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...
- bunq is launching a live BaaS use case, partnering with Blockrise to offer Bitcoin-friendly bank accounts with embedded banking services.
- Blockrise users will gain regulated banking benefits, including fiat deposit protection up to €100,000 under the Dutch Deposit Guarantee Scheme via bunq’s license.
- BaaS enables crypto–bank convergence in which banks provide compliant infrastructure while crypto platforms own the customer relationship.
European neobank bunq is going...
- SumUp is expanding its platform in the US with an all-in-one small business offering, combining POS Lite, a handheld terminal, card readers, and invoicing into a single ecosystem.
- Today's expansion of services comes 10 years after the company initially launched in the US.
- The strategy reflects fintech's rebundling, moving beyond payments to unify operations, sales, and business management tools in one platform.
Payment acceptance company SumUp is expanding its core product...
KeyBank is launching a new commercial card program this week. The Ohio-based bank is deepening its partnership with card issuing company Qolo to launch its Key Virtual Card (KeyVC), a virtual commercial card program that helps businesses manage and track payments.
“KeyVC is designed to reduce that complexity by allowing clients to use virtual cards alongside other treasury tools, with consistent reporting and simplified reconciliation across payment types. Businesses want payment...
- Vernon Building Society has partnered with FintechOS to power its new mortgage platform.
- The new platform spans the entire mortgage origination workflow and will run above the building society's core infrastructure, making a system replacement unnecessary.
- Headquartered in London, FintechOS most recently demoed its technology at FinovateFall 2021 in New York.
Vernon Building Society has teamed up with FintechOS to power its new unified mortgage platform that spans the...
