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AFTAs 2014: Best IT Team—Societe Generale
The best IT team was the final award handed out at the American Financial Technology Awards, and is the most prestigious of the categories on offer. It was Societe Generale Investment Banking team's ambitious initiatives that won this year's pièce de…
AFTAs 2014: Best Cloud Initiative—Bank of Montreal
Competition was fierce this year in the best cloud initiative category, with five products making the final cut. Challenged by BNY Mellon’s eXtreme Platform, Irish Life Investment Managers’ deployment of ITG Trade Operations Outsourcing, and a pair of…
AFTAs 2014: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—JPMorgan Markets
Launched in January 2013, JPMorgan’s Nexus platform has won the American Financial Technology Award for best cross-asset trading initiative twice, this year edging out Interactive Brokers’ Trader Workstation.
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,…
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Waters Rankings 2014: Best Crossing Network Provider — Instinet
In a year when the perils of high-speed trading were highlighted by Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys, sparking debate among traders, regulators and politicians alike, it is appropriate that the award for best crossing network goes to CBX, Instinet’s mainstay…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Agency Brokerage — Instinet
As in years past, the battle between agency-only brokerages remained a close one in 2014, as Nomura-backed Instinet wrested away the award from previous winner ITG on the back of new crossing, connectivity, and algorithmic capabilities, underpinned by a…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Execution Management System Provider — Eze Software Group
Eze Software Group, launched in January of last year when ConvergEx Group made the decision to exit the front-office technology provider market and then promptly sold two of its leading lights—the Eze OMS and its sibling RealTick EMS—has pulled off…