Awards & Rankings
AFTAs 2014: Best Global Deployment—State Street
State Street Global Exchange (SSGX) offers a full suite of risk and analytics solutions across all asset classes, and the crown jewel of the State Street subsidiary is its proprietary risk engine, truView, for which SSgX has taken this year’s best global…
AFTAs 2014: Best Reporting Initiative—Morgan Stanley
Reporting challenges are on the minds of every head of technology. Regulations vary by region, and firms are struggling to find a way to streamline their reporting operations. Morgan Stanley decided to turn to AxiomSL for a more proactive approach when…
AFTAs 2014: Best Analytics Initiative—Fannie Mae
The term “analytics” has gotten sexy in recent years. It’s even being used in TV commercials to sell mainstream products. In the capital markets, if you aren’t talking analytics then you are likely lost in the woods.
AFTAs 2014: Best Risk Management Initiative—Janus Capital
Most of the projects and initiatives that won American Financial Technology Awards fall into one of three categories: data management, analytics enhancements, and risk management.
AFTAs 2014: Best Data Management Initiative—MSD Capital
Traders want access to an ever-growing array of information. Risk managers are looking at a sea of datasets in order to protect their firms. Regulators are seeking an unprecedented number of metrics from asset managers, post-2008. Most firms have major…
AFTAs 2014: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Northern Trust
One of the more interesting trends to develop over the last few years is the financial services industry’s willingness to use cloud-based solutions to drive down costs while improving efficiencies. The next stage of that evolution has been the…
AFTAs 2014: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—IEX Group
It took a Michael Lewis book to turn IEX from a largely unheard-of dark pool provider into a household name with a reputation for fighting for transparency and fairness in the capital markets. But it wasn’t because of the Flash Boys book that IEX took…
AFTAs 2014: Best Technology Executive, Sell Side—Tim Wood, FBR & Co.
When FBR & Co. hired Tim Wood in 2006 as its CIO, it was flush with cash and the IT budget was healthy. Then the mortgage crisis hit, and the Arlington, Va.-based firm shrank its staff by 68 percent between 2008 and 2012. IT budgets were slashed, but the…
AFTAs 2014: Best Compliance Initiative—BNY Mellon
Regulatory compliance has never been more important, with new mandates being passed on a seemingly weekly basis. As transparency becomes an increasingly important battle cry amongst regulators, firms need to stay on top of new requirements coming down…
AFTAs 2014: Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative—Pershing
Offering mobility to customers is no longer a differentiator but a necessity for financial services firms, as the concept of working from any location has become commonplace.
AFTAs 2014: Best Technology Executive, Buy Side—Bill Murphy, Blackstone
An award isn’t the most important thing in life; timing is. What happens when you combine the two? Ask Blackstone: Before CTO Bill Murphy’s arrival on the scene in 2011, Stephen Schwartzman’s veritable alternatives house never took home an American…
AFTAs 2014: Best IT Integration Initiative—Blackstone
Making two into one is probably a technology team’s most frequent—though often most complicated—task from year to year, and therefore the best IT integration award is not only one of the judges’ most important categories, but also one of the toughest to…
AFTAs 2014: Mission Accomplished
Launched a decade ago, the American Financial Technology Awards were, for their first seven editions, dominated by the sell side. But as we have come to expect in recent times, the buy side was well represented in 2014, with Janus Capital, MSD Capital,…
The Champions, Part 2: AFTAs and Waters Rankings
A look back at the winners of the AFTAs and Waters Rankings
The Champions, Part 1: BST and SST Award Winners
A look back at the winners of Buy-Side and Sell-Side Technology Awards this year
FISD Awards Thai Exchange ‘Outstanding Data Provider'
Data industry association FISD's Service Level and Communications Working Group has named the Stock Exchange of Thailand as its Outstanding Data Provider for 2014, an annual award given to the exchange or data provider that the group believes best…
Waters Announces American Financial Technology Awards 2014 Winners
All winners in all categories revealed at event in New York City.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: William Haney, BI-SAM
William Haney, CEO of BI-SAM, speaks with Waters' James Rundle about his firm's win at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
BST Awards 2014 ─ All the Winners and Why they Won
Analysis of this year's BST winners and why they won their respective categories.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Compliance Product—Charles River Development
For the third year in a row, there’s a different name on the top step of the compliance podium, with Charles River Development taking the crown from last year’s winner Linedata, which supplanted Fidessa in 2013.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Sergio Capanna, Bloomberg
Sergio Capanna, AIM product manager at Bloomberg, speaks with James Rundle of Waters at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Nosheen Amir-Ebrahimi, Markit
Nosheen Amir-Ebrahimi, director of portfolio valuations at Markit, speaks with Timothy Murray at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Stephen Butcher, Charles River
Stephen Butcher, managing director for EMEA at Charles River Development, speaks with James Rundle of Waters at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Dario Cintioli, StatPro
Dario Cintioli, managing director at StatPro Group, speaks with Marina Daras of Waters at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.