The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Fintech Association have named the winners of the Global Fintech Hackcelerator and the SFF Fintech Excellence Awards at this year’s Singapore Fintech Festival.
The awards recognise companies and individuals whose solutions show clear potential to improve financial services and support industry-wide digital transformation.
Global Fintech Hackcelerator: Top Three Winners
This year’s Global Fintech Hackcelerator focused on “Artificial Intelligence for Financial Services,” with problem statements from BNP Paribas, Mastercard and Prudential’s AI Lab.
The competition drew 180 registrations from more than 40 jurisdictions, and 17 finalists were shortlisted for Demo Day.
They were evaluated by an industry panel that included senior leaders from AWS, Openspace Capital, Citi, Zurich Insurance, United Overseas Insurance, Oliver Wyman, 1982 Ventures and Monks Hill Ventures.
1. ActuaViz (Taiwan)
ActuaViz’s ActuaWorks system converts insurance documents such as regulatory PDFs and pricing spreadsheets into machine-readable formats. By structuring these inputs, insurers can automate product comparisons, provide real-time agent support and accelerate product development cycles.
2. Claimsio (Poland)
Claimsio offers an AI-native debt collection platform aimed at SMEs. It automates early-stage collections through multichannel communication, progresses to automated legal filings and integrates with services such as factoring to improve recovery rates while reducing manual workloads.
3. Oxford Risk (United Kingdom)
Oxford Risk trains AI models with behavioural-finance inputs to help banks deliver personalised advice. The system blends transaction data with indicators of cognitive biases and risk preferences, allowing institutions to match recommendations to each investor’s decision-making profile.
Each finalist received a S$20,000 stipend, and the top three winners received an additional S$80,000 in prize money.
SFF Fintech Excellence Awards 2025: Five Corporate and Three Individual Winners
The SFF Fintech Excellence Awards received 155 submissions this year.
Winners were selected by an international panel that included experts from banking, venture capital, compliance, data and AI.
Corporate solutions were assessed on impact, sustainability, practicality, interoperability and creativity.
The following five corporate winners each receive S$50,000.
Emerging Fintech Award: Fennech
Fennech provides a cloud-native orchestration platform that automates treasury, payments and liquidity management across legacy and modern infrastructures. Features include real-time cash visibility, full payment automation and high-accuracy reconciliation for corporates and financial institutions.
Financial Inclusivity Award: WeeFin
WeeFin supports financial institutions with sustainability data management, ESG compliance and audit-ready reporting. The platform consolidates ESG information across internal teams to reduce regulatory risk and address inconsistencies that can lead to greenwashing.
Regulatory Leader Award: Cynopsis Solutions
Cynopsis Solutions’ non-resident verification platform combines facial biometrics, liveness detection and real-time screening to support remote KYC onboarding. Its digital credential system enables cross-border access and has been deployed to support Nigerian citizens abroad across more than 30 banks.
Sustainable Innovator Award: ESGpedia
ESGpedia helps banks monitor Sustainability Performance Targets for Sustainability Linked Loans. The platform has facilitated more than 180 first-time SLL issuances for SMEs by streamlining data verification and reporting processes.
Thematic (Artificial Intelligence): LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LexisNexis was recognised for IDVerse, a deep-learning based identity verification solution with high-accuracy face matching and advanced liveness detection that protects against document tampering and AI-generated fraud.
Individual Winners: Fintech Mentor Award
These three individuals were recognised for their contributions to mentoring and ecosystem development.
They were assessed on the quality and impact of their support for the fintech community.
Each recipient receives S$5,000 for their contributions to the fintech community.
The winners are:
- Alice Liu, CEO and Co-Founder, Digital Treasures Center
- Jeeta Bandopadhyay, COO and Co-Founder, Tookitaki
- Louis Liu, CEO and Founder, FOMO Pay
