The 2016 Tradestreaming Awards winners: Best payments apps and technology

Payments is arguably the most exciting — and mature — part of fintech. There’s a lot of activity by both incumbent and startup payment technology providers.

The Tradestreaming Awards recognize the talent, energy, and vision that are required to create great digital financial products. The following are our inaugural winners in the payments category.

Best Consumer Payments Platform

Awarding the firm with a great consumer payments product, achieving traction and engagement and growing its user base.

venmo wins Tradestreaming award

WINNER: Venmo

People just enjoy using Venmo. PayPal’s crown jewel, the P2P payment app has recently branched out commercially with merchant integrations. The app is being hotly pursued by many of the largest banks who would love to tap into the same audience that is attracted to the app’s habit-forming UX.

Best B2B Payments Platform

Awarding the top payments platform used by businesses to transact with customers or move money between other businesses.

viewpost wins Tradestreaming award

WINNER: Viewpost

Viewpost was cited for its holistic approach to eliminating billing and payment friction for all businesses, regardless of size or where they bank. They were also commended for providing visibility of data and access to on-demand dynamic discounting for both buyers and suppliers within a single, secure network.

Best New Payments Player

Awarding the best new payment platform with a seamless user experience and advanced tools.

worldfirst wins Tradestreaming award

WINNER: World First

International money transfer is still so surprisingly hard. World First has been helping move money globally since 2004 and services businesses, individuals, and online sellers. Users have cited the ease of use of the company’s website and mobile app, as well as the customer service associated with the functionality. WorldFirst has a 98% service rating from Feefo, a feedback site from genuine customers.

Best Employee Payments Platform

Awarding the top expense solutions platform with advanced reporting and management tools.

PEX wins Tradestreaming award

WINNER: PEX

PEX has an elegant solution for employee reimbursements and expensing. Instead of turning to managers for help with payments, PEX gives individuals prepaid expense cards. Enrolling takes only five minutes while PEX provides tools and analytics to the enterprise, saving money and time for busy businesses.

 

Come join these award winners at our first Tradestreaming Money Conference as we explore the impact technology is having on big finance.

 

The 2016 Tradestreaming Awards winners: Online Banking

Online banking offerings are enjoying somewhat of a renaissance as incumbent financial players work hard to provide the functionality and experiences their customers expect.

The Tradestreaming Awards recognize the talent, energy, and vision that are required to create great digital financial products. The following are our inaugural winners in the online banking category.

Best Online Consumer Bank

Awarding the top online consumer bank or bank-like technology that touches customers, provides a rich and innovative user experience and has found a way to scale. Pure play digital banks and online arms of incumbent banks are both candidates.

chase

WINNER: Chase Mobile Banking

JPMorgan Chase has done a great job of creating one of the best online banking apps by enlisting the help of top designers and technologists. The user-friendly Chase app gives clients of the bank access to bill pay, money transfer, account management, and check deposit.

Best Online Banking Tools

Awarding the best tools that complement online banking experiences, including personal finance managers, savings apps, and similar technologies.

rbs

WINNER: RBS DigiDocs

RBS DigiDocs is the UK’s first omnichannel document solution. Customers of the bank don’t need to enter a branch to sign account docs. Instead, they can use DigiDocs to sign and return important paperwork. Internally, DigiDocs offers RBS a streamlined way to process their customers’ docs. 92% of RBS customers polled said they were “statisfied” or “very satisfied” with the solution.

Best New Entrant Into Online Banking

Awarding the most transformative and creative new offering in the online banking arena.

digit

WINNER: Digit

Digit is a fintech app that proactively monitors spending to find opportunities to squirrel money away to a savings account. After connecting to a user’s bank account, Digit saves a little bit of money every few days. Through an automated chat interface, users can transfer money out of their Digit accounts for spending on big ticket items.
Come join these award winners at our first Tradestreaming Money Conference as we explore the impact technology is having on big finance.