A-Team Innovation Awards 2024 | A-Team Insight | 16 February 2024 |

Our awards are overseen by our highly experienced Advisory Board who helped shape the categories and who will review the nominations alongside A-Team Group editors to select the winners.

The A-Team Innovation Awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across the vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets, with a specific focus on Data Management, Trading Technology, ESG and RegTech suppliers.
These awards are for firms that have active clients within capital markets and investment management only - please don’t enter solutions related to retail or corporate markets.

You can enter a nomination if you are one of the following:
• Vendor or Consultant: Must have successfully provided data or technology solutions as part of a project on a client site to solve a specific capital markets challenge using innovative technology or approaches.
• Financial Institution: Has successfully implemented an innovative data or technology-based project to solve a capital markets challenge within the financial enterprise.

CATEGORIES:

Innovative Use of Technology in Capital Markets
• Most Innovative use of Generative AI
• Most Innovative Operational Resilience /Business Continuity Initiative
• Most Innovative Cyber Security Initiative
• Most Innovative Implementation of Knowledge Graph Technologies
• Most Innovative Use of Distributed Ledger Technology/Blockchain
• Most Innovative Data-Driven Transformation Project
• Most Innovative Use of Open Source/Cloud Technologies

Innovative Front Office Projects
• Most Innovative Market Data Solution
• Most Innovative Alternative Data Solution for Trading & Analytics
• Most Innovative Cloud-Based Market Data Delivery
• Most Innovative Alternative Data Solution
• Most Innovative API Framework / Microservices Architecture for Trading
• Most Innovative AI in Trading Initiative
• Most Innovative Solution for Front-Office/Trading
• Most Innovative Smart Trader Desktops & Workflows
• Most Innovative Trading Infrastructure Monitoring Approach
• Most Innovative Cloud-Based Trading Analytics Initiative
• Most Innovative Buy-Side Trading Workflow / STP

Innovative Client and Counterparty Projects
• Most Innovative Client Onboarding and Lifecycle Management Solution
• Most Innovative KYC Investigation & Due Diligence
• Most Innovative Entity Data Hierarchies Approach
• Most Innovative Sanctions and PEPs Data Solution
• Most Innovative Conduct Risk Project
• Most Innovative Supply Chain Risk Management / Know Your Vendor Initiative

Innovative Enterprise Data Projects
• Most Innovative Financial Data Security Solution
• Most Innovative Unstructured Data Management Project
• Most Innovative Hosted/Managed Enterprise Data Management
• Most Innovative Data Architecture Project
• Most Innovative Data Orchestration for Regulatory Reporting
• Most Innovative Data Quality Initiative
• Most Innovative Data Standards Initiative
• Most Innovative Data Governance Initiative
• Most Innovative Data Lineage Solution
• Most Innovative Digital Rights Management & Licensing Compliance Solution
• Most Innovative Trade Data Management & Reconstruction
• Most Innovative Data Privacy by Design
• Most Innovative Use of AI in an Enterprise Data Management Initiative

Innovative RegTech Projects

• Most Innovative Regulatory Reporting Solution
• Most Innovative Regulatory Compliance Monitoring / Management
• Most Innovative Trade Surveillance Solution
• Most Innovative AML / Financial Crime Compliance Initiative
• Most Innovative Trade & Transaction Reporting Initiative
• Most Innovative ESG Data Solution
• Most Innovative ESG Regulatory Reporting Solution
• Most Innovative Use of Alternative Data in Regulatory Compliance
• Most Innovative AI in Regulatory Compliance Initiative
• Innovative Teams & Approaches

• Most Innovative Professional Development Initiative
• Most Innovative Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy
• Most Innovative Young Persons’ Education/Recruitment (‘Academy’) Programme
• Most Innovative Team
• Most Innovative Financial Technology Executive
• Most Innovative Project

2023 Winners

Most innovative entity data hierarchies approach
• Moody’s Analytics
Most innovative AI in regulatory compliance initiative
• SmartStream Technologies
Most innovative use of open source/cloud technologies
• Refinitiv, an LSEG business
Most innovative data quality initiative
• Rimes
Most innovative diversity, equity and inclusion strategy
• S&P Global Market Intelligence
Most innovative team
• Novatus Advisory
Most innovative trading infrastructure monitoring approach
• West Highland Support Services
Most innovative trade surveillance solution
• ACA Group
Most innovative implementation of knowledge graph technologies
• Blackswan Technologies
Most innovative data standards initiative
• Bloomberg
Most innovative hosted/managed enterprise data management: EDM-as-a-Service
• BNY Mellon
Most innovative use of AI in an enterprise data management initiative
• Canoe Intelligence
Most Innovative ESG regulatory reporting solution
• Clarity AI
Most innovative KYC investigation & due diligence
• eClerx
Most innovative cloud-based market data delivery
• FactSet
Most innovative alternative data solution for trading & analytics
• FlexTrade
Most innovative API framework for trading
• FXSpotStream
Most Innovative ESG data solution
• GoldenSource
Most innovative unstructured data management project
• Grant Thornton
Most innovative data lineage solution
• Instrumentix
Most innovative operational resilience / business continuity initiative
• IPC
Most innovative financial technology executive
• KOR Financial
Most innovative client onboarding and lifecycle management solution
• KYC Hub
Most innovative conduct risk / SMCR / Know Your Employee (KYE) / staff surveillance project
• MCO
Most innovative cloud-based trading analytics initiative
• Numerix
Most innovative AI in trading initiative
• Overbond
Most innovative trade data management & reconstruction
• Siepe
Most innovative sanctions and
PEPs data solution
• S&P Global Market Intelligence
Most innovative trade & transaction reporting initiative
• S3
Most innovative solution for front-office/trading
• smartTrade Technologies
Most innovative regulatory reporting solution
• UnaVista
Most innovative data-driven transformation project
• Vault Platform
Most innovative regulatory compliance monitoring / management
• Verint Systems
Most innovative use of distributed ledger technology/ blockchain
• +Subscribe
Most innovative data orchestration for regulatory reporting
• Apex Regulatory Capital, LLC
Most innovative use of alternative data in regulatory compliance
• Dydon A
Most innovative smart trader desktops & workflows
• Finsemble
Most innovative market data solution
• Iress
Most innovative project
• Mdotm
Most innovative data architecture project
• NeoXam
Most innovative young persons’ education/ recruitment (‘academy’) programme
• Qomply
Most innovative buy-side trading workflow / STP
• Secretarium
Most innovative data privacy by design
• Secretarium
Most innovative alternative data solution
• Sentifi AG
Most innovative digital rights management/licensing compliance/usage tracking
• TRG Screen
Most innovative AML / financial crime compliance initiative
• I Spiral