Hitachi eBworx Congratulates CIMB on Winning FinTech Future 2025 Award for Next-Gen Digital Business Banking Platform

London, 8 December 2025 — Hitachi eBworx is proud to announce that its long-standing strategic partner, CIMB, has been awarded the prestigious FinTech Future 2025 Award in London today. This accolade recognises CIMB’s excellence in delivering a next-generation digital business banking platform across ASEAN — a solution architected, engineered, and implemented in partnership with Hitachi eBworx.

This win serves as a testament to the successful collaboration between the two organisations and underscores the power of Hitachi eBworx’s technology in enabling high-impact digital transformation for the region’s leading financial institutions.

Empowering Regional Agility through Technology

The award-winning platform leverages Hitachi eBworx’s state-of-the-art, cloud-ready microservice architecture. Engineered for high resiliency and elastic scalability, this modern foundation ensures that CIMB maintains mission-critical availability for its non-retail customers, even during periods of peak transactional demand.

By adopting this modular, API-driven design, Hitachi eBworx has enabled CIMB to:

• Accelerate Speed-to-Market: Rapidly introduce new features and innovations.
• Streamline Operations: Optimise cash portfolio management and onboarding journeys.
• Scale Regionally: Successfully roll out consistent, secure, and intuitive capabilities across key markets, including Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore.

Supporting Businesses of All Sizes

The solution was purpose-built to support inclusivity and growth within the ASEAN economy. It empowers CIMB to serve the full spectrum of business banking segments seamlessly — from micro-SMEs and SMEs to commercial entities and large corporate customers.

Leadership Perspectives

"We are incredibly proud to be CIMB’s long-term technology and implementation partner. This award is a testament to the strength of our collaboration and our shared vision to redefine business banking across ASEAN. By combining CIMB’s customer-centric vision with Hitachi eBworx’s engineering capabilities, we have built a platform that is not just ready for today, but future-proofed for tomorrow."
— Mr. Tan Suan Fong, Vice Chairman, Hitachi eBworx

CIMB acknowledged the vital role of this partnership in their acceptance of the award.
"We are honoured to receive the FinTech Future 2025 Award. This recognition reflects our dedication to building a future-ready digital ecosystem that supports businesses and aligns with CIMB’s purpose. Hitachi eBworx has been a strategic ally in enabling us to scale up with speed, resilience, and innovation."
— Ros Yusoff, Group Chief Technology Officer, CIMB