SDK.finance CTO Pavlo Sidelov Joined the Banking Tech Awards 2025 Jury Panel

3rd December 2025
Royal Lancaster Hotel, London

The Banking Tech Awards 2025, organised by FinTech Futures, are among the most respected global recognitions in digital banking and financial technology. Each year, the awards honour the organisations and innovators shaping the future of payments, core banking, AI-driven financial services, and digital customer experience.

Being acknowledged at this event signifies a high level of trust and relevance in the global fintech ecosystem. This year, SDK.finance was recognised as the Best FinTech Digital Solution Provider, reaffirming our position as a top technology partner for financial institutions and fintech companies worldwide.

SDK.finance: Recognised as a Finalist at the Banking Tech Awards

Our recognition at Banking Tech Awards 2025 highlights the maturity, strength, and innovation of our platform. From a powerful transactional core and configurable back-office to API-first architecture and white-label mobile banking capabilities, SDK.finance has steadily become a trusted foundation for modern financial products.

This acknowledgment underscores our long-standing focus on performance, security, adaptability, and product delivery speed – enabling banks and fintechs to bring sophisticated digital solutions to market significantly faster.

But 2025 brought another milestone that is equally meaningful.

A Distinct Honour: CTO Pavlo Sidelov Invited to Join the Jury

This year’s Banking Tech Awards held special meaning for us, as Pavlo Sidelov, CTO of SDK.finance, was invited to join the jury panel. Pavlo is widely recognised as an industry expert in digital payments and banking technology.

With more than 15 years of hands-on experience, he has designed complex financial architectures, high-load processing systems, and the core infrastructure behind modern digital banking products.

Pavlo combines deep technical knowledge with a practical, forward-looking view of where fintech is heading. This blend of expertise is exactly why he was selected to help evaluate the standout solutions of the year. Over the course of his career, he has authored “The World of Digital Payments” and “The World of Digital Banking”, designed mission-critical payment and banking systems, contributed new ideas as an inventor and researcher in digital finance, mentored engineers and fintech founders, and advised international organisations such as the OSCE.

What This Recognition Means for SDK.finance

The acknowledgment from Banking Tech Awards 2025 provides several key advantages for our organisation:

Strengthened industry trust
External recognition reinforces that our platform meets the highest standards expected by banks, regulators, and fintech leaders.

Greater visibility among top-tier institutions
Banks and financial organisations across Europe, the UK, the US, and MENA view the awards as a benchmark for evaluating technology partners.

New partnership opportunities
Being named the Best FinTech Digital Solution Provider opens doors for deeper collaborations with enterprise clients and payment ecosystems worldwide.

Motivation to innovate even further
This milestone drives us to continue evolving our architecture, enhancing performance, and expanding product capabilities to stay ahead of the rapidly changing fintech landscape.

For SDK.finance, the Banking Tech Awards 2025 mark a defining point in our journey.
Being recognised as the Best FinTech Digital Solution Provider validates the vision behind our platform and our commitment to empowering financial institutions with technology that is secure, modular, and future-ready.

And with our CTO, Pavlo Sidelov, serving on the awards jury, this milestone reflects not only the success of our product but also the deep expertise and leadership shaping its evolution.

SDK.finance will continue to deliver the technology foundation for financial products that are faster to launch, easier to scale, and ready to meet the demands of tomorrow’s digital economy.

If you’re exploring modern financial technology solutions or would like to discuss how SDK.finance can support your product vision, feel free to contact us.