Waters Announces American Financial Technology Awards 2013 Winners

For the second straight year, BNY Mellon won the evening's most coveted award for Best IT Team. Tom Miglis, the longtime CIO of Citadel, and Edwin Marcial, CTO of the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), which bought NYSE Euronext, were named the Best Technology Executive on the Buy Side and Sell Side, respectively.
Below is a list of winners in each of the 16 categories. Full details will appear in the January 2014 issue of Waters, which will also be available on WatersTechnology.com.
Thank you to all those firms that submitted nominations, to our judges, and to those who attended the festivities. And most of all, congratulations to all American Financial Technology Awards winners.
Best Global Deployment: Instinet
Best Risk Management Initiative: International Securities Exchange
Best Analytics Initiative: Credit Suisse
Best Reporting Initiative: Blackstone
Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative: JPMorgan
Best Data Management Initiative: Citi
Best Cloud Initiative: NYSE Euronext
Best Infrastructure Initiative: Bank of America
Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative: Blackstone
Best OTC Trading Initiative: State Street Corp.
Best IT Integration Initiative: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative: Morgan Stanley
Best Compliance Initiative: ConvergEx Group
Best Technology Executive, Buy Side: Tom Miglis, Citadel LLC
Best Technology Executive, Sell Side: Edwin Marcial, IntercontinentalExchange
Best IT Team: BNY Mellon
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