IFTA PRESS COVERAGE
MEDIA COVERAGE
IFTA pioneered fintech awards in India to celebrate the best innovations from fintech companies.
Delegates attend from several Asian countries including Bangladesh, China, Japan, Nepal, Singapore and Sri Lanka.
IFTA finalists in past include startups from Belgium, Hong Kong, Israel, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, UK and USA.
India’s biggest fintech demo event with speakers who are global fintech experts.
Hear entrepreneurs and regulators engage in depth on fintech policy issues in panel discussions.
Meet global fintech leaders, CXOs of banks and fintech firms, investors, regulators and media.
The team at Simpl is ecstatic at this honour. We are both happy and proud to be awarded Fintech Startup of the Year, as an acknowledgement of the hard work we have put into building a product that completely reimagines the payment experience, both for merchants and consumers. This award is a recognition of all the hard work the team has put into creating a new category of payments and a breakthrough consumer experience. I would also like to thank IFTA for organizing a top of the class event that included the best from the Fintech space and a truly enriching experience.
Nitya Sharma
Co-Founder & CEO, Simpl
Valocity Global had an incredible experience at the IFTA Awards. Attending as a Fintech Finalist presented a great opportunity to demonstrate the Valocity platform to leading key lenders and participants in the banking ecosystem and the highlight was undoubtedly winning Fintech Start Up of the Year!
Valocity Global was very impressed with the IFTA Forum by the breadth and depth of attendees and especially the wide range of innovative attendees coming from all over the globe. What a great opportunity to collaborate and network – we will definitely be back!
Carmen Vicelich
CEO and Founder, Valocity Global
Being identified as the ‘Fintech Startup of the year’ during the FinTech awards and subsequently getting a direct entry to Paris Fintech Forum was a very significant milestone in our startup journey. This was one of the first major awards we received and it was a great recognition of the hard work we had put into building our product and platform. This award gave us enormous belief in our vision. We’ve come a long way ever since, but winning IFTA 2017 will always remain special to all of us at ZestMoney.
Lizzie Chapman
Co-Founder & CEO, ZestMoney
I was mighty impressed with the depth and the quality of young companies presenting at IFTA 2019. Fintech is now better understood and there’s always a risk that such events become a rehash of what worked yesterday. In that respect I would say that IFTA 2019 was very refreshing and it will make me want to come back for IFTA 2020.
Mr. Rajeev Ahuja
Executive Director, RBL Bank
Our technology and our team is what we trust in the most. This recognition by IFTA is a sign that our efforts in revolutionising the financial ecosystem are in the right direction. I would like to thank IFTA for a well-organised forum – it was a great evening and extend my congratulations to all the winners and participants
Harshil Mathur
CEO and Founder, Razorpay
I am honoured to win the Woman Leader in Fintech award at IFTA 2019. A lot of great conversations happened during India FinTech Awards that brought together different perspectives on all the latest developments in fintech.
Mabel Chacko
Co-founder and COO, Open Financial Technologies
Winning the Rising Star Award was an honour for us at MeReal Biometrics. It was an excellent marketing opportunity for us to leverage. Even the physical gold award attracted attention when displayed at exhibitions.
The award opened doors to several Indian banks and added weight to our innovation in a market we were keen to enter.
The pitching process and the judges were very professional and we enjoyed the experience thoroughly. Thank you!
Kate Davis
Head of Marketing, MeReal Biometrics
It was such a great honor to be awarded Fintech Rising Star at IFTA. We are a global platform that has been establishing many partnerships with Indian based companies to help with our global expansion. The relationships we were able to build at the event, and the recognition received thereafter as a result of winning the award, are invaluable to our mission to become the world’s leading fintech platform.
Mike
Co-Founder, Hydrogen
IFTA’s ‘Fintech Start-Up of the Year’ award in 2016 was among the first honourable recognitions Capital Float received. The award acknowledged the company’s immense potential to disrupt financial services and be a chief driver of technological innovations in the space. The Indian Fintech Forum continues to encourage tech-driven start-ups in BFSI to push the envelope and support India’s objective of being a Fintech superpower.
Gaurav Hinduja
Co-Founder, Capital Float
Praveena Rai
Chief Operating Officer, NPCI
Mr. William Hopkinson
First Secretary & Deputy Head of Investment, India, Department for International Trade | British Deputy High Commission Mumbai
Mr. Arvind Gupta
Head, Digital India Foundation
Mr. Dirk Van Quaquebeke
Managing Partner, BEENEXT
Mr. Konstantin Peric
Deputy Director, Financial Services for the Poor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mr. Sankaran Naren
Chief Investment Officer, ICICI Prudential AMC
Mr. Ganesh Rengaswamy
Co- founding Partner, Quona Capital
Mr. Vikaas Sachdeva
CEO, Emkay Investment Managers Limited
Mr. Vikram Chachra
Founding Partner, 8i Ventures
Mr. Vikram Gupta
Founder and Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures Advisors
Mr. Ashish Dave
CEO, Mirae Asset Venture Investments (India)
Government of Maharashtra
