For its comprehensive, resilient and efficient system implementation, the award for Best Core Banking Technology Initiative (Small Bank) goes to Fusion Bank and WeBank Technology Services.

The bank replaced its legacy core with a cloud-native system in just 10 months. Built on a fully distributed, vendor-agnostic open architecture, the platform spans five core banking areas and integrates over 150 subsystems. It delivers high uptime, a 50% improvement in time to market, and IT cost savings, while reducing server footprint by over 30%. Complex SME products now contribute to a significant share of the loan book, supported by agile automation and a fault-tolerant design for scalable digital growth.