The 5th edition of the prestigious Global Fintech Awards recognizes outstanding startups, disruptive technologies, unique business models, and innovative founders across the globe.
FinTech BizNews Service
Mumbai, 5 September, 2026: The Global Fintech Fest returns in 2026 with the 5th edition of the prestigious Global Fintech Awards, celebrating the success of individuals and enterprises in the fintech landscape worldwide. These awards recognize outstanding startups, disruptive technologies, unique business models, and innovative founders across the globe. Fintech companies, financial institutions, and startups were invited to nominate their work for a chance to be honoured among the industry's best.
SPECIAL JURY
There are broadly 5 Award Categories
Excellence in FinTech
Recognising innovative fintech organisations that are transforming financial services through cutting-edge technology, customer-centric solutions, digital innovation, and measurable industry impact.
Excellence in Banking Tech
Recognising pioneering banks, financial institutions, and technology providers that are transforming banking through digital innovation, enhanced customer experiences, operational excellence, security, and next-generation technology solutions.
Excellence in AI-Powered Financial Innovation
Recognising organisations that are leveraging Artificial Intelligence to transform financial services through enhanced customer experiences, operational efficiency, risk management, decision-making, and innovation.
Special Fintech Achievements
Recognising exceptional individuals, organisations, and initiatives that have made a lasting impact on the fintech ecosystem through leadership, innovation, industry advancement, and transformative contributions.
Jury For GFF 2026
Regional Fintech Excellence
Recognising exceptional individuals, organisations, and initiatives that have made a lasting impact on the fintech ecosystem through leadership, innovation, industry advancement, and transformative contributions.
The shortlist of nominees for the Global Fintech Awards 2026 is presented in no particular order. The sequence of names does not reflect ranking, preference, or scoring. Winners will be announced at the Global Fintech Awards Night on 9 &10 September, 2026 |
The Excellence In Fintech Category have been further devised in following 11 sub-categories:
Best Payments Solution, Best Lending Solution, Best Insurance Tech Solution, Best WealthTech Solution, Best RegTech Solution, Best Digital Experience in Finance, Fintech for Good [Champions of ESG], Friends of Fintech, Best Digital Trust & Identity Solution, Best Digital Public Infrastructure and Best B2B Payments Platform.
The shortlisted nominees In "Excellence In Fintech" Category
Best B2B Payments Platform
This award recognises a B2B payments platform that simplifies business transactions through speed, security, and cost- efficiency. It celebrates a platforms serving diverse business segments with scalable architecture, high transaction volumes, automation, and seamless regulatory compliance.
PayGlocal Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Cashfree Payments
Paytm for Business
Invoicemart
Payoneer, India
Best Digital Experience in Finance
This award recognises and celebrates the most innovative solution, which provides a high degree of inclination towards user experience. Other factors that make a solution well accepted among the target audience include latest technologies, visual aesthetics, usability, etc.
KiyaAI Neo Banking Pod
Push Provisioning - Visa, Scapia, Juspay
Juspay Technologies
Scapia
Paytm
PayGlocal Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Best Digital Public Infrastructure
Recognising outstanding achievements in the realm of digital public infrastructure, this award celebrates innovation, efficiency, and transformative impact in advancing societal connectivity and accessibility
Verismart.ai
Fonepay Payment Service Limited
National E-Governance Services Limited
Leegality
Protean eGov Technologies Ltd.
Protean CRA
Best Digital Trust & Identity Solution
Honouring organisations delivering secure, scalable, and trusted digital identity solutions that strengthen authentication, privacy, compliance, and customer trust.
KwikID (a product by Think360.ai)
Timble AI
Protean Rise
Wibmo, a PayU company
Data Sutram
Best InsuranceTech Solution
This award recognises and celebrates an organisation in the Insurance Tech space showcasing excellent achievements through digital and technological innovations, and creating value from new market opportunities. The award seeks nominations from InsurTechs from both value chain innovations or new digital business models.
Heph
BimaPay Finsure Private Limited
Data Science Wizards (DSW)
Roadzen
Plum
Best Lending Solution
This award recognises a financial institution (FI) that has a scalable and impactful solution for consumer and/or business lending. The FIs that qualify for this award includes entities across the lending value chain - Digital NBFC, Lending App, Loan Origination / Collection Management solution provider, Loan Service Provider (LSP), others.
Fibe
Pennant Technologies Private Limited
Urban Money
Drip/c
Paytm Personal Loans: Instant, AI-Powered Credit Access at Scale
Best Payments Solution
This award recognises and honours an enterprises that is at the forefront of leveraging technology to enhance the transaction process and provide a solution that is cost- effective, provides multiple payment modes, facilitates a smooth and seamless merchant onboarding and provides efficient merchant management services.
CAMSPay UPI Offline Plus
Intelle360 by Mylapay
Bank of India
imark Pvt. Ltd
SprintPGX by PaySprint
Invoicemart
Best RegTech Solution
This award recognises a RegTech solution that is innovative and forward-thinking monitoring, reporting and helping FIs respond to evolving and changing regulatory requirements.
IntelleWings Private Limited
Hyperverge
Sumsub
Bureau
Protean Rise - Protean eGov Technologies Ltd.
Best WealthTech Solution
This award recognizes recognises a technology-based solution that demonstrates exceptional innovation, efficiency, and effectiveness in wealth and asset management and, personal finance management. Some of the key features of the solution may include personal finance, tools for saving and investing, and financial advisory.
PensionBox
SafeGold - DGIPL
Nippon India Mutual Fund
Valura.Ai
MoneyOne x SBI Mutual Fund
PowerUp Money
Fintech for Good [Champions of ESG]
This award recognises an entity that has a high-impact business catering to rural, low-income, or disadvantaged communities. Further, the entity should have a clear for-profit business model.
Wise
Motilal Oswal Home Finance Ltd.
L&T Finance Limited
ID2Pay, a CAMS product
Paytm
Kaleidofin Pvt. Ltd
Friends of Fintech
This award honours partnerships (for specific projects, or products) between fintech and bank or fintech and non-Bank, that are driving ecosystem play through innovation and synergies, resulting in quality solution and enhanced customer experience.
Blostem Fintech Private Limited
Sarvatra Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
DevRev
MoneyOne x HomeCredit
Voice India
Watch this space Tomorrow to know short list of nominees in "Special Fintech Achievements"
