AI Excellence Awards
AI Excellence Award Monday, 2 February 2026

Ai Excellence Awards

Below is the scorecard and evaluation criteria for AI Excellence Awards

1. Financial Institution’s AI capability
  • Clarity of AI strategy, vision and leadership commitment
  • Economic value generated from AI across the business
  • AI integration into decisions and customer interactions (%)
  • Workforce enablement and AI-augmented productivity
  • AI risk governance, oversight and responsible AI practices
2. Data and technology foundation for AI
  • % of priority data domains integrated and AI-ready
  • Centralised model platform (ModelOps/MLOps) maturity
  • Number and growth of production-grade AI/ML models
  • Cloud, architecture and infrastructure innovations enabling AI
  • Core system scalability and performance to support AI workloads
3. Business impact of the AI initiative
  • Revenue or measurable value uplift attributable to the initiative
  • Cost reduction, productivity gain or operational efficiency improvement
  • Customer experience improvement (NPS, satisfaction, service metrics)
  • Reduction in process turnaround time or manual effort
  • Customer, usage or transaction growth driven by the initiative
4. Accuracy, reliability and risk governance of the AI initiative
  • Model performance (accuracy, precision, recall)
  • Reduction in False Positives / False Negatives (%)
  • Model drift monitoring and corrective action frequency
  • Incident rate and controls ensuring fairness, explainability and compliance
5. Scale and adoption of the AI initiative
  • Increase in automated or AI-powered decisions/interactions (%)
  • User adoption (customers, employees or ecosystem partners)
  • Workforce adoption and change management effectiveness
  • Expansion across business units, products or markets