SĂ©rgio Massa, COO of Zro, EdĂsio Neto and Cazou Villela.
Zro Bank, the first multi-currency bank in Brazil, is now also the first company to win the Banking Transformation Award with a project that involves crypto. This is the most important award in the financial sector. Cantarino Brasileiro has held the award for 17 years.
The bank won the 17th edition of the award in the category “Disruptive Technological Solution”, with the case “Chatbank Multicurrency”. This solution, also the first in Latin America, allows the application to send and receive real or bitcoin via messages, with integration with Telegram.
In total, there were 231 registered chaos. The awards went to 25 cases. Three banks were awarded for “Banking Transformation”, 5 personalities, Bank of the Year and Financial Ecosystem Company of the Year. Among those that won are, for example, Santander, Banco do Brasil, Banrisul, Ailos – Credit Cooperative System and Sicredi.
The evaluation was by a jury of experts and there was a popular vote. Blocknews supported the event and founder Claudia Mancini, who has experience covering the financial sector, was one of the judges. However, it did not receive projects related to cryptoactives for evaluation.
“For us it is a great honor, with only one year in the market, to be together with this team of winners, the vast majority of traditional banks. This recognition only strengthens us to continue in this mission of bringing even more innovative solutions to the Brazilian financial system”, declared the CEO of Zro Bank, EdĂsio Pereira Neto.
The award had two pillars: banks and ecosystem companies
The event was in person and by video. But, in the place were only award winners, jurors and supporters. Until 2020, the award was called the Banking Report Award. This year, there were two pillars, that of traditional and native digital banks and that of companies in the financial ecosystem.
That’s because the objective was to give a voice to all participants of the financial system who arrived to stay with open banking”, said Marcos Cantarino, who created the award.
The award had 12 categories, eg apps, customer experience, security, inclusion, pandemic impact mitigation, instant payments, open banking and ESG.
New CFO of Zro Bank
Márcio Pionkowski is the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Zro Bank. The executive has over 20 years of experience in the financial area and has worked for companies such as Unilever, Grupo Provider and Incognia (ex-Inloco). The latter is an identity-by-location startup, meaning it creates a person’s identity based on their location behavior. Also, it is ‘serial CFO’ of several companies.
During the Banking Transformation award event, Zro’s CEO and Chief Marketing Officer (CM), Cazou Vilela, told Blocknews that the bank will have a series of news “soon”. The startup announced a financial contribution recently.