What Was Banking Tech Awards 2024?
Banking Tech Awards 2024 was held at the Royal Lancaster London on 4 December 2024. Organised by Informa Connect, it brought together senior banking executives, fintech founders, and technology vendors for a single evening celebrating the year's most significant innovations across digital banking, payments, and financial infrastructure. The official page sat on the Banking Tech Awards site. It is an awards and recognition event, not a dedicated crypto conference, though blockchain and digital asset projects competed alongside traditional banking technology categories.
An awards-format evening offers a genuinely different lens on financial technology than a typical conference, recognising proven execution rather than speculative ambition. To follow similar events, check the crypto events calendar and our crypto summits list.
Key Themes at Banking Tech Awards
The evening recognised achievement across categories including:
- Digital banking innovation.
- Payments technology.
- Core banking infrastructure.
- Emerging technology, including blockchain.
The competitive, judged-recognition format gave winning projects genuine industry credibility beyond typical conference exposure. Many guests also tracked broader blockchain events through CoinGabbar.
How Blockchain Fits London's Banking Awards Landscape
The UK's FCA registers crypto firms under its evolving regime, and London's deep concentration of established banks alongside ambitious fintech challengers has made blockchain technology a genuine, if still emerging, category within mainstream banking technology awards. Banks and fintechs entering blockchain-related projects for recognition signalled a different kind of validation than crypto-native hackathon wins: judged evaluation by senior banking industry peers against established innovation criteria.
This awards-format recognition matters distinctly for blockchain projects seeking credibility with risk-averse traditional finance buyers, since winning a category judged by banking industry leaders carries weight that purely crypto-native achievements may not with this specific audience. For more shows, see CoinGabbar's crypto conferences page.
Impact of Banking Tech Awards on Blockchain's Banking Credibility
An awards evening of this stature advances blockchain's credibility within mainstream banking specifically. It recognises blockchain projects against the same judged criteria as established banking technology. It connects winning projects with senior bank executives evaluating genuine innovation. And it signals blockchain's arrival as a legitimate banking technology category rather than a separate, speculative space. Each year's winners build that credibility further.
Why Sponsors, Exhibitors and Projects Should Join
Banking Tech Awards reached London's most senior banking technology decision-makers. Strong fits include:
- Blockchain payments infrastructure: compete for category recognition against traditional fintech.
- Digital asset custody for banks: demonstrate credibility to risk-averse buyers.
- Tokenisation platforms: seek validation from senior banking industry judges.
- RegTech for digital assets: showcase compliance innovation to FCA-aware peers.
- Core banking blockchain integration: reach established bank technology leaders.
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Why KOLs, Media and Influencers Attend
An evening recognising genuine financial technology achievement, judged by senior banking peers, offers credible, substantiated industry coverage. Creators met the winning teams and judges shaping mainstream banking's innovation standards. Coverage can spread through the press release network.
Why Builders and Participants Join
For blockchain and fintech builders, Banking Tech Awards offered genuine competitive validation rather than passive conference attendance. You competed for category recognition against the year's most significant banking technology innovations, gained visibility with senior bank executives who track these awards closely, and joined an evening celebrating proven execution rather than speculative ambition. Many left with award recognition that carried genuine weight with risk-averse traditional finance buyers.
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How the Event Concluded and What Came Next
Banking Tech Awards 2024 closed with winners announced across digital banking, payments, and emerging technology categories, leaving recognised teams with genuine credibility within mainstream UK banking circles. Informa Connect continued running the awards as a fixture on London's annual financial technology calendar. By including blockchain alongside established banking technology categories, the awards reinforced how thoroughly digital assets had entered mainstream financial technology recognition. To follow what came next, see CoinGabbar's crypto AI events page and our Web3 tech events list.
Glossary of Key Terms
- FCA: the Financial Conduct Authority, the UK's crypto registration regulator.
- Core banking infrastructure: the foundational systems banks use to process accounts and transactions.
- Judged recognition: an awards category evaluated by an independent panel against set criteria, distinct from popular vote.
- Tokenisation: converting real-world or financial assets into blockchain tokens.
- Informa Connect: the events division of Informa, organiser of the Banking Tech Awards.
Disclaimer
This page is for general information only. It is not financial, legal, or tax advice. This is an awards event that took place in December 2024; future dates and details may differ. UK crypto rules may change; always check current FCA guidance. Please confirm with the official source and do your own research. Crypto assets are volatile and can lose value.
