Worldwide business awards
Tell the world about your outstanding work in banking or investments
The DaVinci Awards® for Business celebrates the people, organizations, teams, and solutions reshaping the global financial landscape. The awards recognizes those who are leading the way in a sector undergoing an exciting transformation – through customer trust, technological breakthroughs, and bold rethinking of traditional financial models. If this sounds like you, download your entry form today.
how have you excelled?
The DaVinci Awards® for Business are looking for outstanding projects, strategies, and products across banking and investments that stand out not only for their creativity, but also for their tangible impact.
Nominees may have led projects that expand access to capital, conceived new models for wealth and portfolio management, have developed effective approaches to risk and compliance, or driven technology-enabled client engagement.
Other examples include developing sustainable investment funds, modernizing legacy banking infrastructure, enabling faster cross-border payments, or educating a new generation of investors through digital channels. Entries should demonstrate originality, measurable impact, and an ear for the changing needs of clients and shareholders.
The DaVinci Awards® welcomes entries from large institutions, smaller firms (including challenger banks), FinTech start-ups, and cross-disciplinary partnerships. If you are shifting the market and influencing progress in the industry, you could secure yourself an award.
Three Levels of Award
Earn a 1, 2, or coveted 3 Star DaVinci Award®
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Tell us what makes you stand out
Nominees may hone in on the clear and measurable successes your innovation, project, or approach has had on clients or stakeholders. You may have improved customer retention, reduced risk exposure, or significantly grown assets under management. Judges will also be keen to review projects or services that have outperformed expectations.
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What tangible outcomes your innovation or approach has achieved? The longer term impact of the outcomes on clients or other stakeholders. The signficance of the results for the client, or the industry as a whole.Judges are keen to see ingenuity in how processes were redesigned, how stakeholders were engaged, and how these changes created a more efficient or responsive experience for customers and investors. You may have introduced frictionless onboarding or created intuitive self-service tools, rethought how clients communicate with advisors, or developed ways of improving operational efficiency.
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Whether your innovation in process has enabled clients to interact with their capital, or investments, in new ways? What is unique, or innovative, about your process or engagement strategy? The role staff, technology, and partnerships play in your innovative process, or engagement approach.The awards are seeking examples where technology has gone beyond being a support tool and instead played a central role in delivering value. You may have deployed AI to deliver personalized advice or services, used blockchain to enable secure and transparent transactions, or used advanced data analytics to anticipate client needs or behaviors.
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How your use of technology is effective, while remaining the right side of ethical or regulatory standards. How has innovative use of data, or data analysis, driven smarter decisions in banking or investments? What outcomes have been achieved that would not otherwise have been possible without the use of technology?Winners’ rewards
Promoting your success
Winners may make full use of The DaVinci Awards® hallmark of excellence, linked to your level of accreditation, on all relevant materials.
All winners also receive a DaVinci Awards® trophy, and substantial press opportunities working in partnership with our editorial team. Find out more.
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