WELCOME TO THE BANKING TECHNOLOGY AWARDS 2010

For more than a decade, the Banking Technology Awards have reflected excellence in the use of IT in financial services. Each year the event has grown as an ever-wider pool of entrants vie for the recognition that the Awards confer on their efforts - from small regional banks in Central Europe and Africa to the industry behemoths with multi-million budgets and global projects, all are put under the scrutiny of our expert judging panel.

But the judges can only consider the entries that are put in front of them - and with several hundred contenders it is a daunting enough task - so it is important that institutions get their entries in before the deadline, and in a format that complies with the rules of entry. That's why this year we announced the Banking Technology Awards 2010 earlier, to give entrants a good opportunity to pull their entries together in plenty of time before the closing date and judging day. And for the Readers' Choice Awards, we are introducing a new streamlined nomination/voting system to make it even easier to vote for your choices.