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AFTAs 2016: Best Front-Office Initiative—Broadridge
Broadridge wins Best Front-Office Initiative, an honor last awarded in 2007.
AFTAs 2016: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor: Communication, Operations and Data Management—Asset Control
Asset Control wins the category in its first year of existence.
AFTAs 2016: Best Trading Infrastructure Provider—Trumid Financial
Trumid takes home the win in the category's inaugural year.
AFTAs 2016: Best IT Integration Initiative—Bank of America
This is BofA's second win in the category.
AFTAs 2016: Best Mobile Strategy Initiative—Pershing NetX360
Pershing wins the category for the second time in three years.
AFTAs 2016: Best Data Management Initiative: Sell Side—Deutsche Bank
While not a complete stranger to the American Financial Technology Awards winners’ circle, Deutsche Bank has been conspicuous by its absence since its inaugural AFTAs win back in 2008 when it won the best global deployment category thanks to its Bank g…
AFTAs 2016: Best Reporting Initiative—Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse offers a brand new and effective reporting service
AFTAs 2016: Best Global Deployment—Northern Trust
The partnership with BEx allowed Northern Trust to offer better services
AFTAs 2016: Best Back-Office Initiative—SmartStream
Smartsream's Center of Excellence has improved match rate by 97 percent
AFTAs 2016: Best Use of the Agile Methodology—StatPro
New for the 2016 American Financial Technology Awards is the best use of the Agile methodology category, an award that reflects the continued adoption of Agile across the capital markets as the most efficient and practical software development model.
AFTAs 2016: Best Partnership or Alliance—MTS Markets & Bloomberg
In something of an anomaly in this year’s American Financial Technology Awards, MTS Markets and Bloomberg have won two different categories—best partnership or alliance and best collaboration initiative (see page 40)—with ostensibly the same initiative:…
AFTAs 2016: Best Middle-Office Initiative: Data Management, Reconciliation and Clearing—Indus Valley Partners
For the first time in the history of the American Financial Technology Awards there are vendor categories on offer, and it seems somewhat fitting that Indus Valley Partners (IVP), winner of the best buy-side reconciliation platform/service in the 2015…
AFTAs 2016: Best Data Management Initiative: Buy Side—Rotation Capital Management
Rotation partnered with Financial Fabric to build out its DataHub.
AFTAs 2016: Best Third-Party Technology Vendor IT Team—Vela Trading Technologies
Vela was formerly known as SR Labs.
AFTAs 2016: Best Middle-Office Initiative: Risk, Compliance and Performance—UBS Delta
The platform saves price returns, DV01 calculations, IE01 sensitivity measurements, Vega risk and Greeks metrics for each asset on a daily basis.
AFTAs 2016: Best IT Team—JPMorgan Asset Management
The firm's Cortex team takes home the award.
A ‘Holo’ Experience: Holographic Interfaces and Innovation
Emilia David ruminates on innovation and how banks can speed up technological evolution in capital markets.
AFTAs 2016: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—UBS Neo
"Neo is connected to the core trading services of the bank."
AFTAs 2016: Best Cloud Initiative—LaSalle Investment Management
LSalle Investment Management tapped Dynamo Software for a cloud-based CRM.
AFTAs 2016: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative: Sell Side—Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse is the latest organization to win the sell-side most cutting-edge IT initiative category for its CPA analytics offering.
AFTAs 2016: Best Risk Management Initiative—JPMorgan Asset Management
JPMorgan Asset Management's Dynamic Risk solution helps in trading multi-asset classes.
Blockchain Needs Regulators’ Involvement to Take Off
“It is important for regulators to become comfortable with the new technologies serving the industries they oversee.”
Proactive Steps to Passive Trading in Asia
Asia still leans toward active investing, but that is changing.
AFTAs 2016: Best Analytics Initiative: Sell Side—Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley triumphs in sell-side analytics initiative category for SPG Access suite for securitized products market.