Australian Fintech Firm wins Global Innovation Challenge by ATB Financial in Canada

KPMG and Matchi are delighted to announce that Avoka is the winner of ATB Financial’s Customer Onboarding Global Innovation Challenge.
Avoka will now work with ATB on a proof-of-concept project with a view to roll out and implement the solution.
Powered by KPMG in Canada and Matchi, the challenge invited fintech solution providers to produce a relevant, implementable innovation to help automate and optimize ATB’s client onboarding and authentication. KPMG recently acquired Matchi to create a powerful resource that helps clients find and deploy fintech solutions that are most relevant to their business needs.
The challenge attracted more than 50 entries from 14 different countries including Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Russia, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States. All challenge responses went through an intense process of validation, scoring and evaluation to a shortlist of six finalists. From there, the final judging panel unanimously selected Avoka as the solution which was the most aligned to the bank’s current onboarding focus areas.
The Top 6 solutions of the Customer Onboarding Global Innovation Challenge by ATB were:
Winner: Avoka, Australia
Runner-up: Aimbrain, United Kingdom
Runner-up: Kyckr, United Kingdom
Runner-up: TRC Mobilearth, Canada
Runner-up: Trulioo, Canada
Runner-up: Simple KYC, Australia