• Best Global Deployment
• Most Innovative Trading Floor
• Best Risk Analytics Initiative
• Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative
• Best Data Management Initiative
• Best Infrastructure Initiative
• Best Data Center Initiative
• Most Cutting Edge IT Initiative
• The Lifetime Achievement Award
• Best Senior Technologist
• Best CIO
• Best IT Team

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Best Global Deployment

This will focus on global technology deployments for wholesale trading environment. The judges will be looking for the successful deployment across at least two global regions that standardize the firm’s trading platform and improves the interactions with the local markets.

Most Innovative Trading Floor

Open to all wholesale buy- and sell-side financial institutions, that can demonstrate that its has implemented new and/or existing technology on its trading room that can be directly attributed to improved profit and loss management as well as improved trading efficiency.

Best Risk Analytics Initiative

The winner of this award will be the buy- or sell-side financial institution that has derived the greatest benefit of its recently implemented risk analytic platform. Successful entries will demonstrate the use of new techniques for identifying and mitigating risks as well as develop new risk financing strategies..

Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative

Open to individual business units. Entries should focus on single project or target business initiatives that have been in production for at least six months. The judges will be looking for creative responses to delivering cross-asset trading capabilities to its institutional clients. Clear evidence of the application of technical expertise should also feature in the entries, which must also prove achievement against pre-determined targets.

Best Data Management Initiative

The winner of this category will demonstrate an innovative data management strategy that improves data quality and reduces data costs across the enterprise through the consolidation of systems, data standardization and other efforts.

Best Infrastructure Initiative

This will focus on global infrastructure deployments for wholesale investment banking environment for the buy and sell sides. The judges will be looking for innovative strategies to deliver basic infrastructure support across the enterprise that reduces support cost and improves the delivery time of necessary resources to the local clients.

Best Data Center Initiative

Managing data centers efficiently has become a more urgent job for today’s harried CIO. Not only is data volumes increasing at a non-stop pace, the energy needed to keep the equipment cool and running constantly is enormous. The winner of this award showed no fear in tackling the challenges of managing and growing their data center.

Most Cutting Edge IT Initiative

Every year, investment firms complete ambitious projects but every now and again, a firm headed by an IT visionary will undertake an IT project that leaves the competition in the dust. Whether it is leap-frogging over the rest of the pack or deploying new technology with confidence and precision, the winner of this award is willing to take chances. Send in your nominations for this new category for the enduser firm that went above and beyond in a recent IT project

The Lifetime Achievement Award

This special award will be presented to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the success of the industry.

Best Senior Technologist

This award will go to the CTO of any buy- or sell-side financial institution operating in North America that can demonstrate best their ability to reduce the firm’s operational risk and the amount corporate resource needed for day-today operation while introducing new technology to support new and innovative financial products for the wholesale commercial banking community. All nomination must be made or supported by the person’s supervisor.

Best CIO

Open to any CIO of any buy- or sell-side financial institution operating in North America. This award will go to the CIO who can show demonstrable evidence of reducing the firm’s operational risk and the amount of corporate resources needed for day-to-day operation as well as introducing new technology to support new and innovative financial products for the wholesale commercial banking community. All nomination must be made or supported by the person’s supervisor.

Best IT Team

This award will focus on the IT team from a buy- or sell-side wholesale banking or investment firm operating in the North American market. Judges will be looking for evidence on the team’s innovative problem-solving capability, on-time delivery and scale of responsibility.