Awards & Rankings
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Sallianne Taylor, Bloomberg
Bloomberg's Sallianne Taylor won the final category of this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards in London - the woman of the year award.
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Georgia Prothero, Schroders
Schroders' Georgia Prothero won the EDM professional of the year category at this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards held in London.
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Debra Walton, Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters' Debra Walton won the Traiblazer (lifetime achievement) category at the inaugural Women in Technology and Data Awards.
Women in Technology and Data Awards 2018 – All the Winners
The winners of the 24 categories making up this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards were announced on Friday March 9 at a luncheon in London.
Shortlisted Entries for the Women in Technology and Data Awards 2018
Below are the shortlisted entries to the 23 categories making up this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards, to be held in London on March 9.
AFTAs 2017 Winner's Interview: Imagine Software
Imagine Software wins the Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Risk, Compliance and Reporting category at AFTAs 2017.
AFTAs 2017 Interview: SmartStream
SmartStream nabbed the Best Back-Office Initiative category at the 2017 AFTAs.
AFTAs 2017 Interview: State Street Global Markets
State Street Global Markets won the Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative category at the AFTAs 2017.
AFTAs 2017 Interview: State Street Global Exchange
State Street Global Exchange won the Best Front-Office Initiative at the 2017 AFTAs.
AFTAs 2017 Interview: Thomson Reuters
Mike Naughton discusses how the partnership came together and its results.
AFTAs 2017: Best New Technology Introduced Over the Last 12 Months: Risk/Compliance and Reporting—AQMetrics
AQMetrics, headquartered just west of Dublin, Ireland, wins its first AFTA, beating 11 other outstanding entries in this category, thanks to the work it has done over the course of the last 12 months in enhancing the functionality of its approved…
AFTAs 2017: Best New Technology Introduced Over the Last 12 Months: Middle and Back Office—AdvantageData
AdvantageData Inc. (ADI) wins its first category at the AFTAs thanks to its Middle Market Loan Advantage offering, which saw off a handful of entries in this new category. The Boston-based firm, founded back in 1997, initially focused on providing cross…
AFTAs 2017: Best Analytics Initiative—Credit Suisse
The platform has over 100 models representing over 90 percent of Credit Suisse’s revenue within the Intermediate Holding Company (IHC).
AFTAs 2017: Best Mobile Strategy—Janus Henderson
Janus Henderson, the merged entity comprising Janus Capital and London-based Henderson Group, wins its first AFTA thanks to its Quantum Global offering, the firm’s risk management, research, and portfolio analysis tool, which has been used by the…
AFTAs 2017: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—State Street Global Markets
“We started in enhanced custody, we’ve moved to the broader securities finance business, and we’re starting to move into areas like FX and even more operational areas, like onboarding,” Delikaris says.
AFTAs 2017: Best Data Management Initiative—Deutsche Bank
Since its launch two-and-a-half years ago, 7,800 data issues have been registered; 4,900 data issues have been consolidated; 1,100 data issues have been resolved; and 1,800 issues remain open and visible, each with a descriptive business case allowing…
AFTAs 2017: Best Risk Management Initiative—TD Securities
Coming next September are the IM requirements for uncleared swaps. Neal says that without this system, “there is no way we would have been able to be flexible enough to be able to support things [that] we’re having to do for initial margin [calculations]…
AFTAs 2017: Best Technology Executive: Sell Side—Jodi Richard, US Bank
Jodi Richard, COO officer of US Bank, believes in collaborating with the different departments within the bank, particularly when it comes to the technology side of finance, one of the reasons why she wins this year’s AFTA for the best technology…
AFTAs 2017: Best IT Team—Charles Schwab Investment Management
The best IT team award of this year’s AFTAs goes to Charles Schwab Investment Management’s investments technology team, snatching the crown from last year’s winner, JPMorgan.
AFTAs 2017: Best Infrastructure Initiative—JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management
JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Management’s Technology Resiliency team wins the 2017 AFTA for the best infrastructure initiative, taking the crown from last year’s victor, Northern Trust.
AFTAs 2017: Best Compliance Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
With the announcement of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Fiduciary Rule, asset managers have been exploring how to meet their increased regulatory compliance needs. Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), winner of this year’s best compliance initiative,…
AFTAs 2017: Best Trading Infrastructure Provider—Cobalt
Post-trade shared-ledger platform Cobalt wins this year’s best trading infrastructure provider at the AFTAs, knocking off previous winner, Trumid Financial. The win comes down to Cobalt’s private network that leverages distributed-ledger technology (DLT)…
AFTAs 2017: All the Winners and Why they Won
At a dinner held in midtown Manhattan on December 4 last year, the winners of the 2017 AFTAs were announced. Here is the winners' list and the reasons why they won.
AFTAs 2017: Best Technology Executive: Buy Side—Mike Urciuoli, JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management
JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Management (AWM) CIO Mike Urciuoli wins this year’s best technology executive (buy side) award, commanding a technology budget of over $1 billion. After taking the reins at AWM in 2014, Urciuoli embarked on a period of radical…