American Financial Technology awards (AFTAs)
AFTAs 2017 Winner's Interview: Imagine Software
Imagine Software wins the Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Risk, Compliance and Reporting category at AFTAs 2017.
AFTAs 2017: Best New Technology Introduced Over the Last 12 Months: Risk/Compliance and Reporting—AQMetrics
AQMetrics, headquartered just west of Dublin, Ireland, wins its first AFTA, beating 11 other outstanding entries in this category, thanks to the work it has done over the course of the last 12 months in enhancing the functionality of its approved…
AFTAs 2017: Best New Technology Introduced Over the Last 12 Months: Middle and Back Office—AdvantageData
AdvantageData Inc. (ADI) wins its first category at the AFTAs thanks to its Middle Market Loan Advantage offering, which saw off a handful of entries in this new category. The Boston-based firm, founded back in 1997, initially focused on providing cross…
AFTAs 2017: Best Analytics Initiative—Credit Suisse
The platform has over 100 models representing over 90 percent of Credit Suisse’s revenue within the Intermediate Holding Company (IHC).
AFTAs 2017: Best Mobile Strategy—Janus Henderson
Janus Henderson, the merged entity comprising Janus Capital and London-based Henderson Group, wins its first AFTA thanks to its Quantum Global offering, the firm’s risk management, research, and portfolio analysis tool, which has been used by the…
AFTAs 2017: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—State Street Global Markets
“We started in enhanced custody, we’ve moved to the broader securities finance business, and we’re starting to move into areas like FX and even more operational areas, like onboarding,” Delikaris says.
AFTAs 2017: Best Data Management Initiative—Deutsche Bank
Since its launch two-and-a-half years ago, 7,800 data issues have been registered; 4,900 data issues have been consolidated; 1,100 data issues have been resolved; and 1,800 issues remain open and visible, each with a descriptive business case allowing…
AFTAs 2017: Best Risk Management Initiative—TD Securities
Coming next September are the IM requirements for uncleared swaps. Neal says that without this system, “there is no way we would have been able to be flexible enough to be able to support things [that] we’re having to do for initial margin [calculations]…
AFTAs 2017: Best Technology Executive: Sell Side—Jodi Richard, US Bank
Jodi Richard, COO officer of US Bank, believes in collaborating with the different departments within the bank, particularly when it comes to the technology side of finance, one of the reasons why she wins this year’s AFTA for the best technology…
AFTAs 2017: Best IT Team—Charles Schwab Investment Management
The best IT team award of this year’s AFTAs goes to Charles Schwab Investment Management’s investments technology team, snatching the crown from last year’s winner, JPMorgan.
AFTAs 2017: Best Infrastructure Initiative—JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management
JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Management’s Technology Resiliency team wins the 2017 AFTA for the best infrastructure initiative, taking the crown from last year’s victor, Northern Trust.
AFTAs 2017: Best Compliance Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
With the announcement of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Fiduciary Rule, asset managers have been exploring how to meet their increased regulatory compliance needs. Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), winner of this year’s best compliance initiative,…
AFTAs 2017: Best Trading Infrastructure Provider—Cobalt
Post-trade shared-ledger platform Cobalt wins this year’s best trading infrastructure provider at the AFTAs, knocking off previous winner, Trumid Financial. The win comes down to Cobalt’s private network that leverages distributed-ledger technology (DLT)…
AFTAs 2017: All the Winners and Why they Won
At a dinner held in midtown Manhattan on December 4 last year, the winners of the 2017 AFTAs were announced. Here is the winners' list and the reasons why they won.
AFTAs 2017: Best Technology Executive: Buy Side—Mike Urciuoli, JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management
JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Management (AWM) CIO Mike Urciuoli wins this year’s best technology executive (buy side) award, commanding a technology budget of over $1 billion. After taking the reins at AWM in 2014, Urciuoli embarked on a period of radical…
AFTAs 2017: Best Cloud Initiative—Northern Trust
It’s easy to think that after years of discussion, cloud is old hat for financial services firms. But the process of fully moving to a cloud-based architecture requires not only a change in technology but also in the mindset of developers, as Northern…
AFTAs 2017: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management
A key strategy in JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Management’s Quantitative Beta Strategies (QBS) team lies in event-driven investing, specifically in systematically investing in M&A deals, alongside equity long/short strategies. But the team struggled with…
AFTAs 2017: Best Reporting Initiative—State Street Corporation
From June 2018, the largest registered investment companies—those with net-asset values of over $1 billion—will be required to comply with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Investment Company Reporting Modernization Rule. Existing forms,…
AFTAs 2017: Best IT Integration Initiative—Cowen
When Cowen announced that it was acquiring Convergex in April 2017, it was looking for a swift close to the deal—in just three months, the agency broker would become a full part of its new parent, renamed and rebadged to reflect that change. For CIO Ann…
2017 AFTAs Winners' Circle: Imagine Software
After winning the coveted vendor innovation category for risk, compliance and reporting at this year’s AFTAs, James Rundle sits down with Imagine Software’s CEO, Lance Smith, to talk about risk, regulation, and what’s coming up in 2018.
AFTAs 2017: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Risk, Compliance and Reporting—Imagine Software
The hallmark of a truly innovative technology vendor is its ability to rapidly respond to changes in the market and address its clients’ demands by developing and delivering a new solution that provides exactly what is required of it. New York-based…
AFTAs 2017: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Infrastructure—UnaVista
UnaVista, the London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG’s) platform for matching, reconciliation and reporting, makes its debut at the AFTAs as winner of the most innovative third-party technology vendor (infrastructure) category, at a time when industry focus…
AFTAs 2017: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Front Office—Overbond
Front-office technology platforms might be working hard to address demands for greater holistic functionality, but when there’s a specific challenge to tackle—the digitization of the corporate and government bond market, for example—precise solutions are…
AFTAs 2017: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Middle and Back Office—S3 Partners
New York-based S3 Partners has enjoyed success in the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards over the past three years, taking home awards for best newcomer, best big data technology provider and best data analytics tools. It was only a matter of time,…