Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards for

Banking & Investing

The 2025 submission period is now closed.

Stay tuned for an announcement of this year's finalists coming soon!

Spotlight on the banking and investing awards

Get recognized for your innovations! Submit your organization’s innovative use of technology to drive best-in-class initiatives.

A panel of Gartner experts will determine the finalists for each region (APAC, Americas and EMEA), and the winners will be selected by a panel of senior industry executives from across the globe.

Awards Timeline

Submissions Open: (through May 30)

Submissions Reviewed & Judged: (June – July) 

Finalists Reviewed: (September – October)

Innovator Insights Available: (November)

Meet the judges

This year’s winners will be chosen by a panel of judges comprised of senior industry executives from across the globe. Additional judges will be added soon.

Featured expert
Saud Al Dhawyani
Group Chief Platforms Officer,
Emirates NBD
Featured expert
Peter Crouch
CIO, Commercial,
Lloyds Banking Group
Featured expert
Yossi Erez
Head of Digital Banking,
Israel Discount Bank
Featured expert
Drinal Foster
SVP, Workforce Engagement Leader
Wells Fargo
Featured expert
Gökhan Gökçay
Executive Vice President, Technology
Akbank
Featured expert
Michal Liday
CEO,
Tatra banka a.s.
Featured expert
Marek Loula
Senior Executive Officer & Member of the Board of Directors
CSOB (Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka), Czech Republic
Featured expert
Gökhan Özdinç
CIO,
Yapi Kredi Bankasi
Featured expert
Sebastian Pillay
Head of Share Investing,
First National Bank
Featured expert
Mohamed Salah Abdel Hamid Abdel Razek
Group Head of Tech, Transformation & Information,
Mashreq Bank
Featured expert
Ján Sládeček
IT Director,
KOOPERATIVA poisťovňa, a. s. VIG
Featured expert
Branislav Straka
COO, Innovation and Design, Payments,
Ceskoslovenska Obchodna Banka, a.s.
Featured expert
Lito Villanueva
EVP, Chief Innovation and Inclusion Officer,
RCBC
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Learn how to get started

  1. Each organization can submit up to three entries. There are no participation fees. 
  2. All submissions will be judged by a panel of Gartner experts. Based on this evaluation, finalists are selected in each of our three regions (APAC, Americas and EMEA).
  3. Each regional finalist will be asked to produce a short video presenting its innovation. These videos will be uploaded to the public-facing 2025 Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards for Banking & Investing website. Failure to produce this video will result in losing status as a finalist.
  4. A panel of judges comprising senior industry executives from across the globe will score the finalists based on a Gartner-defined framework.
  5. Winners will be announced in late 2025.

 

Submissions are accepted from end-user organizations only, i.e., licensed or regulated institutions that provide products or services to individuals and businesses. Eligible types of institutions include, but are not limited to:  

  • Banks or credit unions (incl. government-operated banks, building societies, etc.) 

  • Buy-side investment firms (incl. asset management, wealth management, hedge funds, etc.) 

  • Sell-side investment firms (incl. investment banks, institutional brokerages, etc.) 

  • Securities and commodities exchanges 

  • Regulated nonbank lenders 

  • Regulated nonbank payment providers or networks 

If you are not certain whether your institution meets the rules of eligibility, please email FSEyeOnInnovation@gartner.com and await our response.  

To be eligible, an initiative must have been launched during the period of January 1, 2024, through May 30, 2025. Only submissions written in English will be accepted. The project or initiative could be in any stage of development, from a pilot to commercially launched as a product/service. However, note that Gartner’s assessment framework weighs more favorably those projects that are already delivering tangible benefits and results (both qualitative and quantitative).

Read more about eligibility.

No. Any end-user company meeting the eligibility criteria outlined above can submit an entry.

Unlock the secrets of cutting-edge banking and investing innovations

How are leading financial services firms applying transformative strategies and technologies to improve their business outcomes? Financial services leaders can watch this webinar to learn lessons from the finalists and winners of the 2024 Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards for Financial Services.

These winners were selected by a global panel of senior financial services executives. Learn more about these inspiring organizations and their innovations in this analyst-led webinar.

Explore the winning innovations and top technology use cases from 2024.

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2024 winners

 

Arro Finance | Americas

Innovation: Arro Finance

 

China Construction Bank | APAC

Innovation: AML Intelligent Assistant

 

Mashreq | EMEA

Innovation: Eagle Eye Financial Crime Risk Management Platform

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