AFTAs 2014: The Winners and Why They Won

The 10th annual American Financial Technology Awards took place on the evening of Monday, December 8, 2014 at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York.

The list crosses the sell side, buy side and everything in between, including brokers and exchange operators. This year, we added a number of categories, and enjoyed the highest number of entries that the program has received in its decade-long history.

As always, we are grateful to our external judging panel for their time and expertise this year. They were: Anthony Vigilante, head of IT, MacKay Shields, David Kelly, CTO, Pine River, and Tara Castleberry, head of architecture, AIG. The judging panel also included senior journalists from Waters magazine.

American Financial Technology Awards 2014 Category Winners

Best Compliance Initiative ─ BNY Mellon
Best Mobile Strategy ─ Pershing
Best Cloud Initiative ─ Bank of Montreal
Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative ─ JPMorgan Markets
Best IT Integration ─ Blackstone
Best Analytics Initiative ─ Fannie Mae
Best Data Management Initiative ─ MSD Capital
Best Global Deployment ─ State Street
Best Infrastructure Initiative ─ Northern Trust
Best Reporting Initiative ─ Morgan Stanley
Best Risk Management Initiative ─ Janus Capital
Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative ─ IEX Group
Best Technology Executive, Sell Side ─ Tim Wood, FBR & Co.
Best Technology Executive, Buy Side ─ Bill Murphy, Blackstone
Best IT Team ─ Societe Generale