Singapore, 17 May 2023: After more than a month of scrutiny – and with submissions up 54% on the previous year – the MAIA judges and team are proud to announce the winners, runners-up and special commendations for this year’s Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards.

Said co-founder Michael Gilmore, “We are overjoyed to see winners from all kinds of backgrounds and from all over the world. From a school student in Stuyvesant, New York, to a former accountant in Togo, from fintech apps from the Philippines to the UK, through academics in Zurich to teenagers in Malaysia, these winners represent the incredible scope of work being done to help make money better.”

The number of winners increased from nine last year to 16 this year, including a tie for best book, shared between two entries from opposite sides of the world: Jessica Irvine, a writer for the Sydney Morning Herald for “Money with Jess” and the Financial Times’ Claer Barrett for “What They Don’t Teach You About Money”.

Other notable winners include the British campaign, Make My Money Matter, co-founded by writer and director Richard Curtis, which won the “Sim Kee Boon Institute Prize for Sustainable Finance Literacy”. The MAIA judges praised the innovation of enabling investors to ensure their pensions could create an impact and match their principles, and were keen to see this expand to more countries.

The new “Closing the Gender Gap” category was also won by a British entrant, YourJuno, which was highly praised for its user experience, gamification and accessibility that had enabled it to rapidly reach more than 50,000 women.

Other winners include:

• Edufia, standing for educating finance in Africa, which is building a strong community-based approach to learning about money in Togo.
• Markus Leippold, a Zurich-based academic for “Sustainable Finance Literacy and the Determinants of Sustainable Investing”.
• Bixie, an app that provides a “Financial Home for Women” in developing countries.

MAIA co-founder Trudi Harris, who has held senior roles in marketing communications for over twenty years, said “We are so happy to see the number of entrants working on these particularly pressing issues, like the climate crisis and inequalities between men and women’s levels of financial literacy. That this is happening all over the world shows how much hope there is that the work of these impressive projects can spread far and wide.”

The MAIAs judges congratulate all awardees for their hard work, persistence, innovation, and commitment to changing the world.

Please visit this link to view the complete list of award recipients.

About the MAIAs:

Founded by Gilmore and Trudi Harris, the MAIAs were devised as the first global body aiming to solve the problem of weak financial literacy experienced all over the world, by finding and celebrating the best solutions aimed at ‘making money better’ for people. Contact michael@www.maiawards.org for more details.