SME Banking Awards 2025

The Qorus SME Banking Awards are recognizing outstanding achievements and contributions in SME banking, celebrating the best of the best. The Awards are now returning for their fifth edition in 2025.

SME Banking
Current phase

Evaluation phase

Choose your TOP 3 and help us decide who will win this edition!

We're counting the votes! Online voting, constituting 50% of the final result, carries significant weight. The remaining 50% will be determined by the votes of the Jury Committee.

Banks and bankers now have the opportunity to showcase their skills and shine brightly in the industry. The awards recognize outstanding achievements and contributions in SME banking, celebrating the best of the best. In the past four years, SME Banking Awards garnered significant attention, with numerous deserving recipients recognized for their excellence in serving small and medium-sized enterprises. Today, the Awards provide a platform for industry professionals to come together, exchange ideas, and inspire each other for future advancements in SME banking.

Now we’re launching the fifth edition, which will conclude with the ceremony in May 2025 during Reinvent Forum in Vienna, where we will unveil the winners.

Categories

    2025 Awards timeline

    Our judges

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    Stefan Andersson

    SBAB

    Head of Corporate & Associations

    Voting criteria

    Originality

    Why is the solution different? How inventive, innovative, unique and distinguished is the solution in the market?

    Internationality

    Performance at the cross-country level, the degree of internalization

    Impact – Traction

    Is the solution capable of generating significant revenue and have strong traction?

    Business Potential - Pain solver

    How big and important is the business problem and the level of pain being solved? Is this solution going to solve it at scale?

    Wow factor

    How excited are you about the project?

    Attend the ceremony and celebrate the winners!

    Awards ceremony

    The Awards Ceremony will take place on 14 May in Vienna as part of our 2-day Reinvent Forum conference

    In 2024 edition...

    • 17 000+

      votes were received in total

    • 3 000+

      individuals casted their vote

    • 63

      countries were represented in the voting process

    • 20

      senior industry leaders acted as judges in 2024

    2024 ceremony

    Do you have questions regarding the categories or Awards process? Reach out to us!

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    Miroslava Tokarova

    Qorus

    Communities Manager

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    Dorota Valkova

    Qorus

    Communities Manager