Celebrating GRC Excellence: Meet the GRC Journey Award Winners of 2025

Introduction

At the 2025 GRC Summit in London, MetricStream honored the trailblazers of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) with the prestigious GRC Journey Awards. The awards celebrate exceptional organizations, partners, and individuals who are transforming their GRC programs into a strategic advantage through their innovative GRC initiatives.

This year’s winners of the GRC Journey Awards recognized companies in the UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East who are embracing innovation, fostering resilience, and setting new standards for effective risk and compliance management across industries. Their inspiring stories set new standards in the GRC landscape. Awarded across five categories, below are a few of our highlights. Hear directly from the changemakers who are shaping the future of GRC.

Vodacom, South Africa - GRC Journey Visionary Award Winner 2025

Vodacom Group Limited is a leading South African mobile communications company providing voice, messaging, data, and converged services to over 130 million customers across Africa. With many African subsidiaries, they sought more than just a GRC software, they wanted a committed, accountable partner to elevate their governance, risk, and compliance processes.

Listen to Wilna Meiring, Managing Executive: Corporate Security, as she breaks down their GRC journey on how they successfully transitioned from multiple legacy systems to one tool.

Zurich Insurance - GRC Journey Practice Leader Award Winner 2025

Zurich Insurance Group is a global company operating in over 200 countries across four regions, offering a wide variety of insurance products. With operations across more than 40 countries, Zurich set out to unify and streamline its GRC processes globally. By partnering with MetricStream, the organization successfully rolled out a scalable solution, enhanced data quality, and significantly improved compliance efficiency through AI-powered automation.

Fabien Robichon, Head of Compliance Analytics and Innovation, details more on how they achieved this success.

Nordea - GRC Journey Visionary & Program Excellence Award Winner 2025

Nordea is the largest financial services group in the Nordic region, serving more than 10 million customers with comprehensive banking services including retail, corporate, and private banking. Nordea took a strategic step toward unifying its risk and compliance efforts by consolidating previously siloed systems.

Watch the below video as Jacob Holmehave, Head of Group Risk Office, deep dives into how a unified enterprise GRC solution to streamline activities, simplify workflows across all three lines of defense, and improve risk reporting.

Refresco Holding Bv - GRC Journey Award Winner 2025

Refresco BV is the world’s leading independent beverage manufacturer, headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The company works extensively with retail brands and manages a complex global operational footprint. Refresco took a proactive approach to strengthen its extensive compliance management requirements and demonstrated and prove compliance across geographically diverse operations.

Mrugesh Chikhalikar, IT Auditor, explains how searching for a GRC software to formalize control testing, streamline processes, clarify roles and responsibilities, and build a structured compliance framework, led them to MetricStream.

KBC - GRC Journey Award Winner 2025

KBC Group is an integrated bank-insurance group based in Belgium, serving millions of customers across Europe with a broad range of retail banking, insurance, and asset management services. Driven by a vision to modernize their governance, risk, and compliance approach, they set out to replace their legacy GRC platform with a more intuitive, user-friendly solution.

Below Tomeo Dekock, Team Lead RCM (Risk Transformation & Innovation), discusses their GRC platform selection process and what led them to MetricStream.

Singlife - GRC Journey Visionary Award Winner 2025

Singlife is a homegrown financial services company that offers insurance and investment solutions aimed at helping individuals achieve financial freedom. Committed to being future ready, Singlife leverages cutting-edge technology to streamline processes, enhance customer experiences, and deliver high performance.

Ashley Tan, Group Chief Risk Officer, narrates their risk management journey to strengthen their risk, control, and compliance with their deployment of Integrated Assurance Framework with an integrated GRC platform

Fitch Ratings - GRC Journey Program Excellence Award Winner 2025

Fitch Ratings is one of the world’s three major credit rating agencies, providing independent credit opinions, research, and data that help investors make informed decisions. With a global presence and complex regulatory obligations across multiple jurisdictions, Fitch took decisive steps to unify and strengthen its compliance and risk functions.

In the below video, Arber Lamce, Compliance Director, breaks down their journey to centralize and streamline their risk and compliance processes with a unified GRC platform.

Hargreaves Lansdown - GRC Journey Award Winner 2025

Hargreaves Lansdown is a UK-based investment platform that serves a diverse client base seeking accessible and flexible investment options. They set out to strengthen their operational risk management and gain clear visibility into non-functional risks across the organization.

Below, Kevin Darbin, Senior Development Manager, describes how MetricStream’s Operational Risk Management Software is successfully being used to streamline manual processes and improve reporting.

Danske Bank - GRC Journey Award Winner 2025

Danske Bank is a major financial institution in the Nordic region, providing a wide range of banking services to individuals and businesses. With a strategic focus on strengthening risk and compliance functions to meet evolving regulatory demands, they embarked on a journey to consolidate data across the enterprise.

Listen to Søren Topp Stockmann - Senior Vice President and Risk & Compliance Tribe Lead, Drithina Kiran - Product Owner, and Michael Labovic Møller - Product Owner, on implementing an enterprise-wide GRC platform.

Navigate Your GRC Journey with Confidence and Expertise

The 2025 GRC Journey Award winners exemplify what’s possible when innovation, vision, and purpose come together. From unifying global risk frameworks to embracing AI for smarter compliance, each story highlights a commitment to building stronger, more resilient organizations.

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