AFTAs 2020: All the winners and why they won

Below are the 32 category winners from this year’s American Financial Technology Awards. The two IT team categories were won by JP Morgan Asset Management (buy side) and Deutsche Bank (Sell side), while the best third-party technology vendor CEO or CIO award went to OpenFin’s Mazy Dar.

End-user Categories 

• Best Analytics Initiative: Morgan Stanley
• Best Reporting Initiative: JP Morgan Chase & Co.
• Best Cloud Initiative: DBS Bank
• Best Compliance Initiative: Credit Suisse
• Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative: JP Morgan Wealth Management
• Best Global Deployment: JP Morgan Asset Management
• Best Infrastructure Initiative: Bank of America
• Best IT Integration Initiative: JP Morgan Asset Management 
• Best IT Team – Buy Side: JP Morgan Asset Management
• Best IT Team – Sell Side: Deutsche Bank
• Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative: JP Morgan Chase & Co.
• Best Risk Management Initiative: Morgan Stanley
• Best Mobile Strategy Initiative: JP Morgan Wealth Management

Vendor categories

• Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology Initiative: Moody’s Analytics. Click on this link for a video interview with Moody’s Analytics’ Eric Grandeo and Miguel Romao. 
• Best Back-Office Initiative: SEI
• Best Collaboration Initiative: FINOS
• Best Communication Infrastructure Provider: IPC Systems
• Best Front-Office Initiative: Pragma
• Best Middle-Office Initiative: Moody’s Analytics 
• Best New Technology Introduced over the last 12 Months – AI, Machine Learning and Analytics: BNY Mellon. Click on this link for video interview with BNY Mellon’s Corrine Neale. 
• Best New Technology Introduced over the last 12 Months – Data and Data Services: Socure
• Best New Technology Introduced over the last 12 Months – Infrastructure: Xignite
• Best New Technology Introduced over the Last 12 months – Trading and Risk: LSEG Technology
• Best Partnership or Alliance: Verint and Cloud9 Technologies
• Best Trading Infrastructure Provider: CLS Group
• Best Use of the Agile Methodology: MarketAxess 
• Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor – AI, Machine Learning and Analytics: Behavox
• Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor – Data Management and Data Services: AxiomSL
• Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor – Infrastructure, Outsourcing and Development: OpenFin
• Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor – Trading, Risk and Compliance: Acin
• Best Third-Party Technology Vendor CEO or CIO : Mazy Dar (OpenFin)
• Best Third-Party Technology Vendor IT Team: Vestmark