FStech awards 2025 winners revealed

Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient, J.P. Morgan AWM and Deutsche Bank & HCLTech were among those to scoop up awards at last night's FStech awards ceremony.

Now in its 25th year, the awards, which celebrate the brightest and best of the financial services technology sector, were celebrated with a glitzy gala dinner at the Marriott in London’s Grosvenor Square.

J.P. Morgan AWM had plenty of cause for celebration this year, picking up four trophies, while Featurespace celebrated three wins at the event.

Other standout winners on the night included Deutsche Bank, which won the Operational Resilience Award, Comviva Technologies, which took home the Financial Inclusion Award, and GFT, Engine by Starling & Salt Bank, who won Best Use of IT in Consumer Finance.

All the evening’s winners are as follows:

Best Use of Data Analytics
WINNER: FICO & HSBC

Best Use of Data
WINNER: Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Risk Data Products

Best Use of IT in Consumer Finance
WINNER: GFT, Engine by Starling & Salt Bank

Best Use of IT by a Trading Platform
WINNER: J.P. Morgan AWM

Best Use of IT in Commercial Finance
WINNER: Allica Bank

Best Financial Services in IT Team
WINNER: J.P. Morgan AWM

Best Customer Service and Experience Technology - sponsored by NICE
WINNER: OSB Group & Publicis Sapient

Best Use of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services - sponsored by HCLTech
WINNER: J.P. Morgan AWM

Consumer Finance App of the Year
WINNER: NatWest Group & HCLTech

Best Use of Embedded Finance and Open Banking
WINNER: BKN301 & Finastra

Anti-fraud Solution of the Year
WINNER: Lynx

Cyber Security Solution of the Year
WINNER: Xapo Bank

Operational Resilience Award
WINNER: Deutsche Bank

RegTech and Compliance Project of the Year
WINNER: Deutsche Bank & HCLTech

Digital Transformation Project of the Year
WINNER: J.P. Morgan AWM

DeFi and Digital Asset Innovation Award
WINNER: FIS

Financial Services Collaboration of the Year - sponsored by Maveric NXT
WINNER: GFT, Engine by Starling & Salt Bank

Payments Innovation of the Year
WINNER: Ecommpay

Financial Sector Innovation of the Year - sponsored by Computacenter
WINNER: Kore Labs

Cloud Innovation of the Year
WINNER: Adaptive

Risk Management Solution of the Year
WINNER: Featurespace

Most Innovative Product of the Year - sponsored by HCLTech
WINNER: Featurespace

Technology Provider of the Year
WINNER: Temenos

Most Disruptive Financial Sector Technology
WINNER: Featurespace

Consumer Finance Product of the Year
WINNER: Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Personal Contract Hire

Banking as a Service - Platform of the Year
WINNER: B4B Payments

Startup of the Year
WINNER: Navro

Financial Inclusion Award
WINNER: Comviva Technologies

ESG and Sustainability Solution of the Year
WINNER: GIST Impact

ESG Excellence in Banking
WINNER: ClearBank

CTO/CIO of the Year Award - sponsored by Infosys
WINNER: Chris Pennington, CTO, Modern World Business Solutions



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