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The Asia FinTech Awards categories

The Asia 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.

Product/Service

  • 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?
  • Crypto Award

    Open to all organisations involved in cryptocurrencies, CBDCs and stablecoins.

    • 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 can it achieve critical mass? 
    • What are its unique selling points and what differentiates it from the competition? 
    • What recognition has the product or service received from third parties? 
  • 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?
  • PayTech 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?
  • 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?
  • Web3 Award

    Open to all organisations involved in web3, including but not limited to, blockchain technology, DeFi, NFTs, metaverse and other distributed ledger technologies. 

    • 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? 
    • Where does the value of the product or service come from? 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? 
    • How does the product or service differentiate itself from web2? 

Initiative

  • Data Initiative of the Year
    • Tell us about your data initiative: what were your aims and requirements?
    • How has your initiative improved delivery of the service or product being offered?
    • Where and how were there improvements in outcomes for customers/users?
    • Was your initiative conducted ethically, with privacy and data protection at its heart?
    • What recognition has the initiative received from third parties?

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?
  • Best ESG Campaign
    • What ambitious ESG targets has the organisation set?
    • In what ways are the organisation’s senior leadership taking a top-down approach to planning, setting and executing ESG activity?
    • Outline at least one recent campaign that best demonstrates the organisation’s dedication of resources, strategic planning and execution and delivery of results in pursuit of its ESG ambitions.
    • What steps is the organisation taking to continue achieving progress in the pursuit of its ESG ambitions?
    • What recognition has the organisation received from third parties for its ESG campaign?
  • Disruptor of the Year
    • How has your organisation disrupted an area of financial services?
    • To what extent did your organisation take market share from legacy competitors?
    • 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?
    • What recognition has your organisation received from third parties?
  • FinTech Partner Award
    Open to all organisations that provide services to fintechs, including but not limited to, venture capital, legal and consultancy.
    • How does the organisation identify and meet the fintech’s needs effectively and efficiently?
    • In what ways do you add value to your clients’ operations?
    • How have you forged and maintained an excellent relationship with your partner?
    • Where and how do you go the extra mile for your client?
  • Startup of the Year

    Startups must be fewer than three years old at the time of entry.

    • 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?

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?

The Asia Fintech Awards 2025

These awards were developed to celebrate this incredible community, and the achievements and successes of Asia’s best and brightest.

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