Bank Risk, Resilience & Integrity
This award recognises solutions that enable financial institutions to meet prudential and statistical reporting obligations across Asia-Pacific regimes – delivering broad regulatory coverage, data integrity from source through to submission, and adaptability as reporting expectations grow in granularity and frequency.
This award recognises solutions that support regulatory capital, liquidity and market-risk management under the Basel framework — encompassing FRTB, capital and liquidity optimisation, and related prudential calculations — demonstrating analytical rigour, regulatory alignment and measurable capital or efficiency outcomes for Asian institutions.
This award recognises banks setting the benchmark in operational and cyber resilience – business continuity, ICT and third-party/concentration risk, and recovery from disruption – demonstrating a robust, tested resilience framework and proven recovery capability as supervisors across the region formalise expectations.
This award recognises solutions that help institutions identify, interpret and operationalise regulatory change across multiple Asian jurisdictions – horizon-scanning, obligation mapping and workflow integration – delivering speed and accuracy of interpretation and measurable reduction in compliance risk.
This award recognises solutions whose core purpose is the governance of models and AI systems – model risk management, validation, monitoring, explainability and bias testing – demonstrating depth across the model lifecycle and alignment to emerging supervisory expectations such as Singapore’s Model AI Governance Framework and the HKMA’s guidance on AI in AML/CFT.
This award will recognises solutions that enable firms to meet climate-related disclosure obligations, measure and manage climate risk, and source high-quality sustainability data – demonstrating methodological rigour, standards alignment and data quality as ISSB-aligned regimes take effect across the region.
This award honours a regulator, policymaker or regulatory-led initiative that has materially advanced sustainable-finance regulation in Asia-Pacific – whether through taxonomies, transition-finance frameworks or mandatory disclosure regimes – demonstrating policy leadership with lasting regional impact.
This award will recognise solutions that manage foreign-exchange and currency risk under prudential and markets regulation – FX position and market-risk measurement, capital treatment of FX exposure, hedging and settlement-risk compliance – demonstrating analytical rigour, regulatory alignment and depth across Asian currency regimes as central banks tighten FX-position rules and intervention frameworks.
Fraud & Financial Crime
This award recognises solutions that manage the ongoing client relationship after onboarding – perpetual KYC, event-driven and periodic review, risk re-assessment and lifecycle orchestration – demonstrating depth and automation of ongoing due diligence under AML/CFT obligations.
This award recognises solutions that streamline client onboarding and initial KYC – identity verification, document collection, CDD/EDD, risk scoring and screening at point of entry – delivering compliance accuracy, speed to onboard and quality of initial risk assessment under AML/CFT and sanctions obligations.
This award recognises solutions that verify identity as a discrete capability – document authentication, biometrics and liveness/deepfake defence – demonstrating accuracy and adaptability within onboarding and step-up flows as regulators sharpen expectations on digital identity and remote verification.
This award recognises solutions that detect and prevent fraud through behavioural, device, network and transaction intelligence – demonstrating detection efficacy, false-positive management and real-time performance as scam and mule-account typologies escalate across the region.
This award recognises a specific, delivered anti-fraud project – in production or proof of concept – that addresses a defined fraud problem, demonstrating originality of approach, measurable reduction in fraud losses and significance of the problem tackled.
This award recognises solutions that screen for sanctioned entities, politically exposed persons and adverse media under the region’s sanctions and AML/CFT regimes – demonstrating screening accuracy against global watchlists, intelligent matching and false-positive reduction as sanctions and export controls rise in salience.
This award recognisessolutions that detect trade-based money laundering and manage trade-finance compliance – screening trade transactions, documents, goods, vessels and counterparties for laundering typologies including over/under-invoicing, phantom shipments and misclassification – demonstrating depth across TBML detection and sanctions and export-control exposure within trade flows.
This award recognises solutions that detect suspicious activity across payments and accounts under AML/CFT obligations – demonstrating detection quality, alert efficiency and tuning, explainability and currency of typology coverage.
This award recognises providers of the underlying risk data – AML/CFT, PEPs, sanctions and adverse-entity datasets – that power screening and monitoring, demonstrating data accuracy, coverage, regional depth and update cadence.
This award recognises solutions that manage enhanced due diligence and third-party, supply-chain and counterparty risk under AML/CFT and conduct obligations – demonstrating due-diligence depth, third-party risk coverage and investigative quality.
This award recognises training programmes and awareness initiatives that raise compliance and financial-crime capability across institutions and their customers – including customer-facing scam-awareness campaigns – demonstrating content quality, reach and measurable capability or behavioural uplift.
This award recognises training programmes and awareness initiatives that raise compliance and financial-crime capability across institutions and their customers – including customer-facing scam-awareness campaigns – demonstrating content quality, reach and measurable capability or behavioural uplift.
