AFTAs 2020: All the winners and why they won

- By Victor Anderson
- 04 Dec 2020

Below are the 32 category winners from this year’s American Financial Technology Awards. The two IT team categories were won by JP Morgan Asset Management (buy side) and Deutsche Bank (Sell side), while the best third-party technology vendor CEO or CIO award went to OpenFin’s Mazy Dar.

End-user Categories

Best Analytics Initiative: Morgan Stanley
Best Reporting Initiative: JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Best Cloud Initiative: DBS Bank
Best Compliance Initiative: Credit Suisse
Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative: JP Morgan Wealth Management
Best Global Deployment: JP Morgan Asset Management
Best Infrastructure Initiative: Bank of America
Best IT Integration Initiative: JP Morgan Asset Management
Best IT Team – Buy Side: JP Morgan Asset Management
Best IT Team – Sell Side: Deutsche Bank
Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative: JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Best Risk Management Initiative: Morgan Stanley
Best Mobile Strategy Initiative: JP Morgan Wealth Management

Vendor categories

Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology Initiative: Moody’s Analytics. Click on this link for a video interview with Moody’s Analytics’ Eric Grandeo and Miguel Romao.
Best Back-Office Initiative: SEI
Best Collaboration Initiative: FINOS
Best Communication Infrastructure Provider: IPC Systems
Best Front-Office Initiative: Pragma
Best Middle-Office Initiative: Moody’s Analytics
Best New Technology Introduced over the last 12 Months – AI, Machine Learning and Analytics: BNY Mellon. Click on this link for video interview with BNY Mellon’s Corrine Neale.
Best New Technology Introduced over the last 12 Months – Data and Data Services: Socure
Best New Technology Introduced over the last 12 Months – Infrastructure: Xignite
Best New Technology Introduced over the Last 12 months – Trading and Risk: LSEG Technology
Best Partnership or Alliance: Verint and Cloud9 Technologies
Best Trading Infrastructure Provider: CLS Group
Best Use of the Agile Methodology: MarketAxess
Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor – AI, Machine Learning and Analytics: Behavox
Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor – Data Management and Data Services: AxiomSL
Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor – Infrastructure, Outsourcing and Development: OpenFin
Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor – Trading, Risk and Compliance: Acin
Best Third-Party Technology Vendor CEO or CIO : Mazy Dar (OpenFin)
Best Third-Party Technology Vendor IT Team: Vestmark

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