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Joanne Smith, Innovator of the Year 2022 Award finalist

Joanne Smith, Founder and Executive Chair at Recordsure and TCC, was named a finalist for Innovator of the Year 2022 at the UK FinTech Awards.

UK FinTech Awards 2022 graphic marking a finalist for Innovator of the Year, on a teal network background

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  • Joanne Smith was named a finalist for Innovator of the Year 2022 by the UK FinTech Awards.
  • The awards celebrate the UK FinTech community and are supported by FinTech Intel.
  • Joanne’s financial services, compliance and technology experience underpins the shortlisting.
  • Recordsure was also shortlisted for RegTech of the Year for the second year in a row.

We’re proud to announce that Joanne Smith, Founder and Executive Chair at Recordsure and TCC, has been named a finalist for the Innovator of the Year 2022 category by the UK FinTech Awards.

The UK is home to the world’s premier financial services centre and a burgeoning financial technology market – and the annual UK FinTech Awards returns to celebrate the incredible FinTech community, along with the accomplishments and triumphs of the UK’s best and brightest. The UK FinTech Awards are supported by FinTech Intel, the global market intelligence platform for financial services technology.

We had a fantastic response and hundreds of entries for our independent judging panel to review. The debates were fierce, and the results close. It was our most competitive year yet. UK FinTech Awards

A range of award categories cover the full spectrum of FinTech and are judged by an independent panel of experts. Considering the intense competition, being shortlisted for the Innovator of the Year is an incredible achievement for Joanne Smith – as well as for Recordsure and TCC.

Joanne appreciates the recognition of her hard work and commitment to innovation to serve financial services clients and their customers better.

I’m thrilled to be shortlisted amongst the fierce competition. My focus has always been on finding innovative technology solutions that help solve the financial services sector’s biggest challenges – efficient risk management, compliance and better customer care. Joanne Smith, Founder and Executive Chair, Recordsure

Joanne Smith, here is what you should know

Joanne Smith, here is what you should know

Joanne-founded businesses, Recordsure and TCC, share decades of experience in finance, compliance and innovative technology.

Over the years, Joanne has led the way – breaking new grounds and challenging the accepted status quo when it comes to the issues of the financial services industry.

Joanne introduced a number of ‘market-first’ pioneering RegTech solutions to the market, focused on ensuring compliance and conduct, and improving transparency and accountability when dealing with customers.

Recordsure milestones

While not from a technology background, Joanne assiduously upskilled, surrounded herself with experts and immersed herself in the world of digital and technology.

Through Recordsure, Joanne built ground-breaking AI RegTech tools with significant milestones:

  • The first company to provide a face-to-face conversation recording solution that meets the security needs of financial regulators and information commissioners
  • The first company to build a speech recognition system that achieves a high degree of accuracy with multi-party face-to-face conversations
  • The first company to build an AI system that breaks financial conversations into sections to streamline a variety of compliance, training, competency and customer insight reviews

Recordsure and TCC’s market-leading RegTech solutions deliver tangible business benefits – more efficient and better value ways to manage compliance, risks and remediation, and unrivalled intelligence to improve customer experiences and outcomes.

What’s more, the UK FinTech Awards has shortlisted Recordsure for the RegTech of the Year award for the second year in the row, which is a cause for a double celebration here at Recordsure.

Frequently asked questions

Joanne Smith was shortlisted for the Innovator of the Year 2022 category.

FinTech Intel, the global market intelligence platform for financial services technology, supports the awards.

Recordsure’s milestones include face-to-face conversation recording, speech recognition for multi-party face-to-face conversations and an AI system that breaks financial conversations into sections.

Supporting sources

  1. UK FinTech Awards
  2. FinTech Intel

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