Shortlist 2026

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FINALISTS!

Compliance Team of the Year - Financial Services

FINALISTS: 

  • Admiral Group
  • Allianz Partners
  • Barclays Bank
  • BTIG
  • JSC TBC BANK
  • Klarna
  • L&G
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Product Partnerships
  • Tysers Insurance Brokers

Small Compliance Team of the Year (<7 Team Members) - Financial Services

FINALISTS:

  • Airbnb Payments Luxembourg
  • Council of Europe Development Bank
  • Creditspring
  • Edentree Investment Management
  • Genistar
  • MT Finance
  • OANDA Coinpass
  • Product Partnerships
  • Saga
  • Superscript
  • Worldline Merchant Services UK

Compliance Banking Team of the Year

FINALISTS: 

  • Acba bank OJSC
  • Barclays Bank
  • Coventry Building Society
  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Principality Building Society

Compliance Team of the Year – Non-Financial Services

FINALISTS:

  • Arm
  • Compass Group
  • Dialectica
  • Iberdrola
  • LiveScore Group
  • Maritime & Coastguard Agency
  • ScottishPower
  • Shell
  • Sky
  • Telefónica
  • Ukrainian Red Cross Society
  • Virgin Media O2

Small Compliance Team of the Year (<7 Team Members) - Non-Financial Services

FINALISTS: 

  • Braemar
  • Burberry
  • CellMark
  • Cimpor Global
  • Czarnikow Group
  • Dornan Engineering
  • Homes England
  • Motor Insurers Bureau
  • Sumitomo Electric Finance UK
  • The Weir Group
  • Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri
  • Utilita Energy
  • Vieira de Almeida

Gambling & Gaming Compliance Programme
of the Year

FINALISTS:

  • City of Dreams Mediterranean
  • Crucial Compliance
  • Flat Dog
  • Lebull.pt
  • Sportradar

Compliance Leader of the Year

FINALISTS:

  • Ana Newman - Arm
  • Vicky Stubbs - Barclays Bank
  • Alastair Metcalf - BT Group
  • Emily Gooday - Genistar
  • Vera Lepchikova - inDrive
  • Helen Quinn - Product Partnerships
  • Lara Maynard - Protect Line
  • Kirsten Bryson - ScottishPower
  • Mark Thorndike - Sky UK
  • Xavier Varin - Sportradar
  • Manuel Crespo de la Mata - Telefónica
  • Mariia Polomoshnova - Ukrainian Red Cross Society
  • Lance King - Virgin Media O2
  • Darek Paleczny - Worldline Merchant Services UK

Financial Crime Prevention Leader/MLRO of the Year

FINALISTS:

  • Vicky Edwards - Crestbridge Fiduciary
  • Lorraine Tanner - Diligenta
  • Ana Savvateeva - Macquarie Asset Management Europe
  • Shyam Kotecha - MT Finance
  • Mykhailo Tiutin - Ukrainian Modern Digital Science

Financial Crime Prevention Project of the Year

FINALISTS: 

  • Banco BPI
  • Bank of Valletta
  • Crypto Legal
  • FreemarketFX
  • Kairon Labs 
  • Meta Platforms
  • Principality Building Society
  • Ukrainian Modern Digital Science
  • VodafoneThree

Digital Initiative of the year (in-house team)

FINALISTS:

  • Brickken
  • Coloplast
  • HSBC
  • inDrive
  • ITP Aero
  • Kairon Labs
  • Lightico & Three UK
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • National Bank of Greece
  • Save the Children International
  • ScottishPower
  • SOCAR Türkiye
  • Themis International Services

Training Initiative of the Year - Financial Services

FINALISTS: 

  • Admiral Group 
  • Barclays Bank
  • Experian
  • JSC TBC BANK
  • NatWest Bank
  • Nomura
  • Royal London
  • Santander UK
  • Skybound Wealth Management
  • Standard Chartered
  • The Co-operative Bank

Training Initiative of the Year -
Non-Financial Services

FINALISTS:

  • Al Dahra
  • Compass Group
  • Dialectica
  • HP
  • inDrive
  • Islington Council
  • Lebull.pt
  • Merlin Entertainments
  • MGA, Wonderpunch & Philips
  • Octus Intelligence
  • Telefónica
  • VEON
  • Virgin Media O2

Trade Compliance Team of the Year

FINALISTS: 

  • Banco BPI
  • CellMark AB
  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 
  • Microsoft
  • ScottishPower
  • Shell
  • Vattenfall
  • Vodafone Group & VodafoneThree

Compliance Culture & Ethics Initiative of the Year

FINALISTS:

  • Banco BPI
  • Bank of Valletta
  • Coloplast
  • INDITEX
  • ITP Aero
  • MGA & LIPTON Teas and Infusions
  • MGA, Wonderpunch & Philips
  • Motor Insurers Bureau
  • Octus Intelligence
  • Telefónica
  • Willis Towers Watson
  • Zurich Insurance Company

Rising Star Award

FINALISTS:

  • Cherise Gaudion - Advisory Services
  • Daniel Marks - Barclays Bank
  • Namrata Haribal - Bumble
  • Divya Mahendran - CoSteer
  • Tasha Taylor - Family Fund
  • Abby Rumley - Genistar
  • Chanice Fagan - L&G
  • Georgia Bullen - Lloyds Banking Group
  • Lynne Waller - Motor Insurers Bureau
  • Lily Murphy - MT Finance
  • Ben Turner - Product Partnerships
  • Samantha Hunter - Sky UK
  • Cassidi Beck - Skybound Wealth Management
  • Emily Barber - The DPO Centre

Regulatory Law Firm of the Year

FINALISTS:

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Complex Law
  • Garrigues
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Kılınç Law and Consulting
  • NSN Law Firm

GRC Technology Partner of the Year

FINALISTS: 

  • Aspida Group
  • Comply Technologies
  • EQS Group
  • Fenergo
  • Kerv
  • Qomply
  • Ruleguard
  • SpeakUp
  • StarCompliance
  • Uptitude

FinCrime Technology Partner of the Year

FINALISTS:

  • AI & Partners
  • AMLYZE
  • Avallone
  • Corlytics
  • Expert.ai
  • Infocredit Group
  • FinScan
  • Notabene ID
  • Rimbal
  • smartKYC
  • ThirdEye

Compliance Consultancy Firm of the Year

FINALISTS: 

  • Advisory Services Group 
  • Ahqenza 
  • Calathea Solutions 
  • Evalian
  • Finvisor
  • FTI Consulting
  • Innovate Compliance
  • Malverde
  • Plenitude 
  • Provenance Compliance EU 
  • Smart Compliance
  • S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting 
  • The DPO Centre

Compliance AI Solution of the Year

FINALISTS:

  • Cardamon
  • CleverChain
  • Cognexo
  • Corlytics
  • Dialectica
  • FinregE
  • RaptorX
  • Regit.io
  • Resistant AI
  • Shell International
  • smartKYC
  • Square 4 Partners in partnership with Capital on Tap
  • Wirex

Compliance Communication Campaign of the Year

FINALISTS: 

  • e&
  • EQS Group
  • ITP Aero
  • KANSAI HELIOS Group
  • Kernel
  • Lebull.pt
  • Merlin Entertainments
  • MGA
  • Sky