Innovation Takes Center Stage as FIS Announces Winners of 2021 Impact Awards
August 19 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Key facts:
- The 2021 winners are Baker Boyer National Bank, Boost Payment
Solutions, CDK Global, NRW.BANK, Quontic Bank and Walgreens.
- In its fifth year, FIS’ signature awards program recognizes
organizations that have used FIS technology to innovate within
their business to enhance customer service and drive tangible
business results.
- The Impact Awards are independently judged by industry analyst
group Celent.
Financial technology leader FIS® (NYSE: FIS) today announced the
winners of the 2021 FIS Impact Awards program. Independently judged
by leading industry analyst group Celent, the annual program
recognizes forward-looking organizations that use FIS technology to
enhance customer service, drive tangible business results, and
advance commerce and the financial world.
The 2021 Impact Award winners are Baker Boyer National Bank,
Boost Payment Solutions, CDK Global, NRW.BANK, Quontic Bank and
Walgreens. Entries were judged by Celent on the criteria of applied
innovation, tangible return on investment and enhanced customer
service.
For each winning entry, FIS is making a $10,000 donation to a
charitable organization chosen by the winner through the FIS
Foundation.
“The Impact Awards program brings together two of our core
values at FIS: innovation and giving back,” said Bruce Lowthers,
President, FIS. “It’s always exciting to see the innovative ways
our technology is being used by our clients to better serve their
customers and achieve their business goals. Congratulations to this
year’s winning entries and the charities that are doing such
important work in their communities.”
“We’re struck by the innovative ways that firms in a variety of
industries used technology to creatively increase efficiency and
decrease costs,” said Dan Latimore, Chief Research Officer at
Celent. “The 2021 FIS Impact Award winners shared a focus on
execution and a commitment to gaining organizational alignment, a
prerequisite to the implementation of most technology
projects.”
The 2021 FIS Impact Awards winners are:
- Baker Boyer National Bank, a Northwest community bank that has
served customers for over 150 years, won for its use of the open
architecture-based FIS trust accounting system to enhance its
client onboarding and operational processes.
- Boost Payment Solutions, a global leader in B2B digital
payments, won for its use of the Worldpay by FIS platform to
convert virtual and other commercial card payments into a seamless
and fully automated straight-through processing experience for
buyers, suppliers and B2B intermediaries.
- CDK Global, a leading provider of integrated data and
technology solutions for the automotive, heavy truck, recreation,
and heavy equipment industries, won for its work in transforming
its accounts receivables operations using the FIS GETPAID solution,
significantly enhancing efficiency and reducing disputes and aged
receivables.
- NRW.BANK, the promotional bank of North Rhine-Westphalia in
Germany and provider of financial development and banking products,
was recognized for its use of the FIS Cross-Asset Trading and Risk
Platform to consolidate its legacy systems, enhancing efficiency
and collaboration while reducing risk.
- New York-based Quontic Bank, an adaptive digital bank that
empowers its customers financially while embracing their diverse
circumstances, won for its innovative use of FIS Digital One and
other FIS technologies to develop an innovative new Bitcoin-based
rewards checking account.
- Leading retail pharmacy chain Walgreens won for
its use of FIS Premium Payback to enable Walgreens customers with
eligible payment cards to tap into associated rewards points in
real-time to help pay for in-store purchases.
About FIS
FIS is a leading provider of technology solutions for merchants,
banks and capital markets firms globally. Our employees are
dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests by
applying our scale, deep expertise and data-driven insights. We
help our clients use technology in innovative ways to solve
business-critical challenges and deliver superior experiences for
their customers. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a
Fortune 500® company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500®
Index. To learn more, visit www.fisglobal.com. Follow FIS on
Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (@FISGlobal).
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Kim Snider, 904.438.6278 Senior Vice President FIS Global
Marketing and Communications kim.snider@fisglobal.com
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