Irish cashless tipping start-up Strikepay has been announced among the winners at the inaugural Financial Services Awards, alongside the likes of Bank of Ireland, Revolut, and Liberty Insurance.
The Dublin fintech firm won the FS Challenger Award for disruptive innovation and for using international financial services solution to derive a competitive advantage.
The award was one of 12 presented at the gala luncheon attended by 300 people at the Mansion House in Dublin on Thursday.
Announcing the winners, Tracey Carney, managing director of the FS Awards, said: “The FS Awards were established to recognise excellence and innovation in financial services.
"Strikepay were awarded for their efforts to combine technology and tipping services so that hospitality businesses all over Ireland can benefit from its use. The quality and quantity of nominees for the inaugural awards this year was truly impressive.
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"Here among us are the leaders of today, who will inspire the change-makers of tomorrow to create opportunities and realise even greater success.”
The full list of winners from this afternoon’s ceremony is as follows:
- Specialist Lender - CapitalFlow
- Customer Experience - Bank of Ireland
- Innovative Banking Product - Permanent TSB
- Fintech Innovation - Global Shares
- Payments Innovation - Revolut
- Compliance & Reg Tech - Corlytics
- International Finance - Vertex
- FS Challenger Award - Strikepay
- Sustainable Finance Award - Aviva
- Diversity, Equality & Inclusion - Liberty Insurance
- Outstanding Contribution to Financial Services - Michael Noonan
- Grand Prix Award, in partnership with KPMG - Liberty Insurance
Ian Nelson, head of financial services at KPMG, said the company was "delighted to support the inaugural FS Awards.
"The level of entries across all categories was absolutely outstanding and demonstrates why Ireland is recognised as one of the leading financial services centres in Europe and a location of choice for many international finance firms.”
Retail chain Spar last year trialled a digital ‘Smart Poster’ collection solution using Strikepay technology that enabled customers donate to Make-A-Wish Ireland via their mobile phones.
Photo: Oli Cavanagh and Charles Dowd from Strikepay were presented with the award by Louise Phelan. (Pic: Andres Poveda)
