AFTAs 2025: All the winners and why they won
Here are the winners of the 31 categories making up this year’s American Financial Technology Awards.
Below are the winners in the 31 categories making up the 2025 American Financial Technology Awards. This year, there were a number of multiple-category winners, all coming from the end-user section, including RBC Capital Markets, Bank of America and BNY, while TCW Group won the best IT team category for the third year running.
End-user section
- Best AI/machine learning initiative (buy side) – Blackstone
- Best AI/machine learning initiative (sell side) – Bank of America
- Best analytics initiative – BNY
- Best cloud initiative – RBC Capital Markets
- Best compliance initiative – Northern Trust
- Best data management initiative – BNY
- Best infrastructure initiative – Bank of America Merrill
- Best IT team – TCW Group
- Best mobile strategy initiative – RBC Capital Markets
- Best risk management initiative – Bank of America
- Most cutting-edge IT initiative – J.P. Morgan
Vendor section
- Best AI technology provider – CompatibL
- Best collaboration/alliance initiative – Nasdaq
- Best communication infrastructure initiative – Symphony
- Best data analytics provider – Pico
- Best data management provider – NeoXam
- Best data provider – Allvue Systems
- Best market risk provider – Scila
- Best new technology introduced over the last 12 months (AI and machine learning) – PostSig
- Best new technology introduced over the last 12 months (analytics) – BMLL
- Best new technology introduced over the last 12 months (data, data services and data management) – S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Best new technology introduced over the last 12 months (infrastructure, outsourcing and managed services) – LDA Technologies
- Best new technology introduced over the last 12 months (trading, risk and compliance) – IntelligentCross
- Best third-party technology vendor IT team – Hakkoda, an IBM Company
- Best trading infrastructure initiative – Connamara Technologies. Click on this link for an interview with Connamara’s Dan Davis.
- Most innovative third-party technology vendor (AI and machine learning) – Oxane Partners
- Most innovative third-party technology vendor (analytics) – Jacobi
- Most innovative third-party technology vendor (data, data services and data management) – Nasdaq
- Most innovative third-party technology vendor (infrastructure, outsourcing and managed services) – HPR
- Most innovative third-party technology vendor (operations) – AutoRek
- Most innovative third-party technology vendor (trading, risk and compliance) – TMX AlphaX US
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