QuickFi® Wins 2026 Finovate Award for Best SMB/SME Banking Solution

Fourth Finovate Award for the embedded equipment-financing platform, selected over a finalist field that included Visa, Fundbox and Candescent

NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickFi® has won the 2026 Finovate Award for Best SMB/SME Banking Solution. Finovate announced the award Sept. 10, during FinovateFall week in New York City, where QuickFi also demonstrated its platform live on stage this week.

QuickFi was chosen from a finalist field of six that included Visa, Fundbox, Candescent, Akbank and ANNA Money. It is the company's fourth Finovate Award, following Best SMB/SME Banking Solution in 2022 and Best Embedded Finance Solution in 2023 and 2024.

The Finovate Awards, presented by Finovate, part of Informa Connect, recognize the financial institutions and companies driving fintech innovation forward and the individuals bringing new ideas to life. Winners are selected by a panel of industry experts assembled by Finovate.

QuickFi lets a business owner apply for, sign and fund an equipment loan or lease in minutes from a mobile device, at the point of sale, at any hour — without waiting on a bank employee. Banks and equipment manufacturers embed QuickFi under their own brand, and agentic AI now supports the customer lifecycle from application through servicing.

"Four Finovate Awards belong to a small team that decided a business owner should be able to finance a machine the way they buy everything else — on a phone, in minutes, at any hour," said Bill Verhelle, CEO of QuickFi. "The banks and equipment manufacturers we serve are the ones who make that real for their customers every day. This award is as much theirs as ours."

About the Finovate Awards

The Finovate Awards recognize the financial institutions and companies driving fintech innovation forward and the individuals bringing new ideas to life. The 2026 winners were announced Sept. 10, 2026, during FinovateFall (Sept. 9–11, New York City). To learn more, visit https://informaconnect.com/finovate-industry-awards/.

About QuickFi

QuickFi is dedicated to delivering fast, transparent, nearly instant financing to the small businesses that drive the US economy. The company is grateful for its expanding relationships with global equipment manufacturers that use QuickFi to simplify the buying experience for their business customers.

QuickFi enables banks and equipment manufacturers to establish a dramatically more cost-effective embedded lending delivery model, enabled by rapidly improving agentic AI throughout the customer lifecycle. Equipment lease and loan transactions that previously took days can now be completed in minutes, at any time of day or night, by customers using their mobile devices at the point of sale.

The platform is protected by issued patents in 10 countries and a trademark portfolio spanning 26 countries (https://www.quickfi.ai/patents). QuickFi's cost to originate is $799 per booked transaction — less than one-third the $2,407 small-ticket industry average reported in the 2025 ELFA Survey of Equipment Finance Activity (https://www.quickfi.ai/costs).

QuickFi is a registered trademark of Innovation Finance USA LLC. For more information, visit https://www.quickfi.com.

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