AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best IT Integration Initiative: Credit Suisse

For much of 2010, Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) had been occupied with the launch of its first four UCITS-compliant, swaps-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as well as the subsequent nine additional funds planned for release by the end of last year.

To roll out these new instruments, Credit Suisse needed a new approach in which the swaps-based ETFs would utilize two total-return swaps, plus a basket of securities to comply with the UCITS III rule to deliver index performance rather than