Each award category is designed to recognize excellence across key areas of fintech innovation, regulation, technology, and impact. Categories are reviewed annually to ensure relevance to regional and global fintech trends.
Open Nominations:
Companies, founders, and industry leaders may submit entries through the official MFTA Awards portal.
Eligibility Check:
The MFTA team verifies that each nomination meets:
Nominations that do not meet eligibility standards are filtered out at this stage.
A preliminary Review Committee evaluates all eligible submissions based on:
Scores from multiple reviewers are averaged to create a Top 3 shortlist (or Top 5 for broader categories).
A diverse jury comprising industry experts, regulators, founders, investors, and academics independently assesses the shortlisted nominees.
Evaluation criteria include:
Each juror submits independent scores to ensure neutrality and reduce bias.
Each category follows a weighted scoring model, for example:
Scores are aggregated and audited by the MFTA Secretariat.
The nominee with the highest verified total score is selected as the category winner.
MFTA does not influence jury decisions and does not alter juror scores.
All results are confidential & made by the external jury until publicly announced.
Top 3 nominees are notified prior to the ceremony.
Final winners are formally announced live during the MFTA Awards Ceremony at Abu Dhabi Finance Week.
Winners receive:
