Annual recognition from the Alliance
Each year, the Financial Alliance for Women honors the financial institutions leading the world in serving women customers and women entrepreneurs.
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2026 Award categories
Each category recognizes a different dimension of value, from reaching new customers to building the leadership and data practices that sustain a Women's Markets strategy.
Growing the reach and share of women customers across consumer, high-net-worth, micro, and SME segments.
Mobilizing financing for women-led MSMEs that makes a measurable difference in local economies.
Bringing under-served women and very small and informal enterprises into the formal financial system at scale.
Providing training, mentoring, and business support that helps women entrepreneurs grow.
Expanding women's access to payments, savings, lending, and investing through digital channels.
Increasing women's representation at middle management, senior management, and board levels.
Setting the standard in collecting, analyzing, and reporting sex-disaggregated data.
Sharing expertise with the Alliance network as speakers, mentors, and peer learning contributors.
Providing institutional support that makes the Alliance's signature peer learning programs possible.
Shaping the financial sector by championing the Female Economy as an individual leader.
How winners are selected
Awardees are selected through rigorous analysis of FEAS data. We assess portfolio performance by segment and product, then measure it against year-on-year growth and national baselines to identify the strongest performers in each category.
Past champions
Announced at the Annual Summit 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda, these institutions stood out among our 100 members for the progress shown in their data.
Access to Finance
Bangladesh
Strong year-on-year growth in women customers across key segments.
Impact
Ecuador
More than $1.7B in financing to women-owned MSMEs in 2024.
Non-Financial Services
Kenya
Financial literacy, business enablement, and networking support for 100,000+ women.
Digital Innovation
Tanzania
Digital services expanding women's access to savings, lending, and investment.
Women in Leadership
Pakistan
Significant gains in women's representation in middle and senior management.
Gender Data
Bangladesh
Exemplary gender data collection and analysis submitted to FEAS.
Engagement
Dominican Republic
Expertise shared as speakers and mentors across Alliance peer learning programs.
Outstanding Contributor
Rwanda
Host of the Alliance's first Summit on the African continent.
CEO, Bank al Etihad · Jordan
For a career advancing the Female Economy, from overseeing Bank al Etihad's market-leading Shorouq Women's Markets program to galvanizing support for Jordan's WE Finance Code.
The 2026 Champions will be announced live at the ceremony on Thursday, October 15, 2026.
Champions will be announced at the ceremony.
Every member that submits the Female Economy Analytics Survey is eligible for the awards, and all respondents receive an individualized benchmarking report comparing their performance with regional and global peers.
