2025 Credit & Collections Industry Awards Shortlist

Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists at the first inaugural awards.

Innovation & Initiative categories

Best Training Initiative

  • Biffa Waste Services
  • Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM) and EH Smith
  • Consumer Credit Trade Association (CCTA)
  • Credit Services Association (CSA) and Lowell
  • Money Wellness
  • STA International
Customer Vulnerability & Support Initiative
  • Aperidata and Paypoint
  • Data On Demand
  • Dukes
  • Finvence and Vulnerability Registration Service (VRS)
  • Gain Credit
  • Government Debt Management Functional Centre and Christians Against Poverty, Money Advice Trust and Money & Pensions Service
  • Inicio
  • PayPlan
  • Sonex Financial and Lantern Group
  • STA International
Industry Contribution of the Year
  • Companywatch
  • CreditOnline
  • Dukes
Innovator of the Year (Company)
  • Afforda
  • Aperidata
  • Biffa Waste Services
  • Boshhh Fintech
  • Liberata
  • TCN
  • Webio
  • Zoot and Moneybarn

Innovator of the Year (Person)

  • Tina Daulton from Biffa Waste Services
  • Connor Kenny from Brabners
  • Misha Esipov from Nova Credit
Creditor & Lending categories
Alternative Lending Provider of the Year
  • 365 Finance
  • Lending Stream
  • Novuna Business Cash Flow
  • Nucleus Commercial Finance
  • Payl8r
Lending Provider of the Year
  • Creditspring
  • Drafty
  • Nucleus Commercial Finance
Business Credit Provider of the Year 
  • Cedar Rose
  • Credit Assist
  • Payl8r

Credit Team of the Year

  • Fairlo
  • Nova Credit
  • Novuna Consumer Finance
  • Sefe Energy

Consumer Credit Provider of the Year 

  • Creditspring
  • Fairlo
  • Nova Credit
  • Payl8r

Credit Modelling & Risk Team of the Year

  • Companywatch
  • Data On Demand
  • Liberata
  • Nova Credit

Fraud Prevention Team of the Year

  • Atradius Collections
  • Cedar Rose
  • Companywatch

Responsible Lender of the Year

  • Creditspring
  • Fairlo
  • Payl8r
Collections & Insolvency categories 
Business Collections Team of the Year
  • Atradius Collections
  • Bluestone Credit Management
  • Biffa Waste Services
  • Controlaccount
  • Global Credit Recoveries
  • Liberata
  • Novuna Business Cash Flow
  • Nucleus Commercial Finance
  • Sefe Energy
Consumer Collections Team of the Year
  • Arc (Europe)
  • Controlaccount
  • Debtstream and Zinc Group
  • Liberata
  • Sonex Financial and Lantern Group
  • The Digital DRA
Debt Advice Provider of the Year
  • Money Advice Trust
  • Money Wellness
  • PayPlan
  • Refresh Debt Advice
  • StepChange
Debt Recovery Specialist of the Year
  • Marston Recovery
  • Flint Bishop
  • Forbes Solicitors
  • PKF Littlejohn Advisory

Partnership categories

Best Technology Partnership (Collections)
  • C&R Software and Nedbank
  • Data on Demand and COEO
  • Debtstream and Aperidata
  • FIS Global and Smith + Nephew
  • G3 Vehicle Auctions and Zopa
  • Inicio and BPO Collections
  • Novuna Business Cash Flow and Esker
  • The Digital DRA and the Vulnerability Registration Services (VRS)
Best Technology Partnership (Lending & Credit)
  • Boshhh Fintech
  • CreditOnline
  • LendingMetrics
  • Nova Credit
  • Zoot and Moneybarn

Business Partnership of the Year

  • Debtstream and Zinc Group
  • Finvence and Consumer Duty Services
  • Paylink and PayPlan
  • Zoot and Moneybarn

The award winners will be announced on Thursday, 22nd May in York

Click here to register to attend.