Methodology

The Broker Innovation Awards program, in conjunction with event stakeholders Broker Daily and Momentum Media, has developed a new methodology to form the backbone for assessing, analysing and benchmarking Australia’s leading mortgage professionals.

You will be asked to answer four simple questions by recording yourself (either an audio recording or by submitting a video) to our secure awards portal. This video can be done on your phone – we don’t need green screens or top-quality cameras!

The audio recording or video will be considered as part of your submission, alongside metrics from past awards programs of Momentum Media’s broker awards; those of the largest brokerage/aggregator and mortgage broker associations; the results of the Third-Party Lending Report; Broker Pulse surveys; and Agile Market Intelligence’s Aggregator of Choice and Mortgage Technology surveys.

01.

Register and lodge submission

Register yourself here to get involved, and we will share a submission portal link with key steps.

You will be asked to provide an audio recording or video submission for the award categories you want to be considered for.

All entrants will be asked to submit an audio recording or video answering four questions:

  1. What steps have you taken to ensure operational excellence?
  2. Provide an example of innovation in your business over the last 12 months. How has this helped?
  3. How do you ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction?
  4. What is the best example you can provide to demonstrate business growth in 2025?

Your responses will be assessed by a panel of judges.

All submissions are electronic and must be received through our secure awards platform by 5:30pm AEDT on Friday, 18 April 2025.

The awards platform is safe and secure. It’s ISO/IEC 27001 certified and compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), PCI DSS, and more. No information received via the awards process or portal is used for any reason other than for assessing the submission and is only shared with those judges who are judging each specific award.

02.

Finalists shortlisted

Submissions are delivered to a panel of judges, who assess each audio recording and video submission and relevant data/metrics to select the finalists.

The number of finalists varies for each award category.

03.

Finalists announced

Finalists are contacted directly by the Momentum Media team advising that they are finalists.

Finalists are then announced publicly via Broker Daily and the Broker Innovation Awards website. Finalists will be announced during the month of May.

All finalists will be emailed a finalist’s pack with seals and other collateral to support their marketing and other promotions associated with securing a finalist position at the Broker Innovation Awards.

04.

Submissions judged

Finalist submissions are delivered to the panel of judges, who assess each submission against the criteria of each award category.

For individual finalists, the submitted audio recording or video will make up 100 per cent of the weighting.

For lender and technology finalists, the audio recording or video will make up 30 per cent of the weighting, with positioning in industry research and rankings making up the remainder.

The combined judging scores for each submission for each category are tabulated, with the highest-scoring submission deemed the winner.

05.

Winners announced

One winner will be announced per award category, with the awards presented at the Broker Innovation Awards dinner.

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