American Financial Technology Awards 2015 ─ All the Winners
The winners of the AFTAs 2015 were announced on the evening of December 7 at an awards dinner in New York.
This year's AFTAS, hosted by the diminutive (in stature only) yet inspirational ex-NBA player Muggsy Bogues, were held as usual in New York following the annual Waters USA event. This year's two individual awards ─ best technology executive (buy side) and best technology executive (sell side) ─ went to John Marcante of Vanguard Asset Management and Oliver Bussmann of UBS, respectively, while the final award of the evening for the best IT team was won by Morgan Stanley.
Full write-ups of the 16 winning entries and why they won will apper online and in the January 2016 issue of Waters magazine.
Below are the category winners of this year's American Financial Technology Awards
- Best Global Deployment ─ Nomura Securities
- Best Risk Management Initiative ─ Citadel
- Best Analytics Initiative ─ The Northern Trust Company
- Best Reporting Initiative ─ Credit Suisse
- Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative ─ Morgan Stanley
- Best Data Management Initiative ─ JP Morgan Chase
- Best Cloud Initiative ─ The Northern Trust Company
- Best Infrastructure Initiative ─ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative ─ Electronifie
- Best OTC Trading Initiative ─ Convergex
- Best IT Integration Initiative ─ Fidelity Investment Management
- Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative ─ Bank of America
- Best Compliance Initiative ─ State Street Global Exchange
- Best Technology Executive, Buy Side ─ John Marcante, Vanguard Asset Management
- Best Technology Executive, Sell Side ─ Oliver Bussmann, UBS
- Best IT Team ─ Morgan Stanley
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