Welcome to IPR Awards
The IPR Awards celebrates outstanding achievements in the money transfer industry.
Submissions for the IPR Awards 2023 have now closed. Submission dates for the IPR Awards 2024 will be released shortly.
IPR Awards: Championing Excellence
The IPR Awards is a prestigious event that celebrates the exceptional achievements of the money transfer community’s best and brightest. Money Service Businesses, such as Money Transfer Operators, Exchange Houses, Banks, Fintechs, and Telcos, are invited to enter themselves for individual award categories by submitting a category specific entry that addresses the criteria outlined by the Judging Panel.
Submission dates for IPR Awards 2024 will be released shortly.
Finalists will be announced in August 2024, with the awards ceremony scheduled to take place on Tuesday 17th September 2024, London, UK
Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your accomplishments and be recognised as a leader in the money transfer industry. Submit your entry today and join us for an unforgetabble celebration of excellence in September.
Award Categories
Innovation Award
The Innovation award is open to all money service businesses, including MTOs, Banks, FinTechs and Telcos, who can demonstrate significant, tangible contributions to the money transfer industry within the past five years.
The recipient will present noticeable achievements in one or all of the following; new product growth, employee growth, innovative use of technology to improve processes, industry recognition, and innovative marketing.
Exceptional Customer Experience Award
This category celebrates organisations that serve their customers the best. The exceptional customer experience award is open to all money service businesses, including MTOs, Banks, FinTechs and Telcos, who can demonstrate how they put their customers at the heart of what they do.
The recipient will illustrate how they have managed to delight their customers and maintained an exceptional customer experience.
Social Impact Award
The social impact award is open to all money service businesses that have successfully embedded social objectives into their strategy and are making a substantial positive impact in financial inclusion or financial know-how of customers.
The recipient will clearly explain the strategy, how it is being lived out, and its near and long-term objectives. In addition, the entry should provide case studies and the results achieved.
Start-Up of the Year
The Start-Up of the Year Award celebrates innovative money service businesses operating for less than three years, that have introduced groundbreaking solutions, transformed the industry or solved a problem. Nominees should demonstrate exceptional growth, innovation, and impact, with a clear strategy, strong team, and sustainable growth plan.
This award recognises start-ups’ potential to create transformative solutions and drive innovation and growth in the money transfer industry.
Scale-Up of the Year
The Scale-Up of the Year Award recognises money service businesses that have demonstrated exceptional growth and scalability in the money transfer industry. This award celebrates companies that have successfully scaled their business model and operations, while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction and innovation.
Nominees for this award should have a proven track record of growth, with a significant increase in revenue, customer base, or market share. The recipient has successfully scaled, innovated, differentiated, and executed their growth strategy.
Company of the Year
The Company of the Year Award honours an exceptional business that has made significant contributions to the money transfer industry. Nominees should have a proven track record of leadership, outstanding vision in innovation, and evidence of this organisation’s positive impacts within the payments and remittances space.
As our most prestigious award, this recognises the exceptional achievements of the recipient, demonstrating the dedication, hard work, and inspiring actions taken to drive innovation and achieve extraordinary results.
Increase visibility of your achievements and forge valuable connections
Award Process and Judging Panel
All entries delivered by the deadline are presented to members of the Judging Panel. The Panel is comprised of a group acknowledged as leading independent experts from various money transfer and payments related professions.
The Panel members review the entries and rank their individual preferences in ascending order, with 1 as the highest rank. The entrants are placed in order, starting with the lowest average score (the highest ranked firm).
The Panel then discusses and evaluates the list of finalists, from which it chooses a winner in each Award category. The IPR Awards feature three classes of the leading organisations in each Award category: commended, finalist and winner.
The Judging Panel for the IPR Awards 2024 will be announced shortly. Please see below for last year’s Panel.
Veronica Studsgaard
Founder & Chairman
IAMTN
Leon Isaacs
Founder & CEO
DMA Global
Kathryn Tomasofsky
Executive Director
MSBA
Sharon Gibson
CEO
JMMB Money Transfer
Lindsay Lehr
Managing Director
PCMI
Rob Ayers
CEO
Fintech-Advisors
Why apply
Cost-effective marketing – Being shortlisted as a finalist or winning an award will raise your profile, getting your brand in front of potential new customers. Not only will IPR promote your business, but you can also leverage PR and marketing, including adding the award logo on marketing materials, distributing a winning press release and announcing your win through your social media channels.
Increased Credibility – Being an award-winner or finalist positions your business as noteworthy. It’s a third-party endorsement that promotes collaborator and customer confidence.
Brand Differentiation – An award sets you apart and gives you an edge over your direct competitors. It can be a deciding factor when potential clients are choosing providers.
Attracting Talent and Investment – The best talent likes to work with the best businesses. Being an award-winning business is social proof that your business is worth the most talented people investing their career with you.
High-Level Networking – Attending the award ceremony is an opportunity to make new connections and build relationships with other award-level businesses.
Distinguish your brand and bolster customer confidence
The Award Ceremony
The winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony on Tuesday 17th September 2024, London, UK.
Sponsorship
IPR Awards represent a unique opportunity to establish brand identity and exposure to a global audience of senior payments professionals through a multi-channel marketing campaign.
Sponsors will elevate their thought leadership positioning by making their brand synonymous with one of the award categories and be profiled alongside industry leaders as a key voice in the industry.
Sponsors will receive branding visibility before, during, and after the awards ceremony and have the opportunity to co-present an award to the winner/s.
Position yourself as a thought leader and establish valuable partnerships
Submit Entry
Please note for the following awards, applications are submitted on behalf of your organisation: Innovation Award, Exceptional Customer Experience Award, Social Impact Award, Start-Up of the Year, Scale-Up of the Year.
The Leader of the Year Award will be awarded to an individual, so please submit this application on behalf of individuals, not organisations.
If you have any questions or need assistance please email marketing@remitone.com
Good luck!
