FriMi wins a Global Award
Sri Lanka’s First Digital Bank Wins Award for Emerging Te c h n o l o g i e s L e d Innovation at the Infosys Client Innovation Global Awards in India
FriMi, the Digital Bank & Lifestyle Partner powered by Nations Trust Bank has won the award for Emerging Te c h n o l o g i e s L e d Innovation at the recently concluded Infosys Client I n n ovat i o n Awards, which was held in Mysore, India. FriMi is the first digital bank in Sri Lanka and allows new users to open interest earning accounts directly from their smartphones, with no visit to a bank. It is also a digital payments and marketing platform, allowing users to pay for products and services at merchants and receive special offers.
Tilak Piyadigama and Nisala Kodippili the COO and CIO of Nations Trust Bank, respectively and two of the key personalities behind the development of FriMi shared their collective views on winning this prestigious award, ‘We are thrilled and feel a real sense of accomplishment for the bank. Nisala was there to receive the award so he got to experience the glitz and glamour of it first- hand. The Infosys Finacle Client Innovation Awards is a massive event involving 350 participants from all over the world. In fact, we were chosen as the winner from among 160 nominations. Winning in that environment, particularly with FriMi being so young and having had our accomplishments reviewed by panels of global experts makes us feel very proud of all the effort we have put i t in and grateful to have been recognized. Our tight integration with Finacle Core Banking Solutions and out of the box use of the platform including the implementation of built-in biometric authentication support, which is a first for Sri Lanka, along with FriMi’s vision, scalability and use case scenarios all contributed towards our victory.