Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology, announced today that Finxact from Fiserv has been named the best SaaS for FinTech at The 2026 FinTech Awards, recognizing the platform’s role in enabling modern, cloud‑native banking infrastructure at scale.
Finxact is an API‑first core banking platform that provides financial institutions with a cloud-native, real‑time system of record for accounts and transaction processing engine. With over 30 million accounts live, Finxact enables banks, fintechs and customer-centric platforms with large, loyal user bases to build and scale modern embedded financial services through a secure, cloud-native architecture.
“This recognition underlines what financial institutions are asking for — a core foundation they can rely on as they evolve on their own terms,” said Frank Sanchez, Head of Finxact and Vice Chairman, Fiserv. “Finxact provides the flexibility to introduce new capabilities, serve clients in new ways, and meet rising expectations without disruption to the banking business or the people who depend on these services.”
“We highlighted ‘trust’ as a key theme for the year within FinTech. Exciting feats of innovation draw a crowd, but it’s trust earned and demonstrated through tangible outcomes, outstanding results, and external validation through awards, that keeps users coming back for more,” James Williams, CEO of The Cloud Awards, said: “Fiserv has done an excellent job in demonstrating to our judges the perfect balance between innovation and trust.”
Finxact features a microservices‑based architecture, real-time continuous processing, and full access to all data and transactions via open APIs, positioning clients to integrate seamlessly with modern applications and make optimal use of AI. Finxact, with its asset-agnostic account structure, extensible design and temporal data model, enables banks, fintechs, and customer‑centric platforms with large, loyal user bases to build and scale modern embedded financial services through a secure, cloud‑native architecture.
The FinTech Awards are operated by The Cloud Awards, an international awards body recognizing innovation and achievement across the global financial technology landscape. Winners were selected from organizations across North America, Europe, and APAC, spanning a broad range of FinTech use cases and industries.
About The FinTech Awards
The FinTech Awards focuses on the major innovations in the world of financial technology, including personal and corporate banking, insurance, and wealth management, business finance processes, and FinTech use within a selection of sectors, across 23 categories.
