American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs)
AFTAs 2016: Best Trading Infrastructure Provider—Trumid Financial
Trumid takes home the win in the category's inaugural year.
AFTAs 2016: Best IT Integration Initiative—Bank of America
This is BofA's second win in the category.
AFTAs 2016: Best Mobile Strategy Initiative—Pershing NetX360
Pershing wins the category for the second time in three years.
AFTAs 2016: Best Data Management Initiative: Sell Side—Deutsche Bank
While not a complete stranger to the American Financial Technology Awards winners’ circle, Deutsche Bank has been conspicuous by its absence since its inaugural AFTAs win back in 2008 when it won the best global deployment category thanks to its Bank g…
AFTAs 2016: Best Reporting Initiative—Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse offers a brand new and effective reporting service
AFTAs 2016: Best Global Deployment—Northern Trust
The partnership with BEx allowed Northern Trust to offer better services
AFTAs 2016: Best Back-Office Initiative—SmartStream
Smartsream's Center of Excellence has improved match rate by 97 percent
AFTAs 2016: Best Use of the Agile Methodology—StatPro
New for the 2016 American Financial Technology Awards is the best use of the Agile methodology category, an award that reflects the continued adoption of Agile across the capital markets as the most efficient and practical software development model.
AFTAs 2016: Best Middle-Office Initiative: Data Management, Reconciliation and Clearing—Indus Valley Partners
For the first time in the history of the American Financial Technology Awards there are vendor categories on offer, and it seems somewhat fitting that Indus Valley Partners (IVP), winner of the best buy-side reconciliation platform/service in the 2015…
AFTAs 2016: Best Data Management Initiative: Buy Side—Rotation Capital Management
Rotation partnered with Financial Fabric to build out its DataHub.
AFTAs 2016: Best Third-Party Technology Vendor IT Team—Vela Trading Technologies
Vela was formerly known as SR Labs.
AFTAs 2016: Best Middle-Office Initiative: Risk, Compliance and Performance—UBS Delta
The platform saves price returns, DV01 calculations, IE01 sensitivity measurements, Vega risk and Greeks metrics for each asset on a daily basis.
AFTAs 2016: Best IT Team—JPMorgan Asset Management
The firm's Cortex team takes home the award.
AFTAs 2016: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—UBS Neo
"Neo is connected to the core trading services of the bank."
AFTAs 2016: Best Cloud Initiative—LaSalle Investment Management
LSalle Investment Management tapped Dynamo Software for a cloud-based CRM.
AFTAs 2016: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative: Sell Side—Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse is the latest organization to win the sell-side most cutting-edge IT initiative category for its CPA analytics offering.
AFTAs 2016: Best Risk Management Initiative—JPMorgan Asset Management
JPMorgan Asset Management's Dynamic Risk solution helps in trading multi-asset classes.
American Financial Technology Awards 2014 Extension
We will be extending the deadline for entry into this year's American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) by one week, until Friday, October 17, 2014. The site will close at midnight, October 18.
Opening Cross: In Data, as in Baseball, a Great Captain Unites His Team
Whether you’re a Yankee or Red Sox supporter, you have to take your hat off to Yankees captain Derek Jeter: in his last game at Yankee Stadium, he not only made a respectful exit in front of a sold-out crowd of home fans, but also saved the day with a…
AFTAs 2013: The Winners and Why They Won
It’s difficult to believe that Waters first unveiled the American Financial Technology Awards all the way back in 2005, although anyone who has worked in financial services for any length of time will appreciate the extent to which time flies in this…
AFTAs 2013: Best IT Team—BNY Mellon
There’s a reason why the best IT team category is the final announcement at the American Financial Technology Awards: It’s the highest profile, and therefore the most prized, of all 16 categories on offer. BNY Mellon’s IT team, under the tutelage of…
AFTAs 2013: Best Technology Executive, Sell-Side—Edwin Marcial, IntercontinentalExchange
Edwin Marcial joined the Continental Power Exchange, the company that would become ICE, in 1996, because he wanted to make an impression on a startup. He stayed put when it nearly went belly-up in 1999, when it became economically viable again overnight…
AFTAs 2013: Best Technology Executive, Buy-Side—Tom Miglis, Citadel
Since 2001, Tom Miglis’ steady hand has run technology at Ken Griffin’s Chicago-based Citadel Group. But despite his long tenure as CIO, Miglis wasn’t named best buy-side technology executive as a lifetime-achievement-type award, but rather because…
AFTAs 2013: Best Compliance Initiative—ConvergEx Group
Compliance and market surveillance are among the most important functions at any institutional trading firm. Given heightened regulatory scrutiny of the capital markets, that importance looks set to grow, but compliance teams often struggle with basic,…