BAI Global Innovation Awards

Nominations for the 2023 BAI Global Innovation Awards are now closed! Finalists will be announced in September.

Awards celebrating the thinkers, doers and dreamers shaping financial services.

For over a dozen years, BAI Global Innovation Awards have stood as the premier innovation honor for the financial services industry, putting the field’s boldest, smartest and most transformational thinking center stage.

The ideas we honor run the gamut, from powerful new technologies to novel ways to leverage customers insights, from customer experience advances to community enrichment initiatives. Our submissions arrive from all parts of the industry and all corners of the globe and range from the highly complex to the deceptively simple.

We believe innovation is essential.

What submissions to the BAI Global Innovation Awards share in common is the pure spirit of innovation — a willingness to upend conventional wisdom, disrupt the status quo and make a measurable mark on their organizations, their customers, their employees and their communities.

Innovation is what creates better businesses, improves the quality of our lives, and drives positive change. And it’s as powerful and necessary in the financial services industry as anywhere, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced new ways of working and serving customers.

The BAI Global Innovation Awards exists to be a catalyst for innovation in the financial services industry worldwide. So that together, as global innovators, we can continue to move the industry forward.

BAI Rising Star Award

As part of the BAI Global Innovation Awards, we’ve added the BAI Rising Stars Award, honoring up-and-coming leaders in the financial services industry. The award is given to candidates who are innovative, passionate, intellectually curious and making a positive impact in financial services.

Nominations for the 2023 BAI Rising Stars Award are now closed! Finalists will be announced in October.

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Testimonials

“Being a BAI Global Innovation Awards winner is extremely meaningful because the criteria to enter examines how your project is alleviating societal issues and creating a lasting impact amidst others in the same category on a global scale. BAI has a unique, measurable program that showcases leading innovators in financial services. It’s a distinguished designation that rigorously analyzes which financial institutions are elevating communities who need it most.”

Doug Schaeffer

Executive Vice President, Executive Director, CRA

Woodforest National Bank

“The recognition of Millie as a BAI Global Innovation Awards finalist further affirms Synchrony’s commitment to empowering women to achieve financial goals. Together we’re reaching more women in their daily lives with useful, insightful, and actionable content tailored to their needs and concerns when it matters most.”

Samantha Melting

President

Synchrony Bank

“The BAI Global Innovation Award win was a huge feather in our proverbial cap. Not only did the award globally recognize our achievement as a relatively new South African Life Insurance business trying to make a difference to the lives of our customers, but also gave our incredible team a motivational boost – enabling us to use our globally validated thinking to take our business to new heights, always with our customers top-of-mind.

We continue to strive towards being a business that continually innovates and finds new ways to disrupt the market and improve customer journeys and experiences, with our Dynamic Life offering laying a solid foundation for us to build on. Thank you to BAI for providing us with the platform to do this – the exposure received has had an overall positive impact on our brand and is used to create trust with our customers when selling this excellent product.”

Maxine Thulwanth

Product Manager

FNB South Africa

“The BAI awards recognise truly global leaders in innovation and it is humbling for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to be named alongside winners from major US and European financial institutions. Being included in this impressive cohort of organisations that work every day to drive positive change for consumers, businesses and communities is great recognition for CommBank.”

Ben Grauer

Commonwealth Bank of Australia