BAI Announces 2020 Global Innovation Award Finalists
28.1.2021 16:30:00 EET | Business Wire | Press release
BAI announced the finalists for the 2020 BAI Global Innovation Awards, the industry’s prestigious awards program that celebrates new and innovative solutions in the financial services industry worldwide.
Now in its tenth year, the BAI Global Innovation Awards recognizes leading financial services organizations on a global scale. This year, the awards drew hundreds of nominations from industry leaders demonstrating how their organizations used innovation to tackle their challenges in creative, impactful ways. Each nomination is evaluated by the Innovation Circle, a panel of global financial services innovation leaders who weigh each submission on originality and impact on consumers, employees, communities and the industry to determine the top innovations of the year.
The 2020 BAI Global Innovation Awards finalists are:
Consumer Products of Services Innovation
- Bank Pekao S.A., Poland: PeoPay KIDS
- CaixaBank S.A., Spain: HolaBank – Onboarding + mortgageNow
- FNB Life, South Africa: Dynamic Life – Home
- Meridian Credit Union, Canada: Meridian’s Price Drop
- OneConnect Smart Technology Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen), China: Smart Fast Claim
Customer Experience Innovation
- Bank of Montreal, Canada: BMO AI Cashflow Prediction
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Bill Sense
- DBS Bank Ltd, Singapore: DBS Chatbot – Guided Conversation
- Finicity, United States: Empowering the Customer Through Open Banking & Credit Decisioning
- FNB Life, South Africa: We’ve Got You COVI(R)D
Human Capital Innovation
- Citizens Financial Group, United States: Jamie Virtual Career Assistant
- SberBank, Russia: Employee Digital Care Program
- Ziraat Bank, Turkey: Hidden Power of Communication
Internal Process Innovation
- CaixaBank S.A., Spain: The New Mobility Section at Now
- DenizBank, Turkey: Digital Scorecard
- ICICI Bank, India: OPTIMUS – Payment Invoicing and ID Card Issuance System
- OneConnect Smart Technology Co., Ltd. (ShenZhen), China: Smart Contract Cloud Platform
- SberBank, Russia: Contact Center Internal Improvement Process
Marketing Innovation
- Emirates NBD Bank, United Arab Emirates: Emirates NBD Anti-Phishing "It Wasn't Me" Campaign
- imaginTech S.A., Spain: New imagin, a New Way to Communicate
- Synchrony, United States: Millie: A Multi-Channel Personal Finance Platform for Women
RegTech Innovation
- Abu Dhabi Global Market Financial Center (ADGM), United Arab Emirates: ADGM and ClauseMatch collaborate to launch Regulation 2.0
- Fino Payments Bank, India: Enterprise Risk & Fraud Management solution
- KAL ATM Software, Germany: New approach to costly and disruptive ATM hardware upgrades
- Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., China: Pingan Beehive Federated Intelligence Platform
Small Business Products or Services Innovation
- Aliasware, Inc., United States: PayVus Small Business Credit Card
- Banco Bradesco, Brazil: Open Banking Initiative: Portal MEI, Solutions for the Individual Micro Entrepreneur
- İşbank, Turkey: TekCap
- RBC Ventures, Canada: Ownr
Societal and Community Impact Innovation
- Citi Ventures Studio, United States: City Builder
- Union Bank of the Philippines: UBX SeekCap
- Woodforest National Bank, United States: Woodforest CEI-Boulos Opportunity Fund
Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2020 BAI Global Innovation Awards. The winners will be announced in February. To learn more please visit BAI Global Innovation Awards.
About BAI
As a nonprofit, independent organization, BAI has delivered the financial services industry’s most actionable insights for more than 95 years, enabling leaders to make smart business decisions every day. We provide in-depth, proprietary research to more than 40 of the top US banks, support more than 2,100 financial services organizations with compliance and professional development training, provide trusted, relevant thought leadership through BAI Banking Strategies reports, podcasts and webinars, and offer specialized events and programs. For more information, visit www.bai.org.