This award recognises collaborations that strengthen cross-border cooperation and intelligence-sharing against fraud and financial crime – linking law-enforcement, FIUs and institutions across jurisdictions – demonstrating operational reach, measurable disruption and scalability.
Payments
This award recognises solutions that manage payments regulatory compliance and risk across real-time and cross-border rails – licensing and safeguarding, e-money and settlement obligations, cross-border payments compliance, and liability and reimbursement models – demonstrating regulatory depth and adaptability as payment-operator obligations tighten across the region.
This award honours a regulator, issuer, bank or public-private initiative that has materially shaped stablecoin regulation or brought a regulated stablecoin project to market in Asia-Pacific – whether through licensing regimes, cross-border settlement pilots or reserve and redemption frameworks – demonstrating policy leadership or market impact as regulators reclassify stablecoins as payment instruments.
Markets & Infrastructure
This award honours the exchange demonstrating outstanding leadership in governance, market integrity, innovation and participation across established, emerging and alternative venues – delivering market development, transparency and regional significance.
This award recognises surveillance solutions that detect market abuse and misconduct across trading and communications – spoofing, insider dealing and manipulation – demonstrating detection efficacy, cross-market and communications coverage and regulatory adaptability under the region’s market-integrity regimes.
This award recognises solutions that enable accurate, timely derivatives and securities trade reporting across regimes and asset classes – demonstrating accuracy, regime coverage, timeliness and reconciliation capability.
This award recognises providers of the reference and identifier data underpinning reporting and market infrastructure – demonstrating data quality, coverage, standards alignment and reliability.
This award recognises providers delivering excellence in collateral and margin management and post-trade efficiency – demonstrating coverage, automation, risk reduction and regulatory alignment under evolving margin and clearing rules.
This award honours the market infrastructure – CSD, CCP, trade repository or payment system – advancing efficiency, transparency and resilience in the region’s markets, demonstrating systemic contribution and modernisation.
Digital Assets
This award recognises solutions that monitor on-chain and off-chain activity for financial crime and market abuse – combining transaction monitoring (KYT), surveillance and blockchain analytics and investigations – demonstrating analytical depth, typology coverage and investigative capability under the region’s virtual-asset regimes.
This award recognises solutions that manage risk, tax and regulatory reporting for digital-asset businesses and holders under evolving frameworks such as the OECD Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and amended CRS – demonstrating reporting coverage, tax-regime alignment and automation.
This award honours the advisory, consulting or legal firm delivering outstanding regulatory work for digital-asset platforms and issuers – licensing, compliance and navigating the region’s virtual-asset regimes – demonstrating regulatory expertise, client outcomes and thought leadership.
This award honours a regulator or policymaker for a framework or initiative that has materially shaped digital-asset regulation in Asia-Pacific – licensing regimes, investor-protection rules or supervisory approaches – demonstrating policy clarity, market impact and regional influence.
Advisory & Innovation
This award honours the advisory, consulting or legal firm delivering the most outstanding regulatory and risk advisory work across Asia-Pacific, spanning banking, financial crime, capital markets and digital assets – awarded in two streams (Flagship for full-service firms and Boutique for specialist practices) – demonstrating breadth or depth of expertise, client outcomes and thought leadership.
This award recognises a financial institution’s standout initiative – proof of concept or newly live deployment – that solves a real regulatory, risk or compliance problem in a novel way, demonstrating significance of the problem, originality of approach and, where AI is employed, effectiveness and governance over novelty.
This award celebrates an innovation centre, regulatory sandbox or centre of excellence that has advanced regulatory and financial-services innovation in the region – accelerating adoption in areas such as digital identity, compliance and risk management – demonstrating innovation output and ecosystem impact.
This award honours the single most significant regulatory or industry initiative of the year spanning banking, capital markets and payments – demonstrating policy impact, originality and systemic importance as a discrete initiative or project.
Industry & Individual Awards
This award recognises the industry association or standard-setting body that has most advanced sound regulation and market integrity in the region – demonstrating policy influence, standards development, education and harmonisation.
This award honours a regulator, body or stakeholder that drove a specific, significant and positive regulatory reform in the region – demonstrating policy significance, stakeholder engagement and measurable improvement to the regulatory landscape.
This award recognises a regulator or supervisory authority demonstrating outstanding overall leadership, effectiveness and industry engagement over the year – delivering proportionate, innovative supervision that advances market integrity and confidence.
This award recognises an individual whose career has made a lasting and transformative contribution to financial regulation and market integrity in Asia-Pacific – across prudential oversight, market integrity, financial-crime prevention or emerging sectors.
