rewrite this title A Look Back at the 2025 Finovate Awards – Finovate

Now that the nominations for the 2026 Finovate Awards are open and the judging teams are being assembled, we thought we’d take a look back at some of the winners of last year’s competition.

The 2025 Finovate Awards featured a wide variety of companies from around the world, all competing for top industry honors in more than 25 different categories. Here, we present a seven-member sampling of that year’s category-winning companies, from Best Anti-Fraud Platform to Best Wealth Management Solution.

The 2026 Finovate Awards will be announced September 10 during FinovateFall 2026 in New York. The nominations window remains open until May 22. To learn more and to nominate your favorite fintech company, bank, solution, or financial services professional, visit our Finovate Awards hub today!

Best Anti-Fraud/AML Solution – Oscilar

For its technology that powers real-time risk decisioning across fraud, credit, and compliance with a single unified solution. The company’s no-code AI Risk Decisioning platform leverages agentic AI and advanced signal processing to analyze complex data, detect anomalies, and automate decisions quickly and accurately. Learn more about Oscilar.

Best Banking-as-a-Service Provider – Zindigi-JS Bank

For its platform that empowers users to take control of their finances, providing them with an all-in-one finance app that enables them to securely move money, purchase mobile credit for any number, pay bills, invest in mutual funds, and more. Users can access an enhanced experience with Zindigi Ultra, which provides increased transaction limits and seamless international transactions. Learn more about JS Bank’s Zindigi.

Best Consumer Lending Solution – Wisetack

For its platform that provides embedded pay-over-time options for in-person services such as HVAC repair, plumbing, electrical, fencing and flooring, pest management, and more. Via APIs, Wisetack can be embedded into any software or user experience, putting the technology directly into the software tools that businesses are already using. Learn more about Wisetack.

Best Consumer-Facing Payments Solution – Engage People

For its Access Plus platform that serves more than 80 million active members who can use points to pay at a range of major retailers including Amazon, Apple, Best Buy, and PayPal. Engage People leverages agentic loyalty to transform traditional loyalty programs into AI-powered shopping experiences in which members engage with a personal agent that knows their balance and their preferences. Learn more about Engage People.

Best Digital Bank – Nubank

For serving more than 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia with one of the largest digital banking platforms in the world. The company, known as Nu, leverages proprietary technologies and innovative business strategies to offer individuals and small businesses simple, intuitive, low-cost, empowering financial solutions. Learn more about Nu.

Best Financial Mobile App – DBS Bank

For its DBS digibank app that enables users to manage a range of banking tasks with just a few taps on their smartphone. Users can enjoy up to 5% interest per annum on their savings, conduct free 24×7 fund transfers via UPI, IMPS, NEFT, and RTGS, make fee-free mutual fund investments, quickly access loans, and more. DBS is a leading financial services group headquartered in Singapore with a presence in 19 markets. Learn more about DBS Bank.

Best Wealth Management Solution – Flourish: Enabling Wealth 3.0

For its Flourish Platform that supports more than $8 billion in assets under management and is used by more than 1,100 wealth management firms representing more than $2.6 trillion in assets under management. The company’s technology empowers RIAs to implement the holistic financial plans that they create for their clients, helping advisors move beyond the traditional stocks-and-bonds portfolio to offer comprehensive financial services that address clients’ entire financial lives. Learn more about Flourish.

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