To view this piece of content from cts.businesswire.com, please give your consent at the top of this page.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210128005646/en/
Contact information
Holly Hughes
BAI, Chicago
hhughes@bai.org
+1 (312) 683-2305
About Business Wire
For more than 50 years, Business Wire has been the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure.
Subscribe to releases from Business Wire
Subscribe to all the latest releases from Business Wire by registering your e-mail address below. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Latest releases from Business Wire
NetApp Wins 2026 Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for Storage21.4.2026 22:00:00 EEST | Press release
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced that it has received the 2026 Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for Storage Award. NetApp is being recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers modernize their infrastructure and run enterprise workloads on Google Cloud using Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. “The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name NetApp a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.” The Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for Storage Award recognizes partners that have helped their customers modernize their infrastructure by leveraging Google Cloud's innovative solutions, resulting in increased
NetApp Wins 2026 Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for Storage21.4.2026 22:00:00 EEST | Press release
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced that it has received the 2026 Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for Storage Award. NetApp is being recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers modernize their infrastructure and run enterprise workloads on Google Cloud using Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. “The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name NetApp a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.” The Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for Storage Award recognizes partners that have helped their customers modernize their infrastructure by leveraging Google Cloud's innovative solutions, resulting in increased
Adtran and GLDS expand partnership to deliver billing-driven, zero-touch automation for subscriber lifecycle management21.4.2026 21:00:00 EEST | Press release
Adtran today announced a new phase in its long-standing partnership with GLDS, delivering billing-driven, zero-touch automation for subscriber lifecycle management. As broadband and managed Wi-Fi services scale, manual hand-offs between billing, OSS and in-home networking systems are no longer sustainable. By enabling GLDS BroadHub® to orchestrate subscriber creation, service activation and ongoing lifecycle changes across access and the connected home, the solution streamlines operations, accelerates time to revenue and reduces operational complexity. This approach gives broadband providers greater control as subscriber expectations rise and service models evolve. “Our partnership with Adtran is built around a shared goal: making it easier for broadband operators to serve a growing and increasingly demanding customer base,” said Garrick Russell, president and COO of GLDS. “By extending BroadHub® billing-driven automation all the way through to in-home Wi-Fi, we’re taking the pain out
Adtran and GLDS expand partnership to deliver billing-driven, zero-touch automation for subscriber lifecycle management21.4.2026 21:00:00 EEST | Press release
Adtran today announced a new phase in its long-standing partnership with GLDS, delivering billing-driven, zero-touch automation for subscriber lifecycle management. As broadband and managed Wi-Fi services scale, manual hand-offs between billing, OSS and in-home networking systems are no longer sustainable. By enabling GLDS BroadHub® to orchestrate subscriber creation, service activation and ongoing lifecycle changes across access and the connected home, the solution streamlines operations, accelerates time to revenue and reduces operational complexity. This approach gives broadband providers greater control as subscriber expectations rise and service models evolve. “Our partnership with Adtran is built around a shared goal: making it easier for broadband operators to serve a growing and increasingly demanding customer base,” said Garrick Russell, president and COO of GLDS. “By extending BroadHub® billing-driven automation all the way through to in-home Wi-Fi, we’re taking the pain out
Unleashing GEN4: a New Era of High-performance, Sustainable Electric Racing Begins21.4.2026 18:54:00 EEST | Press release
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and Formula E have unleashed the GEN4 car on track in its debut run in the South of France, signalling the beginning of a new era for electric motor sport. This all-new car will be raced in the 2026/27 Season of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260421618886/en/ Unleashing GEN4: A new era of high-performance, sustainable electric racing begins Capable of speeds over 335kph (208mph), 0-100kph in approximately 1.8s, and 0-200kph in just 4.4s - 1.5s faster than its predecessor. GEN4 produces up to 600kW of power, a 71% increase in base output over GEN3 Evo, and is also the only single-seater with permanent all-wheel drive, promising to deliver the fastest-ever lap times by a Formula E car. As the only all-electric FIA World Championship, GEN4 is both at the pinnacle of motor sport innovation and a testbed for future mobili
In our pressroom you can read all our latest releases, find our press contacts, images, documents and other relevant information about us.
Visit our pressroom