{"id":3923,"date":"2025-09-12T14:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kanipayments.com\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:33:48","slug":"kani-wins-best-data-analytics-initiative-from-the-digital-banker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanipayments.com\/company\/newsroom\/kani-wins-best-data-analytics-initiative-from-the-digital-banker\/","title":{"rendered":"Kani wins Best Data & Analytics Initiative from The Digital Banker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kani Payments, the UK-based provider of reconciliation, reporting and analytics software to the payments sector, has been named winner of The Digital Banker\u2019s Best Data & Analytics Initiative at the Global Cards & Payments Innovation Awards 2025.<\/p>\n

The award recognises Kani\u2019s Data Scorecard: an independent, objective assessment that sets a new benchmark for payments data quality across reconciliation, regulatory and operational standards.<\/p>\n

The Digital Banker highlighted Kani\u2019s automated reconciliation engine, comprehensive reporting suite and the ability to generate real-time, executive\u2011grade insights across the payment lifecycle\u2014helping clients uncover opportunities, control costs and monitor performance across channels.<\/p>\n

Crucially, the judges noted that the Data Scorecard solves the pervasive, industry\u2011wide problem of poor\u2011quality payments data<\/a> by scoring datasets for completeness, accuracy and compliance\u2011readiness and flagging the gaps that compromise reconciliation, compliance and fraud oversight.<\/p>\n

\u201cPayments run on data. This award recognises the hard work our team has put into helping the industry raise its standards. With the Data Scorecard, we give processors, issuers and acquirers a clear, evidence\u2011based path to cleaner data and all the downstream benefits: faster reconciliation, easier reporting and enhanced fraud oversight.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aaron Holmes, CEO & Co\u2011founder, Kani Payments<\/p>\n

What is Kani’s Data Scorecard?<\/h2>\n

The Kani Data Scorecard is a structured quality evaluation that measures payments data against best\u2011practice criteria across three pillars:<\/p>\n

Completeness<\/strong> \u2014 Are all required fields present and consistently populated?<\/p>\n

Accuracy<\/strong> \u2014 Do values reconcile across sources and align to scheme definitions?<\/p>\n

Compliance\u2011readiness<\/strong> \u2014 Is the dataset normalised and traceable for regulatory, scheme and audit requirements?<\/p>\n

Each assessment outputs an executive\u2011ready score, a detailed map of issues by field\/category and a prioritised remediation plan that engineering and operations teams can action.<\/p>\n

Since 2023, the Scorecard has been applied across 31+ processors and programme types, giving firms a fast, independent way to baseline data quality, track improvements over time and evidence control to stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Why data quality matters<\/h2>\n

Poor\u2011quality data slows reconciliation, inflates operational cost and risk, and weakens compliance and fraud\u2011readiness. By making quality measurable and actionable, the Scorecard helps teams:<\/p>\n