The Global FinTech Awards
Competition of products and cases for financial and insurance markets
About competition
The Global FinTech Awards established in 2023 by Spectrum350 - an international community of hybrid marketers, understanding that the modern marketing is deeply integrated with IT.
Purpose of The Global FinTech Awards
The purpose of The Global FinTech Awards is to:
Recognize
Companies who develop and implement innovative technologies, solutions and cases for financial and insurance markets.
Communicate
Best on market solutions and cases to Spectrum350 members and partners.
Establish
Continuous experience exchange and pooling the competencies among our members.
Awards application process
The Global FinTech Awards application process includes 3 steps:
ENTRY PROCESS
Each nominee should complete an application form and send it together with the supplemental documentation by email: awards@spectrum350.events, and pay an entry fee.

The entry fee depends of the time company applying - the earlier you apply, the less you pay:

  • Sept.,09 2024 - Dec.,31 2024 - "Early Birds" - AED 2.000 + VAT per entry
  • Jan, 01 2025 - Apr.,30 2025 - "Promo" - AED 2.750 + VAT per entry
  • May.,01 2025 - Sept.,12 2025 - "Regular" - AED 3.500 + VAT per entry
If you are applying for three and more categories, each 3-d application is free of entry fee.

Project entry criteria for The Global FinTech Awards competition:
  1. project implementation / product rollout must have gone live and be actively used by the business or organisation between 2 and 18 months before the award submission;
  2. both customers and Implementation partners (or agencies) on behalf of customers may apply;
  3. each nominee may apply in several categories.

Final Entry Deadline: September,12 2025

EVALUATION CRITERIA

The following criteria weighting will guide the jury during judging rounds.

For products each entry is evaluated on:
  • Product Functionality (30%).
  • Competitive advantages (20%).
  • Business benefits (50%): What business benefits have been achieved as a result of the implementation?
For cases each entry is evaluated on:
  • Project Concept (30%): How strong, breakthrough, unique and relevant is the concept?
  • Creativity (20%): How engaging is the entry?
  • Business benefits (50%): What are the quantitative indicators confirming the success of the project.
THE JUDGING PROCESS AND AWARDS
Secret ballot of the Jury board will take place between Sep.,13 - Sep.,16 2025, followed by short list of The Global FinTech Awards announce.

In controversial situation nominee may be invited to present his project to a jury board in a 30 minute webcast session.

Finally for each category only first winners will be named.

The Award Ceremony will be held on September 25, 2025 in Dubai, UAE during the "FinTech Gulf'25" conference.
Benefits of Winning
  • Industry Recognition

    Spectrum350 technology community, established in 2014, already unite over 3000 companies and 15000 professionals from 17 countries, developing global technology landscape.

  • Promotion
    Winning cases will be profiled in The Global FinTech Awards Annual, which is distributed digitally thru Spectrum350 and media-partners network, including web-sites, social networks and e-mailings. Additionally each winner will become a presenter on our next annual FinTech Gulf conference.
  • Hall of Fame and Commemorative Award
    Winners will be celebrated at an Awards show in September 2025 in Dubai, UAE.
    The winning work will be archived online in the FinTech Globe Awards Hall of Fame.
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