The candidates of the 4th Nahal Fintech Festival were announced

The value of the fintech seedling award is based on the results of collective votes, “Nahal Fintech” festival is an event that at the end of every year, by addressing the field of fintech in Iran and introducing a series of solutions, products and influential people in this field, it tries to be a spark of light for the growth of fintech in Iran.

Jury of the 4th Nahal Fintech Festival

According to Iran digital economy annotation, the process of holding the 4th Fintech Sapling Festival, which started in the fall of this year, reached the final judging stage on March 3rd and 4th. The judging of this course was done with the participation of more than 110 managers and experts in the fields of banking, technology, fintech and media.

The judging process was done online and with the authentication of the judges. The judges were required to score the application, product, solution and startups and people who made it to the final stage. In each category, the candidates who have managed to get a higher total number of points will be introduced at the end of the festival. The value of the fintech seedling award is based on the results of collective votes.

Sections and candidates of the 4th Nahal Fintech festival

Candidates for influential businesses in the Fintech field in 2024, large and medium businesses category:

• “Application Asan Pardakht”; Due to the provision of a wallet-based bank card (up card), the development of direct debit and digital signature, the provision of daily installment insurance sales services.
• “Snapp pay”; Because of providing microfinance credit to 3.5 million people and developing the concept of BNPL in Iran
• “Azkivam”; Due to providing micro loans to 300 thousand people and promoting financial inclusion
• “Bluebank”; Due to the cooperation with Landtech businesses in the direction of microloan development, providing instant loans without guarantor to users, adding money back service
• “Tara”; Due to the development of institutional credit by granting more than one million institutional credit and granting more than one million microcredit
• “Faraboom flow”; A multi-bank corporate banking system that centralizes all banking affairs of companies in one place. Access to different deposits, help to manage resources, control accounts and create different routines on deposits
• “Qbank”; Due to the digitization of deposit opening, credit allocation, calculation of facility points and consumption in the acceptors network
• “Nexocard Farabi”; Due to the connection of the bank card to the investment account for immediate withdrawal of funds, the possibility of immediate access to the fund’s assets
• “Nobitex”; Due to the coverage of 6 million users, accrual buying and selling, staking, creation of Nobitex decentralized exchange

Candidates for influential businesses in the Fintech field in 2024, small businesses and startups category:

• “Beat Home”; The first housing investment platform
• “Peyman direct payment “; Direct debit infrastructure service
• “Bazarpay”; Smart and integrated Direct Debit solution
• “Hesabu”; Daily salary payment solution (assistance)

Candidates for media and content producers in the field of fintech, media, event and podcast category:

• “digital currency”; Preparing reports, informing and covering cryptocurrency and blockchain news
• “Peivast media”; Due to the preparation of reports, information and coverage of news in the field of fintech
• “Digiato”; Due to the preparation of reports, information and coverage of fintech news
• “Forext Podcast”; Because of making episodes about economic, financial, technology and business issues
• “FINAP event”; The largest offline community in the field of fintech, dealing with various fintech topics

Content producer candidates in the field of finance and fintech, blogger category (human media):

• “Amir Hossam Heydarian” (Hasurak); Because of creating content with financial and tax issues on his personal page (Instagram)
• “Zia Sadr”; Because of information in the field of cryptocurrency on his personal pages
• “Lida Hadi”; Due to the cooperation in compiling the Insurtech regulations of Central Insurance, producing statistical reports in the Insurtech field and providing information in the Insurtech field on your personal pages (LinkedIn and X)
• “Mohsen Saleh” (Grizzly); Due to content production and education in the field of cryptocurrency and economy on his personal pages (Telegram and YouTube)
• “Mohammad Reza Tafarshi” (Mr. Payment); Due to content creation from fintech news and events on your personal pages (LinkedIn and Instagram)

Candidates of influential institutions in the Fintech field in 2024:

• “Techno-trade”; Due to the investment in the field of fintech in the amount of 3 thousand billion Rials in DigiPay and Ghabzino companies, the start of the project of Tejino innovation factory
• “Holding Max”; Due to the establishment of a private investment fund with the aim of injecting capital and improving organizational management

Influential male candidates in the fintech field in 2024:

• Majid Hasami, CEO of SnappPay; Due to the development and promotion of the concept of BNPL in Iran and the promotion of financial inclusion in the society through SnappPay
• “Mohammad Mahdi Fatemian”, Chairman of the Board of Fintech Association; Guild activities for the development of fintech in the fields of lendtech, cryptocurrency and Bank-tech, wallet-tech, prop-tech, Insurtech and payment.
• Tim Latif, CEO of Max Investment Holding; Due to the activity in the field of bold and private investment and the activity in the development of the startup ecosystem, especially in the infrastructure sector of the Fintech and Insurtech industry.
• “Amir Hossein Davoodian”, Deputy CEO of Tejarat Bank; Due to the activity in the direction of expanding low-cost credit solutions with the BNPL ecosystem, expanding the public to digital credit facilities and financial inclusion through Kalanow.
• “Mohammed Mehdi Momeni”, CEO of Azkivam; Due to the development of informal and micro lending and the promotion of financial inclusion in the society through Azkivam

Influential female candidates in the fintech field in 2024:

• Bahare Sharifion, CEO of Insurance.com; Because of the activity towards the development of insurtech in Iran
• Mehrak Mahmoudi, attached editor; Due to following the events and challenges of fintech field through journalism and continuous media activity

Judging criteria of Nahal Fintech festival

The judging of the candidates of this course has been done with technical and experimental criteria such as attention to innovation, business facilitation and social impact.

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