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Liquidity & Electronic Trading special report
May 2012 - sponsored by: Bloomberg, IPC Systems, Knight Capital, SunGard
Waters Rankings 2012 ─ Polling Opens
The Waters Rankings is back for its 10th year. Polling begins today and closes on May 25. Get your votes in now.
Legal Entity Identifiers special report
April 2012 - sponsored by: Alacra; Cusip Global Services; Informatica; Kingland Systems; PolarLake; Swift
High-Frequency Trading special report
April 2012 - sponsored by: NovaSparks; ONETICK; Sybase, an SAP company
Latency special report
March 2012 - sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP company; Spryware; West Highland Support Services
Managing Risk special report
March 2012 - sponsored by: First Derivatives; Sybase, an SAP company
OTC Derivatives Processing special report
March 2012 - sponsored by: Omgeo, OpenLink, TradeWeb
Evaluated Prices special report
February 2012 - sponsored by: S&P CapitalIQ, SIX Telekurs
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Nothing Succeeds Like Success
The American Financial Technology Awards, now in their seventh year, recognize financial technologists from the buy side, the sell side and market centers who inject innovation into the capital markets through technology. Waters salutes the 2011 winners.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best IT Team: Barclays Capital
JUDGE’S COMMENT: Barclays PRS turns data across multiple asset class into meaningful information. It also seems to put that information in the hands of the right people ... and gives Barclays the ability to create new reports and distribute them with…
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best CIO: Catherine Bessant, Bank of America
JUDGE'S COMMENT: Bessant's diverse background provides an invaluable perspective for one who has to oversee the technology needs for a corporate, investment and retail banking institution.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best IT Integration Initiative: State Street
JUDGE’S COMMENT: It is a great innovation on the part of the staff to develop the Virtual Integration Architecture (VIA). I particularly like how this State Street technology effort led to reusable “process improvements and a project-governance approach.”
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best OTC Trading Initiative: JPMorgan
JUDGE'S COMMENT: This project was very challenging in terms of the business logic and integration it needed with various systems to create a single, consolidated statement for all cleared and bilateral asset classes.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Green IT Initiative: State Street
JUDGE’S COMMENT: This is a simple, yet effective solution that leaves lots of potential for the firm to make additional savings in other areas.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative: JPMorgan
JUDGE’S COMMENT: This project identifies a perfect use for performance-enhancing FPGA technologies in an area where throughput and processing requirements outstrip latency concerns, which, until now, was the primary driver for FPGA adoption.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Infrastructure Initiative: Investment Technology Group (ITG)
JUDGE’S COMMENT: This is a good long-range project that already has seen a nice payoff and will continue to do so.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Cloud Initiative: State Street
JUDGE’S COMMENT: I have always been impressed with how State Street has been a leader in the realm of cloud computing. This is a prime example of how to exploit the technology to its fullest.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Data Management Initiative: Knight Capital
JUDGE’S COMMENT: This is the promise of enterprise data management: being able to leverage all of the firm’s data in order to drive greater profitability through identifying new opportunities, while reducing unprofitable investments.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Reporting Initiative: Credit Suisse
JUDGE’S COMMENT: The dynamically applied ad-hoc and flexible reporting capability makes this project truly stand out.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Risk Analytics Initiative: LCH.Clearnet
JUDGE’S COMMENT: The re-write of LCH.Clearnet’s legacy system and improvements of the risk management system is pretty dramatic given its old infrastructure. Now that the platform can calculate daily margin runs in 10 minutes rather than an hour,…
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Global Deployment: BNY Mellon
JUDGE’S COMMENT: Simplifying OTC client reporting is an important goal for any firm, but having this live in more than 10 countries at this point in time is a job well done.
Business Entity Data special report
November 2011 - sponsored by: S&P CapitalIQ, Thomson Reuters, Wipro
Valuation: More Art than Science
During a webcast hosted by Inside Reference Data on the subject of reducing risk in the valuation process, industry experts emphasized the subjectivity involved in pricing and outlined the important role played by the back office. By Nicholas Hamilton
Cross-Asset Trading special report
November 2011 - sponsored by: Caplin, OpenLink, SunGard, Sybase