Emerging Payments Awards 2020 Finalists Announced!

The Emerging Payments Awards celebrate innovation, collaboration and emerging payments by recognising companies that have made significant advances in how we pay today. With a 50% increase in submissions for this year's Awards, entrants demonstrated examples of high-quality and innovative payment solutions, and selecting the finalists was a challenge indeed with so many deserving entrants. Today at Pay360 Conference, the EPA announced the finalists for the 2020 Emerging Payments Awards: Best International Payments, Remittance or use of FX

• Banking Circle
• Crown Agents Bank – EMpowerFX
• Ebury
• Flywire
• Ixaris
• Post Office Ltd – Post Office Travel app

Best Financial Inclusion Payments Programme

• Airtel Uganda and Comviva
• Banking Circle
• Prepaid Financial Services
• Telenor Microfinance Bank

Best B2C Payments Programme

• Curve – Go-Back-In-Time
• Stocard
• Swile, Treezor

Best B2B Payments Programme

• Banking Circle – Banking Circle Virtual IBAN
• Bottomline – Bottomline PTX
• Ebury – Instant Payments Era
• Modulr (Octopus Group)
• Monzo Bank Ltd – Monzo Business
• Payoneer
• PPS
• WEX

Best Banking or Open Banking Initiative

• Bankily by BPM & Comviva
• Currensea and GPS
• Konsentus – Konsentus Verify
• Lloyds Banking Group – Payables API
• Railsbank – Railsbank Open Banking Platform (Banking as a Platform)
• Token
• Trustly

Best Partnership Initiative

• Banking Circle – Banking Circle and Cardstream
• Lloyds Bank – I-safe
• Osper
• PPS – PPS and Monese
• Vitesse PSP Ltd

Best Use of Payments Data or AI in Financial Services

• ACI Worldwide
• Chargebacks911
• Ethoca – Alerts + Eliminator
• Jumio – AI-Powered Identity Verification for Financial Services
• Kani
• Visa Europe – Visa Advanced Authorisation

Most Innovative Mobile or Financial Services Payments Solution

• Airtel Uganda and Comviva
• Judopay
• Ordo
• Stocard by Wirecard

Most Innovative Merchant Services Solution

• Airtel Uganda and Comviva
• Checkout.com
• Cybertonica Ltd – GoFrictionless™
• Ingenico – Ingenico Enterprise Retail
• PayDock
• Premier Technologies – COVID-19 Business Continuity Package

Best Back Office Innovation

• Banking Circle
• Cybertonica Ltd. – ScreenWiZe
• Mastercard – Threat Scan by Mastercard

Best Customer Facing Experience

• FIS – Premium Payback
• ID-Pal
• MuchBetter by Wirecard
• The Perfect Gift by Wirecard
• Thyngs Ltd
• Total Processing – Apple Pay For WooCommerce Payment Plugin

Marketing Campaign of the Year

• Blue Train Marketing & Fintech Finance – Team Card at the Fintech Finance Payments Race 2019
• CCgroup PR – Fame & Fortune in Fintech: Launching Tribe Payments

Leading Financial Services or Payments Start-Up

• Currensea & GPS
• Kani
• Ordo
• PayDock
• SimplyPayMe
• Tribe Payments
• Weavr.io

Leading Emerging Payments Organisation

• GPS- The Super Processor™
• PPRO
• PPS
• Trustly

Best Use of Blockchain in Financial Services

• Eligma Ltd
• Nuggets

Best Direct Account to Account Solution

• Comviva – mobiquity® Money – COVID-19 Response
• Nuapay by Sentenial
• Ordo

Best Lending Initiative

• Capital on Tap
• DivideBuy
• Starling Bank
• Trezeo

Best CSR or Charity Initiative

• allpay – Herefordshire Flooding – Prepaid Programme
• allpay – National Lottery – Community Fund Prepaid Programme
• EML
• LightningAid.org
• SumUp Payments Limited, Collecting, Claire House
• Thyngs

Best Market Expansion

• Ebury
• GLINT PAY
• Global Processing Services
• Railsbank

Industry Contributor of the Year 

• Finalists will be announced soon - stay tuned!

The winners will be announced at the Emerging Payments Awards Ceremony on November 26th.