Waters/Special
Waters Rankings 2014 Winners’ Circle: Bloomberg
In this year’s Waters Rankings, Bloomberg won three categories—best sell-side OMS provider, best portfolio management system provider, and best EDM system provider. James Rundle speaks to the heads of those three business units about their technologies,…
Waters Rankings 2014 Winners’ Circle: Multifonds
Multifonds swept the vote in the best accounting system provider category in this year’s Waters Rankings. We caught up with CEO Oded Weiss to talk about how the industry environment has improved in the last few years, the importance of data in modern…
Waters Rankings 2014: A Shot in the Arm
There is little doubt that the Waters Rankings were in need of a revamp, having remained in their original format since their launch in 2003. And so, after consulting Waters’ readers, we decided to add four new categories, and more significantly, change…
Swap Futures Special Report
May 2014 ─ sponsored exclusively by Equinix.
Data Management Special Report
June 2014 ─ sponsored by Eagle Investment Systems, ClusterSeven, and Xenomorph.
IBOR special report
May 2014 - sponsored by: Advent; Eagle Investment Systems; InvestTech Systems Consulting; Linedata; SimCorp
SEFs and OTC Trading special report
April 2014 - sponsored by: Tradeweb; Thomson Reuters
Emerging Technologies special report
March 2014 - sponsored by: Advent: CenturyLink Technology Solutions; Cloudera; Green Key Technologies; Maxeler Technologies
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,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative—Morgan Stanley
Waters has written extensively in recent months about mobility and the idea that work is a thing you do, not a place you go. Firms across the industry are developing new mobile strategies, but it is Morgan Stanley’s Matrix Mobile rollout that won this…
AFTAs 2013: Best IT Integration Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
IT integration projects have an annoying habit of resembling icebergs: They might appear to be relatively rudimentary undertakings at the outset, but they invariably grow in complexity, timescale, and budget as they progress, often throwing up more…
AFTAs 2013: Best OTC Trading Initiative—State Street Corp.
If there’s one thing that 2013 will be remembered for in the capital markets, it will be that this was the year that swap execution facilities (SEFs) started operating. While State Street launched SwapEx in February 2012, it wasn’t until September 2013…
AFTAs 2013: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—Blackstone
Park Avenue-based Blackstone Group wins what is traditionally the most competitive of the 16 categories on offer in the annual American Financial Technology Awards, thanks to its BXAccess integrated investor portal, a blend of cutting-edge technology,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Bank of America
When it comes to financial technology, the key word has always been efficiency. For execution, that comes down to finding the right venues to trade with the best results for internal desks or external clients. For compliance, it’s about identifying and…
AFTAs 2013: Best Cloud Initiative—NYSE Euronext
In recent months, cloud-based solutions in the capital markets have become increasingly popular. NYSE Euronext has established itself as a major player in this space, and, through its Qbeats project, won this year’s gong for best cloud initiative.
AFTAs 2013: Best Reporting Initiative—Blackstone
Where Northern Trust, last year’s winner of the best reporting initiative category in the American Financial Technology Awards, went outside the organization for a new reporting platform, Blackstone turned inward to create a custom-built solution,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Data Management Initiative—Citi
The disciplines and processes that fall under the data management moniker are the best examples of tasks for which no finish line exists. It is a given that all financial services firms need to cost-effectively manage their data, whatever its prefix—big,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—JPMorgan
Imagine having access to the full breadth of execution services of one of the world’s most powerful banks on a single platform. It would have to include pre-trade, trade, and post-trade capabilities, as well as clearing, custody, margin, and prime…
AFTAs 2013: Best Analytics Initiative—Credit Suisse
The common refrain when it comes to data is that it’s not just important to have it—one also needs to know what questions to ask it. Enter analytics, which has become a critically important aspect of financial technology over the past few years,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Risk Management Initiative—International Securities Exchange
Execution management systems (EMSs) abound in the institutional trading space, but combining them with risk management capabilities, thereby broadening their usage from the front to the middle office, is a powerful proposition. With PrecISE, the Deutsche…