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    Announcing Celent Model Bank 2022 Award Winners
    15th March 2022

    Today we are announcing the winners of Celent Model Bank 2022 Awards. Our annual Model Bank program was launched 15 years ago to recognize financial institutions for best practices of technology usage in different areas critical to success in banking.

    Celent is delighted to recognize Teachers Federal Credit Union as Celent’s Model Bank of the Year for 2022! Teachers Federal Credit Union is a not-for-profit, member-owned financial institution serving 370,000 members with easy-to-use solutions for a wide range of banking needs. Teachers is committed to providing the best financial products, education and services to its members. It is the twenty-third largest credit union in the United States, according to National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) data.

    Teachers has broken the mold for what an $8.7 billion asset sized credit union can do in digital transformation.We are honoring Teachers for its ability to execute on a digital transformation strategy along multiple fronts (enterprise data management, unified customer relationship management, and optimized back office systems integration).

    We are also excited to recognize 16 additional financial institutions and their initiatives with Model Bank 2022 awards:

    Winner, Country

    Award

    Initiative

    KASIKORN LINE, Thailand

    Embedded Finance

    Embedding Banking into a Messaging Platform

    America’s CU, US

    Digital Lending

    Digital Pre-approved Loan Offers Expand Wallet Share

    TD Bank Group, Canada

    Customer Engagement

    TD's AI-Powered Digital Experiences: The Power of Personalization

    Truist, US

    Legacy Transformation

    The Digital Straddle

    Solarisbank, Germany

    Core in the Cloud

    Germany's First Bank in the Cloud

    NatWest Group, UK

    Open Banking

    NatWest Digital Spending Tool: Turning Transaction Data into Insights
    Payit™ by NatWest: Delivering Open Banking Payments

    Alior Bank, Poland

    Customer Service

    InfoNina

    U.S. Bank

    Commercial Client Onboarding

    Client Workflow Optimization

    Setting a High Bar in Customer Onboarding

    Powering End-to-End Digital Accounts Payable

    Citizens Bank, US

    Corporate Product Innovation

    Green Deposits: Supporting ESG Commitments for Corporate Clients

    CCE Peru

    Payments Infrastructure

    Delivering Real-Time Financial Inclusion

    IndusInd Bank, India

    Payments System Transformation

    Preparing for the Next Payments Frontier

    Moneta Money Bank, Czech Republic

    Retail Payments Transformation

    Transforming Cards with a SaaS Solution

    Pinnacle Financial, US

    Banking as-a-Service

    Credit Card Issuing As-a-Service

    ICICI Bank, India

    Small Business Digital Banking

    InstaBIz + InstaOD: Bringing Frictionless Digital Experience to Small Business

    Bank of America

    Corporate Digital Banking

    CashPro: Bringing the Convenience of Mobile to Cash Management

    Goldman Sachs

    Business Model Evolution

    Excellence in Powering Embedded Finance