aaron Shapiro

Strongly recommended:

• Michelle Prohaska from Nymbus

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Tech Team of the Year

Winner:

• BNY Mellon for BNY Mellon Enterprise Innovation Team

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editors Choice

Winner:

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For more information on the Banking Tech Awards USA, visit our website here.