The AFTAs 2015 ─ All the Winners and Why they Won
The winners of the AFTAs 2015 were announced on the evening of December 7 at an awards dinner in New York. Here are this year's winners with write-ups about why they won.
This year's AFTAS, hosted by ex-NBA player Muggsy Bogues, were held in New York following the annual Waters USA event. This year's two individual awards ─ best technology executive (buy side) and best technology executive (sell side) ─ went to John Marcante of Vanguard Asset Management and Oliver Bussmann of UBS, respectively. Below are the category winners of this year's AFTAs; click on each of the winners to read their respective write-ups.
Best Global Deployment ─ Nomura Securities
Best Risk Management Initiative ─ Citadel
Best Analytics Initiative ─ The Northern Trust Company
Best Reporting Initiative ─ Credit Suisse
Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative ─ Morgan Stanley
Best Data Management Initiative ─ JP Morgan Chase
Best Cloud Initiative ─ The Northern Trust Company
Best Infrastructure Initiative ─ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative ─ Electronifie
Best OTC Trading Initiative ─ Convergex
Best IT Integration Initiative ─ Fidelity Investment Management
Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative ─ Bank of America
Best Compliance Initiative ─ State Street Global Exchange
Best Technology Executive, Buy Side ─ John Marcante, Vanguard
Best Technology Executive, Sell Side ─ Oliver Bussmann, UBS
Best IT Team ─ Morgan Stanley
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