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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...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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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...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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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.

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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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.”...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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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.

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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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.

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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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.

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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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.

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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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.

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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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.

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 09 Jan 2012

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