FinovateFall 2025 Best of Show Winners Announced

FinovateFall 2025 Best of Show Winners Announced

Congratulations to the six companies that won Best of Show at FinovateFall 2025 this week!

This year’s roster of FinovateFall Best of Show winners includes proven veterans that have earned Best of Show awards from Finovate audiences in the past, as well as companies new to Finovate who impressed our attendees with their live demonstrations of problem-solving innovations in fields ranging from digital banking and wealth management to financial education and AI-enabled data management.

Please join us in congratulating all of the companies that demoed their latest fintech innovations at FinovateFall this week. And with that, meet the winners of Best of Show for FinovateFall 2025!


Casap for its technology that helps financial institutions and fintechs lower operational costs and lift, curb fraud-related losses, accelerate resolution times, and strengthen customer relationships at scale.

Eko for its solution that enables clients to increase logins into digital banking by 4x and bank deposits by 11%, while reducing the likelihood of customers leaving their financial institution by 6x.

Krida for its technology that reduces cycle times, manual tasks, and borrower drop-off, giving banks a faster path to funded loans, higher throughput, and stronger community relationships.

LemonadeLXP for its InsightAI that improves staff and customer education and access to knowledge while driving significant operational efficiencies.

LendAPI for its cross-organizational collaboration tool where CTOs, CROs, and CCOs can all build an enterprise platform together.

Vertice AI for its innovation that leverages AI to translate data into personalized product and service recommendations, helping teams boost engagement, acquisition, and retention through smarter, hyper-targeted outreach.

We’d like to thank everyone who made FinovateFall 2025 such a great success: our sponsors, speakers and delegates who continue to make Finovate conferences must-attend events on the fintech calendar.

The next stop on the Finovate tour is sunny San Diego for FinovateSpring 2026. We look forward to seeing you there!


Notes on methodology:
1. Only audience members NOT associated with demoing companies were eligible to vote. Finovate employees did not vote.
2. Attendees were encouraged to note their favorites during each day. At the end of the last demo, they chose their three favorites.
3. The exact written instructions given to attendees: “Please rate (the companies) on the basis of demo quality and potential impact of the innovation demoed.”
4. The six companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were named “Best of Show.”
5. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014. Best of Show winners from our 2015 through 2025 conferences are below:
FinovateEurope 2015
FinovateSpring 2015
FinovateFall 2015
FinovateEurope 2016
FinovateSpring 2016
FinovateFall 2016
FinovateAsia 2016
FinovateEurope 2017
FinovateSpring 2017
FinovateFall 2017
FinovateAsia 2017
FinovateMiddleEast 2018
FinovateEurope 2018
FinovateSpring 2018
FinovateFall 2018
FinovateAsia 2018
FinovateAfrica 2018
FinovateEurope 2019
FinovateSpring 2019
FinovateFall 2019
FinovateAsia 2019
FinovateMiddleEast 2019
FinovateEurope 2020
FinovateFall 2020
FinovateWest 2020
FinovateEurope 2021
FinovateSpring 2021
FinovateFall 2021
FinovateEurope 2022
FinovateSpring 2022
FinovateFall 2022
FinovateEurope 2023
FinovateSpring 2023
FinovateFall 2023
FinovateEurope 2024
FinovateSpring 2024
FinovateFall 2024
FinovateEurope 2025
FinovateSpring 2025

FinovateFall 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 8

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 8 – 10. Register today using this link and save 20%.

AirKey

AirKey, developed by Capital One, turns bank-issued cards into hardware tokens for authentication and identity verification.

Features

Customers who activate their card with AirKey experience up to 20% lower transaction fraud, report higher NPS scores, and more.

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and any credit or debit card issuer.

Anonybit

Anonybit delivers privacy-preserving biometric authentication for fintech and banking, securing all touchpoints including enabling AI agents to prevent account takeover, fraud, and scams.

Features

  • Provides built-in integrations to online banking platforms
  • Delivers seamless, privacy-preserving authentication at every touchpoint
  • Manages blocklists, self-service account recovery, and tokens

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, fintechs, payment providers, and enterprises.

Aurem

Aurem is an AI-powered operating system for retirement and wealth providers, unifying products, processes, and data to cut costs, simplify operations, adapt to regulation, and scale growth.

