2023 Awards
Winners & Highly Commended
Congratulations to all our finalists.
Fintech Start-up of the Year
Winner: Final Rentals
- Agam International
- Driverly
- Final Rentals
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Fintech Company of the Year
Winner: Confused.com
- Capital on Tap
- Confused.com
- Delio
- Trust Payments
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Fintech Scale-up of the Year
Winner: Sonovate
- GS Verde Group
- Sonovate
- Trust Payments
- Wagonex
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Team of the Year
Winner: Delio
- ActiveQuote
- Delio
- Wagonex
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Best Place to Work of the Year
Winner: Sero
Highly Commended: PwC Cardiff
- Capital on Tap
- Confused.com
- PwC
- Sero
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Fintech Leader of the Year
Winner: Toby Kernon – Wagonex
- Ammar Akhtar – Final Rentals
- Damon Rands – Pure Cyber
- Tim Barnett – Credas
- Toby Kernon – Wagonex
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Fintech Exporter of the Year
Winner: Sonovate
Highly Commended: W2
- Capital on Tap
- Final Rentals
- Sonovate
- W2
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New Product of the Year
Winner: Credas
- Credas
- Driverly
- GS Verde Group
- ActiveQuote
- Acquis Data Services
- PropSmarts.com
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Fintech For Good of the Year
Winner: Sero
- Sero
- Smart Money Cymru Community Bank
- Agam International
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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Best Academic Programme of the Year Supporting Fintech / FS Companies
Winner: Master’s in Data Science – University of South Wales
- Master’s in Data Science – University of South Wales
- MSc in Financial Technology (Fintech) – Swansea University
- Cardiff Fintech Research Group (CFRG) – Cardiff University
- Cyber security Teaching Team at Cardiff University
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Best Growth Story of the Year
Winner: Sonovate
- Wagonex
- Final Rentals
- Sonovate
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Rising Fintech Star of the Year
Winner: Liz Moore – Wagonex
- Helen Reakes – Wagonex
- Armin Kia – Driverly
- Liz Moore – Wagonex
- Klaudia Matysiak – Dynamo Cover Ltd
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Apprentice of the Year
Winner: Thomas Everson – Final Rentals
- Davy Soulsby – Credas
- Thomas Everson – Final Rentals
- Maria Clement – Credas
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Cyber Security Team of the Year
Winner: PureCyber
- ITSUS Consulting
- PureCyber
- PWC
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Best Use of AI of the Year
Winner: LexisNexis Risk Solutions
- ActiveQuote
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions
- Driverly
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Best Advisory of the Year
Winner: HCR Law
- ActiveQuote
- PureCyber
- HCR Law
- Blake Morgan Ltd
- GS Verde Group
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