Anvesh Tiwari, the founder behind NXT Banking, has been honoured as AI & Deep-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year at the ET Now Business Conclave & Awards 2026 (West Edition). For a fintech platform, an award like this isn't a vanity line — it's an outside signal about the thing that matters most when a bank picks a technology partner: can the engineering be trusted with real money?
The recognition, in one line
At the ET Now Business Conclave & Awards 2026 (West Edition), the AI Deep-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year category recognised founders building with real technical depth rather than surface-level AI. The trophy was presented by the Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, and the name behind NXT Banking is on the official winners list.
What was actually being recognised: the platform
Behind NXT Banking is Laraware — an AI-native engineering company with 12+ years of leadership and 580+ APIs running in production. That's the substance the award points to. When people say "AI in fintech," they often mean a dashboard. Here it means the parts of the system that quietly decide whether money moves correctly:
- Real-time payment routing — transactions directed across rails without a human in the loop.
- Fraud detection — patterns flagged as they happen, before a bad transaction settles.
- Automated reconciliation & settlement — the ledgers matching in real time, at volume, which is where most platforms quietly break.
- 580+ production APIs — a platform built to plug into a bank's existing stack, not replace it overnight.
A Deep Tech of the Year recognition is meant for exactly this: systems where the intelligence is load-bearing, not decorative. See how these pieces come together on the white-label fintech platform and inside NxtGateway, where routing and fraud checks sit closest to the transaction.
Why a bank evaluating NXT Banking should care
If you're on the buying side, awards are only useful as a proxy for risk. The real questions are: has this team shipped at scale, do they understand regulated environments, and will the platform hold up on a bad day? Being named AI Businessman of the Year–calibre by a national body like ET Now is one more independent data point that the answer is yes — on top of a 4.9★ rating and more than a decade of delivery. It doesn't replace due diligence. It does mean you're evaluating a serious partner. You can read more about that track record on our about page and in the press coverage NXT Banking and Laraware have received.
Built in India, awarded in India
The platform that routes payments, detects fraud and reconciles settlements in real time was engineered in India — and it has now been recognised on a national stage in India. For banks and enterprises that want world-class fintech infrastructure without exporting the work, that's a meaningful combination: local engineering, global-grade standards, and an AI & Deep-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year at the helm. Read more about Anvesh Tiwari's background and the systems he's spent over a decade building.
"We built NXT Banking for a simple test: could a bank trust it with real transactions, at scale, on the worst day of the month? Being recognised as AI & Deep-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year is a reflection of the engineering our team put into that — the routing, the fraud checks, the reconciliation that has to be right every single time. AI built in India, awarded in India."
— Anvesh Tiwari, Founder, NXT Banking (by Laraware)
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