Features

  • Cuts costs
  • Eliminates inefficiency
  • Equips retirement and wealth providers with intelligence, automation, and adaptability to scale in a changing world

Who’s it for?

Banks, recordkeepers, and RIAs.

Casap

Casap’s AI-driven platform helps financial institutions and fintechs intelligently tackle the growing issue of first-party fraud and automate their disputes to improve operations.

Features

  • 80% of dispute cases automated
  • 85% reduction in processing time
  • 40% decrease in customer contacts
  • 51% reduction in write-offs/losses, improving NPS scores

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and fintechs.

Chimney

Chimney uses industry leading property data and award winning technology to generate real estate loans at lower costs with fewer staff required.

Features

  • Enriches existing systems, core, and CRM data with real-time property data
  • Automatically launches personalized, data-driven campaigns
  • Uses propensity modeling and scoring to predict borrowers

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, digital banking providers, and fintech partners serving homeowners.

Decisionly

Decisionly automates disputes for card issuers, using AI to drive scalable, compliant, and cost-effective dispute operations.

Features

  • Intelligent intake: Provides real-time validation at intake
  • Robust evaluation: Automates custom workflows to improve accuracy
  • Faster resolution: Improves cardholder experience and deadline compliance

Who’s it for?

Card issuers including banks, fintechs, and processors.

Krida

Krida is an AI intelligence layer for commercial banking, removing lending bottlenecks and delivering real-time insights that deepen relationships, boost revenue, and accelerate growth.

Features

  • Automates document collection, data extraction, and credit materials
  • Uses a self-serve borrower intake with instant feedback
  • Equips bankers with insights for faster, more confident lending decisions

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, venture lenders, and non-bank lenders.

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

The fallout from JP Morgan’s plan to charge companies for access to client bank account data continues as—according to a report from Bloomberg—Visa has announced that it is shuttering its open banking unit.

We’ve got a lot to say about the fight for open banking next month at FinovateFall. For now, be sure to check in to Finovate’s Fintech Rundown for all the latest fintech news!


Payments

Dispute management and chargeback solution provider Casap raised $25 million in Series A funding. See the company demo next month at FinovateFall in New York!

Zil Money introduces a pair of AI-powered features for its virtual cards: receipt parsing and automated spending analysis reports.

Digital content monetization platform Coda completes its acquisition of prepaid payments platform Recharge.

Localized payment solutions provider Boku partners with visual communications platform Canva.

PayNearMe establishes Texas footprint with Dallas business district office.

Sightline Payments creates Sightline Debit, a solution for the gaming industry, in partnership with Cross River Bank.

Digital banking

HSBC launches HSBC Innovation Banking in Australia.

Cognizant inks five-year strategic engagement deal with banking technology company Tenemos.

Thread Bank selects Finxact from Fiserv to power embedded banking strategies.

Crypto and DeFi

Crypto wallet MetaMask launches its own native stablecoin, to be issued by Stripe’s Bridge.

Bitget unveils its RWA (Real-World Asset) Index Perpetual Contract, enabling investors to buy and sell tokenized traditional assets.

VersaBank launches tokenized deposit pilot program in the US.

Finastra and Circle forge strategic collaboration to bring stablecoin settlement to cross-border payments.

Tazapay lands strategic investments from Ripple and Circle.

Financial wellness

Financial wellbeing platform CredAbility launches its credit score builder.

Fraud prevention and digital identity

Digital identity specialist Prove teams up with FNBO (First National Bank of Omaha).

Australia-based digital lender MoneyMe partners with fraud prevention and AML compliance specialist SEON.

IDenfy teams up with ethical residential proxies and web-data collection tool provider Ping Proxies.

Lending and credit

AI-powered credit intelligence company martini.ai launches its Financial Autonomy Ladder, a framework for measuring an institutions evolution from manual to autonomous decision-making systems.

MeridianLink expands its partnership with Jack Henry, which will resell the suite of Meridian Link One platform solutions, including MeridianLink Mortgage and MeridianLink Consumer.

First Northern Credit Union selects Appli to modernize member lending experience.

Small business solutions

Expensify announces upgrades to its Expensify Travel offering including central billing, event management, and employee itineraries.


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