BOSTON, MA - May 8, 2026 - Zengines, Inc. today announced it has won Best of Show at FinovateSpring 2026, selected by audience and judges vote at the premier fintech demo event. The conference brought together more than 1,200 senior-level fintech and financial services executives - including 600+ from banks, credit unions, and financial institutions - to evaluate 50+ live product demonstrations.
Finovate recognized Zengines for its Contextual Data Lineage solution, citing the platform for "modernizing off mainframes without losing critical logic, satisfying auditors faster, and making legacy systems searchable so transformation and compliance don't stall."
Why it matters
Every financial institution running COBOL, RPG, or PL/1 has the same problem: the people who built those systems are retiring, regulators are asking questions the systems can't answer, and no one knows what a modernization program will actually touch until it's too late.
Zengines changes what's possible. Ask a plain-English question about your data. Get a complete, sourced answer - grounded in the actual logic embedded in the code, not a guess. Regulatory questions that took months get resolved in days. Migration risk gets quantified before work begins, not after.
Zengines is already working with a Fortune 100 financial institutions to navigate applications written in COBOL and RPG, each with more than tens of thousands of COBOL modules, cutting analysis time to minutes rather than months of manual research methods.
"Legacy system modernization has traditionally required a leap of faith - guessing what's in the code before you start rewriting it. We don't accept that. Contextual data lineage replaces guesswork with answers: regulatory questions resolved in days, business logic preserved through migration, and compliance that doesn't hinge on institutional memory. We're proving there is a better way to manage today and modernize tomorrow." - Caitlyn Truong, CEO and Co-Founder, Zengines
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About FinovateSpring 2026
FinovateSpring is the US West Coast's premier fintech showcase, bringing together innovators and banking decision-makers to shape the future of financial services. Best of Show awards are determined entirely by audience vote, with attendees rating companies on demo quality and potential impact.
About Zengines
Founded in 2020, Zengines is an AI-powered platform purpose-built for financial services data lineage and migration. The company helps financial institutions understand what is actually inside their legacy systems - so they can satisfy regulators, manage operational risk, and modernize without guesswork. Learn more or request a demo.