About

The Digital Assets Awards, organised by The Digital Banker, exist to honour and celebrate the world’s pre-eminent and ground breaking digital asset participants and market infrastructure providers that are transforming the digital assets ecosystem. Moreover, the Digital Banker Awards are accolades of excellence and distinction, attributed to outstanding players; and provides unbiased and objective benchmarks for the global industry.

Importantly, the Digital Assets Awards is the only world-wide assessment program dedicated to recognising excellence in the use of digital assets by market participants. These awards celebrate the most cutting-edge innovation and technologies that have materially impacted and disrupted traditional asset classes and investment frameworks, while dramatically driving innovation efforts within the game-changing paradigm of decentralised finance.

Why nominate?

The world of digital assets was conceptualised with the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009, that powered via a decentralised blockchain captured the imagination of users as an alternate digitally-based currency. It proved to be an inflection point in the ongoing evolution of the international financial and monetary system and since then market participants utilising both permissionless and permissioned blockchain networks began to offer to a range of different types of digital assets including crypto, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

These “virtual records of value” shared securely across a cryptographic ledger has generated an entirely new set of market infrastructures and use-cases as experimentation by various players has unlocked efficiencies, freed trapped liquidity and facilitated the democratisation of finance. Indeed, 2023 marked a period of relative recovery for digital assets as institutional adoption remained measured, while development of blockchain bridges contributed to interoperability and scalability.

Given the pace of technological transformation, new regulations and evolving user preferences the size of digital assets transactions has grown exponentially, attracting new players across the value chain while posing as both a serious challenge and opportunity to incumbent market players.

Now, more than ever, it is imperative that traditional players develop exceptional digital asset capabilities through innovative business models and services or otherwise risk being side-lined entirely.

Who can apply?

The Digital Assets Awards 2024 program is open to all participants within the digital assets landscape. We invite nominations from banks, buy-side asset management & fund management companies, digital asset / crypto exchanges & trading platforms, digital / crypto wallets, digital asset custodians, non-bank financial institutions, token issuers, gaming companies and digital asset technology companies & service providers.

If you identify your organisation and/or professionals as industry leaders that are pushing boundaries and pioneering unsurpassed innovation across the universe of digital assets – we welcome you to send in your nominations. The submission deadline for all entries is 18:00 GMT ,16 August 2024.

Judging Methodology

Shortlisted nominees are selected on the qualitative and quantitative depth of their nominations. The Digital Banker research team will shortlist four institutions or individuals per category, which will then be put to our impartial panel of expert judges who will undertake a rigorous audit type process to carefully select the winners.

We use a proprietary, numerical & qualitative scoring methodology which is applied to all submissions and augmented by assessment in; Innovation, Interoperability & Integration, Transaction Capability and Risk Management with additional focus on how these initiatives are impacting the wider digital assets landscape.

We uphold the highest adherence to confidentiality and personal data. As such, all responses will be treated as strictly confidential. No data shall be shared beyond the assessment of The Digital Banker’s judging panel, unless permission has been granted.

Submission Guidelines

Only projects that have been completed in 2023 or 1H 2024 will be accepted. Initiation of the project can be earlier – The Digital Banker does not require a specific commencement date. If a project was completed prior to 2023, the project will be accepted only if any major updates have been made to it. We do not place a limit on the number of submissions per institution. Please note that a separate submission is required for each award that the institution is nominating itself for.

For further information, please contact The Digital Banker awards team at: enq@digitalbankeronline.com

REMINDERS

Entries received after the closing date will not be accepted any under circumstances.
All entries and supporting material will be kept strictly confidential amongst our panel of judges.

We may request a further interview with the executive managing the program or initiative that is being nominated. The objective of the interview is merely to gain deeper insights, (if needed) for the purposes of judging.

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