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 pioneering transformative initiatives that shape the future of their workforce. These projects cover changes to the work, workforce, employee experience, and overall organization culture in preparing for tomorrow, and include the use of data, technology, and new approaches to ensure employees are empowered and upskilled by machines, and how work is organized, performed, measured and managed.

This category is reserved for banking start-ups, digital spinoffs of incumbent banks, and technology firms working within the banking industry. Initiatives cover the creation and/or application of innovative technology that enhances customers’ banking experience and/or develops new sources of revenue for the industry. Innovations must be stage-one funded, have a market release proposition, and/or have completed a successful market PoC.

This category awards banks that have successfully navigated the complexities of process re-engineering and smarter operations, laying the groundwork for profitable growth. Initiatives cover scalable processes that drive improved efficiency to support a faster pace of growth for the bank’s revenue stream and asset base than for its overhead costs.

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, and management of customer channels, communications, engagement and relationships.

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.