Qorus-Infosys Finacle Banking Innovation Awards 2025

Creative new products and initiatives that transform the bank’s business model to expand or redefine its role in the evolving ecosystem. This category aims to acknowledge banks that have spearheaded transformative efforts to compete in the realm of "new-age banking". This includes scaling novel models like a digital-first proposition, embracing embedded finance, marketplace banking, super apps, BaaS, and similar innovations.

This category showcases innovative products and offerings, developed independently or through collaborative partnerships, that match customers’ evolving digital lifestyles to foster sustainable growth. These include breakthrough concepts that dramatically enhance, transform, or tailor the banks’ offerings to specific market segments across products such as deposits, credit, payments, investments, and advice.

This category recognizes banks that are driving breakthrough corporate banking innovation and digitization across channels, cash management, payments, treasury, trade finance, and similar areas. It showcases banks driving such digital innovation to deliver tailored, efficient solutions enabling large corporates, mid-sized businesses, and SMEs.

This category recognizes banking initiatives with pioneering AI-driven solutions driving substantial value and business outcomes. It includes initiatives leveraging emerging AI technologies like predictive analytics, generative AI, and agentic AI. The focus is on how these AI capabilities are applied to optimize operational efficiency, enhance decision-making, deliver superior customer experiences, and drive innovation.

This category awards banks that have successfully navigated complexities with process re-engineering and operations, laying groundwork for profitable growth. Initiatives cover scalable processes that drive efficiency to support faster growth for bank’s revenue stream and asset base than for its overhead costs. The category also recognizes pioneering transformative initiatives that empowers their workforce. These projects cover transformation of workforce, employee...

This category showcases initiatives that leverage a variety of digital technologies to effectively engage clients, fostering a customer-centric approach that elevates loyalty, satisfaction, and advocacy. This includes significant enhancements in the bank’s marketing, sales and distribution, including physical distribution. It also captures management of customer channels, communications, engagement and relationships – both digital and physical.

This category honors banks that are inspirational in their approach to ESG within their organization and in the development of appropriate customer offerings to meet these emerging needs. This includes innovations that advance the bank’s social purpose and its commitment to being a good corporate citizen and a true ally of its customers in their journey.

Innovations leveraging modern technology. The convergence of game-changing technologies such as Cloud, Gen AI, Blockchain, Open APIs, IoT, and Mixed Reality brings our imagination of tomorrow’s banking to life. Better technology is always at the heart of every organization’s quest to provide future-ready offerings. This particular award will recognize banks that inspire better banking by architecting the future by making...