Awards & Rankings
The AFTAs 2015 ─ All the Winners and Why they Won
The winners of the AFTAs 2015 were announced on the evening of December 7 at an awards dinner in New York. Here are this year's winners with write-ups about why they won.
AFTAs 2015: Best Compliance Initiative—State Street Global Exchange
GX Compliance platform boasts a flexible rules engine, combined with data and resolution-management tools to provide a fully auditable control process.
AFTAs 2015: Best Technology Executive, Buy Side—John Marcante, Vanguard
Marcante has spent over two decades at Vanguard, serving in various roles.
AFTAs 2015: Best Technology Executive, Sell Side—Oliver Bussmann, UBS
Bussmann has nearly 15,000 followers on Twitter and has fully embraced social media.
AFTAs 2015: Best IT Team—Morgan Stanley
The Fusion Center enables a deeper level of monitoring across the bank’s entire enterprise by leveraging new technologies and tools to correlate data in innovative ways.
AFTAs 2015: Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank by Appointment (BBA) and Click-to-Dial functionality represent the pinnacle of BofA’s efforts in the space.
AFTAs 2015: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—Electronifie
The alternative trading system (ATS) is also anonymous, all-to-all, and focused on blocks rather than odd lots.
AFTAs 2015: Best OTC Trading Initiative—Convergex
The ultimate result of streamlining requests for quotes (RFQs) means that a formerly manual process that could take upwards of five minutes to complete is halved.
AFTAs 2015: Best IT Integration Initiative—Fidelity Investment Management
FIMT has eliminated 90 percent of redundant data movement through its integration initiative.
AFTAs 2015: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—Morgan Stanley
The need for legging should only grow as more electronification in fixed income is adopted in coming years.
AFTAs 2015: Best Data Management Initiative—JP Morgan Chase
Officials at JPMorgan say the platform’s greatest strength is its ability to make high-volume data available as a real-time stream for consumption across the business.
AFTAs 2015: Best Cloud Initiative—The Northern Trust Company
Northern Trust is now able to design and deliver new applications and services to its clients faster through the cloud.
AFTAs 2015: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
The firm was able to slash more than $35 million in direct expenses and an astonishing $115 million in charges to business lines versus a target of around $47 million.
AFTAs 2015: Best Global Deployment—Nomura Securities
The URL-driven content browser concept allows .Net windows filtering Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications to be downloaded, installed and launched directly from URLs.
AFTAs 2015: Best Risk Management Initiative—Citadel
Citadel's Risk Center allows the firm to manage risk across all of its portfolios from a centralized location.
AFTAs 2015: Best Analytics Initiative—The Northern Trust Company
Northern Trust is using big data tools like Splunk and Hadoop to create an application that tracks and analyzes financial transactions.
AFTAs 2015: Best Reporting Initiative—Credit Suisse
Client Dashboard uses customizable widgets in a portal framework catering to various user groups, with the ability to set preferences and create standardized print-friendly reports.
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American Financial Technology Awards 2015 ─ All the Winners
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Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2015—RIMES Technologies
The final category of the 32 on offer at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards, and the second to be announced at the November 6 awards luncheon held at Le Méridien in London, is that of the technology provider of the year. This category was decided by…
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